To talk about bitcoin, hence the name bitcointalk.
Just to time pass ? To talk for what ?
Why does anyone post on a forum? Usually because they're interested in the subject matter. Why did you join up to bitcointalk? To get paid to post? I think that's the problem here. People that can't really speak English very well sign up in droves solely because they heard you can easily get paid to post. They often have zero interest in bitcoin other than being able to make some easy money out of it and this leads them to being greedy and making poor, barely intelligible posts as quickly as they can on multiple accounts. This can't be acceptable to do.
No, we wont. We'll lose a forum poster. One that wont be missed. This forum is not the entire bitcoin ecosystem; it's a tiny part of it.
Yes bitcoin may not. But this forum may lose.
The rise of other forums and their success may get triggered with your aggressiveness.
They won't, but this isn't something I would be worried about nor do I doubt theymos is. On the other hand, maybe other forums will rise up and grow if staff do nothing about signature campaigns and we continue to let people from developing nations get away with writing the most basic of crap everywhere as they get tired and leave for somewhere that doesn't allow them. I'd say the forum is only going to be bettered due to any 'aggressiveness' we may have in punishing spammers or preventing them from spamming in the first place.
The only other option is to ban campaigns entirely from the forum
This must be a right solution and permanent too if I agree with you. But I wonder after that whom you are going to moderate ?
One simple example : Nokia was too successful just 5 to 8 years back. Due to their ignorance to listen to the demand of changes, they faced their fate.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Can you just tell us what you really want? We should just ban signature campaigns or let people who can barely speak English do whatever they want? Or is this a
If I can't earn then nobody else should be able to thing?