What's your opinion on the new paid member ranks such as Copper Member to help alleviate this sort of spam? I gather people shit post in Politics & Off Topic etc (places prohibited in signature campaigns) just to get their rank up. If someone purchases a membership and then restricts their posting purely to areas related to altcoins (such as altcoin discussion, announcements etc) and keeps away from the rest of the board, do you think this is better overall or does it still detract from the forum? I'm just trying to understand where the balance could be struck.
Paid memberships that are the only way you can have a signature are one of the things I've suggested to combat spam/poor posts and I'm hoping theymos implements further ranks such as Silver & Gold and at some point. I don't think we should limit users to only posting in alt coin boards but if all users who sign up here can't have a signature (or only a very small one) unless they purchase it like they do with Copper Membership I think it will have a
significant effect on low quality posts. People farming dozens to hundreds of accounts to exploit signature campaigns will be a thing of the past and everyone will be limited to only the amount of accounts they can afford or deem profitable to use. Theymos doesn't seem too keen on removing signatures altogether but I can't see any good reason why we can't allow them alongside being able to rank up naturally or make an additional "premium" rank with added benefits that can only be acquired by donating. The latter would be a good experiment on its own to see how many people go for it.