Could This Help To Reduce Spam?

[_BlackStar]

OP, I'm not really sure what the right solution is to combat spammers other than reporting their posts. Spammers are not only on gambling board, but on altcoin board, bitcoin discussion, economics, speculation may also be a lot. I actively report spam posts on some of the boards I mentioned, the amount just depends on how much I open one thread and another thread when I want to post something.

If your focus is on fighting spammers, then you shouldn't ignore other board that also have spammers. To be fair, let's think of all the other boards instead of just the gambling boards, and one more - fight the spam not the signature participants.

[OgNasty]

What do you think.

1. Thread with 1000 pages no longer display a signature.

If the mega-threads bother you, why not avoid them?  There's already an option in your forum settings to not display signatures if they are an annoyance to you.  I think the forum is happy that these mega-threads exist as they drive user interaction and inflate statistics so that the forum looks more popular.  This can help with the valuation of the forum or raising funds through advertisements or even ranking among websites.  I don't think there's really a good reason to start treating long threads differently.  Especially when the option I mention exists for users.

[Findingnemo]

Maybe yes...

But since we all know theymos is not really interested in making any changes regarding the signatures unless he wants to completely wipe away from bitcointalk so I don't think this will be on his to do list.

However spam especially in few boards are getting out of hand so instead of choosing not to display the signature the managers may have post criteria that posts won't be counted towards weekly quota if its posted after the 10th page.?

[Mpamaegbu]

What do you think.

1. Thread with 1000 pages no longer display a signature.

1,000 pages is 20,000 posts, bearing in mind that a page is 20 comments. That's even more than a mega thread by my judgment. I want to believe that user meant 1,000 comments and not pages. Anything above 50 pages is already a mega threads in my books. Let me quickly add, while I agree with that user that at a certain number of pages signature display should stop, that not every mega thread is a spam thread. There are some threads which have to continually run to maintain balance in discussion, perspective and knowledge exchange, using local boards as an example. For me, the easiest way to checkmate spam posting is for campaign managers to read the riot act to hunters and restrict them from posting in mega threads.