I appreciate your describing your rationale, and even your willingness to reconsider your original decision of locking the thread.

Regarding the sig campaign matter:

Maybe you conclude that I am biased because I have been using a sig campaign for nearly 2 years, but my signature campaign does not really affect the quantity or quality of my posts.. the reason is that I easily post above the monthly pay limit of the campaign, and I was posting about the same quantity and quality before I began participating in the sig campaign.

Personally, even though you frequently  hear people complaining about signature campaigns and sig campaign spammers, I really doubt that is the thrust of any kind of trolling or spamming problem in the wall observer thread.

Like Marcus_de_augustus argued earlier, the large majority of problem in the WO thread comes from newbie corporate shill type accounts that are coming in to derail the topic and to talk about bullshit in order to spread Bitcoin FUD, pump alts or just go all over the place with non-topical distractions.  

Sure, several of the participants in the thread have built some thick skin and tolerance to these kinds of trolls, but my point is that that kind of troll has historically been the main nuisance in the thread, rather than supposed sig campaign motivations - which seems to be a mostly non-evidentiary allegation that some members are just either ideologically opposed to sig campaigns or just don't like the fact tha some members (including myself) are getting paid for their posts (up to a certain amount until reaching the pay limit of the sig campaign).  

In other words, I think that that turning sig campaigns off in the thread is just punishing sig campaign participants without any real justification because there is hardly any evidence that they are the trolling problem.. at least historically in that particular thread.