1 The owner of this site has mentioned before somewhere that he may remove signature campaigns at some point if they become a problem.
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What are everyone's ideas for improving post quality?
I have mostly ruled out:
- Removing signatures or sig ads globally.
- Requiring payment to wear sig ads.
- Banning account sales.
Fortunately, merit system works as theymos and the community expected. Later, the bump changes improve things better.
2 Rank doesn't stop people from spamming and any rank can spam. If campaigns accept Juniors or Members getting 1-10 merit isn't hard. There's also a lot of older accounts that ranked up before the system that spam even when they're Hero or Legend.
Spamming is still there (and can be confirmed when you visit patrol page) but it is improved in non-altcoin boards.
Recent weeks, I've seen some easier merit giveaways and honestly I don't like that but in reality spammers won't be able to go up too high in ranks.
3 Disabling signatures or avatars doesn't remove the spam. It's still there just without the advertisement which still ruins discussion.
As said, spam posts cover some boards and you can personally put those boards in your Ignore preferenced boards. Advertisements don't ruin discussions, spammers do.