Quote from: Decoded on April 12, 2016, 10:11:58 AM

Hah. Half of those threads are made by my friend's alts xD it's funny how that guy who's spamming happens to be at the top of the class, but he pre-writes his posts on a notepad document then posts them all when he has time.

You think this is funny? How about you report them so something can be done about it? This type of behavior is what is going to spoil it for everyone else and get campaigns banned entirely. I've long said that signature campaigns could actually help improve the post quality here but only if signature campaign managers don't allow shitposters onto their campaigns in the first place and kick any that start off but I'm getting to the point where I'd rather just signatures/campaigns be banned themselves because it would put a stop to all this bullshit in an instant.

Quote from: Xialla on April 12, 2016, 10:57:00 AM

Quote from: Rizla2345 on April 12, 2016, 10:54:57 AM

People that are obsessed with discussing the discussion itself probably don´t have that much to discuss. Or so regular common sense would deduce.

you will get paid for this post, right?

Not any more. Banned him for copying and pasting content. He'll probably have alts though or just create a new account or buy one out of his signature earnings and join another campaign so ultimately futile in the end.

Quote from: Lauda on April 12, 2016, 10:37:09 AM

Quote from: Xialla on April 12, 2016, 10:30:37 AM

is Staff aware about this?

and it is now more than less earning platform for signature whores from third world, where they already have net access...

The staff can't really do anything about it (aside from "hunting" down signature campaign spammers, but this 'fight' has been going on for too long). The administration makes the decisions. I've even attempted to get signature campaign managers punished, but my attempt was obviously not successful. I'm pretty certain that most of the staff members are aware of the problem, the only difference is the stance that these members have towards the problem (some voice their opinion strongly, while others don't).

If campaigns aren't just banned outright then punishing campaign managers is something that needs to be done and I've suggested this to theymos a couple of times but no response. I know it would work to a good extent because businesses don't want to have their accounts here suspended because their presence is vital to them. I pestered secondstrade for months to do something about their campaign and they did nothing until I left him negative feedback for it then he actually started to deny people for poor posts rather than accept every single person and there has been a noticeable difference but I still don't think he's doing enough. That's where bans should come in. There needs to be repercussions because once campaigns realise they're going to get their accounts banned they will either step up their game, hire someone to do their job for them or just close the campaign.

Quote from: Lauda on April 12, 2016, 10:37:09 AM

Quote from: Xialla on April 12, 2016, 10:30:37 AM

discussions and post quality significantly lost value over years (you can also see a difference, right?)

In some cases 'significantly lost value' is an understatement.

Sadly true. If we don't try do something about it now it wont be long before the only people posting here are Indonesians and Filipinos with their entire friends and family posting away on ten accounts each all just stating 'we all hope to make profit because bitcoin is good because you can make profit which is nice' over and over again reworded ever so slightly.

Quote from: Xialla on April 12, 2016, 10:46:16 AM

Quote from: Lauda on April 12, 2016, 10:37:09 AM

The staff can't really do anything about it

I would say, staff can end this madness in ~15 seconds. just disable signatures (not maybe for whole board for start, but just for some core sections).

ok, maybe you will loose some users, but quality of posts (so whole board) will be improved for sure.

Well this is certainly the dilemma isn't it. It's a catch 22 because the quality would obviously instantly improve if we did that and I'm getting to the point where I think it's going to be the only solution to put an end to it, but in doing that it's obvious we'd lose a massive amount of traffic and new users signing up which is kinda priceless to the forum. If campaigns were banned I wouldn't be surprised if the forum became pretty dead and half the people just left (though obviously this would be preferential to those that just want decent discussion). Personally, I think it's about finding a balance but there really needs to be some fear of punishments and people losing their accounts if they take the piss and abuse the system otherwise nothing is going to change.