Topic: Ban all the signature campaign - page 2. (Read 1603 times)
In a way I think that signature campaigns can add value to the forums since it keeps some people coming back and contributing who might otherwise be somewhere else (reddit maybe?). Of course not everyone contributes very much but many do.
This has been discussed in the past and while I am biased since I sell my signature I dont think thats a valid option unless there is no other way. This would have to include referal links as they are somewhat paid signatures. A more difficult case would be doog's signature for his own casino just-dice. Would that be banworthy? Its a paid signature in a sense as its advertising for his own casino and he is earning money off of it. How about e.g. SaltySpitoon advertising their sales thread, is that allowed? As you can see this will not be easy to draw the line.
Exactly. It was discussed multiple times and no solution/alternative was found. Well the matter is rather complicated. Obviously with every decision there will be a lot of unhappy people. Making the right call is a tough decision.I said all the signature campaign that paying you for post here in the forum, I am not against the personal sig 'ad' itself.
This is wrong because punishing everyone because of certain individuals is rather illogical. There are several high quality posters that have a paid signature. It's quite obvious who's spamming and who isn't. The most (let's call them) respected people here don't post that often and usually don't have a signature like that. There are individuals who make 20-40+ posts a day mostly consisting out of 1 liners. Those people are the ones that should be punished (if they indeed are spamming), not everyone. 
I said all the signature campaign that paying you for post here in the forum, I am not against the personal sig 'ad' itself.
Some people can post 100 times per day and keep their post quality up. I dont see why punish them for something that some people do. Paid advertising signature spammers are annoying, and something will be done about it, but if possible I think it would be best to continue allowing them. If you are going to post here anyway, why not earn a bit of coin? I dont know, I'm just not big on the whole prosecuting the group for the actions of the few idea. Some changes definitely need to be made, but it would be preferable to target only those abusing paid advertising signatures, rather than everyone.
I honestly have no stake in paid advertising signatures, they benefit me in no way, and cause only annoyance for me through spammers, however I personally have no problem with them at their core. My ideal situation would be that campaign managers take a more active role in weeding out spammers, and we devise a way to allow those who don't want to partake in viewing them to opt out without removing signatures all together.
This has been discussed in the past and while I am biased since I sell my signature I dont think thats a valid option unless there is no other way. This would have to include referal links as they are somewhat paid signatures. A more difficult case would be doog's signature for his own casino just-dice. Would that be banworthy? Its a paid signature in a sense as its advertising for his own casino and he is earning money off of it. How about e.g. SaltySpitoon advertising their sales thread, is that allowed? As you can see this will not be easy to draw the line.
I am a huge fan of signatures for the reason above, its very helpful for personal advertising, and as a plain text link, its not overly obtrusive. If it catches someone's attention, it would be because they are interested, not because a wall of color and letters are screaming in their face. I've got 3,000 posts 99% of which I'd like to believe are constructive and well thought out. It would be stupid of me to waste that. While I have no stake in paid advertising signatures, I would fight against the removal of signatures all together for that reason. That said, people can already turn signatures on/off entirely, I'd prefer if they had a few more options, such as turn stylized signatures off, etc.
I honestly have no stake in paid advertising signatures, they benefit me in no way, and cause only annoyance for me through spammers, however I personally have no problem with them at their core. My ideal situation would be that campaign managers take a more active role in weeding out spammers, and we devise a way to allow those who don't want to partake in viewing them to opt out without removing signatures all together.
Why the staff allowed to put a sig ad and after ban a lot of users because they are posting 30-40 posts per day? Isn't it better to ban all the signature campaigns?
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This has been discussed in the past and while I am biased since I sell my signature I dont think thats a valid option unless there is no other way. This would have to include referal links as they are somewhat paid signatures. A more difficult case would be doog's signature for his own casino just-dice. Would that be banworthy? Its a paid signature in a sense as its advertising for his own casino and he is earning money off of it. How about e.g. SaltySpitoon advertising their sales thread, is that allowed? As you can see this will not be easy to draw the line.
I am a huge fan of signatures for the reason above, its very helpful for personal advertising, and as a plain text link, its not overly obtrusive. If it catches someone's attention, it would be because they are interested, not because a wall of color and letters are screaming in their face. I've got 3,000 posts 99% of which I'd like to believe are constructive and well thought out. It would be stupid of me to waste that. While I have no stake in paid advertising signatures, I would fight against the removal of signatures all together for that reason. That said, people can already turn signatures on/off entirely, I'd prefer if they had a few more options, such as turn stylized signatures off, etc.
Why the staff allowed to put a sig ad and after ban a lot of users because they are posting 30-40 posts per day? Isn't it better to ban all the signature campaigns?
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This has been discussed in the past and while I am biased since I sell my signature I dont think thats a valid option unless there is no other way. This would have to include referal links as they are somewhat paid signatures. A more difficult case would be doog's signature for his own casino just-dice. Would that be banworthy? Its a paid signature in a sense as its advertising for his own casino and he is earning money off of it. How about e.g. SaltySpitoon advertising their sales thread, is that allowed? As you can see this will not be easy to draw the line.
I support the idea of shorena, the staff cannot sort of what is a sig ad and what is not a sig ad. There isn't a valid solution for this problem, maybe the various campaign's manager can collaborate with the admin for find a compromise that can stop the insubstantial posts and keep the forum clean.
Why the staff allowed to put a sig ad and after ban a lot of users because they are posting 30-40 posts per day? Isn't it better to ban all the signature campaigns?
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This has been discussed in the past and while I am biased since I sell my signature I dont think thats a valid option unless there is no other way. This would have to include referal links as they are somewhat paid signatures. A more difficult case would be doog's signature for his own casino just-dice. Would that be banworthy? Its a paid signature in a sense as its advertising for his own casino and he is earning money off of it. How about e.g. SaltySpitoon advertising their sales thread, is that allowed? As you can see this will not be easy to draw the line.
I don't think people are getting banned for just posting 30x - 40x per day. Maybe they are doing other things that aren't OK? Another discussion thread here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/just-remove-signatures-already-as-in-delete-disable-gone-786662
Why the staff allowed to put a sig ad and after ban a lot of users because they are posting 30-40 posts per day? Isn't it better to ban all the signature campaigns?
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