I'm not sure if it's been mentioned but a character limit should be introduced in post counts. Character limiting can be annoying, yes.. but it's worthwhile in the end. It's relatively easier to pick out people that are just trying to increase their post counts when their characters are limited.

 I see a lot of posts from some members only posting with images, which is stupid.

Personally that is not a good post. This is a bulletin board, not an image board. I do not see problems with images when they're about the topic at hand, but images to reply as a bash or something is stupid.

Another suggestion is to restrict junior members even more by taking away that outbound link in their signatures. This forum is mostly being used as a means to make money with signature campaigns.

I have nothing against that, of course. But..I'm sure it would discourage some account creations solely made for sig farming... Keyword is some.

Character limiting and more restrictive signatures on lower members is worthwhile. I have nothing against lower levels.. we all start at the bottom but if we stick around we eventually rank up.

I see they have a form of linking. Not as sophisticated as say a full members, but check out this thread for reference... a lot of jrs posting.

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/3006322.0

Hell block signatures till people have a total post count of 150 or even 250. Thats incentive enough they're here for the forums! I'm just throwing out ideas.

1. Remove all signatures except Hiro and Legends, give out ban to all spammers. And the forum will be cleaner IMHO - leave all the fans a quick profit.
2. And in the sections with all ICO and Bounty publications to make a paid

If you did this then all you would do is encourage account farming and the value of Hero accounts and above would go through the roof. As I've suggested in this thread I still think we should offer paid memberships that give you the signature privileges of certain ranks. Something like Silver Member gets you everything a Full Member has and Gold everything a Hero does. If we offered these memberships then it would pretty much kill account farming and sales because nobody would bother when they can just buy the rank they really want from the forum instead.

I wouldn't be against prohibiting users from selling their accounts here as the majority of people doing so are either straight up scammers or shitposting spammers, but giving people the option of being able to purchase the signatures from us with membership would essentially all but kill the market for them instead. Sales could also be banned as well to pretty much put the nail in the coffin of account sales here.

If the IP country and the email address changes, and the posting quality drops, then the chances are that the account has been sold.

You should start with a ban on the sale of accounts on this forum.
Ban at change of IP to make it is problematic-there are those who moves or travels and they will appear in a risk zone.

As a measure of shit posting is possible to introduce a system of black marks and bans. When I was a admin of a local forum - we have done so.
1 shitpost - ban for a week and 1 black mark in the profile
2 shitpost - ban for a month and 2 black marks in the profile
3 shitpost - ban for a year and 3 black marks in the profile.
Amply and understandable.

The merit points system shows what post need in this forum, and the system of black marks will show some post are not needed

P.S. Sorry for my English ))

This has already been created: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=250.0

I am not in favor of making too much restrictions on the members. When you start punishing users with 1 week ban for 1 shitpost, they will simple leave the forum unless they have some important purpose to be here. On the other hand something like merit system is more on the side of rewards. This means that members not able to get merits here can still post here and use other functions like PM. They will thus keep using the forum and we do not want them to go away or join alternative forums. Regarding that IP ban, that is not practical because of the reason you mentioned.