Quote from: nutildah on Today at 09:03:01 AM

Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on Today at 05:21:40 AM

In fact, the problem of newbies is that they cannot create even one normal account to participate worthily in signature companies, but they create dozens of new accounts from which, after, we see such indignation about the imperfection of the forum.

What gets me is why they never think to concentrate on "growing" just 1 account... pour their heart and soul into that 1 account, develop a personality with it, make it part of their online identity... A lot of us oldtimers (I think I can safely call myself that by this point) recognize sincerity and reward it since it is in short supply.

It relates to the problem of the western mind trying to create rules for other cultures with the underlying assumption that they will understand it the way it is intended. The excuse that account farming can't be completely stopped so it is allowed (and spamming definitely can be stopped (?) so it is not allowed) is the same as giving a green pass for this behavior in many cultures. It is almost the equivalent of encouraging cheating. In many societies only strict punishment works, discouraging behavior in other ways does not work at all.

Quote from: nutildah on Today at 09:03:01 AM

Both statements are sad but true.

It is an unfortunate situation that is created by several parties not doing anything about it. The administration does not care, the signature campaign managers do not care and many of them are complicit in this, and neither the default trust network cares about it that much. A perfect storm to create spam everywhere and have very few good topics. Low quality junk posts are an active deterrent for many potential quality contributors, they won't even try to join any discussions when they see the state of many threads in this forum. Not that the problem lies with alternative accounts per se, the problem is in the allowed junk quality of most replies. I would say that somewhere between 90 to 99 percent of all replies are complete junk.

What I see in recent observations is that more and more threads are solely started in a desperate attempt to gain some merit, they may even seem somewhat genuine but they are not.