Quote from: hilariousetc on November 01, 2018, 08:26:20 AM

Quote from: iasenko on November 01, 2018, 07:57:41 AM

Do you think if we remove the sig. campaigns in general that those discussions will still go on?? No.

Well that's obviously the source of the issue here and removing signatures is pretty much the only way to stop this nonsense immediately. I often wonder if signature campaigns will ever be removed here. Theymos has mentioned it would be a last resort and one he'd be willing to do if it came to it, but it would kill of most of the activity/traffic here (not that I'm saying that's a bad thing). I'd love to see the data and charts in the drop of actual traffic and how many people would instantly leave if it does ever actually happen. It'd probably just go back to the sort of numbers we had pre-2013. Maybe much less. I suspect signature campaigns are the only thing even keeping a lot of the 'old timers' here (though there are still a lot who admirably never joined campaigns for whatever reason). I think there are a couple of other things we could do before it ever got to completely removing signatures though such as punishing badly run campaigns and maybe even removing signatures from all the lower ranks first rather than a blanket ban on everyone, but as long as you can get paid to post we're always going to have an issue with spam in one way or another, but I think we need to try find more ways of limiting it before the inevitable happens.

I try to see the situation from a different perspective now, kind of What would ~~Jesus~~ theymos do?.
Even if sig. campaigns are bad thing, they are a way to spread the word about cryptocurrencies in the developing countries. And we all know that there is no bad PR. As the "one friend introduced me to crypto" sounds really banal here, the reality is that more and more people are engaging with the cryptocurrencies and probably a small fraction of those shitposers actually can contribute to development of the crypto in those countries. I guess this is the reason not to remove the sig. campaigns.

For me personally, I don't really care if I will wear paid signature or not as my posting behaviors did't change much before and after the I joined the ChipMixer campaign. Almost all the crypto I have now, I bought, and I don't use the forum as income or to support my family. It's just a hobby which I really like