The reality of this forum
There has been a lot of controversy these past few months regarding the spammers that flock to this forum in order to obtain money. The merit system helps but most of these "legendary" and "hero" spammers got there by shitting out one liners the past few years.
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.
A lot of the boards don't even have real discussion. I guarantee a lot of these guys just skip to the last page, post something that is somewhat relevant to the topic and dip to the next thread to fulfill there bounty quotas.
The best boards in my opinion are the mining sections. Great insight, no spammers, no trolls, barely any paid sigs in the mining boards.
The reality is this place is excellent money for those living in poorer countries. Why work 12 hours a day making iphones in a factory when they can get $500 a week posting from their 10 alt accounts.
Well the idea of spamming from the high rank members is really disgusting and serve not as a good example to newbies or the beginners. The reality is that most of us are here to raise funds but the bad aspect of it is that many people don't even care to know what the product the are dealing with is all about which is very bad. And the idea of stopping signature campaign on this forum as you have already stated above will have a negative impact on the number of people visiting here and the beginners will have no much information here to access.