Just remove signatures already. As in delete, disable, gone. - page 21.

Fernandez

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Quote from: Blazed on December 18, 2014, 10:50:50 PM

Since PD has stopped their campaign I have noticed quite a reduction in spam since most of the current ones pay for a set amount.

It has increased now with the payments based on posts campaigns.

The activity and signature limit worked well to curb this for a few months. Its time Theymos did another scaling or adding new restrictions. Personally, I would prefer activity based on powers of 2, like in bit/byte/kB etc. Its a Bitcoin forum, so makes sense to count in bits.

Blazed

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While I do participate in these campaigns since I post a lot...I would not mind them being ended either. I am always buying and selling things so why not get paid while I post anyways? I do hate when I see people posting just to be paid (always very obvious). Seems Prime Dice is about to start a large campaign again...will be interesting if they can keep the spam under control having forum staff running it. Since PD has stopped their campaign I have noticed quite a reduction in spam since most of the current ones pay for a set amount.

marcotheminer

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┴puoʎǝq ʞool┴

Quote from: Lethn on December 18, 2014, 05:55:16 PM

I have a sig, it earns me a fairly stable income which I am then converting into an even more stable income which means I won't even have to rely on sig ads at one point. However, I always try my best not to spam and don't bump if I can help it and definitely don't necro post I do agree though that I've had to check the date a lot lately of any topics and sure enough I often find a topic that I posted in sometimes a year ago that's been deliberately necro'd for a post count.

Just report these twats and in fact, report any senior members that go along with it and try to sneakily reply to the topic as if nothing happened and yes, I HAVE noticed, so don't think your safe because you're a long term member.

Signature campaign managers should also take steps to make sure to be more vigilant and check the post history of any members that sign up to their campaign to make sure they aren't just spamming for post count, if you cut off their incentive to spam the majority of them will stop.

I've noticed now too the necro spammers more recently have been targeting threads within the past couple of months so keep a watch for that sort of thing as well.

Lethn for president!
Please forgive me hehe

Serious note: As a campaign manager, I will do my best to watch out for certain kinds of users.

Lethn

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I have a sig, it earns me a fairly stable income which I am then converting into an even more stable income which means I won't even have to rely on sig ads at one point. However, I always try my best not to spam and don't bump if I can help it and definitely don't necro post I do agree though that I've had to check the date a lot lately of any topics and sure enough I often find a topic that I posted in sometimes a year ago that's been deliberately necro'd for a post count.

Just report these twats and in fact, report any senior members that go along with it and try to sneakily reply to the topic as if nothing happened and yes, I HAVE noticed, so don't think your safe because you're a long term member.

Signature campaign managers should also take steps to make sure to be more vigilant and check the post history of any members that sign up to their campaign to make sure they aren't just spamming for post count, if you cut off their incentive to spam the majority of them will stop.

I've noticed now too the necro spammers more recently have been targeting threads within the past couple of months so keep a watch for that sort of thing as well.

Mowcore

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I will admit , I used to have a sig for dice website. I felt bad for promoting a gambling website and decided to promote a charity instead.

Buy games people, we all love em and people benefit from it....cough cough my sig cough.

peligro

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Quote from: EvilPanda on October 31, 2014, 11:30:38 AM

Quote from: peligro on October 31, 2014, 05:17:19 AM

For instance, a couple of days back this account made over 50 posts, collected his gawminer signature campaign payout and left. That account will get activated once or twice again in the next month. https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/pkofet-168724

The solution would be to make campaign managers liable if their participants are spamming just to get to the required posts. The above example would have been easily caught if the manager was even a little bit proactive. The minimum posting threshold may also be lowered. My current one asks for 40 posts a month (I do a lot more than that).

This forum allows users to have multiple accounts, so why shouldn't the campaign? The forum member played it by the rules, he wrote 50 posts before the deadline, and they were on topic, so there's no reason to remove him.

If you think a campaign member is spamming or flaming, you have a lot of options available:
-contact me, and I'll review his account
-give him negative trust
-report his posts and ask a moderator to ban him

P.S. The reason you now have campaigns with 40 post limit is because they want to look attractive for people who are already in the 50 p. campaigns, not because they want to fight spam or anything like that Wink

Posts should be if they need to say something. If your participants are posting 50+ posts one day per month then clearly they are doing just to collect the pay and not because they needed to say something. Another example is here https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/buziss-162745

There are also sign ups with bought accounts. The forum policy allows account trading only because its not possible to stop, and the market exists mainly due to signature campaigns. Look at this participant https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/nor9865-59502

This one's ownership is still dubious https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/candystripes-is-a-scammer-840008

hilariousandco

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Join the world-leading crypto sportsbook NOW!

It's been penciled in roughly for early next year for quite some time, though there's no exact date.

tspacepilot

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I may write code in exchange for bitcoins.

Is there ever actually going to be new forum software? This is something I've been hearing about for over 2 years but as far as I know there's still no timeline for implementation.

EvilPanda

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Small Red and Bad

Quote from: peligro on October 31, 2014, 05:17:19 AM

For instance, a couple of days back this account made over 50 posts, collected his gawminer signature campaign payout and left. That account will get activated once or twice again in the next month. https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/pkofet-168724

The solution would be to make campaign managers liable if their participants are spamming just to get to the required posts. The above example would have been easily caught if the manager was even a little bit proactive. The minimum posting threshold may also be lowered. My current one asks for 40 posts a month (I do a lot more than that).

This forum allows users to have multiple accounts, so why shouldn't the campaign? The forum member played it by the rules, he wrote 50 posts before the deadline, and they were on topic, so there's no reason to remove him.

If you think a campaign member is spamming or flaming, you have a lot of options available:
-contact me, and I'll review his account
-give him negative trust
-report his posts and ask a moderator to ban him

P.S. The reason you now have campaigns with 40 post limit is because they want to look attractive for people who are already in the 50 p. campaigns, not because they want to fight spam or anything like that Wink

peligro

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I would prefer signatures to remain. The 0.05-0.1 BTC I make a month is quite a nice amount for me.

I see the other side too, and I understand the problems. I ran a campaign for sometime and was rejecting almost all applicants as a quick glance through their posting history showed they were alternate accounts and only here to participate in signature campaigns.

For instance, a couple of days back this account made over 50 posts, collected his gawminer signature campaign payout and left. That account will get activated once or twice again in the next month. https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/pkofet-168724

The solution would be to make campaign managers liable if their participants are spamming just to get to the required posts. The above example would have been easily caught if the manager was even a little bit proactive. The minimum posting threshold may also be lowered. My current one asks for 40 posts a month (I do a lot more than that).

BombaUcigasa

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Quote from: superresistant on October 30, 2014, 12:15:06 PM

Are you ignoring all the people with a paid signature ?
That must be a hell lot of people.

I do. My life is substantially better and I feel great. My sex life has also improved and I can bench press a midget sized small person.

superresistant

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Quote from: phillipsjk on October 29, 2014, 03:36:10 PM

Quote from: spidergoat on October 29, 2014, 03:13:08 AM

You can choose to disable signature but of course you might not see important information. I think most of the signature (campaigns) require strict constructive post rule, those spammers are reduced this way.

I have seen people apparently faking constructive posts by copy&pasting earlier thread comments (with minor edits).
The ignore button works well, but requires you to be logged in. It is also tricky when an actually constructive poster decides to participate in a signature campaign. Most the time, I just hope anything important gets quoted by another poster. I probably have 3-5 people I don't have on ignore despite their signature campaign participation.

Are you ignoring all the people with a paid signature ?
That must be a hell lot of people.

tspacepilot

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Quote from: naplam on October 28, 2014, 06:58:33 PM

Quote from: BurtW on September 18, 2014, 12:58:19 AM

Just perm ban anyone with a paid signature, that would clean things up.

This

Might be hard to tell who's paid and who's not. I see some .com in your siggy, napalm; what's the diff between your advert and another? Maybe you're paid to advertize, maybe you're the owner, how can we tell? Why should that make a difference?

phillipsjk

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Let the chips fall where they may.

Quote from: spidergoat on October 29, 2014, 03:13:08 AM

You can choose to disable signature but of course you might not see important information. I think most of the signature (campaigns) require strict constructive post rule, those spammers are reduced this way.

I have seen people apparently faking constructive posts by copy&pasting earlier thread comments (with minor edits).

The ignore button works well, but requires you to be logged in. It is also tricky when an actually constructive poster decides to participate in a signature campaign. Most the time, I just hope anything important gets quoted by another poster. I probably have 3-5 people I don't have on ignore despite their signature campaign participation.

superresistant

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Quote from: naplam on October 28, 2014, 07:05:51 PM

Quote from: superresistant on October 28, 2014, 07:29:07 AM

I am keeping my signature because pool advertising is baned.
How the hell would I advertise my business without signature ?

You tell the coin devs to list your pool in their OP.

I try to list my pool when I can but most miners don't have time to read, they look for the last messages in the thread and chose the pool most people talk about.
Many people chose my pool because they know me or and they like what I say.
As a customer, if you have the choice, you should aim for a business you can trust.

Quote from: naplam on October 28, 2014, 07:05:51 PM

Or you pay for advertising.

I thought about it but I don't want to associate my business with spamming.
I am like everyone, I am annoyed by spammers and scammy links but still... I need a way to advertise.

Quote from: naplam on October 28, 2014, 07:05:51 PM

By the way have you measured how many people click on your signature vs. other places? it would be interesting to know

This is a great idea but I don't want to put too much trackers on my links. I care about privacy.
I know that most of my customers are Chinese and Russian but they talk very little and don't often ask for help contrary to French or people from Arabs countries.

spidergoat

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You can choose to disable signature but of course you might not see important information. I think most of the signature require strict constructive post rule, those spammers are reduced this way.

naplam

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Quote from: superresistant on October 28, 2014, 07:29:07 AM

I am keeping my signature because pool advertising is baned.
How the hell would I advertise my business without signature ?

You tell the coin devs to list your pool in their OP. Or you pay for advertising. By the way have you measured how many people click on your signature vs. other places? it would be interesting to know

naplam

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Quote from: BurtW on September 18, 2014, 12:58:19 AM

Just perm ban anyone with a paid signature, that would clean things up.

This

tspacepilot

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Quote from: koshgel on September 23, 2014, 11:58:20 PM

Quote from: Puppet on September 22, 2014, 06:55:25 AM

Quote from: koshgel on September 22, 2014, 12:37:47 AM

Removing signatures is an overreaction.

Perhaps your words would carry a modicum of weight if you didnt have a paid for ad in your own sig.

Removing signatures is not an overreaction, the only alternative I see is ignoring this forum and moving to reddit or wherever.

lol a modicum of weight. Were you tipping your fedora while posting that?

Also, my signature is not paid.

You're free to browse any forum. Distributing your ~~modicums~~ modica as you see fit. You'll have a hard time finding one without shitposts and whiners complaining about said shitposts.

ftfy.

superresistant

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I am keeping my signature because pool advertising is baned.
How the hell would I advertise my business without signature ?

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