Quote from: Welsh on August 30, 2018, 03:27:48 PM

I'm getting to the point where I don't even care if signature campaigns were just outright removed.

Well that would certainly solve all our problems once and for all with the farming, spam and shitposting, but as I've mentioned before though you'd also have to remove avatars and personal texts as well because people will still utilise them. People might even start advertising with their usernames. Bounty rules: Sign up to bitcointalk and create a username with 'shitcoinico' in and get paid to post. I think there are several other options we should consider first before removing signatures completely though and I've suggested them numerous times. One penultimate solution to removing them altogether would be to only allow signatures for very high ranks. Imagine if only Hero or Legendary users were the only people who could advertise here. That would certainly have a drastic effect on the spam and stop all the shitposters just signing up here just to shitpost because they would get nowhere and only the very top contributors would get anywhere. If you hadn't paid your dues here by gaining the required merit over time then you can't earn here. In addition and if that was too extreme, you could allow members to buy the signature with Silver/Gold ranks, but only if they're sufficiently expensive as to stop people from just buying them on their dozens to hundreds of accounts (something in the range of $100-1000 would be ideal). Farmers really would be priced out of the market because it just wouldn't be financially viable to spend so much on each one and most users would be limited to one or a few accounts at most. Nobody would be penalised from posting here in the process as well but if you want to earn here then either earn that right through merit and activity or cough up for a Gold/Silver rank.

Quote from: Theb on August 30, 2018, 04:18:23 PM

What concerns me the most is necro bumping on threads, these threads that died down from 3 or more months (or even years) are brought back to life because of this low ranked members randomly reading the title thread and then try to make a post in it. These threads will of course be put back in the first page of the section and a chain of members will follow and try to post some more spam in that old thread. I just wish there is a feature where threads (on certain sections) that didn't receive any new post for a given period of time will not be eligible to be bump in the first page anymore.

Yeah, those are really annoying. They usually bump threads just to post some generic crap in and within a matter of hours there can be pages of spam to remove and it's incredibly tedious to do so.