When I first came to these forums, everyone had their address in their signature. This was because they would help someone with a problem and receive tips from users for being helpful. It was great. The forum was full of helpful people growing interesting ideas and quality conversation. Now, users are incentivized to ask dumb questions and disappear or fake goods sales to their alt accounts wasting everyone else's time who responds to their threads. Wouldn't it be better if we as a community got back to tipping people for being helpful instead of paying them to spam us?
Perhaps even a "community tipper" of some kind could be introduced, where a portion of the donations received is paid back to helpful members of the community.
Totally agree ,clever point being made there.Unfortunately,signature campaigns bring in a lot of traffic which serves as an ideal condition for advertisers .One way which forum makes money is by advertisements.If we cut down on the traffic ,it establishes a wide gap between the forum revenue and the advertisers.Money is an important aspect which can't be ignored.To run the forum or say pay the mods ,the only source are the advertisers IE the signature campaigners.I'm afraid,cutting down on them will have a greater impact on the forum's revenue. On the brighter side,yes we will have intelligent posters and less scammers around.
This is why the campaigns will never get banned. This forum would have excellent content, but probably not even half of the traffic. I think banning yobit's campaign would be good. Make the campaigns know if they do not curb the spammers they will be banned. Hilarious has told them plenty of times to clean it up IIRC.