Well how shitty does this forum have to get before heavy-handed measures become necessary? I would suggest that the benefits of a measure like this would outweigh any inconveniences experienced by some noobs who are in all likelihood alt accounts anyway. It's not a perfect solution, but it's worth trying. It's better than doing nothing. If you keep doing nothing, bitcointalk might as well start up a local board for English. Drives me nuts when proposals get shot down because they're not perfect. Nothing is.
Spamming will continue taking place in that board too,if ever theymos decides to create such. Shitposters just need a place to post and increase their activity count. I have doubt,if a person gets banned,their IP also does get banned? But yet people create their legion of alts and come back. I have seen websites which tackle the VPN problem,wherein people with multiple accounts are exposed even while they use VPN,is it possible for it to be implemented in this forum too? This will tackle one of the greatest issues on bitcointalk,right? A lot of people are wasting their time for nothing if shitposters keep coming back. Any thoughts on this??
Spamming will continue taking place in that board too,if ever theymos decides to create such.
It'll cost the spammers to do so though. If signatures get removed from ranks (and thus activity), users are going to have to pay to get one and while a regular user might not have many issues paying 10-50$ for a sig for his only account (especially if he plans to actively participate in the forum), a spammer's is going to take the hit of the aforementioned 10-50$ for each of his accounts getting banned.
Shitposters just need a place to post and increase their activity count.
And that's why I agree with hilariousandco's suggestion to make certain boards not count towards the post count or activity. Doesn't impact what content can be posted yet removes any incentive for posting there, aside from genuinely wanting to discuss the legitimacy of a project or participating in a bounty / bitcoin giveaway / etc.
I have doubt,if a person gets banned,their IP also does get banned? But yet people create their legion of alts and come back. I have seen websites which tackle the VPN problem,wherein people with multiple accounts are exposed even while they use VPN,is it possible for it to be implemented in this forum too? This will tackle one of the greatest issues on bitcointalk,right? A lot of people are wasting their time for nothing if shitposters keep coming back. Any thoughts on this??
Simply removing signatures from ranks would solve the alts issue as a person would have to pay cold hard cash for each account he wants to run a sig campaign on (and as previously mentioned, would suffer a direct monetary loss for each of his accounts getting banned). Considering the generally privacy-conscious crowd that seems to hang around here, I doubt the alt detection would do much as most people who want to hide their alts simply sign up with a VPN, proxy or Tor in the first place.