I vote for these suggestions to be implemented.
A newbie welcome message or link to a welcome thread upon sign-up explaining the basic rules and links to everything they need to know including the full forum rules, helpful guides and FAQs etc. No excuses for not knowing the rules then.
I like this one, I still remember that I made a proposal about this idea before.
A publicly displayed 'banned' rank under a person's username for permabanned accounts (people are wasting both theirs and staffs time reporting already banned users and bots).
This will be helpful for reporters to focus more in reporting unban accounts.
Require at least one merit to become a Junior Member (bots will never rise past Newbie status then and can be nuked once spotted).
I prefer to make it 3 to 5 Merits.
Remove signatures completely from lower ranks (at least Juniors). Purchasing a Copper Membership (or higher) could still get you one.
A very wise idea. Nowadays, these spammers are only here for advertising ICO using their signature spaces so that they can earn money. Implementing this one will really change a lot of things hete. I highly recommend this one.
Posts from lower ranked accounts don't bump ICO threads to the top (which would then render paid bump spam useless).
I like it as well. So that bumping threads by those shills accounts will be useless.
More patrollers/mods who just handle sig spam or farmers.
Restoring the memberlist search and stats (very useful for finding huge farming abuses).
Enforce the sig campaign guidelines. If a campaign is spotted that is doing little to nothing and is abused en mass by spammers, farmers, bots and copy and pasters they are warned. If nothing changes then they are punished with such things as bans, threads trashed, signatures blacklisted site-wide etc.
A 'bump button' for the marketplace that only allows you to bump your thread once every 24 hours. Manually bumping by posting will then be disallowed. As mentioned above, posts by lower ranked accounts could not be able to bump threads thus curbing potential abuse.
In addition for this one. Once another bump has been made after 24 hours, the old bump will automatically be deleted.
More admins or demi-admins added to help with account recoveries and other admin duties.
Recoveries are not really prioritised but I want this idea as well.
A captcha added to a user's first post or two/three etc to curb bot usage (purchasing a Copper Membership could remove these).
Require email verification for new accounts.
Require email verification first before passwords/emails are changed.