Topic: If the signature campaings are removed from the forum, will you stay or leave? - page 4. (Read 820 times)

I would stay on the forum, but I would post a lot more in the WO thread and a lot less in the rest of the forum, spending less time overall. Getting paid incentivizes you to write, and getting paid well, more so. I think you would notice a drop in posts from the better paid members of the forum, and I'm not just talking about the CM campaign.

I edit to say one thing I forgot: if paid signatures would disappear, and the moderation policy of the forum would be the same, looking for quality, we could clearly say: bye bye Bitcointalk. I think that for the forum to have life after removing the paid signatures, it should be possible to post in the whole forum as in the WO thread.

I have no doubts about that, of course I would still stay on the forum, because it's not all about money, despite the fact that some think that this forum is a place where people post just to make money. I know that some will say that people in sig campaigns are hypocrites who say one thing and do another, but I can say that so far I have not spent a single satoshi from the CM campaign in which I have been since December 7, 2018 - exactly three years

Same here, and with the exception of a handful of members, I think we're a dying breed on the forum.  Fortunately there have been some new members that, regardless of their motivation for being here, have been excellent contributors to bitcointalk.  So even if someone is here strictly for the money, that doesn't mean they fall into the typical bounty-hunting, shitposter, zero-value class.

I've grown attached to this forum over the years, so there's no way I'd give it up just because signature campaigns went away--which doesn't seem to be an option in Theymos's mind in any case.  But I bet there would be a massive efflux of members if that happened, and that makes me wonder what would happen to the merit system and my role as a merit source.  There wouldn't be any incentive for members to rank up aside from status, which means there probably wouldn't be any threads about how to earn merits or even as much general interest in doing so.

And that's just one consideration; I think this place would look completely different if campaigns and bounties were suddenly outlawed.  It was an active forum prior to the first campaign, but I think that was due to bitcoin being a very new thing.  Now that it's matured quite a bit and given the fact that many members are here just to participate in bounties/campaigns, I'd expect bitcointalk to become almost a ghost town.  Hopefully that won't be tested anytime soon.

Don't know if you're paranoid or not (since I don't know you IRL), but you're not in a parallel universe that I know of.  Yes, this has been discussed before but I think it's been at least 5 months since we had a thread like this.  Maybe a little less; I lose track of time when it comes to this forum.

When I joined forum, I didn't even knew what is signature campaign. My first thought when I heard tthis term for the first time was that someone is paying for signing in various petitions or something similar .
So, I didn't joined Bitcointalk for signature campaigns and I definitely wouldn't leave if it would removed. When I wasn't in sig. campaign, I simply wear my own not paid signature and I didn't even become less active.
Though, it's possible that without paid signature I would a bit less active, but I doubt that change would be significant. On the other hand, if most members would become less active then, automatically it would mean that we would have less active topics where we can comment, answer questions, share knowledge and so on.

I will go and leave all the memories here, for sure, some of the earnings for the forum and maintenance and so on, obtained from advertising campaigns, maybe the forum can't be accessed anymore, because it can't advertise anymore or maintenance funds.

The problem here is: the forum teaches a lot about Bitcoin and crypto, the campaigns here are all crypto-related, gambling needs crypto, buy/sell stuff with crypto, everything here is crypto, crypto and crypto, so removing the campaign means removing Bitcoin and crypto, what are forums and communities for, obviously better to just go.

The forum is growing as it is today because people are interested in Bitcoin and crypto, competing to promote campaigns/advertising about Bitcoin and crypto.
Fred, Chris Larsen, Cameron, Tyler Winklevoss, Jed McCaleb, they all wouldn't be billionaires and rich, without Bitcoin, campaigns, forums and crypto.

I am here to stay, I learnt a lot from the forum to be honest which is not anything technical but even I got the better vision about what is money and why we all stuck in the middle class life forever no matter how hard we are working. Its great to be here with community all around the world meanwhile we also can see lot of veterans leave the forum which is not actually anything to do with the signature but for their personal reasons.

But do you think anyone who will vote for I am only here for signature campaign will leave a reply here? I don't think so.

Despite wearing a paid signature at the moment, there were certain periods that I was just wearing my own signature ^{[not a paid one]}, so I'm not going to leave but without those, the overall activity on this forum would probably go down significantly, hence why I voted for the third option ^{[e.g. fewer threads and etc...]}.
^{- That'd also lead to less spam, so it's not that bad}

I am feel stupid, I clicked the first one without reading properly. I saw the word "stay" on the second and third line" and totally didn't notice I clicked "leave" for the first option until the poll showed the results.

I didn't join for signature campaigns, so I won't leave because of them either.

Honestly
For me, I'm gonna stay here,
We all know that through campaigns we can earn money but what I think is that this forum gives me a lot of knowledge not just in Bitcoins but in the world of crypto. I treasure every minute here in the bitcointalk forum cause when I entered here I don't have any Little knowledge about currencies
Also, I encounter different people around the globe I meet some friends and I'm happy about it I encountered different kinds of attitudes some are generous, helpful, extrovert users, and some of them Little bit strict. But all in all, I like everyone here in the forum.
So there's no reason why I leave.
Good job buddy nice Thread.

I've been off any paid sig. campaigns since May but I'm still here, not active as before but that's nothing to do with the signature campaigns, just life.

So if the campaigns are gone, what you gonna do?

Since the poll is anonymous, you can really vote what you think is your case