Okay I just want to point out involving merits into a a signature campaign won't work out. All that will do is encourage merit abuse and then everyone will say, "Oh look at that SteveStake now and his merit abuse! This merit abuse is clearly because the wages are too low!"
I tried to involve merit into the campaign in the past and I consider it the biggest failure in the entire campaign. I held a contest and the people who earned the most merit for the week would split a few hundred dollars in prizes. I say it was the biggest failure because I had to kick so many people out for merit abuse and people were breaking rules and begging for merit. Merit is abused heavily already without someone else giving incentive to "earn" it. If I add in merit rules to the contest we can guarantee a SteveStake is encouraging merit abuse thread.
Merits can be a good barometer of consistently good posters, but they shouldn't be something you rely on solely to judge a person and they're useless if you just require x amount because they can easily be gamed or farmed. This whole issue of spam in your campaign could have been prevented just by doing a simple quality control and only allowing decent posters. What you've essentially done is put an advert out for your company that it is hiring people and without a job interview or aptitude test you've given jobs to random people who are not qualified to do the work. Imagine staffing an office this way along with the manager never being there. It would quickly descend into chaos and people being lazy and not doing their job properly, especially when there was no repercussions for doing a shoddy job.
I had a surgery earlier in the year and my surgeon didn't speak great English when we talked. Does this mean I should have dismissed his opinions and looked at him as someone who wasn't credible?
I'm not saying people should be full out responding in other languages. I'm saying a lot of what makes someone considered a "spammer" are grammer errors smaller than the one you were so eager to point out just now.
I'm assuming your surgeon was qualified for surgery. Would you have been ok with some random person performing the surgery who didn't have any appropriate qualifications? I can't speak any other language other than English, but imagine if I go to a non-English speaking message board and try. It would be a disaster and that's what happens here. People who can't speak English very well, if at all, are forcing themselves to do so because there's financial reward. Because of signature campaigns many people even come here who have little to no knowledge or interest in bitcoin. That would be like me joining an Italian forum on Lamborghinis when I can't drive, can't speak Italian and have no interest in Lamborghinis, but if I can get paid to post there then I might try and that's the issue we have here.
At this time, the biggest source of spam in this forum is the campaign in which you are the manager, and after months of doing nothing you ask members of this forum to clear your mess?
That's simply not true. Be a leader not a follower, you only say that because someone else did and if you research yourself you'd know there's a massive spam issue long before this campaign and there will be one long after. I'm not asking anyone to do anything and I'm simply providing a place for people to report any campaign spammer if they choose. People try to do it in random places across the forum already so it only makes sense to provide 1 place for people to post.
Signature spam has always been a problem here but passing off the blame doesn't excuse you from your responsibility. Yobit was the worst campaign this forum had seen for quite some time and they were dealt with by the first forum signature ban because of the mess they were causing. Yours is the worse now they're gone. It's honestly been embarrassing even having a Stake signature and I'm glad my deal expires next week because wearing a Stake sig has become like a badge of shame much like it was with Yobit. Maybe your goal was achieved as Stake have certainly got their name out there in the cheapest possible way but they did it in an unsavoury way that left a bad taste in many mouths.
Sure some people made low quality posts but it's the minority of members and people are taking out years of frustration towards Bitcointalk on a single campaign that's not even that old. I feel like the Stake campaign is turning into an antispam awareness movement. I don't mind taking the beating if it leads to a greater outcome in the end.
I would disagree with this and I think you've got it the wrong way around. Most people bearing a Stake sig seemed to be spammers and I saw very few making worthwhile contributions so the quality posters must have been the minority. Maybe there was some and I didn't see them or maybe the spammers just dwarfed the everyone else but the spam coming from this campaign
was ridiculous. As a mod I probably see it the most and it wasn't uncommon just to see post after post of lazy generic replies from Stake spammers page after page. Great for Stake as their adverts are everywhere but not so great for everyone else who has to read it.
As I've said multiple times before signature campaigns could actually help to clean up the forum but only if they do their job well and don't pay for spam. If a campaign accepts anyone and everyone then it's going to be abused and become the next Yobit. If campaign managers only accepted worthwhile contributors then spam would clear up overnight, but it won't when campaigns keep having little to no standards.
Someone from Bitcointalk's Staff / Moderators or Global Moderators doing a lousy work deleting my posts on both
Primedice and
Stake Official topics.
Just because i have my signature as the one from the campaign doesn't mean i am posting for the campaign.
I was also requested by
Edward to post
twice per day, so if you do not have any sort of knowledge whatsoever on why I am advertising both Primedice and Stake as i am the Official Brand Manager you could just ask or even check Signature's Campaign old sheet where you would see i have 0 post counts and i am not even getting paid for the campaign at first place since i was the one who said
Steve to not count them at all.
Video containing all 9 deleted Primedice / Stake's advertising posts just because someone felt like it was considered spam:
https://imgur.com/a/nW2EZPUThis has nothing to do with the Stake campaign and I didn't remove them, but you've essentially inadvertently told everyone you're being paid to bump the thread multiple times a day, which is against the rules and that's exactly what someone has reported them for. Threads should only be bumped once per 24 hours and you can't have multiple company members bumping threads as it's seen as bump spam.
By the way those posts were like 1 week ago as who would care on deleting such since they make Bitcointalk forum active?
Someone reported them and a mod acted on them.
We get it you are Chipmixer OP - Therefore you have a reason to strongly suggest the mods to ruin the competition and everything else above all.
I don't see how Chipmixer are competition to Stake. Both are completely different sites and it doesn't matter to Chipmixer whether there are hundreds of other campaigns or not, especially when they pay less than them. The only potential conflict of interest I see here would be if Darkstar was actively gunning for the Stake campaign manager job.
