Yeah well, welcome to bitcointalk.  This has been going on since the start of sig campaigns, and that was well before I got here.   It's a healthy debate.   The real problem isn't in the debate itself but in all the garbage that gets posted.  And the more I think about it the more I really like the proposed legendary restriction.  I wouldn't mind an invite-only section here, too, that could be free of shitposters.  Or something.   There's just too much crap to sift through here.

Let's not forget in Meta that there's dozens of threads pertaining to the same question, like the leet post count threads or removal of signatures (campaign or not). I think what would also clear up some space in Meta is if there was a master thread of hacked accounts. Instead of having a scores of them pop up every week, we can at least limit it to a single thread where it can be even organized by someone.

Hell, I'm willing to compile that sort of data! (Shoot a PM if anybody's on board)

As I've mentioned previously, would it be a good idea to create a sort of "master list" for spammer reports in a thread? "That's what the report function is used for," sure, but it could at least pool several accounts with blatant results together, and if the list could (potentially) help to: