Quote from: deisik on October 20, 2016, 06:26:48 PM

It is not that simple. There were, and most likely still are, huge signature campaigns that recruit hundreds of users while there may be not so many good posters, thus the campaign managers which are chosen to run these campaigns might not have any other option left but to accept almost anyone who knows how to sign up for a campaign and not make a dozen mistakes therewith...

If there are not enough quality posters, the campaign should not hire that many people. Simple as that. If they want more posters, campaigns could compete with other campaigns on the price they offer.

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On the other hand, the services may be more interested in the sheer exposure their ads get than in the quality of posts the enrollees make

Obviously. So I'm in favour of banning campaigns if warning them doesn't help.

Quote from: DannyHamilton on October 20, 2016, 07:37:14 PM

I think he's talking about me.

I've seen your posts

And would like to give you a "thumbs up" on your posts if I could. Instead of just Activity, based on just the number of post spread over the years, it would be really nice to have a +1 or -1 option to like/dislike posts as a quality-indicator for the user. But I think the army of Alts will quickly mess that up too.

Quote from: deisik on October 20, 2016, 06:52:07 PM

A good poster can't make more than, say, 15 posts daily on a regular basis, and daily might really be a hefty overstretch. Sometimes you don't feel like posting at all. Shit posters simply don't have such issues altogether

It's a day job to them. I've done the math, it can produce a very nice income in a lot of countries. In my experience it's mainly Asians (Indonesia/Philippines), which explains the bad English. And the more people discover this, the worse it gets. Until the market/forum is saturated with spam and the price per post goes down. Or until the moment the ban hammer hits them hard.

Quote from: actmyname on October 20, 2016, 09:03:38 PM

Spamming should not be condoned - it should be as simple as that. If any person could kindly tell me why spammers help the bitcointalk ecosystem (apart from pointless traffic for ad revenue) in any way at all, then I will certainly change my ways and turn into a hardcore one-line spammer myself. After all, I can easily pump out hundreds of useless posts to grind out those cents!

It seems it has become more or less accepted to post this way. And because people post like this, others see it's accepted and do the same.

Quote from: hilariousandco on October 21, 2016, 05:12:01 AM

Guess who just randomly decided to respond to my pm? Bitmixer. What a coincidence! I'm sure someone with about ten accounts on their campaign mailed them in a panic or something.

So just the idea of bans is already paying off!
Any idea what the timeline on the stricter rules for spammers is?