Quote from: bigmelons25 on May 17, 2018, 06:16:38 AM

Ban accounts with IPs from china, russia, venzuela, indonesia, india, etc = home of the scammers.

WE need to get rid of these broken english speaking scammers!!!!!.

In addition to what "Jet Cash" said:

Quote from: Jet Cash on May 17, 2018, 06:34:52 AM

It isn't the country of origin, but the posters motivation and attitude that is the problem.

- There's also this:

Quote from: mprep on July 21, 2014, 05:27:51 PM

19. Possible (or real) scams and Trust ratings are not moderated (to prevent moderation abuse).

Quote from: bigmelons25 on May 17, 2018, 06:16:38 AM

The best solution is to just remove signatures completely. In most of the threads, no actual conversation even takes place. It's just people posting their few lines for their signature campaigns. Bitcointalk would be 100x better without signatures. Keep this place for real conversations, crypto lovers, and not 3rd world crypto scammers.

Not sure why you're mixing scam with spam on this topic, but "theymos" already ruled it out (your suggestion):

Quote from: theymos on December 18, 2017, 12:54:08 AM

I have mostly ruled out:

- Removing signatures or sig ads globally.