Quote from: nutildah on January 14, 2024, 07:17:24 AM

Sig campaigns are the result of Bitcointalk's traffic, prestige & reputation; not the other way around.

And that's one thing that can't change, right? Motorola and Nokia also had a great reputation and prestige.

Quote from: nutildah on January 14, 2024, 07:17:24 AM

Guess I just fail to understand what the problem here is.

There is no problem currently. I am giving an objective description of what happened and what could happen if more signature bans are imposed in the future. And it is that after 15 days of mixer ban here you have a lot of forum members who have gone to another forum to advertise mixers there. You say that as this is Satoshi's forum there will always be traffic here and I say that maybe yes maybe no, I'd better wait and see.

Quote from: Solosanz on January 14, 2024, 07:42:37 AM

The point is, you're trying to protect the current Bitcointalk's traffic right?

In capitalism, competition is inevitable,

Well, not exactly, I am saying that what can happen if more restrictions are imposed, as could happen in the future with casino signatures, for example, which is something that theymos did not rule out but said he did not foresee in the near future, is that the traffic will go elsewhere. To think that if more and more campaigns are banned here the traffic is going to stay because this forum has a prestige nowadays seems to me quite naive.

And competition seems great to me, because I am also quite capitalist in ideology, but precisely the competition makes things change.

Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on January 14, 2024, 07:57:08 AM

Why will users switch to another forum? There is still a company signature for mixers, but they pay much cheaper than here.

Today. Do you think that is something that can't change?

Quote from: KingsDen on January 14, 2024, 08:07:06 AM

OP isn't criticizing theymos decision to ban mixers. He only pointed out the effect of mixer ban in Bitcointalk. But I think that there is no problem anywhere. Theymos decision simply favoured Altcoinstalks forum, and did not take any traffic off from bitcointalk.

I think you are the one who has best understood what I have said but I would qualify that that's what happened at the moment, just 15 days after the mixer ban.

Quote from: examplens on January 14, 2024, 09:58:49 AM

About Bitcoin itself and the services related to it, there is certainly a much better discussion here with many more relevant participants and information.

Certainly, this whole mixer ban will change some things.

Agreed.

Quote from: JollyGood on January 14, 2024, 12:49:56 PM

If members here could make money at a different forum at $30-$40 per week while still making $70-$80 here, they will do it because they will receive an extra income.

That is mainly what is happening. But there will also be some members who have run out of campaign here and are now posting only or mainly there. Two casino campaigns recently ended here.

Quote from: digaran on January 14, 2024, 01:49:11 PM

You are not familiar because you and OP wouldn't get paid there to post your biased BS, the only reason you 2 hang around here is because of your bossman paying you here, the moment you teleport to that forum you will get tagged left and right.

Keep on dreaming.

Quote from: EarnOnVictor on January 14, 2024, 06:01:22 PM

Do not let this bother you so much,

If in the first thing you say you show that you haven't heard what I'm saying, I'm not going to waste my time with you.

Quote from: shahzadafzal on January 14, 2024, 07:42:53 PM

No "new" forum will ever reach the same level as Bitcointalk is today.

That remains to be seen.

Quote from: DaNNy001 on January 14, 2024, 08:42:43 PM

Even with all that you have said, we still can't deny the fact that signature campaign here are the major cause of the high traffic and I could bet that if anything was to stop the participation in signature campaigns then the traffic would certainly be dull compare to how it was before.

It's not that traffic would just slow down here, it would go elsewhere.

Quote from: LoyceV on January 14, 2024, 08:12:04 AM

Quote from: Poker Player on January 14, 2024, 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.

Merit "exchanged" for agreeing to disagree. That basis has long since been reduced to the bare minimum in the forum.