Topic: Are AD campaigners killing Bitcointalk.org ? (Read 1133 times)

Heh. Why'd you delete my post? I thought you had nothing against sig campaigners. Does this post look like dribble to you?


I think of signature ad campaigns as a cool implementation to the forum taken too far. Maybe there should be a rule enforced by the mods, where a campaign every week will have to update a list and send it to a person who will put up a total list of sig campaigners that can automatically be ignored by people. Some people can be whitelisted as you look onwards.

If you really think ad campaigns are killing the forum; then just don't go to the places ad posters go. The only real place you'd come to the forum for is technical discussions, speculation and maybe some altcoin and project development. Other than that, everything is just asking to be spammed. (Like off topic. There are so many other forums where you can talk shit, it shouldn't be done here.)

Oh, yes. This belongs in Meta.

I think it depends on the signature campaign rules, as you are seeing a number of signature campaign managers have made their rules strict so the members of that campaigns are very beneficial for this forum and they are providing beneficial info to the forum, and are giving good time to the posts and forum etc. I think the rules (by the managers) should have to take care of the forum.

Signature campaign makes bitcointalk alive. Loads of people who would not have usually come here have done so because they can make a bit of cash on the side,What would become of bitcoin if signature campiagns were stopped and then nobody was talking about bitcoin anymore? I have friends who only got into bitcoin after hearing about signature campaigns and now they are avid bitcoin supporters. This wouldnt have been possible without the campaigns to start them off.

But in the other hand ad campaigners also make this forum alive though. Signature campaign have the good and bad affect to this forum, but i think ad campaigners not killing this forum.

better yet he must create his own forum where sig campaign is prohibited. for the author never listen to the comments and keep insisting what is on his mind

I'm sure you might remove most of the sig campaign posters in this thread later, but I might as well give it a shot.

I think of signature ad campaigns as a cool implementation to the forum taken too far. Maybe there should be a rule enforced by the mods, where a campaign every week will have to update a list and send it to a person who will put up a total list of sig campaigners that can automatically be ignored by people. Some people can be whitelisted as you look onwards.

If you really think ad campaigns are killing the forum; then just don't go to the places ad posters go. The only real place you'd come to the forum for is technical discussions, speculation and maybe some altcoin and project development. Other than that, everything is just asking to be spammed. (Like off topic. There are so many other forums where you can talk shit, it shouldn't be done here.)

Do not generalize every single person here in the forum with ads in their signature space as the same. If you find someome whos just posting irrelevant posts, report it to a mod so they can do something with it. Some people does helps the community here even when they are advertizing. You can use the ignore button also if you don't want to see them. Afaik, there is also a plugin to disable signature in the forum, I can't rememer where to find it but there is someone who made it for people like you who don't want to see ads.

Signature Campaigns are helping the users to earn. But the problem is, sometimes the user replies on a thread without thinking if their post will be helpful or if it has sense, they are just thinking of their signature campaign However, I know it will reflect on their account's post quality. There are  also duplicate threads, just the same question asked using different words. But for all of these, I will let the mods and staffs to take the action. What can we do to help them is to not be like that. We must continue posting threads with the best of our knowledge or comment with our honest and helpful opinion.

In the start I think it was being destroyed by the signature campaigns but no the managers are more active and keep check on all the posts they get from the posters and also they have now made good rules which are protecting the forum from being destroyed.

it's the opposite, without signature this place would be as good as dead, they bring good traffis which is good

i like to call it traffic and not spammy, i don't see all that spam that people are complaining about, seriously apart from two 3 user that are clearly spamming

all the other are just posting their opinion, if you think that this is also spamming, then you are brain-lost

It is the duty of signature campaign manager that they keep an open eye on the posts of their campaign members and the moderators also have to note the activities of the posters, so it will be better for both the forum and for the advertisers.

With signature campaigns the forums are not killed but they are given life, as I have saw another forum which was about to die sooner but with some signature campaigns when started it got life again .

Well. its business. you might not find bitcointalk a busy forum once you don't see users promoting businesses.
while all of us earns even just few bucks a day. you just have to live with it. imagine the worse thing that could happen so while we can get used to it. get used to it!

 hope you won't find this a generic responce.

I already tried to explain it but you deleted it.

Dude you just have to deal with it, you can't have the world the way you want it to be. For example, I don't particularly enjoy being with people at parties or family gatherings because of what you call dribble. I'm not interested in talking about the weather or random stuff just for the sake of making conversation but there is nothing to be done about it lest I become a super Hitler and execute every dribbler out there, unfortunately that might well include every human on earth. You just have to deal with it. Add the dribblers to your ignore list, that way you won't see their comments. Simple.

They do not allow posts like "thanks", "I agree", or other short and non-sense content.
They are also not accepting users who have low-quality posts.
An example is the sign I am wearing right now.

You can take a look at the thread of my sign campaign: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/secondstradecom-signature-campaignupto000017post-907271

It's relevant because more and more people will be using Bitcoins if Bitcoins will be used as a pay option.
More people using means more people are aware of Bitcoins, no need to go out and hire a good face to introduce Bitcoins to a stranger.


If you think the posts that you see are just spam and just trying to increase post count you can always report that to the moderator by hitting that link in the right screen that says "Report to Moderator" and let the moderator delete the post that you think is useless or shitty. Or search for the signature campaign thread and report to the campaign manager so the campaign manager will not count that post that you reported.


Here is the signature campaign thread of betcoin.ag an there you can see how much campaign promoters are being paid https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/what-exactly-is-a-constructive-post-1508097


I don't mind if the pay is low, I don't mind if the campaign manager will pay me for this post, signature campaign is not my bread and butter. I don't post because I want to earn, I post because I want to share my thoughts. I even received messages from the campaign manager for not meeting the minimum number of posts in a month. No one is forcing you to be interested with signature campaigns.


Where have you been? As far as I know Bitcointalk.org is the best platform to introduce a Bitcoin related product or else there would be no ads in this forum.


I thought you are not interested to such a low paying, time consuming work so why ask me to explain to you and how much I actually earned is none of your business.

I agreee but somehow those who runs ad campaigns are getting more strict with their rules, nullifying those incompetent replies, even banning those ad participant who just spam with non-sense replies.  but somehow as what lemipawa said, it helps the forum somehow by bumping threads and most of those who help out  newbies with their queries are ad campaign participant too. Just like what my reply do to this thread (bumping it) . It is a give and take relationship (mutualism) as the thread being bumped by campaigners, answering queries of newbies and campaigners being paid on the other side.

and this

If your posts are useless, then you become an untrusted poster.
If you are an untrusted poster, your signature will appear untrusting too.
That is why some campaign admins do not pay posts with useless contents.

That is why some campaign admins do not pay posts with useless contents.

It's not killing Bitcointalk.org it's a give and take relationship if you ask me. We agree that most of the people here specially the new ones are here for the signature campaign, they want to be paid for their posts, they want to earn. They are being paid Bitcoins and with that, it somewhat helps promote use of Bitcoin to those who don't know the existence of Bitcoin. If they are being paid in USD then its not helping the Bitcoin community.

I think that they are killing the forum. People are just talking complete bullshit and I am not exception. But barely anyone would be on this forum if there weren't signature campaigns.