Topic: What would the Bitcointalk Forum be like without Signature Campaigns? - page 4. (Read 443 times)

You forgot to add a signature ban on the shitposter as part of the punishment. I can't remember which thread I read about it, but there is some sort of punishment where the user won't be allowed to wear a signature for either a week, months, or years, depending on the level of the offense, unless those rules no longer exist.

If there were to be no more signature campaigns on this forum, we would definitely see less shitposting, bostposting, and some unnecessary thread creation. Some of those shitposters are not yet wearing signatures, but they are still posting because they are in search of merit and activities that will qualify them for ranking up and give them possible chances of participating in the signature campaign.

Not only will it stop shitposting, but it might also make the forum kind of boring to some extent because not every quality poster derives joy from posting, especially when they don't have an expected pay week. I have seen a member in this forum whose posting style and post quality I so admire. But when the current signature that the user was wearing ended, there was a gap in how the user was posting. There are also lots of members here for whom I have not seen a signature code since I joined the forum, but they are always active and have made this place their home, people like Franky1, JayJuanGee, and many others.

One thing I am pretty much sure that the number of active users will go down significantly. Which in turn would reduce the number of new topics created on different boards. In a nutshell the amount of traffic everyday that the forum gets will be reduced. Almost everyone here is part of a signature campaign. Those who are not are trying.

Spam will still prevail as spammers have their own personal objective. Alt accounts are allowed by the forum. I don't think removing signature campaign would stop them.

Have you ever wondered what the bitcointalk forum would be like without signature campaigns? I have thought long and hard about this question. There have been numerous controversies regarding post bursting and spamming just to meet the weekly post count and other vices on the forum, all in the name of joining signature campaigns. As a result, many users have faced punitive measures such as temporary or permanent bans, registration tags, and more. The reputation board, which is the court house of the forum, is brimming with disciplinary cases, most of which are related to users in signature campaigns.

Therefore, I ask, what would the forum be like without signature campaigns?

Would it be more sanitized?
Would it be less filled with spams?
Would there be fewer alternate accounts?