Topic: Appeal to Sig-Campaign Managers to Exclude "Meta" & "Politics & Society" - page 4. (Read 3372 times)

Not talking about you, quickseller or shorena. There are some people on this forum who have a lot of knowledge and they can be excluded from this rule. But if you see some threads on Meta, you'll see that some people are not exactly spamming but they're also not adding anything new. They just rephrase the same answer by adding a few sentences here and there smartly which makes it look like that they're telling something new but in reality that's not true.

And "Politics & Society" has become like an off-topic board, where again all the posts are on the subject but really not necessary.

Anyways, this is just a suggestion, what rule they follow is up-to the campaign manager's discretion. But my intention was not to target you or any one else, just simply trying to think of ways to bring down spam on this forum as I feel that it is the no.1 concern right now.

Or how about actually cracking down on spammers instead? If people are making spammy posts do the logical thing and kick them off. Soon half of the board will be excluded from posts but once you do exclude certain boards what do you think will happen? The spammers will then just move on to other boards where they can rack up their post count likely feeling forced or encouraged to posts in subs or threads they have little interest or knowledge to offer anything meaningful. I probably make half my posts in Meta as do many others like shorena and quickseller. Should our posts be discounted because some other people take this piss? No. Just discounting certain boards is largely just laziness on the part of the campaign managers. Fair enough if you want to target certain areas related to your business but if you can't check your participants posts adequately and choose to just eliminate boards because of spam then either find someone who can or significantly reduce the number of people on your campaign.

This thread is also more suited to Service Discussion.

The amount of posts decreased immensly when I contacted the campaign owners, so I know it helps. As a side effect, less people report changes to me, but I'm willing to put more time into the thread if that's the price for less unnecessary posts.

I don't mind at all. I feel the same and think the amount of discussions on signature campaigns in that thread might get reduced when the participants realize that they are not getting paid to post in that thread.

Excluding posts in those subsections are a good idea if you ask me. I've noticed a lot of unnecessary (but not off-topic or spam) posts in Meta and it's getting worse.
 
I would like to add my thread "Overview of Bitcointalk Signature-Ad Campaigns" to this appeal as well. I've already reduced the amount of unnecessary posts a lot by contacting the people organizing signature campaigns, but in case they haven't added it yet, I would like to hereby appeal them to do so. Hope you don't mind twister.

The forum is struggling with spam and most of it is because people trying to make as many posts as possible to get paid higher. While discussing about good/bad about the Forum and/or about Politics and Society is not exactly spamming but people are desperately trying to post their views on Meta on Questions that were meant for Mods or are already answered.

Same is happening at Politics & Society, For ex:

CNN national poll: Rand Paul 13%, Bush 13%, Ryan 12%, Huckabee 10%, Christie 9%
ISIS destroys Syrian Church on Easter Sunday
Why do islam hates people?
Miracles of Bible...
Etc..

These are some of the examples, people are hyper actively discussing about their views on Religion, Culture, Global-affairs and other such stuff, which as I said is not spam as that place is there for such discussions but I think some people are deliberately dragging these discussions just so they can increase their post count. Which I believe they wouldn't normally do if they weren't getting paid for it.

So my request is, simply exclude "Meta" and "Politics & Society" from the Pay-Per-Post board as Off-topic board is. And if the members still feel like discussing about World-affairs and/or the Forum they can do that without getting paid.

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ndnhc has already excluded "Beginners & Help" & "Politics & Society" to help bring down the spam and insubstantial posts. But I think Meta should be excluded too, as it isn't a place where companies would like to advertise.


Hoping that others Sig-managers see this and include this rule in their campaign from next week/month.
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Kindly also exclude "Overview of Bitcointalk Signature-Ad Campaigns" as requested by thread owner, see below.