Quote from: Veleor on August 08, 2019, 03:04:27 AM

Over 70% of registered profiles have never even posted on the forum and more than 159,000 profiles are banned. So the number of accounts that could potentially be for sale is far less than 2 millions.
And in my opinion, trading of Bitcointalk accounts can be forbidden on the forum itself with no difficulty.

Sure, a rule could be potentially imposed stating that account sales is prohibited on the forum, and any one that tries to sell accounts gets their threads deleted or even their account banned. But that's only gonna make matters more worse, cause people will sell more accounts off-forum than on-forum and that will only give more room for scammers to scam because it'd be literally impossible to figure out if the account is sold or not.

Quote from: TheRealAwesome31312 on August 08, 2019, 11:05:58 AM

I didn't mean have them stop posting, I just mean, stop paying them once they've earned their $5 (Which is a couple of meals in the countries where most shitposts come from)

Yeah I mean,that's what most campaigns do, they only pay for a certain amount of posts and there's a limit upto which you could potentially earn.

Quote from: actmyname on August 08, 2019, 01:46:22 PM

I don't understand this whole philosophy of "no sig campaigns = no traffic"

Why would you want spam for 99% of your traffic? Are you serious? In that case, why even bother with the merit system? That sure reduced traffic. Roll Eyes

Because if there's more spam, it means more signatures, and that means it appears almost everywhere==bigger reach, and who would care about the content of the text so long as the name gets spread all across the internet?