Spending $50 for a "Manager" badge would do nothing to reduce spam. Are you aware of the amounts of money flowing through these campaigns and the people managing them?
If the prices of these badges were higher and assuming most of these ICO companies manage the bounties themselves, I believe Companies won't pay thousands of dollars for buying the badge. Well if the price for Manager badge is high, then bounty management would become centralized with very few trusted and reputable managers. Yes that would be good, but doing so will also make these managers to demand for higher pay rates. $50 is literally very low but having some kind of payment would be better.
We wouldn't have to ban altcoins as they are a part of the crypto life but limiting the ways they could market themselves here would be greatly beneficial. For example, what if the bounty managers of these would only count the posts they are making in the altcoin sections? That would be hard to police but it could be a step in the right direction.
Might be a better idea. But we cannot assure how effectively this limits spam posting. If everyone work for what they are paid like what you, Yahoo, DarkStar does then we would not have seen these spams.
That could be one solution although it wouldn't do much. Another thing could be to only allow Sr. Members + to wear a signature that contains code (I doubt a lot of companies would want participants in their campaigns that could only wear a single line of text).
Yes, that's true. Shady companies don't spend for signature creations or for these review websites. They just come here announce their scam and start a bounty and run away with what they have gained. This should also be controlled to an extent. Though the forum acts as a decentralized one, but it also acts as a entity for promoting scams, hence theymos should get involved in this area and enforce much stronger rules.