Of course it will survive. I'm not sure survive is the right word you're using here. The forum isn't going to 'die' when the traffic continues to grow due to bounties and sig campaigns. The majority of traffic will be trash and the forum will become even worse than it already is and unfit for it's true purpose in the process, but it wont die.
Probably, the forum would more or less become "useless" and the whole point of it being a forum would be non-existing.The forum is badly understaffed in my opinion, but I honestly don't know whether theymos prefers it that way with minimal moderation and rules etc. It doesn't make for a very usable or user-friendly forum though and you can see that from the number of complaints about various issues.
I honestly have no clue why theymos hasn't bothered to release the official rules for this forum, if there's no official rules, people will think of this as a decentralized forum.Semantics. Either more admins need to be added or more people doing admin duties. Doesn't matter what title you give them. If theymos doesn't trust some of the current staff members with some of this then they probably shouldn't be mods in the first place. You could have people running the ad slots without them even having to hold any money if that was something he's worried about. Theymos could continue to hold the addresses and the staff member is just in charge of making sure the money gets paid there. Sure, a staff member might try divert funds to addresses owned by them but is that worth ruining their account over? They probably couldn't get away with that much for a monthly ad slot anyway and there are probably easier ways a staff member could make money or even scam someone here.
I don't think money is the issue here. There's more to it,than what meets the eye. theymos, it'll take a few minutes, but its for you to address the community about the issues. And where's the new forum? Just give us the answers, and we'll shut our mouths(not really).He also isn't happy with the spam just like everyone else, so a compromise needs to be found here. You don't have to remove signatures either but the culture needs to change and only those making quality contributions should be getting paid here. If this forum is going to continue as it is then it is no longer fit for anything other than being a welfare system for those who will just continue to find ways to cheat and abuse it.
Don't remove everybody's signature, when people spam they are temp banned right? Don't do that, first blacklist their signatures, and if they continue to shitpost, then temp ban, then perma ban. That may or may not help. Global mods should have the ability to blacklist or whitelist signatures.Well that's a misconception they're going to need to get over or actually think about what they're complaining about. Just because something is decentralised doesn't mean there are no rules. Bitcoin has rules. You can't complain that there should be more bitcoins in existence or bitcoin should be the run the way you want it because decentralisation.
Even some high ranked members who contribute a lot ,think that the forum isn't "censored" and it isn't centralized. And they can do whatever they want, it'd make sense to anybody if people are *allowed* to scam, so they are allowed anything else they want. 