Quote from: minifrij on August 08, 2016, 02:00:22 AM

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

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.

I don't believe that there is a solution that would leave every party completely happy in a situation like this one.

There isn't going to be any solution to anything that would leave everyone 100% happy but I don't really care about the hurt pockets of sig spammers complaining they've got less places to easily spam in.

Quote from: minifrij on August 08, 2016, 02:00:22 AM

Personally, I think a number of pages/similar responses should be set before a thread is locked. There is little point allowing people to brainlessly repeat the same thing over and over for the hope that someone may say something with any sort of thought behind it. If a situation happened similar to the one above, where the thread was locked and someone had a new suggestion, then there would be nothing stopping said user from using PM or any other method to contact the OP and propose said suggestion.

But what's the magic number? Threads like how can I earn ten dollars in bitcoin? don't need to go on for long if they're allowed at all and not just trashed on sight but there's other threads that can go on infinitely but at the same time we don't need people just repeating the same stuff but where's the cut off point? Not always easy to judge and enforce consistently. Lauda might have a different opinion on what thread is trash to me etc and if he is removing threads only started by newbies it can lead to inconsistency and people complaining.

Quote from: minifrij on August 08, 2016, 02:00:22 AM

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

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.

Agreed. I think that something similar to this could be enforced more strictly and across all sections. While this may be my opinion, I couldn't care less what ilovebitcoin89 would do if he was given 10BTC; I doubt many others do either.

I don't think threads like what would you do with 1-2-5-10-100 bitcoins need to be here or at the least should be moved to off topic. Maybe after one big clean up people will get the idea. It kinda worked with off topic with the crappy 'daily' threads but people keep insisting to make them. This will be no different.

Quote from: jackg on August 07, 2016, 09:21:46 PM

Also, locking all threads liberally would be really aggravating and I feel it may lead for some users - including myself - to leave if done too liberally.

It might be annoying to sig spammers and if shitposters leave because of it then good. Mission accomplished. I would bet my money they along with you wont leave though. They'll just have to work a bit harder to earn money here which is what will cause people to get defensive or panic but allowing users to easily spam such shit threads is the problem in the first place. They can't be allowed to shit the place up and ruin it for everyone else.

Quote from: tokeweed on August 09, 2016, 07:05:34 AM

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.

This is something I've suggested. I know a big peeve of DannyHamilton is people giving bad advice/help so maybe we could disable sigs in the main Bitcoin Discussion and Technical Help subs. Campaigns would then likely not pay for those boards and the content would be significantly improved because nobody is posting just to get paid. On the other hand, if posts in there still contribute to postcount account farmers wont be effected but maybe they would find easier boards to spam which keeps the crap out of the most important boards.

Quote from: tokeweed on August 09, 2016, 07:05:34 AM

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.

If we disable signatures in too many boards though it would just defeat the purpose of sig campaigns in the first place and campaigns will dwindle both in number and pay. I guess that could be good or bad depending on your stance but shitposters from poor countries will still spam for dust so it wont kill the issue. Signature campaigns only exist because they're a great way to advertise as your ad is shown everywhere but if we're going to restrict them from pretty much the entire forum and the only place sigs are shown is in a few crappy subs like Off topic and Politics then we may as well just get rid of them altogether so a balance needs to be found.