I think there should be a rule regarding maximum number of eligible posts.
You're mentioning the campaigns that pay an actual coin with value. As much as I dislike the current Yobit spam: at least it has a cost to them!
The bounty campaigns that pay in worthless made-up Tokens cause much more spam, but it's mainly restricted to the (totally lost) Altcoin boards.
If theymos doesn't want to stop those, I don't think he'll implement stricter rules for Bitcoin-paying campaigns either. But if they push their luck, the entire campaign will get banned, and I'm pretty sure that's the only reason for Yobit to hire a campaign manager this time.
Think of it this way: the Yobit campaign is a good chance to get some high ranking accounts banned. And thanks to the Merit system, they can never farm another account with a high rank.
I do hate it though: the
number of posts in the past week is up by 5000 since the start of the Yobit campaign, and I notice there are more BS-posts in topics that didn't have them before.
If they pay more than others, they can attract the best users like what ChipMixer is doing.
This is not the reason why Chipmixer has some of the best posters on the forum
Yes it is. Part of it is management but the fact is that the more you pay, the better people you can get.
In the short time I was managing a signature campaign last year, my best posters always moved to ChipMixer the moment they had the chance. Just like in any other job, the right management can only attract the best people if they pay the best rates.
That "pennies" thing just isn't true, though. Even if a campaign pays a few thousand sats per post, it adds up pretty quickly. These things are extremely lucrative, especially if a participant is living in a poor country with high unemployment. It's no wonder there are so many applicants as soon as a new campaign pops up.
It's so dumb though: so you're living in a poor country and you get an opportunity to earn $30+ per day just to post on a forum, and the first thing you do is spam 20 posts in a row to get your $30 one day, and get banned the next day? Any sane person would take that opportunity and work very hard to produce the best possible posts, and get maybe $10 on a day, but it'll add up to $300 per month. And that's still more than the average income in many countries.
If Yobit and ChipMixer had the same posting requirements and paid the same amount per post and per participant do you think that the members promoting ChipMixer would switch sides? Even if Yobit paid more do you think those users would advertise a site like Yobit?
ChipMixer is also a very long running campaign. Even if another campaign pays more, you wouldn't get back in with ChipMixer when that one ends.