How engaging was the forum without signature campaign?

[Zlantann]

I'm curious to know this, how was the forum before signature campaign became a thing in the forum? I know it's possible that a lot of people are active almost everyday on the forum and are iether engaging in real discussions or sometimes trying to meet up with thier post requirements and a lot of others like myself whose journey is still at the development phase would want to get some sort of encouragement that will keep us going with or without being a part of any signature campaign.

I just want to know, what was the engagement like in the forum discussion before signature campaign and how has the Advent of signature campaign affected the forum? Is it positively or negatively?

Should there cease to be signature campaign on the forum, what's likely the effect it will have on an average member of the forum?

I think that regardless of whether there are signature campaigns happening here on Bitcointalk, it would still be engaging and many people would still use bitcointalk. The purpose of bitcointalk was not just for signature campaigns. One example is posting in the service board about services a person can offer, like design, project management and other services. If I’m not mistaken, one of the busiest sections or boards here on bitcointalk in the past was the service section, which had many opportunities to earn, not just through signature campaigns. If you remember, there were also Twitter and Facebook campaigns that you could only apply for here on bitcointalk.

Without signature campaigns, people will visit Bitcointalk but activities will drop greatly. Members will still contribute to the forum but not be as active if they were been paid for it. A typical example is to check the activities of people who were once active when they were in campaigns and when they were not in any subscriptions. You will see that their post quality has decreased. If you observe closely some well-known accounts are inactive because they are not in any campaign.  I also think that campaigns contributed to the quality of posts. Members would put more effort into their posts since they are promoting a service. These service sections will be busy if there are campaigns. Those members offering design and project management services will not have many jobs without subscriptions.

[Viscore]

As I was not part of the forum during the time that they were no signature campaign up to the time that one first came to live, one cannot really tell how the activities was by then. But during the time one has spent in the forum, one can as well imagine what the forum will look like without signature campaigns. The morale reduce significantly when a person is no longer in signature campaigns with only few coming back to post more often in order to get back to a new campaign sooner or for the likeness to the forum as a place of discussion for them.

Users without signature campaigns are sometimes more susceptible to spamming and writing low quality posts compared to those that are in campaigns. Campaigns have made to filter spam posters from good posters and also improved the wiki of posting for many users. So if today, there are no more campaigns in the forum, I just imagine how this place will look like because engagement will definitely reduce drastically.

You are right there. The forum will certainly remain but most likely, the members will be less active when it comes to posting activities. We have been used already making an income out from our post activity in the forum and suddenly it will end up vanish like thin air, even myself I can't hardly imagine it.

I don't know what's the future of signature campaigns, but if this will be the only reason why majority of the members will stay in the forum, then hopefully this will come to stay.

[Publictalk792]

Without signature campaigns, people will visit Bitcointalk but activities will drop greatly. Members will still contribute to the forum but not be as active if they were been paid for it. A typical example is to check the activities of people who were once active when they were in campaigns and when they were not in any subscriptions. You will see that their post quality has decreased. If you observe closely some well-known accounts are inactive because they are not in any campaign.  I also think that campaigns contributed to the quality of posts. Members would put more effort into their posts since they are promoting a service. These service sections will be busy if there are campaigns. Those members offering design and project management services will not have many jobs without subscriptions.

Yes you are right that if Bitcointalk does not have signature campaigns people will visit site less mostly and quality of posts will go down. Campaigns give people reason to contribute to forum because they get paid. Without that many people will stop participating. We can see this already with users who were active when they were part of campaign but are now less active because they are not getting paid. Without campaigns sections for design and project management will suffer and people offering these services will get fewer jobs. Overall signature campaigns are important for keeping the forum active and full of good content.

[avp2306]

Without signature campaigns, people will visit Bitcointalk but activities will drop greatly. Members will still contribute to the forum but not be as active if they were been paid for it. A typical example is to check the activities of people who were once active when they were in campaigns and when they were not in any subscriptions. You will see that their post quality has decreased. If you observe closely some well-known accounts are inactive because they are not in any campaign.  I also think that campaigns contributed to the quality of posts. Members would put more effort into their posts since they are promoting a service. These service sections will be busy if there are campaigns. Those members offering design and project management services will not have many jobs without subscriptions.

Yes you are right that if Bitcointalk does not have signature campaigns people will visit site less mostly and quality of posts will go down. Campaigns give people reason to contribute to forum because they get paid. Without that many people will stop participating. We can see this already with users who were active when they were part of campaign but are now less active because they are not getting paid. Without campaigns sections for design and project management will suffer and people offering these services will get fewer jobs. Overall signature campaigns are important for keeping the forum active and full of good content.

With or without signature campaigns forum will still the same. The only thing change will be the activity since a lot of people might decrease their participation on their discussion since there's nothing can motivate them and maybe they visit the forum only when they need something especially looking up some news or clarification on certain issues happened on certain events.

But still see great peoples especially those OG in this forum since with or without signature campaign they are promoting they are still hear sharing good insights towards which topic they are interested. We see them share valuable  discussions which a lot of people could able to learn something from them.

[Pandu Geddon]

With or without signature campaigns forum will still the same. The only thing change will be the activity since a lot of people might decrease their participation on their discussion since there's nothing can motivate them and maybe they visit the forum only when they need something especially looking up some news or clarification on certain issues happened on certain events.

But still see great peoples especially those OG in this forum since with or without signature campaign they are promoting they are still hear sharing good insights towards which topic they are interested. We see them share valuable  discussions which a lot of people could able to learn something from them.

For those who are already active in the forum, perhaps only a reduction in discussion activity will occur. but I'm sure the old members will still be active on the forum.
what will probably be greatly reduced is the number of new members registering. I see that many people end up inviting or telling their family, friends, and co-workers to the forum because of the reason for getting money from signature campaigns or from bounties.
We can't lie to ourselves that signature and bounty campaigns do provide a special attraction for new users.

[Peanutswar]

Without the signature seems the forum will be very subtle like people doing a spam chat, or just an answer and question well the forum is now growing people now having a problem, thoughts and experience that they can share so other forum members relate to this and they exchange information even without the signature. Of course with the signature people need to require a number of post if they want to get paid with the campaign also they can back posting but its different if you are getting paid to get a post. Reason why number of newly members join in the forum and one of their common question how to earn hear in forum or how to earn in bitcoin or free money.

[Cricktor]

I know this forum for more than a decade now, though my current account is way younger. My main interest here is Bitcoin and to learn from and engage in topics about Bitcoin in particular and crypto coins in general with users with far more experience or knowledge.

For the majority of time in this forum I didn't care much about signature campaigns, those were simply not my focus. Being in one, I see as a bonus, not my main goal. Yes, I post more now than in the past before I joined a sig campaign. I have my own basic quality standards for posting and I want to stay true to myself.

When campaign sponsors and maintainers mandate a certain minimum level of quality, it's for the better of the forum, at least in theory.

What would change for me if I would drop out of sig campaigns or campaigns cease to be available anymore? I would still visit and participate in this forum, likely post somewhat less than now, but other than that, not much would change from my perspective and willingness to engage here.

[Obulis]

I'm curious to know this, how was the forum before signature campaign became a thing in the forum? I know it's possible that a lot of people are active almost everyday on the forum and are iether engaging in real discussions or sometimes trying to meet up with thier post requirements and a lot of others like myself whose journey is still at the development phase would want to get some sort of encouragement that will keep us going with or without being a part of any signature campaign.

I just want to know, what was the engagement like in the forum discussion before signature campaign and how has the Advent of signature campaign affected the forum? Is it positively or negatively?

Should there cease to be signature campaign on the forum, what's likely the effect it will have on an average member of the forum?

To note, I am new here, but someoe can imagine how the forum worked..! Psychologically and through the education by those who has been here before campaign era
As it seems, the forum is like other online areas, it becomes obvious how the forum was... It is obviously true
That the forum wasn't as active as of now...
And when say campaign, you are invariably talking about converting BTC...
 T hese this with human mindset one can deduse how the forum will be.  very much scanty?

[Faisal2202]

I'm curious to know this, how was the forum before signature campaign became a thing in the forum? I know it's possible that a lot of people are active almost everyday on the forum and are iether engaging in real discussions or sometimes trying to meet up with thier post requirements and a lot of others like myself whose journey is still at the development phase would want to get some sort of encouragement that will keep us going with or without being a part of any signature campaign.

I just want to know, what was the engagement like in the forum discussion before signature campaign and how has the Advent of signature campaign affected the forum? Is it positively or negatively?

Should there cease to be signature campaign on the forum, what's likely the effect it will have on an average member of the forum?

I am not enrolled in any signature campaign at the moment, and I can say for sure that you don't need to be in a campaign to be active here. I have spent 4 years here and I achieved not much but I am happy that I come to learn a lot, I hope some legendary people will see my posts and by reading my posts they might have known me and that means I am getting familiarized here. Making fellows is good for knowledge. People share knowledge without any hesitation and benefit.

As I have spent much time, that's why this forum has become one of my habits and I liked my time here. A time will come when you will also like your time spending here. How? That's a mystery you have to solve. For example, ask yourself why are you here and be honest, it is not wrong to say I am here for money because the admin of the forum also said there is nothing wrong with it. We all want to make money. But if you want to learn from this forum then you have to spend a little more time because no doubt you are true about the fact that people enrolled in signature campaigns are making it hard for others to finds valuable posts that can really guide us. But If I were you, I would be spending more time in beginners and help section because it consists of valuable data.

[PrivacyG]

I am not enrolled in any signature campaign at the moment, and I can say for sure that you don't need to be in a campaign to be active here.

You do not need to enroll in one to be active, but you are probably not going to spend much time here if it was not incentivized either I guess.  While you are not currently enrolled in one, did you not just recently leave a Campaign (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5482532.msg64288169#msg64288169)?

This Forum without Signature Campaigns would be quiet yet natural, kind of boring yet a fun place to hang out for Bitcoin nerds.  Signature Campaigns are some what like paying you to go to socialization meetups with your neighbors.  I do not even know if I would like this Forum better without the Campaigns, it would likely be kind of boring considering there will be no incentive to be creative at all.

[Hyphen(-)]

I just want to know, what was the engagement like in the forum discussion before signature campaign and how has the Advent of signature campaign affected the forum? Is it positively or negatively?

Only old forum members that were active then when there is no signature campaigns will answer this question proper, but we can only answer you based on the fact that we have gone through some of there post histories before the coming of signature campaigns; there are a lot of low quality posts and online posts that don’t contain most information on them. The coming of signature campaign keeps forum members active and the merit system also helps to eliminate or reduce spamming and shitpost.

Should there cease to be signature campaign on the forum, what's likely the effect it will have on an average member of the forum?

Campaigns keeps man at users active, and if it all stops then definitely there will a lot of inactive users.
I don’t think it will cease because most of the companies are enjoying their partnership with the forum because they are getting customers.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

I'm curious to know this, how was the forum before signature campaign became a thing in the forum? I know it's possible that a lot of people are active almost everyday on the forum and are iether engaging in real discussions or sometimes trying to meet up with thier post requirements and a lot of others like myself whose journey is still at the development phase would want to get some sort of encouragement that will keep us going with or without being a part of any signature campaign

Just like every other thing, there are good and bad sides to signature campaign since it introduction to the forum, I wasn't here before signature campaign got introduced but I was around when it become more popular and the good thing I noticed is that it help improved many users quality but also the spams were in their numbers but still many users had to work on their accounts to be eligible for acceptance into campaigns and ironically it also improved the quality of discussion we got. There will always be bad eggs so lets not use them to disqualify the impact signature campaign has brought to the forum.

IShould there cease to be signature campaign on the forum, what's likely the effect it will have on an average member of the forum?

Every platform out there has one way or another that they're rewarding their active users and the forum doing the same is encouraging. If the signature campaign aren't harming the forum then they don't have to end but if they're causing a nuisance and it's becoming uncontrollable then they can end it. The signature campaigns are just privileges as what is important is the discussions we're having on the forum. The forum interest should always be put first just as how theymos had to end all mixers when their presence on the forum were becoming a problem, same can be done for all signatures.