I do not understand the point of point of this anti-signature war.
if anyone is willing to pay someone for shit posting then why do we need to fight it? let them post and make some money.
if you want to read quality posts then go to quality boards, there are tons of them around, but you can't be navigating the alt board and expect to see satoshi discussing about a serious matter on BTC.
and honestly what do you expect from people who have little to knowledge on crypto and are here only to make money "which is see nothing wrong with"?
I don't see any of you complaining about the forum it self generating money from shit-ads ? it is always easier to start a war against the weak and the helpless isn't it? why not start a similar topic asking theymos to stop accepting ads on the forum?
Allow the masses to make some money dude, isn't this the vision of bitcoin ?

stop nagging
if you really care about the forum quality then counter the shit posts with quality posts, there is nothing else anyone can do about it.
** surprisingly this post comes from someone who received 0 merits for quality posts.

merits are now compounding the issue it is strange that nobody can see this
but I agree with most of your post in that if anyone can be paid2post then noobs can too
I mean they could well ask why they should jump through out self imposed hoop on them
that is part of the attitude issue they have
they now view the system as completely unfair biased and centralised ... i am not sure how I could persuade them otherwise.
ICO's started all of this ....
You will never be able to get this board back into the shape it was before ... this forum was simply not equipped and perhap can not be given the tools to cope with the issues icos present.