I did not expect that a lot of donations were in 2017, it turns out that the minimum donation was $ 7900 and the maximum could be 200 000 $, and in 2018 there no donations at all, although half a year has passed.
It is still possible to make a small donation through the copper membership option. I don't think the forum currently needs funding since there would have been some surplus from the early days and the price of bitcoin went up a lot since then.
It seems to me that spam is just a symptom, and the reason is the crazy popularity growth of crypto currencies, everything is changing, perhaps at one time only constructive dialogues were conducted on this forum, but now there are plenty of newcomers, most of whom understand little about smart contracts, decentralization and crypto currencies in general and aims only to earn, is it bad? Of course it's bad, but maybe in a year or so, these people will start to study those things, and in five years they will be able to bring something of their own into the crypto community, in everything there can be positive sides.
All forums struggle with spam. Bots have made it possible to spam faster than humans can remove it.
The "new crowd" may not understand how things work but do still have an important role. This is the BETA test stage. These people will break what can be broken, make mistakes that were not even considered and do things that are unimaginable. It will result in technology that will become grandma proof.
