I think charging people to have a signature is going to be the only way we'll stop the majority of the abuse. If it doesn't cost people anything then they will find a way to get around the system. Merit is a great idea in theory but we're just seeing people farm merit now and those with a lot of accounts or "friends" just trade it between themselves in a
you scratch my back I'll scratch yours scenario. Remove signatures and make everyone pay $500 or something to get one and that would pretty much kill account farming and severely limit the amount of accounts people could have. Punishing badly run campaigns would go a long way as well. If we'd have done this then we wouldn't have had this issue in the first place and as long as spammers continue to get paid nothing will really change.
I have seen his/her post about how happy he/she is because there are many people from 3rd world country who do a good job and contribution to this forum and make money from it, and the money is considered big in their country. If this system happened, then the poor will be troubled a bit if they want to join the sig campaign. It will be like a money game, one who has money will have a higher chance to be in the game.
Let me post this first and i will find theymos post. This reason is just a conclusion from me tho.
Okay, this.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2986106.msg32203954#msg32203954You seem to have missed this bit:
Though no amount of this sort of thinking excuses those who choose to post garbage posts, for whatever reason. I hope that we can eventually reach a balance on the forum which will satisfy the forum's primary mission of enabling real discussion while also continuing to create opportunities for many people.