Since 2024 started, I have seen changes in discussion behavior in forum which have changed quite a lot compared to 2023. Yes, of course we all know that the most fundamental change is the banning of mixers and all their campaigns from forum.
Maybe I'm still too early to draw conclusions because we are only 6 days into 2024. However, I really feel this change is very drastic, where the bitcoin discussion boards and economic discussion boards which are usually busy suddenly don't have many comments and there is a shift to gambling board.
Are the habits of discussion behavior in this forum only based on the campaign? And all the discussion is just about meeting campaign quotas?
That is to be expected. The thing is that this has been raised quite a few times in the old board as well. The fact that banning mixers will force the whole forum to gravitate towards gambling discussion, since most of the signature campaigns in the forum right now are from gambling sites and they each oblige every user to post a certain amount of comments on gambling boards.
This could work two ways in my opinion, either it could make the whole forum better, since as we all know gambling boards is one of the least productive and contributing boards in this forum courtesy of all the braindead posts and comments left by some users just to meet their quota. The influx of users that are now going to post in the gambling boards could flip the table and allow the board to be more healthy, more intelligent, and be more inclusive.
The second outcome is gamblingtalk. Since every signature campaign is pretty much gambling-related nowadays, and each of them require you to make a post on the gambling boards, the whole energy of the forum will shift towards gambling and if left unchecked, this could literally ruin the whole forum as everyone would either post on the gambling discussion board to catch the eye of campaign managers who are hiring new participants, or of course, already participating signature campaign members posting exclusively in the gambling board.
I can see the forum gravitating towards the second option, and honestly the only solution I can find for this is to make it just as appealing to talk about other things than gambling. I don't know how the mods and campaign managers will be able to pull this off honestly, but it is definitely necessary.