I think I understand why you use the word "farming", but "spamming" might be a better English term to use.
Anyway, I don't think there is much to report in your example, but I have no doubt that 50% - 70% of the posts on Bitcointalk are just people posting meaningless drivel in order to get paid for their signatures, or to increase their activity score (so they can get paid more for their drivel).
One thing that many people do is to ignore anyone that is a member of a signature campaign. It really reduces the number of stupid posts that you would otherwise have to endure.
WOW, you blew my mind, man. I was actually saying aloud "WOOOOOOW".
I am a copywriter and starting to dedicate 100% of my efforts to crypto. I am talking to 2 ICOs right now and they ask me to write reviews and do vids on them. I write in English and Russian and have a 10-language team.
So, I am trying to carve out the niche for myself on this forum, coz I want to set up my own website and do something good for the community.
As you can see, my nickname actually states my name. I don't remember ever seeing such a real-name nick here at all. Here's my LI -
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-golyanov-2a701056/.
So, one of the ideas that I am thinking about is writing upaid reviews on ICOs, highlighting their problems. I would do that on my website and I would want to communicate in BCT, Slack and Reddit with the admins and community, asking questions, referring people to particular parts of my external review. In this way, I would grow the subscription. The monetization scheme is quite clear - I would want to show my visitors a tailored set of ads (for instance, great ICOs, special offers from exchanges).
So, I knew that there is such a button "Ignore", but I did not think much about it.
I wanted to do two things together - 1) get my account to Member + start the signing campaign and doing some other work for the community, 2) do the reviews and communicating part above.
Now that you said that I could be ignored for doing the first thing, I naturally don't want to do that. I don't know. It's sort very hazardous to me, coz you might start ignoring, just because you don't like what I am saying, you know.
Nahhh, if you ignore me, there's a reason, coz we are freaking rational beings.
So, thank you for your tip.
I am gonna:
1) abstain from paid campaigning
2) communicate in pre/ann threads with the admins and community and post the links to my external reviews after I've completed the communications strategy.
3) if anyone has ignored me, so be it.
4) if a person has ignored me, but then that person sees that my coherently put phrases are being quoted by another person, the former person would most def unignore me, coz it's a logical thing to do, with the covenant that my acc has no signs of collusion to campaign.
Is there a lot of you, campaign-ignorers, out there?