Right now they can only attract spammers and they even fail at it.
Well, yeah....cryptotalk.org basically scraped the bottom of the bottom of bitcointalk's barrel and recruited them to be the core community on the cryptotalk forum. Anyone who's been a member here long enough to notice the shitposting problem could have predicted how that was going to turn out.
Did I just read that cryptotalk members are now being paid in some token instead of bitcoin? That's something I didn't see coming, but I guess it shouldn't surprise me if it's true.
I couldn't sit at a computer and try to write posts in Chinese for 1000 sats/post. I'd be getting paid peanuts for doing work a monkey could do, and where's the satisfaction in that?
You are right about the content quality but I don't agree with the peanuts part.
1k sats/post is still big money for many people in many countries and it is huge when you can boost yourself with multiple accounts.
OK, fair enough and I've argued the same thing when people say members are making peanuts on bitcointalk signature campaigns. It all depends on where you live (and how you live).