Re: Illiterate sig spammers

I think it's more funny that all who replied and are in a signature campaign are, themselves, against spammers.

Not necessarily. An example would be Blazed, IIRC they are also against campaigns but they did participate in some. IMO it is better for them to take a chunk out of the budget, than a few spammers.

Quote from: jackg on August 14, 2016, 12:09:30 PM

Also, Lauda I think it would be useful, as you can delete posts at your position, for you to try and help clean the thread (as long as that doesn't interrupt with your regular moderating of this forum.

You're looking at the wrong moderator. As a patroller, I can only moderate newbies and the sections for which I'm assigned as a moderator (Croatian & Speculation).

Quote from: jackg on August 14, 2016, 12:09:30 PM

(Also, QS still hasn't improved upon his posts that were said to be somewhat confusing to other members - including this recent post). His speculation is highly likely to happen though.

My point is, we can't really know if we don't try anything. Every solution is going to have cons and people complaining. Does that mean that we shouldn't try anything? I'm not generally supportive of this particular idea though. The quality has degraded severely during 2016 - keep in mind that the severity of this differentiates depending on the section. As an example, I'll take Bitcoin Discussion. It is extremely difficult to find content that is worth reading and replying to these days.

Agree. Only reason I look into Bitcoin Discussion subforum nowdays is to see if it's a new core release. The posts is just spam spam spam.
No useful information what so ever

Edit: and poor newbies, Beginners & Help is possibly the worst place to look if you want some useful information

I admit I only looked at signatures on the first two pages but none of them where taking new accounts,not even Yobit and I do not think that is per chance. So I do not expect a flood of signature spam from a army of farmed accounts any time soon.

The newbie forum is the way it is because established accounts spend all day in meta complaining about signatures and ponzi schemes to reach out and say what is what. I also see the language issue spammers but with the signatures all closed it should be easy to pick them off as they are reported.

My language isn't too good on posts unless I'm really concentrating on it.
777coin and bitvest accept newbies. That used to work well as the old campaign manager waited a few weeks before accepting people. (Meaning they were already Jr members when they were accepted on the campaign).
Removing campaigns means people would mainly come here for other monetary purposes which may increase the number of scams as accounts become worth much less than they currently are.