Do you not realize that this is one of the things that drive the bitcoin force. If nobody can get revenue from bitcoins bitcoin dies. Here is a simple solution instead of worrying about meaningless posts why not go to a different post and find something that interests you there. Here is an even better solution your in control of your own eyes so if you don't like seeing meaningless posts some where very simple tell your eyes not to view it.
This is a forum, not an ad agency. The goal here is to be without spam, and to allow viewers the freedom to participate in a range of conversation and access to the information here. It has no obligation to its users to cater to a destructive spamming system. Some sort of solutions will be tried and found, the goal is to allow people to continue signature ads, however not if its at the expense of damaging the forum's main purpose.
This is exactly what they fail to see. The people supporting / making
this decision are people already wealthy enough themselves to not
be advertising themselves. In the end, nobody -loses- when people
advertise. The advertisers get money, the site owners get money,
the bitcoins are flowing and the incentive to earn even more grows.
There's still a way for people like the guy who made this proposal
to -completely- ignore other's signatures. I don't see why he prefers
to see small ads rather than no ads.
You can ignore the content of the signature itself, but you can't ignore the thousands of spam posts that are disrupting everyone's conversations.
Maybe the focus should then be on reworking who's allowed to post and how many times you're allowed to post in the different forum account levels, for example a set amount of posts per day as a maximum. The signatures should remain unchanged, for those advertising and for those who don't.
I don't believe spam stops because people have lesser chance of earning money from it, but if the amount of posts per day is regulated and spam posts reported, people won't waste their daily posts on spam. Of course the biggest restrictions would be against newbie accounts, many people would already not risk losing their full/sr/hero member accounts, as theymos himself said.
