Things I have researched in the past: influencers making a shock post or so on Twitter saying ohhh this forum is so fucked up it should be forbidden (starting at 3k$), Russian mass spam mails advertising this site (500$).
Honestly I feel like it should not be too difficult to bring new members here. Has anyone really tried it systematically? I feel like everytime this is suggested someone tries to post it on some reddit sub or forum and it gets deleted immediately for advertisement and that's it. It is like we are retarded. I really think with a sly systematic approach where one spends like 3-4 days gathering websites and then find a way to advertise on them it would work. Or even discord channels and shit. I never tried it but I don't know why this forum couldn't get like 15 new members where 6 are going to stick around.
I don't find Xadems spam too bad. I find it funny. Normies won't stick around anyways. But I do have to say that turqie is fucking irritating and even puts me off if it is half the front page. Like I will just say fuck it and close the site again. She has to be bound to some special rules where she can still participate but does not destroy the community. A dedicated thread where she can post etc. Let her have one account and ban her puppets immediately. She is really off putting and needs to be put within special boundaries.