Quote from: Wendigo on November 29, 2016, 10:34:02 PM

Theymos doesn't want to disable the signatures because the traffic to the forum will start to dry up when everyone has realized they can't earn Bitcoin any more by posting. Less traffic will lead to less paid advertisements and less profit for the staff. How many will continue to post after there is no more cash? Less than 50% I would guess

So all this fighting with spam is no more that running around like a chicken with its head chopped off?

Disabling signatures is a measure which has a lot of room for adjustment. In this way, there is absolutely no need to disable all signatures at once. I don't think there are a lot spammers roaming the forum who are Heroes or Legendary members (due to "natural selection" of sorts), and their signatures could be left enabled. In fact, I don't think that any enabled signatures should be disabled at all. Just disabling signatures for new comers will do wonders in due course

Quote from: The Pharmacist on November 30, 2016, 04:39:31 AM

Oh, I'd say that's a conservative estimate. What with all the alts running around, if signatures were disabled this forum would be as dead as the Dash forum I just joined. It's like screaming in an echo chamber. The whole sig campaign thing is a very clever idea and I've said before that I haven't seen this sort of thing on other forums. It's very cool that people who are probably eating toothpaste sandwiches in a desert somewhere can earn a little bitcoin just by posting--admittedly, the more toothpaste the greater the language barrier, but still. And the pay rate is the same wherever the user is. I find that fascinating.

But yeah, there's that shitposting issue that just doesn't seem to ever get any better...

Removing shit posters from equation could in fact contribute to greater rates for posting due to higher competition between signature campaigns for constructive posters allowed to wear signatures