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That's why I suggested paying someone to create some content to divert more traffic to Bitcointalk.
At the moment I think people have no trouble getting basic information and knowledge about bitcoin even though they don't come to the forum. There are so many articles available on Google about bitcoin that these people will gain some understanding.
Wikipedia is one of the sites that in my opinion provides sufficient information related to bitcoin and so far Wikipedia also refers many Begginers to the forum who want to discuss more things about bitcoin. So in my opinion there is no need to pay people just to increase visitor traffic to the forum. Some people don't want to talk about bitcoin but they just want to know a lot about bitcoin by reading articles. Bitcoin.org also stores a lot of information about bitcoin which is also a great place for someone to gain knowledge.
OP, I think you've done a good job of keeping the forum clean by simply asking users to write quality posts. But we will still see dozens of spam posts all the time flooding into forum by bounty hunters and signature campaign participants. Only some of us really care about the quality of our shipment and some may not. See how crowded the altcoin discussion board is with repetitive, low-quality, spammy posts. Will they listen to this good advice ? And I know they're too comfortable with the habit because there's not a lot of mod action in that section. If the mod acts decisively, then hundreds or even thousands of posts will have to be deleted every day.
In addition to that there are also groups created on discord,facebook and telegram who helps newbie to learn a information regarding on bitcoins.
Also the main problem about the spam is the manager tolerates and count those shitty post made by their participants if only professional managers will handle the camp and don't count those irrelevant post then for sure the problem will get minimize.
But I believe this is not really a big problem since actually in the other hand in can increase the forum activity.
And the main problem for what I see is those scams still unmoderated here if this one will be moderated by the mods newbie can wander here around safely without worrying about getting scam, but this is hard to do.
But the immediate aid for spam is always click the report to the moderator button so that the post will be deleted.