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.

Yes, alts and spamming will reduced especially from the bounty hunters.

I believe those that have tasted being on a signature campaign before will not want to leave except in some unavoidable circumstances whereby the just have to go due to personal reasons or challenges with campaign, yet we have a number of members being active on the forum and care not about signature campaign, some come onboard to enquire about bitcoin and left immediately after they got what they want, but we beed to know that this forum is not created for signature campaign but rather for bitcoin discussions, but a signature campaign comes in as an advantage in which we may choose to participate or not, though it will affect the activeness of many on the forum if signature campaign is taken away but the forum will still maintain being existing abd functional,

It would have less spams and if you are curious how less spam is, you can surf some boards in which signature is disabled.

• Two new no-signature boards
• Rules for Serious Discussion and Ivory Tower

In the past, no signature and because of spamming, trolling, there were newbie jails but theymos decided to lift those jails.

Well we have to look at this situation critically, and not just from a single aspect we have to be open in our perspective before we decide.

First let’s start with those that are allowed to wear a signature in the first place.


From the above post you would see according to rules made by theymos the only people allowed to wear a signature are those ranks above Newbie and to get that you have to have more than one merit and 30 activities.

But in reality and from the many campaigns available now the least rank membership is the Full member, and some are even cutting the full members off that’s how competitive it has been.

So to be eligible for a campaign you have to have reached full member with is 100 and over merit with 120 activities this is not an easy fit to achieve legally excluding bought account and other illegal means.

I would say the availability of signature campaign can be a motivation to ready to many who are learn and improve to even work harder to be eligible for a signature campaign.

But the down side is relaxing after getting a signature I would be very honest I was guilty of that before I now rediscovered myself, and with the high competition now the downside of relaxing is fast being eliminated because If you relax you get kicked out.

In a broader picture signature campaign has lots of positive sides.

One of the things I believe would help the forum is when the option of buying an account is removed this would encourage hard work.

everything is not necessarily also the case. but what is very likely to happen is the reduced activity of many accounts on the forum. not all of them are in the forums and creating posts to achieve the weekly targets of the campaigns they participate in.
even without a signature campaign, there will still be accounts of many members who will still be actively discussing on the forums. but as I said, the activity will probably decrease.

If theres no signature campaigns right here for sure there's no spam coming from the people who just want to catch their weekly quotas and just make a comment not related to the contents to get counted, back on the good side of the forum is yes seems like the forum will stay on it because whats the purpose of it? getting connected into the cryptocurrency space so still even there's no signature its like the same with the other forum like the StackOverflow that every members contributes their knowledge and skills for the sake of the community.

What only fantastic questions will not hear at a forum.

Why should I think about what the forum will be like without signature campaigns, if at the moment campaigns are an integral part of the forum. And, for quite some time now. Will these fantasies somehow affect the current situation? No. Then why fill head with all sorts of trash?

If someday signature campaigns are no longer used on the bitcointalk, that's when we can see the consequences and impact of this.

What exactly do you mean by sanitized?

How do signature campaigns affect spam? In my opinion, people can spam without it. If you mean improving the quality of posts, then it is unlikely to happen without signature campaigns.

First and foremost, because some people love to be compensated for their contributions in the forum, the interaction and desire to learn more will be dramatically reduced.

Spamming would be somewhat reduced if there was merely a merit system to display user ranks in this forum without requiring participation in signature campaigns.

If that's the case, we'll see fewer accounts interacting in the forum because the rate of alternate accounts will decline as their purpose for creation is eliminated.

There are benefits to the adoption of signature campaigns, but there are also drawbacks.

If their is no signature campaign on the forum here, then the forum will have been very boring, their won’t be much activities on the forum here, the rates at which threads are created will reduce drastically, their won’t be  much alts accounts, no spamming because anyone that will be creating thread or replying to any thread will be doing it willingly and not for the purpose of signature, so people won’t really be spamming. But we have to be honest, the forum will be kind of boring and less people will be visiting the forum, much information won’t be shared on the forum here, because most people won’t really care posting here.