Because limiting posts will be useless, people will just use multiple accounts. There's already multiple prime dice participants asking about whether the forum allows multiple accounts for their "friends". Convenient timing eh?
Bear brought up a legit point there will just be more multi accounts at play since it is allowed in the rules of the forum.
HI,
The campaign should be limited to only sr and hero members!
This is the only way to stop spamming and non constructive posts!
If this campaign is limited to only 100 posts per week and also not weekly paid may be I will jump to another one.
BR
Gondel
Unfortunately, limiting the campaign to sr and hero members in no way guarantees the eradication of spam posts.
You have to remember that the spamming newbie will probably still be spammer even after he reaches hero status.
Very unlikely they will make it to Hero status
BB will come in and catch people on one of his raid days and send out a week long warning to you to be more careful not to spam.
Pretty sure the next one is a month long then 3 months (And I don't want to know firsthand ^_^)
In other words there is a very low chance a spamming newbie will make it all the way to the hero ranks and that takes around 1.5 Years if you made an account today so it would be a waste of time to get it banned in the process to get there.
That also presumes people signature campaigns remain the same in the new forum.
We should be emigrated to the new forum software around that time if things follow the schedule so the point is moot.
As a note on the tables I posted you can change the multipliers that was just an example personally something that looks like this would probably be the most efficient one to address spamming since it would put a range on posts have an activity requirement and have a minimum to get to the next tier.
The benefit is that their is no incentive to have more posts than the tier you qualify for.
Less will mean that you do not qualify for that tier but get paid a lower tier.
Growth rates would be organic so it wouldn't take spamming but a gradual progression of posts to get to the next tier well before your activity could match it.
Example: (Rates can be adjusted as well as post minimums)
Flat Rate: Per Month for All Tiers
100-200: 0.02 or 0.04 BTC / 30 days Min Posts 50/month
201-400: 0.04 or 0.08 BTC / 30 days Min Posts 50/month
Changes to a per post system
401-700: Posts must be a Member
Max 200 posts a month Min 50 = Avg 6 Posts a Day = 0.0004/post
Maximum = 0.1/Month
701-1100 Posts must be a Full Member
Max 350 Posts a Month Min 50 = Avg 12 Posts a Day = 0.0006/post
Maximum = 0.21/Month
1101-1800: Posts must be a Sr Member First Tier = 0.0008/post
1801-2500: (activity must be more than 360) Min Posts 50/month Must Be a Hero Member Second Tier = 0.0001/post
Max 500 Posts a Month Min 50 = Avg 16 Posts a Day
Maximum = 0.5/Month
2501+ posts: 0.15 or 0.3 BTC / 30 days Min Posts 50/month Must Be a Hero Member
Max 600 Posts a Month Min 50 posts = 20 Posts a Day = 0.0012/post
Maximum = 0.75/Month
A user will have no incentive to have more than a certain range of posts and reduce spam in total in theory
How it works in practice is another question but it should mitigate most spam.
Would require 7 times the work for a Member to make the same amount as a Hero to spam the forum with multiple accounts
3 Times the work for a Full Member to spam the forum with multiple accounts.
400 Posts first to get to the highest member ranked tier
Then another 200 posts to claim the maximum.
700 Posts and time to get to the Full Member Tier
Then another 400 posts to claim the maximum
That would keep the mods happy since they can follow that type of movement and it should be reasonable for newbies to get to as well.
Member activity: 60 = 10 Weeks to get to 400 Posts
Full Member activity: 120 = 20 Weeks to get to 700 Posts
Sr. Member activity: 240 = 40 weeks to get to 1100 Posts
Sr. Member activity: 300 = 20 weeks to get to 1800 Posts
Hero Member activity: 480 = 30 weeks to get to 2501+
There is some room on the upper range to increase the maximum due to the time it takes to get there but this is just an example.
For those curious at minimum speed from a Newbie starting at 0 Posts
100 Posts/Month 3.33/posts/day and Min 50 Posts/Month 1.66/posts/day
400 Posts = 60 Activity Hits Tier at Activity 112--> 224
700 Posts = 120 Activity Hits Tier at Activity 196--> 392
1100 Posts = 240 Activity Hits Tier at Activity 308 --> 616 Tier 1
1800 Posts = 300 Activity Hits Tier at Activity 504 --> 1008 Tier 2
2501 + Posts = 480 Activity Hits Tier at Activity 700 --> 1400