raising awareness about some madness here

[Moonway99]

This is isn't a irrepressible problem. Looking from my eyes, would It be hard just to give warnings to people who spams useless posts mentioning that they will get ban from 1 week up to 1 month If they wont start posting full-fledged posts? Is It hard to do so? I have no idea how many spammers there are but If there are like major 100 or more spammers, It wouldn't be hard to deal with them?

[hilariousandco]

This is isn't a irrepressible problem. Looking from my eyes, would It be hard just to give warnings to people who spams useless posts mentioning that they will get ban from 1 week up to 1 month If they wont start posting full-fledged posts? Is It hard to do so? I have no idea how many spammers there are but If there are like major 100 or more spammers, It wouldn't be hard to deal with them?

Your questions can be answerd by the previous posts really. I agree a warning would be fairer and should be the first resort, but the mods serm to have tried that and in their opinion it doesn't work, so the week ban is their official warning.

[Moonway99]

This is isn't a irrepressible problem. Looking from my eyes, would It be hard just to give warnings to people who spams useless posts mentioning that they will get ban from 1 week up to 1 month If they wont start posting full-fledged posts? Is It hard to do so? I have no idea how many spammers there are but If there are like major 100 or more spammers, It wouldn't be hard to deal with them?

Your questions can be answerd by the previous posts really. I agree a warning would be fairer and should be the first resort, but the mods serm to have tried that and in their opinion it doesn't work, so the week ban is their official warning.

Like i mentioned before I don't think that 1 week ban should be as a "warning". This should be just an action taken against spammers. Spammers should get bans from time to time, like i said from 1 week up to 1 month. But I don't think there should be permanent ban for spammers. Maybe only those who got banned several times for spamming.

[hilariousandco]

This is isn't a irrepressible problem. Looking from my eyes, would It be hard just to give warnings to people who spams useless posts mentioning that they will get ban from 1 week up to 1 month If they wont start posting full-fledged posts? Is It hard to do so? I have no idea how many spammers there are but If there are like major 100 or more spammers, It wouldn't be hard to deal with them?

Your questions can be answerd by the previous posts really. I agree a warning would be fairer and should be the first resort, but the mods serm to have tried that and in their opinion it doesn't work, so the week ban is their official warning.

Like i mentioned before I don't think that 1 week ban should be as a "warning". This should be just an action taken against spammers. Spammers should get bans from time to time, like i said from 1 week up to 1 month. But I don't think there should be permanent ban for spammers. Maybe only those who got banned several times for spamming.

They do get short one week bans. It seems that's the first option and also your first warning. I don't think a permenant ban would be given for the first time, but those would be reserved for persistent spammers or rule breakers who have failed to heed the repeated warnings.

[EvilPanda]

Forum signatures show how the free market works, a simple supply and demand thing. This place is where bitcoin enthusiasts meet, and since we don't have a bitcoin TV, and sites like Coindesk don't allow commercial banners, business owners had to find a way to advertise. Being a campaign manager I naturally have a biased view of the whole thing, but IMO you're constantly tryng to make it more difficult for people to break the rules, instead of just punishing them more strictly. I'm sure if the staff requested, we could agree not to pay users that were banned for spamming.

[galbros]

When I first started reading the thread I thought the madness referred to the banning but it's clear that the real issue is the signature driven posts that are driving it.  I don't spend any time in off topic and don't think I can access the mod thread where the issue has been discussed (though I only just now looked) but I wonder if maybe the solution isn't in asking the signature sponsors to back off a bit.  That's a lot fewer people than all the user accounts.  They should also have an incentive not to be associated with crappy posts.

Now that mining BTC has "gone pro" the signature campaigns are my main source of btc.  Sad perhaps but true.

Maybe another possibility is a signature whitelist of some kind, not based on rank, since basing it on rank can encourage even more posts.

I also think people should use ignore more.

Good Luck.

[zolace]

There is nothing wrong with an active forum if you guys want less active forum dangle somewhere else I love this forum the way it is I love the craziness as long as people are not harassing others and this should be no problem,