Quote from: B1tUnl0ck3r on May 03, 2018, 07:37:01 PM

I don't know, there is as much stupidos... they pollute by judging and deciding it's not serious. who decide? this is the problem. on the others sub the flood of shit post is such, but again it's just my opinion... what is a shit post?

more generally is online discussion still possible? who benefits the most by destroying all form of online discussion?

for example, myself I ask if trump is such a pussy that he doesn't have what it takes to kill hillary clinton, is it a shit post? politics? serious? I.T? doesn't change the fact that I think it's a valid question, which I would like to know the answer

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but seeking answer on an online board, only lead me to btc

so who knows...

I'm unsure what I read right now Cheesy

Quote from: The Pharmacist on May 03, 2018, 08:14:24 PM

Quote from: iluvbitcoins on April 26, 2018, 10:35:15 PM

They incentivize people to be active.
They help create active threads, sections, SEO rankings etc. etc.

I do agree with these things, and I'd be a hypocritical liar if I said I wasn't motivated to post more because of the sig campaigns I've been in. On the other hand, I usually end up posting over the maximum # of posts I get paid for in a week, sometimes waaay over.

The thing is, it's possible to be an extremely active poster and still not have your posts be spammy. I'd like to think my posts are an example of this, and in fact Chipmixer's campaign is full of people who are prolific writers who don't produce a mountain of shitposts.

It's the crap like this:

Quote from: TheGodson on April 27, 2018, 09:58:23 AM

"Bitcoin has given people hope because future will be good. I now afford good things for me and changed my life. I hope it goes higher still. Maybe even 10 million."

which TheGodson has correctly identified as the problem with campaigns. Campaigns have drawn in innumerable participants from places where English isn't spoken, and they're required to post in English. The result is that while their desperation drives them to join, it's not matched by skill with the written word, and they resort to writing cookie-cutter nonsense like the above. Or even worse, they plagiarize somebody else's posts or articles from the internet.

Indeed.
Because you find interests in certain threads and come back to them even if you're not getting paid to do it, but would you even find them if you weren't incetivized to visit the forum?
You have a min.cap of posts you have to make and in that time you're capable of finding interests etc.
If you didn't have to make that min. perhaps you wouldn't even see those threads and come back to them.

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So if campaigns were driving really talented writers to post, that would be a great thing indeed. Unfortunately that's not what we're seeing at all. We're seeing the worst writers who are trying to earn the most money, and it's their posts we see most frequently.

That's what campaign managers are supposed to take care of.
Pick only the quality posters, at least those who don't spam.