Why not limiting the Signature Campaigns and posts per week?

[orkoso]

there are campaigns that demand more than 20 posts a week. 30 to 40 or even more.
and i too think that capping this would help.

pay per post and to maximum of x post a week.

I see no reason for that. Campaign managers are free to offer money for the amount of posts that they want to. If someone posts a sign saying $1000 to whoever jumps from my roof, will it be his fault they're jumping and breaking bones? You always have a choice!
I'm constantly in the same campaign for a year, even though it's not paying much. There were a much better ones and i chose to stay because I know that I don't have time to keep writing for 3 hours a day, every day, to meet the requirements.
If somebody joins a campaign that requires him to write 50 posts a week it's his choice, and it's his fault if he gets banned for it.

Campaign managers are not free, there are many rules they have to follow. Else the forum would become a jungle of spam and would loose its value and its function.

[Jet Cash]

But above all, you would be harming the value of this forum. Alts are no longer "alts", they are as relevant to the cryptocommunity as Bitcoin if not more and you may get rid of some spam yes, but you will also be loosing talent, new blood and new ideas. If you make the forum and "old boys club" that is what you will get, old boys taking about old topics and eventually becoming irrelevant.

I think you're taking what Jet Cash said too literally. From my interpretation he wasn't saying that anything that deviates from Bitcoin is wrong and should be left out, but that the huge amount of useless vapid shit being posted as a result of those abusing campaigns should stop. While Bitcointalk is about Bitcoin primarily, I don't think many would argue that having a section for alts is a particularly bad thing (providing it isn't abused).

Thanks for posting that. I believe that the Bitcoin boards should be about Bitcoin, and the alt boards should be about alts. The others boards such as speculation, politics, off-topic, and the language boards add richness to the forum.

The problem seems to be that the alts provide people who have no interest in the crypto world with an income source. This results in heavy semi-literate spamming across many of the boards in the forum.  I'm starting to cope with this by putting a lot of these posters on ignore. Now we need a way to allow sponsors to determine how many of their spammers are being ignored, and thus rendering their signatures to be worthless.

[orkoso]

- You would be ignoring the real trend in crypto (see the dominance graph). Do you notice that Bitcoin is no more than 36% of the total value?

Which is completely irrelevant on a forum called Bitcointalk. If a community is about something specific, it doesn't matter how much or little popularity that thing has.

A name does not define an immutable vision. You do have a main section in the forum to talk about Bitcoin, so that purpose is achieved. My point is that the Bitcoin community in fact is linked to the Altcoin community, even if some people may not like it. Opening is productive and I am suggesting a way of making it even better (IMO).

[Rrtt]

For this, my proposal would be to limit the amount of postings required in any campaign to 1 a day or no more than 7 or 10 a week.

This has been already implemented. There was a time, where minimum required post count was 100 in order to get paid. It was one of the reason for spamming but by the time it was reduced to 20 to 25 post per week. It would not be feasible to the projects who runs these campaign to promote their project; if you further reduce the post counts to 10 per week then it will affect their promotion.

I am not going to say names, but there are two campaigns right now that ask for 50 and 100 posts minimun. 20 posts is three a day (roughly) I honestly doubt that many members here have three relevant and well thought things to say a day. Even two.

You may be right about that. It is very hard for us here to post 3 times daily. In the company's side, they don't care if you post is relevant or not as long as you bear their signature. The many post you have the more chances that their ICO will be seen by the investors. This is just my thinking, hope i am wrong.

[sofi@]

Limiting campaigns means limiting advertisement, and as far as I know advertisement is one of the main source of investment for all projects introduce in the market besides this was one of the reason why bitcoin talk was made, to have a place to promote and introduce developments about crypto currencies, so I don't think limiting campaigns would really help.

[Searing]

if the posts in my sig campaign are not in certain threads and of merit I get bounced...so your view of sig campaigns is warped..

thus the incentive is ALWAYS for quality posts in such a sig campaign (or at least mine) or on a spot check, you will get dumped from the sig campaign!

as to sMerit don't really care...don't really need any...do it as a service

brad

[Jet Cash]

Limiting campaigns means limiting advertisement, and as far as I know advertisement is one of the main source of investment for all projects introduce in the market besides this was one of the reason why bitcoin talk was made, to have a place to promote and introduce developments about crypto currencies, so I don't think limiting campaigns would really help.

Were there any other cryptos when the forum started. I thought Bitcoin was the innovation.

[coin5haker]

I remember that Viberate campaign I participated. Shame on me, but it was fun indeed. You were getting tokens every day even if you post the same links. Nobody cared about quality at first. All forum was flooded with Viberate topics. Finally, most of the spammers gathered in one topic where ones could do less harm to the forum and still earn some tokens.

Too difficult to resist easy money, so I support OP. Spamming campaigns encouraging users to write 20+ posts per week should be against the rules. Same for ones giving airdrops for posting in [ANN] thread, clearly just to bump it.

[tranthidung]

Or just ban the signatures so that Bitcoiners can have Bitcoin Talk back to talk about Bitcoin.

Yeah, over threads and discussions I read, I guess the forum is only designed for Bitcoin discussions by Theymos and Sirius. Then those two left, and Theymos took it over. During several years, the forum add more boards/child boards for Altcoins. This change made the project now dominant by Altcoins related to his and threads.
So we should limit Altcoins boards somehow and give the forum a chance to backs to its original version.

[athanz88]

IMHO and in many peoples opinion, many one of the main sources of spams are Signatures Campaigns. I am not in favour of suppressing these because they do provided finance and develop the world of cryptocurrencies.

I do participate on these campaigns because I can support a project that I like or think is good for the community and get a few tokens along the way, even if sometimes they are worth nothing   

However, many of the campaigns set a minimum of posts that I have to make a week. Some of these ask for 20 posts a week, so I am faced with the dilemma of either having to say no to a campaign that I really like or having to post on low quality threads without much interest.

I know that many people here would say that I should not take the campaign,  but that is not a good solution as I do want to promote the projects I like.

For this, my proposal would be to limit the amount of postings required in any campaign to 1 a day or no more than 7 or 10 a week.

Any new campaign on the forum would have to follow this rule or risk not being accepted / be banned / muted.

This can not be done, it will only make people got  the money easier and will attract more people who wants to get easy money.Signature campaign is an act to marketing or advertising the project, marketing-wise, below 20 posts per week is not effective for the project i guess, thus it would failed the advertisement purpose, and if this continue to other projects, then the owner of a project will think twice before doing some advertising in this forum. Later on, there will be no signature campaign in this forum.

[Danstan]

One purpose also of having signature campaign is to squeeze all the information, knowledge, and data a hunter can offer, limiting them to post or answer  a certain thread is likely rescheduling a patient's emergency operation into another date because doctor hours.

Just imagine when you ask a question or state a line in a board in your first reply will be after 24 hours because we have a posting limit, what do you think?

[yojodojo21]

Look OP, the Idea is good and it is a big contribution to the forum for Posting 7-10 post per week, but Signature campaigns has a quota of 25 posts per week that should be completed or else the participant won't get paid, but there are some user who really loves to type whole day that they almost forgot that they are wearing signatures, the best solution to this that i prefer is before going to suggest new idea you yourself must be a good model to it. what i mean is you should start it by your self.