Quote from: hilariousetc on August 12, 2018, 09:03:50 AM

1) Make it so that posts from lower ranked members don't bump the thread to the top (ideally up to Member)

Only for certain boards, right? A Newbie with a serious question should still get the attention he needs.

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2) Get rid of the Announcement board completely and instead charge ICOs a fee to list here and once they do they get their own sub board in the Alt Coin section.

That could lead to hundreds of different sub boards, assuming all the ANN-spammers have the budget to pay the fee.

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ICOs should probably be paying a fee to list here anyway. They get a crazy amount of advertising for free

On top of that, some threads pay up to $1000 per week for bump spam. They have high funding and earn millions, let them pay to improve the forum instead of the other way around.

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Money raised can either go to hiring more staff to combat spam or given to charity.

It could even be burned, as a gift to all Bitcoin owners. But it's probably best to use it to improve the forum. The amounts they spend on bump bots could pay for full-time moderation.

Quote from: vphasitha01 on August 12, 2018, 10:29:35 AM

Merits shouldn't awarded to the post made on ANN threads.
Posts in the ANN threads should not counted as an activity.

I disagree with both points. Some posts in ANN-threads deserve merit (example), and the merit traders will just pollute other boards for their business. The same will happen if they can't earn activity there. Lack of Merit is what should stop them from ranking up, not lack of Activity.

Quote from: InvoKing on August 12, 2018, 11:22:45 AM

2) I prefer to offer 2 alternatives :
First one : ICO don't pay anything but the manager has to open a self-moderated topic and like the wall observer topic, all reports go to the manager and he is obliged to remove the spam or else the topic will get trashed.

This won't work. Bump spam has accomplished it's goal, even if it gets deleted within a few minutes. Even worse: the ANN-threads that are self-moderated, (ab)use that power to delete bump spam to make it less noticeable. The bump bots used to do that on their own, but can't delete their own posts within 24 hours anymore (this restriction was created to stop bump bots).

Quote from: digaran on August 12, 2018, 01:23:54 PM

Silver membership cost 0.02BTC to enable starting a new topic in ANN board.

The payment should be per thread, as the amount of spam increases with each additional thread.
And I don't think it should be a special rank that makes the account look better than it is.