Quote from: The Pharmacist on December 04, 2022, 11:43:34 PM

Quote from: LoyceV on December 04, 2022, 02:50:57 PM

There's less spam (and much less posts in general). In the past week, 35,000 posts were made. 4 years ago, there were 280,000 posts per week (that's 8 times more).

Wow, that's a dramatic difference. Were there more bounties/sig campaigns available then, or was it just that the market was much more bullish then than now?

If you click the link: it was the moment Newbies needed 1 Merit to become Jr. Member. Many of them lost their signature space because of this change.

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But what happens the next time crypto heats up and bitcointalk once again starts attracting all of the illiterate spammers who want to enroll as many alts as possible into bounties?

They'll still hit the same signature limits, so they can only spam the bounty boards for made-up tokens. I'd say let them, as long as the forum doesn't close that board.