Just a reminder, Bitcointalk.org is a forum established for people to gather and talk about Bitcoin. We are not here to
make money, as you put it. The payment from these signature campaigns,
are just a added bonus feature of this forum
over other forums. It also stimulates Bitcoin adoption, by placing bitcoins into people hands as a reward for something they brought to the table. In
this case... quality posts are being rewarded. If you came here solely to make money, you came here for the wrong reason. Signature campaigns also shows off one of Bitcoin's main features, eg.
micro payments. These micro payments would not have been possible, with other payment options... because of high fees.
Yep, pretty much this... I understand why people are so worked up to receive bitcoins "for free", but it's like a majority of new people on this forum are pretty dead set on "working" for campaign signatures all day and so on. This isn't the point of signature campaigns... like you said, it's just an added bonus for coming on here every now and then with occasionally getting enveloped in a topic you would like to discuss with other like-minded people; not get so wrapped up in posting as much "quality material" as you can for the sake of getting your post count/quality up.
I like signature campaigns, just probably not as much as other people on here like them... Sometimes it seems like they are
dependent on them.