Quote from: hilariousandco on August 07, 2016, 04:27:28 AM

Quote from: MrBig on August 06, 2016, 07:33:50 PM

How do you stop signature spam when paid signatures are allowed?

Removing signatures altogether is something we're also discussing. Personally, I'm at the point where I think that's going to be the only solution to stop all the bullshit and hassle that comes along with having them but we're trying to find a workaround too that suits everyone. We know removing signature campaigns is going to have a drastic impact on the traffic here and to do so or enforce fully we would probably have to just remove signatures and avatars altogether for everyone otherwise people would likely still try get around it. I've long said signature campaigns could help improve the post quality of the forum but that would only happpen if every campaign only accepted quality posters and didn't just pay anyone and everyone regardless of post quality and ways to force campaigns to do that is being discussed also.

Quote from: minifrij on August 07, 2016, 02:27:52 AM

Quote from: hilariousandco on August 06, 2016, 04:41:27 PM

Even a constructive thread can be taken over by shitposters so do we trash that as well?

The solution to this on another forum I'm a part of was to be a lot more liberal with locking threads. For example, once a question was answered or a request was fulfilled the thread was locked to prevent further spamming. This would prevent threads like this and this (which is essentially the exact same topic anyway) from gaining any sort of ground with spam.

I agree that certain threads should be locked when a person has got a solid answer to a specific question and we're discussing whether those sorts of threads you mentioned should just be trashed straight away or not but there's some threads where people may get a lot of responses but others can still offer their suggestions but repeating the same thing for pages and pages is unnecessary. It's hard to find a balance really without just locking or trashing half the threads here but I guess maybe mods may just have to make executive decisions on this sort of stuff otherwise the forum isn't going to get any cleaner. Some sort of quality control of what sort of threads is and isn't allowed needs to be established though but if spam threads do get locked or trashed people will get the idea pretty quickly.

Quote from: electronicash on August 07, 2016, 03:59:02 AM

Anyway, Just wanted to let you guys know i do my best when responding to threads, i'm not illiterate my parents are married. I can post proof.

PMSL. The irony of this. I'm assuming you're getting confused with illegitimate? Not sure whether you're joking or not Grin

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I think the best way to find some sort of balance is to limit which part of the forum sig campaigners can post. The Bitcoin Discussion section should be definitely off limits to sig campaigns. The quality of posts there are at the lowest and I tend to avoid that section.

If there was only a way to have the signatures disabled in some sections and on in others. That would save a lot of mods some work if they plan on cleaning the forum up.

Edit: To start, maybe telling the campaign managers that posts in Bitcoin Discussion, Development & Technical Discussion, Mining, Technical Support, Project Development, Economics and Speculation should have no payment to discourage the campaigners to spam those boards. Then expand the 'no pay policy' to other sections of the forum in due time.