Good job yahoo62278 for creating the topic. It was a needed topic and I think many of us should be talking about it.

1st of all, when you are targeted in the forum by an individual or a bunch of individuals then you have very slim chance to get away from it. I saw it to happen with many members and a lot of them left the forum (safe to say, left the account). Many of them had positive contributions and ultimately the forum as a whole lost it.


2nd of all, there are group of people who made their day job finding scammers, spammers, alt accounts and the benefit for them is to build a reputation for their own. The effect was widely noticed after the merit system was introduced. A lot of users realized it's not going to happen to rank up without making any contribution. So they started to digging up others merit transactions, wallet address connections etc. When one of the connection is made then find something to connect it with a ban evading account or find if they applied in same signature campaign etc.

The basic of growing this hunting culture actually developed to gain personal goals.

Buying an account is discouraged.

But someone who bought an account from years ago [whatever their reason is except any attempt to scam] why is it important to dig up the account today and try everything to ruin it after years when the account looks clearly focusing on signature campaign earning? 

Why it's important to find a plagiarized post that happened 5 years ago and bring it today then give everything to ban the account?

Why it's important to find wallet connection that happened 7 years ago in a signature campaign and tag the account?

The most dangerous part is, who are these people to constantly policing over everyone? Ban the signature feature, 95 or even more out of 100 of them will make one or two posts in a month or week. No offense for any specific signature campaign member from Chipmixer, those who used to make over 50 posts per week when Chipmixer was paying for up to 50 posts, how many of them now makes 50 posts? [Someone can scrap their posts history and make an average to show before and after].

Whatever happen in the forum is for earning from signature campaign, losing competitions, taking revenge just because you don't like the particular person. Most importantly having personal benefits. I can name you a few accounts who started spamming right after they became legendary but before becoming legendary they were regularly looking for wrongdoings from accounts [Making so called quality contribution] and accusing others left and right.

I will have more to say from many different dimensions. But let's see what others take from this so far.