When you find a meaningless post or spam that is off topic then report it to the moderator. This is as simple as it is.
Very often you only recognize unnecessary and meaningless posts if you know the thread history. Moderators don't have the time to read the thread history but look at the post in isolation. That's why it often doesn't make sense to report it.
Talking about the signature campaigns, I think it really up to the dev and the manager who is managing it. They are spending money to get exposure for their business or product whatever it is and they should have the full right to chose what they want keeping the forum interest in mind.
We really can not force them to do certain things that may lose their interest to advertise in here too. It always has to have a balance and I think we are not doing bad in it so far.
Why can't they be forced to do that? There are countless forum rules. Another rule could be that signature campaigns may not require a minimum number of posts.
I only remember the Yobit campaign some time ago where they intervened, because the conditions of the campaign led to massive spamming.
15 to 20 posts per week really isn't a hell of a lot, and that leaves you plenty of time to think about what you're writing. Unfortunately I think the issue is that a lot of campaign participants (and bounty hunters) have multiple alts, each also participating in campaigns and this spreads their posting time kind of thin--so they don't put much effort into their posts.
Sure, as I wrote, there are members (like you
) which write a lot of quality posts a week. But these are in the minority. Such users would also write so many posts if they were not in a campaign, just out of interest for discussion. Most users who are in a signature campaigns, however, would write little to hardly without being rewarded for it. And here is the point at which I think that the bad quality of most posts begins and one could intervene as a forum operator.
This would be difficult or impossible to enforce on the forum. It would take collective effort from the moderators and also regular members to supervise every project run on the forum, especially as some are run on external platforms and linked to BT, if this efforts were channelled to making and marking reports, I believe it would have a much better effect on the forum.
No, it doesn't have to be checked and released individually, but you can simply report it and a moderator will decide whether to write to the Campaign Manager or simply (temporarily) close the thread until the conditions are adjusted to the rules.
