Quote from: SaltySpitoon on February 26, 2014, 02:22:40 AM

Well, if we cant find a suitable solution, signatures all together could be banned, or a slightly less radical approach would be to just ban paid sig advertising all together.

Quote from: SaltySpitoon on February 26, 2014, 02:22:40 AM

If you are earning enough money by posting to support yourself financially, chances are you will be banned before your first payday.

And what you mean by that? Am I doing something wrong by supporting myself financially by selling my sig and posting?
I had first payday already so chances are 0% for that

And I don't see a reason to ban people "because they are sig sellers - not spammers"
Maybe I misunderstood your quote..?

Quote from: SaltySpitoon on February 26, 2014, 02:22:40 AM

You are correct, there will always be spam, but paid advertising made the amount of spam go through the roof. Volume of posts does not equal quality of posts. If someone is posting a lot, but they are rubbish, they are making the forum worse, not better. A lot of vets who helped build the forum to what it is today are leaving and its just getting spammier. Our best course of action would be my original suggestion and have paid signature payout rates based on activity rather than post count. If you have 20x more posts than activity, your chances of getting banned are astronomical. We see those huge post counts and check through your last posts with a fine toothed comb. If there is a significant amount of junk, you are banned indefinately. Pre Signature Advertising, there were a few people banned per day, now they are a few peopled banned per 30 minutes. By doing it based on activity, paid signature advertising beneficiaries only need to post once per day, or 14 times per two week period, that means they can post 14 quality posts, rather than one word answers and faces.

Oh is it my fault that you can earn only +14 activity per two weeks?
Oh so this is wrong that I am posting a lot yes?
My activity is 70 and I have >2000 posts.
Is it wrong?

So read my posts. All of them. Find a offtopic posts, "+1", "agree" and other shits like that. You wont.
I am reading threads and posting replies just like I was doing it before I've started to sell my sig.
Just after I did sell my sig I can read and post MORE! Because I buy some time for me so I can do it more than 30min daily.

Do what you want.
Ban all of us.

We will see how many users will stay here.

I understand problem with a spam. I really do. So try to figure out some other way to fix this!

My proposition:
1. Make longer delays between posts - like at least 3min.
2. Talk to SIG BUYERS and tell them that THEY will be BANNED if they will pay people who spam for their BTCperpost.
So they will be more careful and maybe they will check their sig sellers more often to check spam possibility.
3.If this is FORUM - make a voting - democracy! - let people with +150 activity vote about "ban ads in sigs"

I know I am willing to save my income and I am willing to be able to spend @bitcointalk many hours daily because this is my hobby - as a Bitcoin enthusiast.

Kind regards.