Topic: It has become an absolute joke - page 2. (Read 3837 times)
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.
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?
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?
I see you are not old enough (in forum time) to remember the days before the current signature restrictions. Right now, signatures can only include text and are limited to about three text lines in height. Before these restrictions were put in place, many people had moving gifs or ads that were a whole screen high. Those were obnoxious. People use the brightly colored glow/text combinations because that is what is available to them, be thankful that they are not worse.
So that created an improvement, why not improve it even further?..
I agree, it's totally pathetic how people sell their signature space for cheap ads!
Are you being sarcastic?You must be one of those people who don't understand what ads do.
I agree, it's totally pathetic how people sell their signature space for cheap ads!
Are you being sarcastic?
just ignore the users then if you don't want to disable all signatures.
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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?
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?
I see you are not old enough (in forum time) to remember the days before the current signature restrictions. Right now, signatures can only include text and are limited to about three text lines in height. Before these restrictions were put in place, many people had moving gifs or ads that were a whole screen high. Those were obnoxious. People use the brightly colored glow/text combinations because that is what is available to them, be thankful that they are not worse.
I agree, it's totally pathetic how people sell their signature space for cheap ads!
Are you being sarcastic?
I agree, it's totally pathetic how people sell their signature space for cheap ads!
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.
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.
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.
public inside joke
"never understand"
"never understand"
You don't say?
you are entitled to your opinion no matter how ignorant I think you sound.
blockchain.info that hoe!
blockchain.info that hoe!
Truly painful.
Don't worry, inside joke you would never understand.
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.
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.
Literally every 2nd post contains a signature violently advertising a gambling site or something along those lines.
"violently advertising" wat? 
The only problem i have with signature ads is that some of them are "effin' HUGE", but as mentioned before, you can turn them off in profile preferences.
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.
Maybe provide your own bitcoin forum that doesn't allow advertisements? I hear that reddit is popular.
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?
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?
I agree that a number of people that post with ads. Are not by any means quality. Posters. I have my moments burned into history. But I actually try to most of the time add to the convo not.
"Derail brought to you by coinlenders."
I put an ad in my sig because I know the owner. I know it's for the most part legitimate. And I've been paid timely to just roll normal. It's like an exra hundred or so dollars a year. That does help when you have hobbys.
I think rules over time will change. A posters ignored level will matter. .. LoL. quack shit usually doesn't fly period. The problem will root itself out
We need an 'Ignore sig' button 
No, we don't, as it already exists.
I like to read people signatures, but just want them not to take a third of my small screen and catch my eyes with flashy blinking huge links pointing to
EDIT : stormlighter was faster.
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