Lets face it, more than 60% of the signed users are here for the signature payments and nearly 30% of the remaining are the FUD/Ad(KNC , the advertisement posts about some bullshit and the price drop FUD) spam, which feed off the 60% of the traffic which the sig campaigns bring. With the first gone, the latter will slowly disappear too, which might seem good at first but will most certainly either mean that this will result in either a notable sig-spam free community or a user devoid forum
Edit: For the record I get paid a fixed amount(like say Blazed) regardless of whether I post or not
That is the problem... Is this a forum trying to make ad revenue with fraudulent traffic, or a hub of Bitcoin discussion and development? Since it has been repeated time and again that this forum doesn't need money, I would say the latter. I would also speculate that it is a very small group of people with an army of alts who benefit from the programs you mention.