There may be something even worse than faucets, and that's signature campaigns below posts on this forum. I'm using them, so I can't criticize much, but it's sad to see people writing new posts obviously without reading what's been said already.
Anyway, my case is solid. I gave 2 arguments why faucets are bad for BTC, and nobody so far have proved them wrong.
The signature campaigns wouldn't be an issue if the people running them would actually evaluate posts. Instead, they promote this idea that everyone should spam as much as possible to earn the most they can.
What they should be doing is:
1) Evaluating posts for quality
2) Removing low-quality posts from the payouts
3) Increasing pay for legitimate posts
This would boost forum post quality, increase earnings for those that aren't abusing the system, and still result in savings for whoever is running the campaigns.
The sad part is nobody wants to do this, and the forums are degrading more and more daily because of it.
It's a slipping slide(slope), forum moderators could use this in every thread, but who decides what is low quality? Bad english because someone is not a native speaker? Non sig campaign bad posts? There are plenty of tolling posts and topics started without the incentive being a sig campaign.
1) Quality is too personal, obvious trolls and spammer might be easily spotted, but when does a post meets certain criteria it is 'quality'. This is not measurable.
2) This is for the campaing managers, that could be done, based on their personal insight and does sometimes happen, BUT:
3) Most is automated and not doable and too time consuming. Often sig campagains only count one reply per topic, so spamming a topic is not profitable.
Your points are all ok in an ideal world where everyone thinks the same and time is a plenty. But is not maintainable in the real world.
