Quote from: The Pharmacist on March 18, 2018, 03:59:10 PM

Quote from: gawer33 on March 18, 2018, 03:32:03 PM

simple, stop signature bounties it will stop

Brilliant, unhelpful post. While you're right--and I've supported banning sig campaigns in the past--Theymos has already ruled out doing this. I don't much care if I never was in one myself, and I agree that it's the only surefire way to kill all this shitposting. And yeah I'm in one myself. I learned 3 years ago that to refuse to get paid for something I'd be doing anyway is lunacy.

And nixing campaigns would solve the merit-selling issue as well--but that problem is a distant second to shitposting anyway, though they're closely related. I still think, and I wrote it before, that eventually the merit system will significantly reduce shitposting.

And merit sources will hopefully not hand them out to scumbags who'll end up selling the sMerit. This is going to take time, and it's still early on in the life of the merit system.

I haven't been in the crypto space for very long but I will say bitcointalk.org is a little confusing at times with respect to its guiding principles (I'm being honest). At times it seems like the forum is based on a free market where people are able to support/promote ideas/projects of their choice - just making sure it's in the right subsection (also a learning curve). Then there are times where the free market upsets people i.e. this thread. Then there are those that speak to the censorship and banning of accounts above and beyond just the shit posts.

Like anything else in the crypto space, I fully understand it's a game of education and patience, although I'm happy to be on the big'ol crypto wheel now