Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on February 03, 2024, 04:57:41 AM

Quote from: Casdinyard on January 28, 2024, 11:21:52 PM

Signature campaigns have been the forum's bread and butter combo but as it stands the hate for signature campaign members seem to just grow by the day, and I'm not sure if I'm comfortable about it anymore. People stating in their posts that the quality of the forum's gonna shoot up if theymos stopped allowing signature campaigns from happening and the likes have bugged my meta feed for a while now and frankly I just don't understand the hate directed towards people who are given the chance to get paid for doing the same thing they would otherwise do if they aren't.

I might be blind as a bat, but I haven't seen much more vitriol directed against sig campaigns lately. It used to be really bad a few years ago before the merit system cleaned a lot of garbage created by account farmers and whatnot, but has there been a call to end campaigns and/or an increased amount of posts directed against shitposters in campaigns?

As far as the reason for the hate....well, I used to be a part of the group of members who were sick and tired of the campaign-driven drivel that polluted and still pollutes many sections of our beloved forum. Maybe I've grown used to it, maybe the garbage pile has shrunk, I don't know but from what I can see things are a hell of a lot better than they used to be with respect to post quality--overall, I mean.

Quote from: Casdinyard on January 28, 2024, 11:21:52 PM

Matter of fact and this is a keen observation of mine, most shitposters in here aren't even from campaigns, they were those no-sig mfers who push out content shat by ChatGPT or stolen from the bird app to get merits and rise up the ranks, possibly to get signed up on a signature campaign, if they want to shoo shitposters away from this forum I think they should look into that instead of directing their hate against people whose posts are weekly audited and observed for quality.

If a shitposter isn't in a campaign, they're probably looking to rank up and get in one or have some other nefarious motive for cranking out generic, zero-value posts. That's always been my view, though I don't have any data to back it up.

Honestly could just be me generalizing all the hate anti-sigs have thrown over the years. Although earlier this year I saw quite a couple of those Anti-sig propagandists make posts about how the forum would be better without signature campaigns or something along those lines. So yup. The hate still exists, but you may be right Sir Sceptical, since the topics they have made so far aren't really as hostile as they were back in the days. Just some 'food for thought' stuff although you'd smell the propaganda from a mile away.

As for the shitposter content to rank up and be merited, the thing is that's counter-intuitive. You wanna get merited and rank up so in theory what they should've done is push out great content and focus more on the quality rather than the quantity, and I don't think they're getting merited either since I personally keep tabs on some of those mfers and I haven't seen anyone of them go past the Jr. Member rank. So it's not like these people are getting what they want.

Quote from: KingsDen on Today at 01:02:19 PM

Quote from: Casdinyard on January 28, 2024, 11:21:52 PM

Matter of fact and this is a keen observation of mine, most shitposters in here aren't even from campaigns, they were those no-sig mfers who push out content shat by ChatGPT or stolen from the bird app to get merits and rise up the ranks, possibly to get signed up on a signature campaign, if they want to shoo shitposters away from this forum I think they should look into that instead of directing their hate against people whose posts are weekly audited and observed for quality.

There is a group of sh!tposters you guys are missing in your analysis. I have just seen that type recently in the project development board. A newbie account will drop a project they developed (real or scam), but likely scam and you will immediately see other newbie accounts as the first first to ten comments praising the project and testifying how they made alot of fortune from the project. Probably only one person has those accounts. That is another type of spam that non signature campaign participants generate.

This is correct. Probably just missed to mention these as I have seen a couple of them as well. I stopped checking the Project Development board months ago because of this as well so I haven't kept tabs on these clowns who scam people as much as I check on the newbies I suspect of using ChatGPT and shitposting. I don't think they're getting what they want as well, it's not the first rodeo for most of us so it's not like we're gonna get scammed.