Topic: Signature Advertisement Blindness (Read 493 times)

I've actually clicked on some signature ads, although it's hard to say if all the ads out there reach the required customer a few do get ones attention

In my opinion, this is also the case with banner ads, Facebook ads etc. You usually dont click on it, but you recognize them subconsciously. The next time you are in a store looking for eg. shoes you recognize the previously subconsciously seen shoes from advertising again and take them rather than not advertised products.

From the ad owners perspective , i think the beauty of a signature or banners is just an addition to make their ads look more attractive.
Theyre not thinking that as long as the ad is beauty or attractive people will always take a look on it or even buy the products. But theyre (ad owners) also waiting for people who are in a condition that really needs the advertised product. People who are in that condition will see the ad as it is very emblazoned and glowing.

Imagine a condition where you are very hungry and cant go outside (maybe because there is no vehicle yet) and see an online fast food ad that can deliver their food to your house.

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The key is needs

Lol yeah did that too, once or twice. But sometimes I think of doing it but won't. It's probably out of curiosity of WHAT IF THIS IS THE MAIN DEAL, WHAT IF THIS, WHAT IF THAT 😁 And again, plain beauty of the sig attracts.

I suppose I have developed a blind eye to some extent as well, but that being said, I always look at the sig ads of those I deem trustworthy in order to see which companies and/or projects they support. I then normally investigate to see if there is meat on the bones or not. If not, I wait for greener pastures to come along.

I do have an interest using signature.  However, I noticed that some (or mostly) of managers are not always online and you have to spend more days, days and days to approved your application. 

What reason, why you become cold with Signature, Jacktheking?

I recently joined this forum and mostly i did it to participate in signature ad even tho i dont click on most of them as i try do to my own research and becouse of obvious reasons that people advertise it mostly couse of money they do not matter to me. One thing i noticed that becouse of this ad signature this forum may be sometimes hard to read , many users posts answers and leave it like that forum is full of people counting posts im not saying that i dont do it either but i try to stay on topic of threats i do post it.

Nevertheless, it works. If you see a banner and notice some text there, and then see it elsewhere, the chances you click are higher, even if you didn't click for the first time.

When I was still a newbie... wasn't that long ago ! But still, I never click on any signature. As it was said, it is an eye pollution, but also a big spam problem for this forum to handle.

Bounty can be a good thing, some earn money, some advertise their project, nothing to say about that.

The problem is I think, about the amount of posts per week that are needed in order to get paid. It is about quantity, and like everything else in life, quantity never works well with quality. Participants rush to reach their quota, plus a little extra in case their posts get deleted, just saying nothing here and there. In the end, we ALL waste time reading their shitposts (most of the time a least) while looking for interesting post in between. In my case, I just don't read the forum anymore (most of it) because looking for 5 good posts out of a hundred pages, doesn't make any sens at all. And if I don't read the forum, it doesn't matter how many times you posted your signature, because I won't see any of it.

Now let say that instead, you reward every participant based on merit received. Let's take 2 merits per week for example. You could get them with a single post. So you get less posts, but ONLY quality post. I truly believe that one good post is read more times than 15 bad posts, so is your signature. And you fix at the same time the multi account issue, because I don't give a "excuse me sir for the bad word that should have been here" if you post 10 interesting posts from 1 account, or from 10.
Plus, less posts would make this forum much easier to moderate, which would increase even more the positive effect.

The bounty manager could just check if you have got your 2 merits this week or not, which would be easier for him as well.

In the end, a lower amount of good and interesting posts, would make the signatures much more visible because people would actually READ the threads, and not just the first page and go to reply on the last one (to reach their quota), repeating what has already been said fifty times before, on the pages 2 to 97. This could be fix easily with a statement saying that bounty signatures should be based on merit from now on.

in the meantime, I like this section because it is signature free, and so the thread are pleasant to read. It is easy to notice that the biggest thread in here (which was about drugs hahaha) has only 6 pages. The only motivation I have to rank up is to be able to post in the Ivory Tower, if I want to.

It's almost the same for me, I see normal signatures, I do read most of them and sometimes click. But I ignore all signature ads.
I actually have this banner blindness not only here but in other sites too, I even find it weird that people complain about the ads in some sites

So for all users that want their signatures read, don't make it look like a sig camp ad. Keep it plain and simple and more people will see it this way!

I know, that there are many spammers who do not read previous comments and only spamming here, but on the other hand I think, that signature is healthy way how to keep this forum active, you are paid for writing, if you dont, you will not spend much time here and there will be less posts with lower quality, because in rules of every signature campaign is written that they accept only 70+ words comments.

there is a member that posted a list of accounts that have paid sigs that you can copy/paste into your ignore list. iirc the list was so big sometimes people had trouble importing it.

I go one step further.

I ignore any member of a signature campaign, as in click on ignore underneath the name on the left. The result is that I hardly ever see any signatures at all.

That's all forms of advertising right? I rarely click on adverts wherever I am on the web, but have done if it is something that interests me. That one click could be worth a lot of money to the advertiser. TV adverts have become virtually worthless, at least in my part of the world, where that majority of people watch programmes after recording and just skip through the adverts. At least in a forum like this, advertisers are hitting their target market directly. The problem arises here when advertisers allow their product to be linked to users whose posts are, to be polite, nondescript, but I guess that is the advertiser's fault for not checking the quality of those they associate themselves with and will probably have at least some affect on the return. I think at least with signature campaigns, the people taking part must have at least an element of belief in the project, because only one can be advertised at a time (whereas they can sign up for hundreds of projects at a time with the social media ones).

I sometimes find a signature interesting when the design is attractive. It sometimes catches the eye and sparks an interest. If it's nice enough, I might give it a click just out of curiosity.


I sometimes do the same as well. I know that the posts of those who bear signatures of Chipmixer are worth reading and I think that this kind of advertisement is more effective than signature campaigns which have participants that post numerously but unconstructively. I sometimes even take a look out for these signatures among threads because they have good posts.

I think it is a new way of advertisement - when we see ban from Facebook, Google and maybe Twitter, where investors could see targeted advertisement? Here, there are many people on this forum, they are interested in crypto and also they are interested in investing zo ICOs, so I think there is nothing bad with signatures campaigns. Also it is not annoying like pop-ups... So it is future way how to promote ICOs.

I do the same however some sigs sometimes get my attention.

Most of these sigs are really filled with ICO advertisements.

The channel im advertising on my sig is really working well.

i have sigs disabled here (and most other forums im on that allow sig disabling) as i find them annoying.

ive always thought of sigs as eye pollution.
 
 

I rarely click on signature advertisements. Usually, I don't pay attention to these banners, but there are some exceptions.
If signature banner have small text size, I don't even try to read what is written here. So, I'm rarely looking at Member, Full Member signatures. Their signatures looks to heavy to see what's written here from first glance. Signature designers usually trying to use maximul allowed character limit per certain rank.
But I see banners of these old signature campaigns like Chipmixer, Crypto-Games and others, maybe because that participants of these campaigns are making really good posts. I always prefer to read posts of participants of these campaigns instead of someone who advertise unknown ICO.
If business want effective advertising on bitcointalk,  they need to hire experienced campaign manager who will choose best participants, have a good design of signature and run campaign for long, few weeks aren't enough to reach good results.

its a very interesting phenomenon,indeed I noticed that banner blindness depends on what I'm trying to do online
if I'm looking for a certain kind of information,for example,specific info about bitcoin-I totally ignore banner ads,
on the contrary,if I'm reading news,I tend to pay attention to banners and ads
one thing is common though-if the ad is annoying,be it colours,blinking,pop-ups etc. I will NEVER ever  use the service or buy the product
companies that disrepspect me as a customer do not deserve my money and time

Unless I misclick I don't click on any. I haven't actually seen any that give me any benefit rather than complete shills. I have advertised a few in my signature that has done very well, but they weren't ICO or coins. Cryptocurrency projects do very well in signature campaigns if a user can tell right away it might add value to them, regardless of the price.

I never click any advertisement thus I had problem understanding fundamentals of any cryptocurrency if its worth it financing/supporting. since I began trading most of my trades are based on TA. still one question is not yet answered by this forum which is how to be good at fundamental analysis.

I look at some of the sigs if I think that the poster actually believes in the comment. Most signatures seem to be promoting products that I wouldn't touch with a barge pole, so I tend to ignore them all. This is probably unfair to the few decent promotions that may be advertised. I think it is time for the decent sponsors to make an effort to get the rubbish programmes banned. That would make an enormous difference to their credibility.

When I was still a newbie, I click on a lot of signature advertisements. However as time goes on, my click count become lesser and lesser.

Today, I noticed that I simply ignored the signature advertisement - banner blindness.

What about you?