Ivory Tower was supposed to be a section without spam and a section where serious discussion and intellectual debates would take place.
It sort of achieved that.
Why sort of?
Well, there is no spam, just quality posts.
However,
how many of them?
Once we've removed the incentive from the posters, we witness a mass decrease in posts overall.
There are spammers in other sections, but we must not forget genuienly good posts are incentivized too which makes them quite active unlike Ivory tower which gets a reply once a week or so.
Compared to the other sections which boom with activity.
Besides, since merit was introduced, there really isn't much incentive to spam pointless posts, since you need quality posts in order to rank up.
There is some incentive for people who have already reached certain ranks to spam, as to fulfil their sig. quotas.
My personal opinion is, although there is obviously some negative effects from sig.campaigns they are
most certainly good for the forum overall.
They incentivize people to be active.
They help create active threads, sections, SEO rankings etc. etc.
Why do you disagree? Or do you agree
