And what about quality and speed of responding to ban appeals? If it go up as a quality of discussion, i'll vote for it!
Markiz is waitingIf you PM'd Cyrus and theymos more than once or twice and they aren't responding I assume the answer is a 'no'.
We have to agree that the majority of traffic comes here for signature campaigns and other money earning services. The moment signature campaigns are stopped, the traffic will look for alternatives and this will give rise to another forum where signature campaigns will be accepted. Due to the lack of traffic, services will gradually move to an alternative as well. Yes, we would not have spams but it will affect the forum's ad revenue as well.
Advertisers care not only about traffic but about the quality of it, I'm not sure (I don't lean either way) if people who visit bitcointalk solely for signature campaigns are worth as much as users without paid signatures.