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It's nice to observe anywhere you are, this forum is mega forum base on It's capacity of containment of members, and secondly i want to make this my article brief for we to understand.

I observed that the reason why some active members became inactive in the forum is as result of lacks of campaigns, I don't know if anyone have noticed that, I don't want to call names of people who has reduce their activity in the forum based their not in campaign...it means that many users will silent forum if signature campaign is not on forum, these is my little observations.

Nice observation. But don't conclude on your own mate. Not everyone here on the forum are interested in signature campaigns. Some have other basic assignments to do in real life other than signature campaigns. Also, since the banning and movement of mixer services to Altcoinstalk forum, most members who got signature campaigns over there, too might be a bit busy because they have to make sure to complete their weekly quota on both forums. And at such, even though they show up on both, their activities won't be like when everyone was focusing just in one forum.

You should know that there a lots of signature campaigns run by casino's still on the forum and even new ones that were launched. So it's not possibly that your above assumptions are correct.

Signature campaigns keep the forum traffic high no doubt. however how sure are you that those users became inactive  because of signature campaigns?
Many of the forum old user didn't leave because of signature campaigns but rather because of different factors like losing their login details or they were simply busy with other things off the forum. Many members here are still not interested in signature campaigns some have never even worn  one a majority of the likes of such users are in the wall observer thread go see for your self.
Or they could even be whales chilling somewhere on a beach.

Everyone has a reason why they are here on this forum. If the reason why some people are active here is no longer there, then there might not be a need for them to be as active as they used to be.
 
It's just like the gambling industry: if you remove the possibility of winning games from gambling and only leave the fun part, you will notice that the traffic in the gambling industry will reduce drastically.

If someone wants to be in a campaign on this forum and not able to, that means the person is not a good poster. If the person earn enough merits and having quality posts, campaign managers will see them and take them. There was a time that mixers campaigns were limited on this forum just like this time that we have none and still many people are in campaigns. There are still many signature campaigns on this forum but just that good posters are the ones joining them.

It's not all about a good poster...I have observed that when people campaign fin they don't post as regular they post unlike when they are in the signature campaign, do you know that some people may like make five posts daily but when they are not in campaigns you will see that it hardly before they make at least five posts daily, so it's a signature campaign that keeps some accounts active in the forum, so many reputable members who is not in the forum make only one post daily or five posts weekly.

You don't need to conclude on this, because everyone in this forum came here on different reason. I could remember that signature campaign did not start immediately the forum was lunched, but it took time before signature campaign started and we still have members in the forum then.

Some inactive members choose to give up on the forum due to some reasons. Some might have passed on, some don't have access to the forum because they don't know their password, some have illness that have lasted for a very long time, some might have lost interest on the forum, and some cannot grow their account. Why some came here to carry out their scam, which there were caught, and some inactive members have gooten a good job out there that they are more dedicated to. There are a lot of members here that don't care about signature campaign that are too rich for it. Even though signature campaign shuts down, we will still have member here, who are enjoying the forum activities and also doing business here.

If someone is inactive strictly because they couldn't get into a campaign then good riddance. Campaigns are a privilege, not a right!! Not everyone is guaranteed a spot and most people should look to contribute to this forum more than just joining a signature campaign and earning money. It's ok to earn money, but it's ok to be a part of the community as well.

If you or anyone else feels that there is a lack of campaigns, maybe it's because companies feel they are not getting enough bang for their buck. If you are in a campaign, you should be supporting the company. Helping keep their thread active, maybe playing on their site now and then, helping others get answers to questions they may have about a site, etc. This is just a part of my opinion.

Everyone has noticed stuff like that and it's not a new thing either, it's no secret a lot of people would quit or at least dwindle down their activity if they are not paid for it, it's all a matter of how much time you have to spare and how invested in the forum you are. If you're a big bag holder and you have no worry in the world browsing the forum to see how your coins grow is pretty funny even if you're not paid, when the forum was your only revenue and now you have to flip burgers instead, of course, you won't be around too long.


The activity will plummet like a stone, that's the reality and I bet theymos knows it also, a lot of the members that carried no signature have left the forum because of the spam wave that some signatures have brought and there are slim chances they will come back. The rest will probably just visit the forum once in a while and that's it.
No point hiding it, we all know this ourselves, it is what it is!

The forum is a big place. I really don’t pay attention to other members posting regularity. I would notice if they are part of my local board or we often find ourselves commenting in the same topics. I think this reduction in activity is because users who are not currently in a signature campaign post freely since they do not have any quota to meet. This is good because we will have less generic posts flying around in the forum.

If someone become significantly less active on Bitcointalk  just because they couldn't get spot in signature campaign, it's not good sign. There is no such thing like lack of campaigns - simply not everyone is obligated to get spot in campaign. As said above, it's privilege, not a right. There is many people who are here just for money and they become inactive if they don't have chance to earn. IMO, it's wrong attitude, but who I'm to judge them.
Don't forget that Bitcointalk is community, not a workplace.

We've all noticed it. Obviously, if someone pays you to post more, you post more, and if they pay less, you post less. And let's be real. We all do it. I'm myself less active than before.

It's an economic thing. Our time is valuable, and we ought to make good use of it. I might want to play video games all day, but it's just not worth my time. Pay me enough, and I'll master it.

Or just because they aren't paid. If bitcointalk was just another regular forum, then I might be visiting once in a while, and I'd definitely ask my Bitcoin questions whenever I needed it, but it's just not economically viable to be that active. The only active users who aren't paid to post are probably retired OG Bitcoiners.

so what? Most members have other work, whether in Crypto or even in regular life, so they may not have enough time to post 5 or more posts a day if they are not participating in a campaign on the forum.

This is normal, and everyone knows that, and no one is upset. Members cannot post here all the time if they are not committed to a weekly quota, but it is good that they maintain a minimum level of activity and communication in the forum, and this is enough to keep the forum in a good state of activity.

It’s not surprising. People want value for their time. Someone who is used to getting paid for his signature space will feel a way about posting regularly when that incentive is no longer there. If there was no signature campaign, Bitcointalk would not have as much traffic as we do now. It’s evident as a good number of bitcointalk users have teleported their accounts to altcointalk forum because of the opportunities of joining mixer campaigns. Without the incentive to post, I doubt we will have constructive discussions on the forum.

Maybe, but I'm sure this forum will still be alive even if there is no signature campaign.

Apart from campaigns, there may be other reasons why members become inactive, such as because they are busy in the realife or other things. Active or not is a choice and we cannot prohibit it. However, I also agree that one of the reasons members become inactive could be because they don't participate in the campaign

Op, should I say that your observation is true or I should go further to explain. Naturally, many people do not come here because of the passion for bitcoin. Some came here because of money and I am among those people,  but as the time goes on, I recieved some high level information that made me fall in love with the forum. Now, I have passion for bitcoin. This does not mean that I will quit the forum if there's no longer signature campaign. But it means that my activity will reduce,  which is what the OP is saying. There are some weeks that I wouldn't like to come online, but to remain active in my campaign,  I will like to come complete some posts.

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I don't like posts that lay emphasis on signature campaign as the reason for the forum being active.  I don't think the presence of signature campaigns is detrimental to anyone in the forum.

I was more thinking of guys who quit before 2013, when campaigns were just at the beginning, a lot of users felt like this was inviting spam, some think that even now, and although they still are around they harbor a few bad feelings against this, and I do understand some, it's a bit frustrating when suddenly from a simple discussion where everybody was posting just for fun there were 100 outsiders making quotas. A lot of the users there already experienced one hell of a bull run, with gains in terms of % that will never be replicated so for some it made no sense even at that point to wear one.

It’s worth noting that boards where signature is disabled such as Serious discussion (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=250.0) and Ivory Tower (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=251.0) also have traction as much as other boards on the forum. Signature campaigns play a significant role in generating traffic on the forum and I also don’t support the notion that campaigns are detrimental to the forum.

I think the scarcity of signature campaign can be a motivation for forum members to improve post quality and get merits so they stand a better chance of getting accepted into good campaigns when the opportunity comes.

It could be that or it could also be that there isn’t that many interesting topics and posts like before. In the last year, there has been rampant use of AI in the forum. I understand if old members are bored of reading and responding to generic posts. My question to you OP, do you think your posting pattern would change if you’re not in a signature campaign?

People have a life outside of the forum and may find it necessary to take a break for personal reasons. It’s not an obligation to continue posting once you’ve found another interest and the financial incentives are not enough to keep you motivated to stay. It is natural for people to come and go over the years.

There are also some campaign that encourage a high activity count. For users trying to maximize their earnings it can lead to feeling burned out if they are only posting to meet a quota and they will want to take a break from that.

If you have any reason for wanting to be less active, the ending of a campaign might feel like the right time to take that opportunity.

So what's the point?

It's make sense and normal someone will choose to reduce their activity or even become silent after not in a campaign. Take a look with cheaters, once they received a negative feedback, they will abandon their accounts.

A counter question: Why people must be always active in the forum? is there a rule that every users must meet their previous standard (number of post, board, discussion, length of the post)?  ???

You might be right to some extent but that's not always the case. The forum was in existence before the introduction of campaigns and there were many active users and I believe it will continue like that even when there are no campaigns. There's life outside forum and you can not expect people to be always active here regardless of whether they are in campaign or not. There are users not in campaign but always active in the forum and likewise, we have users who are part of a campaign but not frequently active. It just depends on how convenient and less busy you are with your time.

Moreover, if joining a campaign is the reason why you are here but choose to be inactive because you are yet to get into any, you are technically reducing your chances because every campaign requires active posters. As you said, it's good to observe but not unnecessary observations. This particular observation is baseless and doesn't add anything positive to the forum. Being active or inactive here is a personal choice just like in other social medias.

We are on an anonymous online forum, there is no way to determine for sure why a member became inactive, cause not everyone would give an explanation on what's going on with them in real life. There is still a number of campaigns popping up on the forum and anyone whose sole purpose is earning would be applying around to try and get into one.

This is accurate. Money is a huge driving factor for what people do. You can see with the attention that altcointalks got in a couple of weeks that people follow where the money is and this is not a flaw.
If signature campaign stops, there would be a very significant drop in the forum traffic and discussions.

This is one of the reason for some but not really true on most of the user that becomes inactive. Most of the time they have personal matters that need to deal offline and some encounters some medical condition that forbids them to use mobile or any form of gadgets.

I personally on the brink of being inactive since my company is experiencing a heavy workload that requires us to do extra work to finish the job on time. I’m still glad that I still manage to sneak a forum visit on my busy schedule but I will surely take a break regardless if I still have campaign when I really need it since I gain more from my job than here in the forum.

Hahaha...Your observation is right, my friend and one thing I would like you to know is that many accounts here are alt accounts. So it would even be easier for the users to abandon them when they are without campaigns even as they force themselves to continue to make active their main account. I've also said it many times on the forum, it's irrespective of whether the accounts are the main or alts of the users, most users here are in for the money, case closed!

They may fake it and claim they are ardent fans of Bitcoin and Bitcointalk, but that is a lie. You can start noticing when M!xers was banned here, what happened? They were so desperate to look for alternatives. This means that the huge money that would be missed by the ban was bitting. Now, imagine if the forum has no campaign, no one is sponsoring the activity, and you may see over 99% of members turning their backs on the forum.

But of course, about 40% would be coming once in a while to read the latest happening even as they may not pend down a single word that can help the forum grow.

Not at all. Sometimes when some users run out of what to discuss, you see them bringing up controversial issues to be discussed. From the body signal, nothing will happen to signature campaign in this forum, as long as the forum exists, it will likely exist along with signature campaigns.

In the other hand, it could be a demoralization that since there's no available campaign to hire me, why struggle to make quality posts. You never can tall how people approach matters.

One can be inactive for no reason at all, its their personal choice.

I was out of a campaign for more than 2months last year end and I was regularly active in my Local board and on the global boards, so campaigns being the reason is out of the question. Fellow local board members like @pakhitheboss can confirm this.

Genuine users will be active as long as things are working out for them.

And if you didn't post much in these 2 months it wouldn't necessarily be a bad sign either: people on campaigns have to post regularly, but we are all human (except a few AIs lately) and we have peaks of motivation sometimes, but also the contrary. Not that posting here is like any job, but having a little break from time to time should be viewed as something positive or at least normal. And if it coincides with the time you don't have signature, better IMO.

I think I would see myself going inactive for several reasons, it it not only about the amount of campaigns currently available in the forum. In my personal life there are so many things going on which could easily make me become inactive for weeks before being able to post again and share my thoughts about Bitcoin and the state of the market.
I don't have any doubt the presence of signatures campaigns plays a role in the activity and the increase of post in general think this community, but keeping that fact aside, there is still people how take their time to give and share good stuff with us all here.

Also, because of the current state of the market I think it is likelt we start to see an increase of activity here in the forum without having to depend on the offer of signature campaigns, it will be just a matter of people feeling more enthusiastic on the price chances and the future ahead for Bitcoin and several Alternative currencies, in my opinion.

Of course, signature campaigns allow to fuel the forum with additional activity by encouraging users to reach their weekly post limits. Even if all signature campaigns are removed, there will still be some users on the forum who will continue to communicate here. Even now there are members who, despite their lack of signature, are more active than participants in signature campaigns. So, I believe that the main "driving" factor on the forum is not paid signature campaigns, but the BTC-community itself, which "lives" thanks to the most active users for whom this forum is an integral part of their lives.

The reason that some active forum members have gone temporarily or permanently silent may be due to factors occurring outside the forum rather than due to a decrease in the number of signature campaigns. This could be illness and death, a change in interests and hobbies, a lack of free time, or whatever the hell you want, because there is also “life” outside the forum.

People who have to get paid to post (usually spammy nonsense, or even AI-generated posts) remind me of gamers who are willing to play (usually boring/crappy) video games to boost their KDR/trophies/achievements.

They're not doing it for fun, they're doing for profit.

What's the difference compared to prostitutes who are willing to fuck old, smelly guys for money (usually fake fiat currency)? ???

People should do things because they like it first and foremost. Just like Satoshi invented Bitcoin for the fun of it, not to gain money.

If monetary profit comes later on, that's OK, but it should not be the primary focus!

I would say the same thing about people who get degrees not because they love knowledge, but because they love well-paying jobs.

The hypocrisy of humanity in general is astounding, if you ask me.

Well, let's just say that many of us are actually out doing ourselves, outdoing ourselves in the sense that, the campaign we are promoting has rules that must be obeyed in order for the participant or user to get paid by the end of the week, and one of such rules states a number of posts a user must make to qualify for payment, and every user try as much as possible to keep to this rule, that is, even if it means inconveniencing themselves, getting rid of some of their daily activities in order to have time to post on the forum, this is what makes it look like some users are most active when they are in signature campaign, it's not that they are more active, they are just keeping to the rules of the campaign they are promoting.

So, in other words, if we really want to see how naturally active a user is, just check how active they are when they are not promoting any service on the forum through their signature ad or other vices.
Because for a user who is promoting a service though his signature ad, even if that user doesn't have time to be active, the rules of the campaign will force him or her to be active, else he or she won't get paid, and may be removed after 2 weeks of inactivity.

I have participated in a lot of forums during the last 21 years (even when some members here didn't exist exist as single-cell organisms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm)).

There was one forum (which no longer exists) where I had a 5-digit post count... I never got any profit, despite the fact my recommendations helped a company to generate more profit. Ingratitude? Maybe.

My point is, it would be acceptable to reward someone who has already participated enough for the fun of it.

But it's not OK to reward someone who wasn't a regular poster to begin with, but became after the monetary incentive appeared. It's not that hard to implement a fair, non-spammy incentive.

Your observation is right as many people post way less when they are not in the campaign, but this does not mean that everyone does that. There are people whom posts quantity remains the same no matter whether they are in the signature campaign or not.
Also, signature campaigns want you to post at least 15, 20 or 25 posts and therefore sometimes people post a bit more than they would normally do if there were in campaigns.

By the way, anyone who wants to be selected in the campaigns, he or she needs to be active throughout as the campaign managers will look at the post history and if there is a gap in the posts or anyone is inactive, he or she may never be selected in any campaign.

The forum is probably better-off without people who are here only for signature campaign earnings, in my opinion.

i sincerely don't know why i keep coming back to read the threads of the day, as a newbie i thought my ranking would increase by being active f for several hours.

However, i am enjoying my time here and hope to be active here

Have you checked the wall observer to see people that are active over there?
Well here is not a place that forces people to remain online or a must do thing for one to remain active, this forum is above 3.9 million user if I am not mistakenly so do you expect over million of people to remain online if I may ask you sir?
This is not possible for them to remain online at least there are people who have personal business or side hustle after they finishes over there they may decides to come here to pass time maybe whenever they wanna sleep the goes off, and when they want to track about bitcoin recent update they will come here to read things and if gotten what they want they can decides to go offline. While those who are active can decides to engage themselves into a sig campaign to also utilized their time spending over here, so I don't think there is anything wrong with people not being active.

As long as the forum's traffic increased alot since the introduction of signature campaigns, it'll also reduce should there be a sanction or displacement of signatures... It's called -- The principle of displacement; that the ......amount is equal to the volume.....

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That alone proves the fact that alot of people are more active in here for that reason...but sometimes, -- they may not totally rely on campaigns but, it's becoming a major part of y'all hodl bag... secondly, spammers and shit posters barely have a slot to occupy in good signature campaigns, so the deal isn't for some ludicrous head.

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There are other reasons to be inactive on the forum, which invlude what you have mentioned but not the main reason. In reality, not everyone cannot be in a campaign. Health, family, career. and just taking a break is enough reason to be inactive.

Even the signature campaign is not as exciting for some people as it is for others.

You should not take the forum as an obligation to go to work. If someone has the idea that the forum is a duty, then there is something wrong with him. We are so overwhelmed by digitalization everywhere that we rarely have time to communicate with real friends offline. Therefore, if you see that a person’s activity has decreased, think that he has a more interesting life off the Internet.

Many forum users have the stipends from signature campaigns as the money they DCA as investment to bitcoins. When their signature campaign ends, it is usually emotionally traumatizing to many investors who have a fixed mind that every week, their investment in bitcoins will increase.

Some people require a break to really process it emotionally, you cannot blame them for it.

Another reason can be that because of the signature campaigns that some forum users are in that have been running for a very long time, some members have been exhausted mentally, they take and consider the time their signature campaign stops as a brief moment to recharge themselves mentally by staying away from the forum a bit.

Now, what you have said is the truth. I have read sometime in the forum that someone said they took a break from the forum in order to be committed to his girl friend. I couldn't actually decipher how that is possible. But later, I understood that people are just different and such is countries and ways of life. I cannot imagine myself taking break from the forum because of relationship. I mean here doesn't actually consume much of my time. I visit the forum mostly at night during bed time and spend few hours and might not log in again till the next night.
What I'm saying in a real sense is that some people actually take break and not because they are out of signature campaign.

Maybe they consider it as a leave? ;D

I understand that many of us have a sentimental attachment to our forum account and would feel bad if we were to lose it. I really do not see why anyone would have a emotional breakdown over a signature campaign, it is not like you were banned from the forum. You can still post and contribute like everyone else. Unless your livelihood depends on signature earnings, you should not be too worked up about it.

I think this applies mostly to people who post in boards where they do not have a genuine interest in the discussion just to meet their campaign requirement. Surely if these persons are no longer in the campaigns or join a new campaign that doesn’t require them to post in x board, their activity in that part of the forum will definitely reduce.

There are some facts in what you have just said op but believe me to tell you that most people entered the forum because they want first-hand information about bitcoin and cryptocurrency.

Outside the forum, people are spending a lot of money paying for courses online to get a classic information about bitcoin and how to invest and trade cryptocurrency, but joining the forum have made them reduce their way of spending because information is shared here free and after they might have gotten enough knowledge, they will leave the forum because they have gotten what they came for and not for the signature campaign.

lastly , permit me to let you know op that the knowledge and ideas shared here are more than what they pay for the campaign because the knowledge is everlasting while the campaign is temporal, the campaign is also helping out to keep us busy especially we newbies because it gives us the opportunity to explore the forum and know much about the forum but note that the primary aim of the forum is to share ideas and discuss bitcoin related issues in details.

It could be the reason and I don't see how that can be wrong though, you're on this forum just to make money, maybe you have that freedom but the downside of being inactive after no campaigns come your way is the fact that once you get going again, you're going to need to be active all over again and you need to earn them merits to stay in the options of campaign managers. There's also the reason that people have lives outside of this forum, they're living breathing human beings that have other things that they've got to do, so whenever they become inactive or their activities are decreased, maybe something outside of the forum is keeping them busy.

We do not know the actual numbers and no one's posting here that he will be inactive because he cannot participate in signature campaigns, but what I'm sure of is there is life outside of this forum that some members need to prioritize.
I have friends whom, I refer here and they were on vacation because of their food business and it takes up a lot of their time some friends on Facebook who have an account here are busy with their freelancing jobs or personal lives and they prefer to be investors.

Lol....what?

That statement reminds me of when Yobit had their last campaign, in which they accepted (to the best of my recollection) an unlimited number of participants.  A ton of formerly inactive members came out of hiding to join it.  That tells me that there are probably a lot of members here with high-ranking alt accounts that aren't used for anything other than campaigns, and that yes, a lot of people are here just to earn money.  But that's something most of us have known for a long time.

Not everyone, of course.  But just look at how many people here are advertising something in their signature space.  I'd say it's the majority of members here, no?

But there's still a lot of campaigns that needs to be filled though?

And I doubt that this is the reasons, as you can see others left for personal reasons as they specify. I think as well that there are members who stay with or without campaign posting naturally. Of course majority here wanted to be incentivized.

OP I don't think that's the reason why some users choose to be inactive, lack of campaign? I don't think so, some can equally reduce the way they make use of the Forum because of several reasons, let's say family issues, businesses that get them too busy, illness can be a factor too, you can't point it out on lack of campaign, if you say some members are inactive because they're not gaining or not in a campaign I can say yes that might be the cause but "lack of campaign" I don't think so.
Believe me that some users can choose to stop coming online for no reason and you get something like "account that went dead for years and later came back to life or the long inactive account is being run by a different user" complains comes up just to know who's making use of the inactive account, let's not always use campaign as a reason why people stay inactive for a longer period.

Op have you also observed that some people who are active on the forum and campaign participant actually took a break from the forum leaving also their active campaign? The truth is that we can not conclude on the reason why some people take a break from the forum unless they open up to us but if you are so sure that lack of campaign is their only reason then you should come with an open evidence from each and everyone of them who have left the forum I believe everyone of us will believe you after that.

Your very wrong, recently i see a user from live casino leaving the forum and giving some personal reasons as excuses of on how he is going to be preoccupied with activities that may affect his stay on the forum, we may not have signature campaigns available as before, but the little ones coming in are also sufficient enough, whereas this is not even part of the reason for the creation of the forum, why should we care much, second example, look at the former CM campaign that has almost all the reputable members in it, despite that as of then, this same participants in the campaign were not all active despite the CM being the highest most paying signature campaign as at then, the active ones don't even make up to the weekly 50 post requirement, what do you have to say about that too.

Many people have different reasons to take a break from the forum. The forum is an online platform which is far different from the real world. Many people are facing many things without our consent. The case of Leo who has been battling a deadly disease for over a decade without our knowledge. When he finally opened up, we were all surprised. I will not be wrong to say that there are other persons here suffering same fate.

Some people take break to face their relationship. Some take break because of work and many other reasons. That is why we see people in active campaigns and yet take break from the forum.

Indeed, too many reasons to mention. The reason of OP too shallow, but its a good to say that what OP's thinking is this forum is only for campaigns — just to earn. Where there are great posters — the OGs here are still posting with great contribution while not in campaign which contradicts what the OP said.

We can't factor what people are passing through, sincerely speaking there are people whom you may find here that are passing through hell sometimes they come here to cheer themselves up and got associated with people over here. Some people finds it passionate to post here than to go social media, just like me I don't find it interesting Facebooking or using twitter and IG. I see's it as something worthless and it's more data consuming for those of us who are doing sub would understand, and this forum is less data consuming and no body bugs you for calls unlike other social media.

Campaign alone doesn't makes someone remain active in this forum, most times I spend reading some post without even me commenting on any of them, not that I don't have what to say but I only read to equip educates myself. Some people might real jobs that pays them in thousands of dollars and can likely see this forum as a waste of time or doesn't worth their time to remain here at this point such person can decide to go offline to face their real life career.

What you think is not what other are thinking because life is above this forum, people whom you find active aren't even in a signature campaign like a said before you can check over the WO, most of them there are wearing signature code but they are actively post over there what would you call them if I may ask you?

Nice observations, but I think outside lack of campaigns I think other things can actually make a user to be inactive, such as
1. Loss of gadgets
2. Lack of electricity
3. Being extremely occupied
4. Bad mobile phones and laptops
But in a way being inactive on this forum goes down to the individual, because as a user if you lose your phones or it gets damaged you will quickly repair it or get a new one knowing the importance of this platform to the development of your trading and online investments, most persons who make their earnings here online will quickly do everything possible to get back online in other to continue their digital jobs online.

I agree with that. However, members with good content writing skills will always be able to manage to be in signature campaigns if they try enough. There are still enough campaigns where people can join and make money from their content. But I know for a fact that not everyone will promote every website for personal reasons. We have seen a new campaign started by a reputed campaign manager, I believe a lot of us won't join that campaign because of its category. I left a casino signature campaign lately on my own and became kind of inactive for a couple of weeks.

This is nothing but the truth. On the online space, opportunities comes and goes and it is even important to have other serious jobs and business set up offline or online by an individual. It is not wise to use the opportunity of earning from the forum as a real employment. Some people have very serious business and engagement out side the forum and their is no doubt that if some users are not in a campaign, they can spend more of time doing others things offline and spending less time on the forum and when they are lucky to be accepted into a campaign, they will create more time to make post on the forum too. I don't see anything bad in such attitude, it could only be bad attitude when a users is plagiarizing posts, shit posting and spamming their way through the forum just to earn some Bitcoin. I am a typical example of what OP is talking about, I don't  have too much time to spend here because of my studies.

There are many interesting things offline and in the real life of the people in the forum. When we understand that there are different people with different ways of life around the world. Some people take a leave just to travel the world, some take leave to take care of their relationship and marriage, especially when they are newly married. Some take break just to have good time of rest and not to stress their brain. So, it is not always when there's no campaign that people becomes inactive. However that possibility is not totally ruled out, everything is possible. The idea that people only remain active here because of the pay is not a reasonable one per day. There are people here who has fallen in love with this space and the people they meet here. So, if here is not that monitized, it will be somehow scanty because people will definitely drop their alts.

What you stayed above mate is one of the many reasons why some users her win our community is being inactive. But some of the main reason is that they are too busy in real life  second is that some of them are not thoroughly want to learn in this forum and that's why as we observe many newbies account got abandoned by the owners because they don't have the gots to learn and explore more in this community. Back to the 1st reason is that some of us don't have time to visit this forum cause we are too busy  in our daily lives which is very important thing to handle.

People too have a life outside the community, they have other errands that could be a priority than taking a living here in the forum. Based on my observation newly created accounts or a new era of newbies, most likely happen with that abandonment of accounts, like they create a thread, how to earn BTC etc. Once they know now and know the use of the ranking or merit system, a few days later they will now vanish like they didnt exist and came around here. You can learn more not only here sometimes there another opportunity that you will grab to have a better life.

This actually reminded me of the comment a newbie made earlier last year regarding something like this too. The newbie said that he was recommended to the forum by a friend who told him he could make money from the forum. I can't remember the username of that member; otherwise, I would have checked on him or her to see if their intention of joining the forum was finally archived or not.

There are so many members on this forum, and everyone has their best interests at heart, which is why they are here. Some people are here with a sincere interest in learning about Bitcoin and blockchain technology; some people are here to learn trading; some people came to the forum due to the issues they were faced with in the crypto space; and some people are also here because they want to see the community grow. Everyone has a reason why they are here, and I feel it's normal; there's no way everyone can have the same aims and desires. The forum is a public community for anyone, but it's against those who break its rules.

Also, the forum is not a place to rely on for only signature payments; there's life off the forum, and no one should handle their earnings here as real employment; it's just my two cents. 

Maybe when we look into the way newbies are coming to forum from the other aspect too, we could see that some are truly coming onboard only for the benefit of bounties, though i may not have to blame them on this because everyone has his own reason for coming, but if we are introducing the forum to a newbie, we should not give them a wrong impression that here is a place of making money when we truly knows that the platform was only created for bitcoin discussions, if we then have the opportunity of getting other benefits from here, we should only take that as an advantage and nothing more.

Amongst the reasons listed, poor internet connection is one reason why I may not be active on the forum as usual.  Recently in my country, we experienced a general downtime in internet services  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5488930.msg63806078#msg63806078)as a result of damage to international undersea cables but that didn’t stop users from my local board from posting on the forum. I think the forum is a very difficult habit to break once you get used to posting regularly.

Can we blame the newbies in such cases? I don't think so, because as you said, the newbie who's message you encountered said he was referred by a friend who said he can earn money from the forum, and I don't think anyone wouldn't take interest in something that they know has a possibility of providing them with some money.

It's the people to be blamed who invite others on this forum by giving them the impression that they can earn money from here instead of telling them that they can learn a lot of things about the cryptocurrency industry from here which would either make them interested and then they would join with a different mindset or they will simply stay away from the forum, in both cases, it's better for the forum as a whole.

I concur as your idea speak volume in my heart, op should have defined what it mean by being inactive if it's the number of time spend by account user or not using the account anymore, or either  by login not being regular to the forum, because if I may say in every forum organization even in other related social media, every body can't be active at the same time, the time to which MR. A will be in the forum may differ from MR.B that doesn't mean B is inactive since it is not concurrently in at the time of MR. A.

Another aspects is that every one in the forum know he or her objective to the forum and what they like most, it's what you like that derive you most on the level of time spend in the forum.

The area of campaign is one thing that is inevitable to many as they seek to benefit on time spend on the forum many beliefs that the slogan time is money should be applied while spend time on forum and having available campaign result to many spending quality time but not withstanding even while the mindset to some may be centered on campaign or what to gain, the course if time spend has changed the narrative of may and their mindset that campaign is no longer their motivation but what they gain as knowledge towards investment and others.

Forum is entirely large and there are people who has areas of specialization and they love being active over those boards because they aren't interested in other sections, and if you aren't those who post completely all boards you wouldn't come across such profile, hence this could make you feels that those people aren't active over here and for that they are posting just for a purpose of earning. To me it's completely naive and poor ways of thinking because not everyone that must be active in every boards or work as they thinks.

I think the OP is very clear. I don’t know where the time difference argument is coming from and how it fits into the discussion. We all know the forum is diverse and has people from different countries/continents, the local threads and local boards are proof of that. Time difference or not, it’s easy to see  the number of posts a person makes daily by looking at their post history.