A better suggestion would be posts in there not count towards post-count or activity.
I wouldn't mind pruning nor that.
I doubt that would help, because it would just move spam (if user is indeed spamming) to another place.
I've heard this argument so many times, and I generally disagree with it. Should we not do anything in any section because the spam may move towards another section? The only section that can be used for post-padding without getting banned for spam are these giveaway threads. If we make it much harder to do so or render it useless, you can't expect those very same farmers to continue doing that just as easily. I also suspect that some of them are using bots to post in specific intervals (depending on the giveaway type). In other words, it would take a lot more effort to create an equal amount of posts (being created in these threads) in another section.
I'm confident you're wrong. There is nothing you can do to stop account farming, you can only make it harder for them, but at price of making the forum even more censored (referring to deletion of comments)
The only way all these discussions can be stopped and solved is to disable signatures once and for all, plus the forum would probably get more commission from their AD sales.
No. Punishing everyone because some people are abusing something is generally not the right way to proceed. From what I gather, the consensus is more oriented towards finding solutions and not removing the feature altogether.
Consensus is biased. If we are to indeed look for the greater good of the forum, this is the correct way to do it.
The only way all these discussions can be stopped and solved is to disable signatures once and for all, plus the forum would probably get more commission from their AD sales.
You do know right ,stopping the signature campaigns would drastically reduce the traffic incoming to the forum.People are keen on advertizing on bicointalk just because of the traffic.A drop down in the traffic won't interest them anymore in advertizing here.I'm afraid if the signature campaigns are stopped on this forum,another forum could enable it on their site and with quite ease they can direct the traffic from here.
The forum was doing just fine before the campaigns came along. You're giving too much credit to them.
