Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 08:12:04 AM

Quote from: Poker Player on Today at 05:05:10 AM

Of course it works that way. If you create a forum today and get the traffic

That's the thing: I don't expect the traffic to work that way. If users only join to earn money, you'll miss the basis that made Bitcointalk a valuable place to advertise in the first place.

Yobit tried to start a forum, where everyone was paid for every post. (At least as far as I know). However, it was not sustainable in the long term. I think that this is because only one entity paid for the activity on the forum, unlike Bitcointalk, where each campaign has a different owner, so the "cost" of paying for writing posts is shared. A much more sustainable solution.
This only confirms that without paid posts, the forum would hardly survive, at least not in this strength.

As for whether paid campaigns are needed or not, the answer is more than obvious, yes. Certainly, without campaigns, there would be much less spam, but over time there would also be significantly fewer active members. For the high authority of this forum, the most important and only resource is the members. Without activity, many things would begin to slowly disappear from here.
Starting with campaign managers, designers, escrow services... I believe that even LoyceV at one moment would not do his statistics for the 50 most active users out of all 100.

If nothing else can be improved, I would not touch the current system on this forum with further restrictions. Many have brought here some of their knowledge, skills or services and contributed to the "good" statistics of bitcointalk.org, and it's perfectly fine to return some of that to them through earnings.

Quote from: dkbit98 on January 12, 2024, 01:31:37 PM

Quote from: LoyceV on January 12, 2024, 08:21:22 AM

I expect that would end all campaigns that pay useless tokens, some campaigns that pay in Bitcoin but at very low rates (I can think of 2 old online casinos) and it would end the biggest Bitcoin paying spam campaign Stake (check the top 20 posters and see who pays most of them).

I think there are worse spam campaigns here, for example Bitvest, but are you trying to create new/old enemy?

I would agree with Loyce here, Stake is probably the worst campaign, because as far as I know, they have the biggest weekly budget, considering the number of acceptable posts and participants, but still they decided on the lowest quality and spam. What is even more absurd, I have seen over time at least 4 or 5 users who present themselves as managers of this campaign.