It is simple. Remove all signatures like 8 years ago or "require payments to wear sig ads" that is what theymos wrote.
No more signature images

Quote from: theymos on November 06, 2011, 08:39:25 PM

Signature images are making too much of a mess, so adding them is now disabled for everyone. Existing ones have not been removed, but they will be removed next time you change anything on that profile page.

Choosing one among three ones below.

Quote from: theymos on December 18, 2017, 12:54:08 AM

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 changed the forum, and recently the bump changes have started to change the forum much better.
Shitposters already unable to join good campaigns, and from now on bounties, campaigns will reduce their campaigns' intensity (IMO) because making posts in Altcoin section (Announcement, bounties) don't bump threads (that not what companies wanted).

In addition, from theymos' perspective to maintain the forum as a welcome one for 'good' newbies, I think he also want to welcome good 'newbie' companies here, even they are good ones. So I guess they have allowable rights (so far) from admin to run their campaigns with their funds at any pay rates they can manage to pay for participants and to run their campaigns as long enough to have effects, as long as they don't pay for shit posts.

A 'newbie' company from third-world nation mostly has lower original fund than one from developed nation. Consequently, having a fixed minimum pay rate will automatically create a gap between different world-class companies.

There are users usually make very high quality posts, so payments from campaigns mean nothing with them. Good posters who often join campaigns will keep making good posts when they are free from signatures.
In contrast, shit posters will keep posting shit ones no matter how many satoshis they can earn per post.

There is no abuse or slavery hidden through signatures. Everyone have rights to wear signature (correspond to their ranks, of course) and join campaigns or not. Don't join campaigns and say companies abuse participants.

Months ago when merit system came, people cried (me too Cry

), complained, made noise, but the fact is they have their freedom to leave the forum, and the forum does not abuse them through merit points. If they accept rules as well as challenges from merit system, join it, then make good quality posts and rank up. If not, simply leave and enjoy their lives or freedom of posting shit in other forums.

Quote from: tranthidung on September 22, 2019, 11:17:05 PM

There is no rules on minimum pay rates to avoid spam, in my opinion.
A campaign results in spam or not from their participants, it mainly depends on their management style and rule:

Minimum characters of posts: Despite of the fact that post length is not the only factor to determine post quality, but it should be used as one of requirements to prevent spam.
Time gaps between posts: Require time gaps between posts (such as 30 minutes) might prevent spam. By the way, I would like to emphasize that most of experienced managers don't have this rule or at least exactly minimum time gaps, but they have their own rights to judge which posts are burst-posting ones.
Maximum of post cap per day to avoid both spam and burst-post
Each companies have their own funds to run their campaigns, so they should have fair chances to run their ones here. As the core vision of theymos is maintaining a place for good newbies (as well as good start-ups, IMO).
The management style of campaign managers will play important role to prevent spam. Managers will kick out spammers or reject to pay for spammers. So they will be kicked out or will do change their posting style (at least within period they join such strictly-managed ones)
Campaigns need to be run in a long period to have effects in return for companies, so companies should expand their campaigns to as more weeks as possible with their funds for that purpose

Quote from: tranthidung on September 23, 2019, 04:16:04 AM

Payrate is just one of vital components for successful campaign. I agree with payrate's contribution to quality of participants for each campaign, but it is not enough. You can pay a participant 0.005 BTC per post, but if you (as manager) or others play as managers of campaign don't have strict rules to choose participants, and after that to check their post quality before sending payment, such campaigns will end with failures and spam. Even good posters will decrease their post quality if managers are not strictly manage after choosing them into campaigns. In campaigns I joined, there are sometimes managers have to send warning message after payment sent, because some of participants show signal to turn into burst posting, that is not good for managers, and for companies.

Yobit, months ago, run their campaign with high payrates, but there is no one says that campaign is a successful one. That campaign attracted both spammers and good posters. Spammers banned temporarily if reported by users; good posters did not ban because they made posts that are good enough to not get reports from users. Because of terrible management, the number of spammers overwhelmed the number of good posters among Yobit participants.