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I have a suggestion, made it in a thread some time ago about the bumping services provided for ICO announcements.

Alot of ICOs get bumped up by meaningless posts, usually by jr.member or below. I have never run a forum, but if it is possible couldnt Theymos change the code so posts from Jr member or below do not bump up the threads? Then they can post as normal but such accounts can be used for bumping purposes.

Not sure if it will help, but i am getting so tired of all the meaningless non relevant one liners.. Maybe, just maybe this could help!
And it would not hurt the normal newcomers to the forum. The only ones who would feel the disadvantage is the scums selling the bumping service!

I don't ever see any ICO announcement threads. They must all happen on the boards that I've got on ignore. :)

The serious side to that comment of mine is this - There are so many spammy bumps for apparent scams, that I've put all the boards on ignore. This has cleaned up my index quite a lot.

Haha cant blame you. The ICO announcement part of the forum is overflowed :P
Which is also why it has become a business aparantly to sell bumping services..

Even normal posts can be disallowed. It might be tough, if not impossible to distinguish between bumps and normal posts. I suspect that a combination of posting restrictions and permanent bans for unnecessary bumping would solve this problem

This wouldn't actually be a bad idea. I've suggested something similar recently with something like no matter how many posts are made in that thread a day it's only actually 'bumped' to the top once, though limiting it to certain member ranks may be a better idea. Far too many of these crapcoin ICOs are utilising these bump spam services and they're usually all by lower-ranked bot accounts who will never get any activity to progress through the ranks.

It may be time to restrict posting in most of the boards to members and above.
I see juniors are starting to spam the serious discussion board, and we even have new merit threads starting there.

That is not possible.The best thing you can do as your part is - Report those accounts to the moderators.There are also a lot of Jr.Members who will be genuinely interested in contributing to the thread and it would be unfair for them.

How would it not hurt the genuine Jr.members ? If you really are that much concerned,start reporting the accounts.

I do report alot of crap, but it takes alot of time from moderators. And i truly cant see why it would hurt the jr members? That their post dont bump the thread to the top does not affect them is my view. Id gladly have that restriction put in my account with a flag showing my posts do not bump the threads if theymos changed it after my suggestion! The gain would be greater than the loss for me. I am a bounty participant but that is not why i joined. I did not even know how good it was before after half a year approximately. Now im in signature all the time of projects i believe in, cause hey free tokens!