Topic: Just remove signatures already. As in delete, disable, gone. - page 10. (Read 44870 times)

I tried that - and my "report accuracy" rapidly went down from 90+% to 40+% (so the mods seemingly "approve of rubbish").

So I would *not* recommend anyone to do that (unless they want to see their "report accuracy" tank). You might want to check your "report accuracy" after doing that for a while.

Well I myself wear a sig so hard to call others out I suppose, but I am also flat rate and clearly do not spam. I think the campaigns just need to crackdown on the spammers more. The forum seems fine with the campaigns so lets start reporting people (I have started reporting every useless post I see lately).


here is also a suggestion -> https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.11847389

Unfortunately no matter how many times this is repeated it will be followed by some stupid ad-sig poster response that is basically saying "don't take away my income".

(to them their tiny income for creating rubbish posts is worth far more than the forum itself)

People like you are the issue...who do not read and just post. It is not the signatures that cause the issues it is the useless posts they generate. This has been stated over and over in this thread.

I will announce it in the CIYAM topic in Project Development (link is https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ciyam-project-plan-outline-and-progress-updates-598860 for those that want to add it to their Watchlist).

It will work much the same as the CIYAM Open forum currently does (http://ciyam.org/open) although there will be numerous changes made to suit the P2P Forum implementation.

It is most likely that I'll make it accessible from ciyam.org just to make it easy for people to "have a play" before they decide to install any software on their computer.

Perfect, we are waiting the new P2P forum ... good luck!

Unfortunately it is obvious that no improvement is going to be made and that the new forum won't even be worth joining (I am not going to bother).

Personally I think it should just be left to the ad-sig posters to keep posting their rubbish posts to one another until finally the ad sponsors realise that no-one who has any funds to actually buy or invest in anything is left (then the entire forum will simply be abandoned as a forum whose entire purpose is "making money from everyone else in the forum" is actually rather boring for those who actually care about something other than money and for those that don't I would think it would be more entertaining to use casinos where you can just click one button to "play" rather than waste time "typing").

Oh - btw - I will be announcing a P2P Forum soon that won't have signatures and will have an "ignore" system that actually works properly (rather than you seeing a topic updated by an ignored user and seeing "this poster is currently being ignored" posts). Having a "proper ignore system" will also mean there is no need for moderators (and there will be none).

Well i dont see any other side effects then. If someone is disturbed by too many ads he can disable it, just with adblock you can disable website ads.

But if you dont, then atleast support the company he is advertising, bitcoin is a small community ,yet, and it doesnt have many means to advertise new stuff.

Since our forum community is big, obviously new services will target forum users, we need to help support them by watching and checking out their ads.

After all you guys want all the way for bitcoin to succeede, so we must do a sacrifice like this for the bitcoin economy

Maybe 2 million in BTC is enough?  You guys better donate more to see.  We all are waiting very slowly and hopes it is as good as this forum.  Haha  But seriously, this is like the only forum of 2 I am active on anymore.  I used forums a lot more 5-8 years ago than I do now.

I agree with the OP, we need to get rid of the signature campaigns and the signatures all together. It used to be okay about 2 years ago but now about 50% of posts (at least) are forced/spam posts only made with the backthought of "Hey, I'm getting paid to talk". This needs to stop. The forum has gone to the shitter in the last year or so and we need this to change.


Also...what the fuck happened to the 1.5 million in BTC we spent on a NEW FORUM that was supposed to come out like a year back or something like that...

This is the selfish narcissistic attitute that allows email spammers and robocallers to exist: "sure I'll annoy thousands of people and waste hundreds of man-hours and other's resources, but this is how I make money"

Even all of his feedback was mining related...haha owned!

Nice additional example of the real problem (with bonus mic drop by Mikestang):
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/btc-mining-still-worth-it-1111823

I don't believe any who claims or implies that they do not fully understand this point.

Everybody knows what the real problem is, they just pretend that it's about the signatures instead about the spam posts because that's the only way to pretend they are doing is vaguely defensible.

I've seen enough quality posts from you quoted by others to make the decision to click unignore.  That doesn't mean that I won't re-ignore in the future.  Occasionally I forget who I intentionally unignored, and who I'm seeing for the first time and haven't ignored yet, so users that I choose to un-ignore can at times end up on the ignore list again for a while.  Additionally, if I start seeing a significant increase in senseless posts from someone that I chose to unignore, I'll simply re-ignore them.


Exactly.

If you want some of the more knowledgeable and experienced users of this forum to pay attention to the things you say, and to provide quality feedback to questions that you have, then you'll want to avoid participating in an activity that rewards people for posting crap.  If you choose to disguise yourself as an annoying spammer, then I'm not going to care when you complain that you are being treated as an annoying spammer.  By choosing to advertise for the sig ad campaign, you are effectively associating yourself with and endorsing their behavior.  Since you've chosen to participate in an activity that provides a financial incentive for you to post excessively, I need to see evidence that you aren't posing excessively before I bother wasting my time on anything you say.

For more details on how I handle this process (and to make use of the ignore list I've already built, so you don't need to waste time building your own), you can click the link in my sig.

If you're dealing in large quantities you have to start making decisions on mass quantities.  When hundreds of posts with signature ads contain useless drivel and repitions of what was just posted above then I can see how Danny Hamilton and many others decide to look past the sig ads when trying to figure out what to read.  Making pragmatic decisions on strategies about how to get to the interesting part of a thread when someman times up to 90% of it is nonsense is crucial if you are one of the normal human beings living under a finite lifespan constraint.

You can shout at him for it, but for the record, DH continues to provide amazingly detailed and helpful answers to questions in the the technical assistance/discussion boards with regularity.  And he even seems to talk to me despite the fact that (most of the time, recently) I have a sig ad on my posts.

So, I guess you felt it was helpful to shout some kind of "every case is unique" principles at one of the more knowledgeable people on this forum who spends a signficant amount of time answering technical questions, but I'm of the camp that says that not every special snowflake out there has a right to my time and if they make themself ignorable (by posting nonsense, or by blending in with the folks who post nonsense) that's on them.

Finally I have removed the signature ad, and I think I have done a good thing... now I challenge the other users to do the same .

In that case, thank you for dismissing everything I've ever said as nonsense without taking the time to read it and decide on merit.   

Perhaps if you think in such absolute terms, it's your opinion that's not worth paying any attention to?  That would be a shame since I normally find your posts quite reasonable.  Good thing I'm not as quick to jump to snap judgements.   

Just because some people spam the boards to get paid, doesn't mean we all do.  I'd be making all the posts I've made, regardless of whether they were paid or not.  If I have nothing worthwhile to contribute, I'll keep it shut.  If you're incapable of seeing that not everything is black and white, while posting about what should be dismissed without consideration based on nothing more than a signature, I'd say that's going to damage your credibility more in the long run than any advertisement would. 

No, we aren't blind.  But doing what you suggest would be a HORRIBLE idea.  Right now, the only way I know who is likely to be wasting my time with useless drivel and terrible advice is by looking at their signature.  If they have an ad, then I know to immediately ignore anything they say.  If they don't have an ad, then I know that they aren't being paid for posting nonsense so there's a reasonable chance that they have something worthwhile to say.

If I mark the checkbox that you are suggesting, then how am I going to know who to ignore?

In case you haven't figured it out yet, the problem isn't "seeing the ads".  The problem is that sig ad campaigns create a financial incentive to create multiple accounts and spam the forum with as much useless nonsense as possible in order in increase the revenue of the participant.  This makes it very difficult to find any intelligent conversation in the forum since the noise of the spam drowns out the signal of the intelligent conversation.

You might be; or at the very least you didn't bother to read this thread.  That checkbox has been pointed out several times, the reasons why people may not want to use that checkbox have also been discussed, and hiding (campaign) signatures alone does nothing with regard to the other side effects also discussed before, as recent as 3 posts above yours.