If you want a forum without the freedom to advertise in your signature, you can literally choose from thousands of other forums. Go there, and see if it's better than Bitcointalk. If it is, you've found your new place to discuss online. If it isn't, you'll be back.
This is a perfect reply to his curiosity or whatever. There are many forums where users are not paid, he could visit most of them and definitely meet a grave yard and then compare it with here. I don't know why people see signature campaign as a benefit to only the participants while the project owners benefit the most.
- The forum benefits from signature campaigns because it guarantees high level participation and dominance of the forum domain
- The project owners benefit from the signature campaign because it gives their projects the exposure they want
- The campaign participants benefit by getting weekly bucks
This is a win-win situation for all and shouldn't pose any problems.
and it would end the biggest Bitcoin paying spam campaign Stake (check
the top 20 posters and see who pays most of them).
When I joined here newly, I considered stake as a spam campaign. But today, their participants post long wall of text(almost all), if quality is a measure of post length, which is how it is generally regarded here, it could be said that Stake participants no longer spam