The merit system helps but most of these "legendary" and "hero" spammers got there by shitting out one liners the past few years.
Correction, until now dude 
. Sad to say but many poor high-ranked members can still be able to continue their bad posting habits without getting noticed because of two reasons: 1: others feel hesitated everytime they want to advise an oldie. 2. the eye of this forum was too focused on the mistakes of newbie shitposters. To sum up, it seems that they got exempted from the negative criticisms coming from the others 
. The obvious solution is to remove signature campaigns all together. This will undoubtedly get rid of the people who are here for the wrong reasons. But Theymos and mods know this will absolutely kill the traffic to this website and ad revenue would absolutely plummet.
Then you should be the one to make the first move, you are now free to remove the signature you advertise. Hmm, I bet you can't. Your word is a two-edged sword my friend. Why do you want signature campaigns to get removed if these contribute to the collected revenue of our forum? And besides, you can join campaigs while not harming the forum at the same time, right? My point is, the real problem here are the ones who came here for wrong reasons (as what you've said) and not the campaign itself. Those kind of users are the main responsible for all of this mess
. Ps: No offense sir. Peace
I'd like to make a couple of suggestions with regard to posting permissions. I believe that it would be worthwhile to restrict thread starting in the serious discussion board to members and above. In fact it may be worth reviewing the permissions for thread starting.
Hope this request will be granted. It would be great to join a discussion with real members rather than spammers that would only shit post. 50 merit requirement could be a great ceiling for a member rank. Just an opinion.
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