Discussing this in threads that seem to pop up every week or so has become the norm, and although the threads are fine to throw hate at these spammers (and occasionally at the moderators and admins), I hardly think that they will help much (if at all) towards getting rid of these spammers.

From what I can see, these are the two options that the forum has at this point (tell me if you think otherwise):

1) Do a 360, take some sort of action against shitposts that will prune pretty much 90-96% of this community, and set itself back down but make the forum a much better place to be in. Whether this will attract more users that actually give a crap about what they are discussing or destroy the forum is up to your decision.

2) Let signature spammers continue to pluck off the actually intelligent, dedicated bitcoiners who came here to have a discussion of bitcoin, instead of parroting why exactly gambling is bad for 100+ pages in multiple threads, and inflate the forum's population until a different forum arises that is a safe haven for the afore mentioned bitcoiners and BitcoinTalk is reduced to a shithole. It's only a matter of time, trust me. It may be good advertisement money for now, but it won't last long.

Oh, and as long as BitcoinTalk doesn't make a decision and remains as option two, it's harder and harder to choose the first option.

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