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b!z
legendary
Activity: 1582
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September 10, 2013, 07:11:48 AM
#55
Yeah, you used to be able to actually put ad code in your signature so your signature was a banner spot.  So, you would also get paid for the highest paying banners.

Really? Can you show me to any reference so I can read? I did not know this was available in the past.

IMG tags were allowed previously, you could link to a URL with a redirecter.

Yeah, I know that. I think he was trying to say that it was possible to use your signature as an ad area, display forum ads and get paid. Never saw that happening, and I've been watching the forums since 2011 or so.
legendary
Activity: 1316
Merit: 1000
Varanida : Fair & Transparent Digital Ecosystem
September 10, 2013, 05:22:24 AM
#54
Not exactly.

why waste your sig space when you can do something funny and get paid.

for my sig ad, it's easy to make 50 posts per month as I should post in this forum.

I just feel well.
legendary
Activity: 1176
Merit: 1233
May Bitcoin be touched by his Noodly Appendage
September 10, 2013, 03:36:30 AM
#53
Why not cut the bullshit and stop referring to them as signatures if we allow any content and formatting in that space? It's more of a footer that currently users can customize any way they wish.

There is no need in this footer for colors, font size options, and even links. Text only, convey the information you wish to convey, and that's it.
It's been months that people are proposing this. The deep silence from the staff means this will never happen.
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 501
There is more to Bitcoin than bitcoins.
September 10, 2013, 02:35:31 AM
#52
Why not cut the bullshit and stop referring to them as signatures if we allow any content and formatting in that space? It's more of a footer that currently users can customize any way they wish.

There is no need in this footer for colors, font size options, and even links. Text only, convey the information you wish to convey, and that's it.
legendary
Activity: 1400
Merit: 1009
September 10, 2013, 02:15:18 AM
#51
And, maybe, the ignore count will make some feedback to the advertisers also.
Exactly.
sr. member
Activity: 311
Merit: 250
September 10, 2013, 12:48:37 AM
#50
I don't want to ignore all signatures, because something they contain useful information. So I just ignore any poster whose signature reduces the readability of the page. If their judgement is poor enough that they will attach an ugly signature to all their posts, then I'm probably not missing much by not reading their posts anyway.

Exactly. I don't see why everyone has to disable their signatures to simply get around this issue. It's a very poor fix to such a problem.

I agree. Ignoring particular poster is much better solution.
And, maybe, the ignore count will make some feedback to the advertisers also.
sr. member
Activity: 311
Merit: 250
September 10, 2013, 12:33:25 AM
#49
Sigvertisements have never bothered me, I think it's cool that people can make a little money for something small and easy.  There can be confusion about what is a sig ad, and what is a forum ad.  This could make theymos's job harder if something illegal/viral is advertised, but as long as those are deleted I don't see a problem.

Maybe provide your own bitcoin forum that doesn't allow advertisements?  I hear that reddit is popular.

I won't leave a previously good forum and "provide" another one just because somebody tries to destroy the original one. The vandals should be eliminated, not us.


There is nothing wrong with sig ads IMO.

There is. OP has described it quite well.
But you couldn't have writen anything different than you did, no surprise. :-(


You should respect where bitcoin economy currently is. For now we are in casino stage. Hopefully we'll go further and we'll establish higher levels of system.

That's right. It is helping members with little BTC to earn more, and helping the economy.

The most important point of the OP is that the sigvertisers make their posts as frequent as possible even when they have nothing important to say, diluting the forum contents that way. And I personally hate wading through a junk contents just for some advertises' pleasure.
vip
Activity: 1316
Merit: 1043
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September 08, 2013, 11:46:06 AM
#48
Yeah, you used to be able to actually put ad code in your signature so your signature was a banner spot.  So, you would also get paid for the highest paying banners.

Really? Can you show me to any reference so I can read? I did not know this was available in the past.

IMG tags were allowed previously, you could link to a URL with a redirecter.
legendary
Activity: 1288
Merit: 1007
September 08, 2013, 10:53:41 AM
#47
Literally every 2nd post contains a signature violently advertising a gambling site or something along those lines.
"violently advertising" wat?

They're not simply "Bit777 - Bitcoin casino" It's

BIT777 ONLIEN CASINO LOTS OF GAME HEAPS GOOD HOUSE EDGE COME MAKE MONEY COME COME COME

That's an example & I don't mean to single out Bit777 what so ever. They're also heavily formatted to really "Jump" out at you. I consider this a fairly violent form of advertising, in the sense that it's very much in your face.


This, I agree with.
b!z
legendary
Activity: 1582
Merit: 1010
September 08, 2013, 04:55:44 AM
#46
Yeah, you used to be able to actually put ad code in your signature so your signature was a banner spot.  So, you would also get paid for the highest paying banners.

Really? Can you show me to any reference so I can read? I did not know this was available in the past.
legendary
Activity: 1008
Merit: 1001
Let the chips fall where they may.
September 08, 2013, 04:28:29 AM
#45
I thought about putting advertising in my sig... for about 3 seconds.

The only reason I considered it is that my sig was bad-mouthing Eligius for too long Tongue

With the NSA revelations, EVERYBODY should be putting their OpenPGP fingerprint in their sig; just like me Cheesy

Disclaimer: OpenPGP does not prevent metadata analysis.
legendary
Activity: 1288
Merit: 1007
September 07, 2013, 10:45:53 AM
#44
I don't see anything wrong with advertising in sigs, especially if you support it. Plus not all sigs are big colorful eye-hurting ones, take a look at mine for example, or even the Inputs one others have.
full member
Activity: 120
Merit: 100
September 06, 2013, 12:19:37 AM
#43
Thank you for increasing my post count.

... Sarcasm aside, why does it make that big of a difference? The internet is full of advertisements - after all, I'd bet you a majority of the newbies who got into this love their btc faucets. Why should this be any different?
legendary
Activity: 1918
Merit: 1570
Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending
September 06, 2013, 12:05:31 AM
#42
Buying out users signatures as advertisements is being taken to the next level. There is far too many of them. Literally every 2nd post contains a signature violently advertising a gambling site or something along those lines.

To a newcomer this honestly makes the forum & Bitcoin as a whole look like one big joke. A bunch of people who have such little self respect that they use their signature to advertise for a measly $20 or so worth of BTC.

Not to mention the negative affect this has on the management team of the forum in relation to the ad revenue. Why would you want to buy a couple of ad's for a week when you could buy 300 peoples signatures for a month for half the price.

Thoughts?

Edit: It has now come to the point where people buying these signature based advertisements are paying higher to people who make more posts in a select period of time. This is encouraging spam & now not only taking away from the forums from a visual perspective, but a content perspective.

Am I the only one not getting paid for everything I do pertaining to Bitcoin?
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 500
September 05, 2013, 11:58:56 PM
#41
Yeah, you used to be able to actually put ad code in your signature so your signature was a banner spot.  So, you would also get paid for the highest paying banners.
legendary
Activity: 1736
Merit: 1024
September 05, 2013, 05:57:43 PM
#40


thank me later Smiley


Learned something today. Tongue  But some signatures are really interesting :O
sr. member
Activity: 574
Merit: 250
September 05, 2013, 02:50:11 PM
#39

I agree some of the colors used are an eye sore.  I also am aware that's the point.  I gues I'm detuned to advertiseing.  I spent a few years of my life away from decent TV Shows because of advertiseing.  I spent my childhood up into my adult life waitng for a GI Joe and Transformers movie. Only to find out they also became an.advertiseing platform.

It sucks, we have our advanced tech to thank.. What do we do?




It has now come to the point where people buying these signature based advertisements are paying higher to people who make more posts in a select period of time. This is encouraging spam & now not only taking away from the forums from a visual perspective, but a content perspective.



This clearly is your reason for anger.  What I suggest is if you are going to put this much effort into posting for the logical. As well as posting for troll food.  That you from time to time save a link or two.  Kindly share them with the advertisers and see if they like what's happening.

I would hope they would moderate these folks themselves. If they fail to even publicly say "hey this fucker is no longer being paid.  We won't lose our money to spammers etc". Then post about that.  Go for the juggler.
member
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Merit: 10
September 05, 2013, 02:27:52 PM
#38
Some guys pay up to 1 BTC per month. I can't imagine that being profitable :S
legendary
Activity: 966
Merit: 1004
Keep it real
September 05, 2013, 02:13:58 PM
#37
It has now come to the point where people buying these signature based advertisements are paying higher to people who make more posts in a select period of time. This is encouraging spam & now not only taking away from the forums from a visual perspective, but a content perspective.

If you see somebody spamming to increase their post count, then you should report that spam. I believe there is a "no spamming" policy for the forum already?

Correct!  Please report spam posts.
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 500
It's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye
September 05, 2013, 11:08:07 AM
#36
It has now come to the point where people buying these signature based advertisements are paying higher to people who make more posts in a select period of time. This is encouraging spam & now not only taking away from the forums from a visual perspective, but a content perspective.

If you see somebody spamming to increase their post count, then you should report that spam. I believe there is a "no spamming" policy for the forum already?
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