Quote from: ColderThanIce on August 16, 2016, 08:20:45 PM

Quote from: ajareselde on August 16, 2016, 06:54:18 PM

U're totally right. This "traffic" is useful to no one.

Not true. When theymos runs auctions for ad spaces on the website, he also includes data as to how many impressions previous ads have seen. Removing signature campaigns would decrease the impressions that ads see, and in turn, the amount of money brought in from ads for the forum.

Quote from: ajareselde on August 16, 2016, 06:54:18 PM

U're totally right. This "traffic" is useful to no one.
Both account sales (multi accounting included),and campaigns should be straight out forbidden. Quality over quantity. Until then, it's wild west.

I agree with you on the possibility of banning account sales. I think that would do good around here to cut down on the number of signature spammers there are going around posting absolute trash and cluttering up topics. The problem with banning account sales is that you're banning the sale of Bitcointalk accounts on this forum. There's nothing stopping these dealings from going on elsewhere, and accounts still changing hands.

I don't agree with you on banning signature campaigns. Although there are lots of users simply spamming for satoshis, there are plenty of users who actively contribute valuable content to the website and who wear paid signatures too. It makes sense to me - if you're already going to be posting on this website, why not get paid a little bit for doing what you're already doing?

I think you're wrong. That's why i also said "quality over quantity" ; While it's true that paid posting increases the number of impressions, it's also true that most of the users
in such campaigns are not interested in the ads themselves. (They are not part of the targeted audience)

I would like to see something like a test period of let's say 3 months where all signatures would be disabled, and only forum ads were left alive. - That would show the correct path to follow.