You really shouldn't submit to TF's signature blackmail. You're free to put any signature you want. His account is currently being investigated by the mods for this recent PM blackmail activity.
- snip -let me post about the exact same topic on multiple threads multiple times to increase my post count.
Sounds more like extortion ("
do what I say if you don't want me to do something bad to you") than blackmail ("
do what I say if you don't want me to reveal a secret").
Although, I suppose usage and meaning of the words "blackmail" and "extortion" may vary regionally.
It sounds a lot more like signature spam to me. This person is posting this very point any time someone mentions TF giving negative trust for this. It is very annoying. TF is voicing his opinion just like others voice their opinion in the lending forum about newbies asking for loans. I don't agree with what TF is doing but he has his right to express his opinion.
This person on the other hand is all but certainly trying to get his 400 post quota as he is posting nonsense in several threads and replying to almost every reply even when his points were not discussed.
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Hey Jackass,
I posted on this topic in reply to the dude who said he submitted to TF's blackmail in exactly two threads. The first one is here where the dude admits to submitting to the blackmail and asks TF to take away the neg-rep. The second one was in the thread where the dude said "oh i'm sorry i removed the sig" in in the thread about the sig-ad campaign itself. These two posts are both relevant and in reply to the guy who admitted to submitting to the blackmail. And, what do you know, many many people are replying to it and engaging with it. Just because you disagree or you don't understand doesn't make something irrelevant or off-topic.
As for haters like you who probably got kicked out of the PD campaign for low-quality posts and spamming I'm tired of you riding my ass. I obviously did
not get kicked out of the campaign for exactly the reason that
I do not spam and put low-quality posts. Give up on the hating and concentrate on the discussion at hand. If you look at my post count since last month it's around 100, that's no where near 400 so really, give up on your hating.
Finally, the irony of Mr "ACCTseller" griping about signature spam is nearly too strong to believe. The whole point of activity levels and ranks and their correlation to signature size is to prevent newbies from getting a hold of accounts that they didn't take the time to build up themselves---preventing signature spam. Looking in your own post history I can see you saying stuff like "most people who buy an account make make up the ROI in no time with a sig campaign". Wow.
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Back to our normally scheduled thread. Cheers!
As to the non-hater bullshit part of your post, TF definitely has a right to his opinion but neg-repping everyone involved in a campaign and threatening them doesn't amount to spreading your opinion, it's considered against the rules. Voicing your opinion is one thing, neg-repping everyone you disagree with is another. Sending PMs saying "remove your signature or else" are yet another.
@DannyHamilton:
You might be right about the semantics of blackmail vs extortion---but threatening is naughty no matter which type of threatening.