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i see nothing wrong with signatures the way they are or people advertising with them
Topic: Signature Advertising is Getting Out Of Hand - page 2. (Read 3901 times)
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Signatures are a form of self-expression, a blackboard for doodles, ideas, opinions and free speech. If a user chooses to accept money to use that blackboard to draw penises and anti-Ripple propaganda, it just helps the rest of us get a better idea of the quality of their conversation and opinions, that's all. As BadBear said, the bright and obvious colors help me to skip over poor quality shilled comments easier.
If you don't like signature ads, just turn them off. People should be allowed to put what they want in the signatures as long as they're following forum rules.
Posting in this thread just to show off my colorful signature. 
Not a big fan of ads myself, but 0.25 BTC convinced me otherwise. 
Posting in this thread just to show off my colorful signature.
TROLOLOLOL. But anyways...In my opinion, selling yor signature isn't a bad thing;for some people (like me) it's the main source of Bitcoin. For many newbies too. If you don't like it, turn off signatures in the settings. 
Posting in this thread just to show off my colorful signature.
I agree with OP. I'm new to this forum so I haven't seen it before the signature ads, but I have never before seen a forum where signatures were allowed to have large fonts, freaky colors, background colors, and hyperlinks to obvious scams/pyramid schemes. What's next? 1999 style blinking GIF's and pop-up messages that take over control of your browser window?
We had people using blinking GIF's, they were obnoxious and are now all images are banned from signatures.
I prefer the different colors actually, makes it easier to skim over them.
Maybe make all signatures small font with no color backgrounds?
This. Please do. Nobody needs the full color spectrum of the rainbow or ridicously large fonts for a forum signature.
I think a poll is in order, to determine if people want to remove large, colored fonts, with hideous backgrounds in signatures.
This will benefit advertisers because if the signature are less annoying, people are less likely to turn of signatures, thereby increasing the amount people viewing your ad.
Everyone else will benefit because they can concentrate on the post and look at the ads when they want to.
This will benefit advertisers because if the signature are less annoying, people are less likely to turn of signatures, thereby increasing the amount people viewing your ad.
Everyone else will benefit because they can concentrate on the post and look at the ads when they want to.
I agree with OP. I'm new to this forum so I haven't seen it before the signature ads, but I have never before seen a forum where signatures were allowed to have large fonts, freaky colors, background colors, and hyperlinks to obvious scams/pyramid schemes. What's next? 1999 style blinking GIF's and pop-up messages that take over control of your browser window?
My opinion is signatures should be limited to size 8 font (at least a smaller size font than the posts themselves), and only be allowed in black font on a white or light blue background. Posts in the newbie forum (or anywhere else) offering a "bounty", "reward", "raffle", or "lottery" for using a particular signature should be deleted on sight.
My opinion is signatures should be limited to size 8 font (at least a smaller size font than the posts themselves), and only be allowed in black font on a white or light blue background. Posts in the newbie forum (or anywhere else) offering a "bounty", "reward", "raffle", or "lottery" for using a particular signature should be deleted on sight.
You can disable signatures in your settings.
ITT: ripple shill bitching about anti Ripple ads. Just wait and see what a blanket AdWords+CoinURL campaign looks like.
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If you do not like all the ads you can just turn off the signatures. It is much better now than a couple years ago, when people were allowed to have images in their signatures, and some people had massive signatures that took up a whole screen height. For the most part I just ignore signatures, but I am also one who has sold my signature space in the past.
Selling signature ads does not hurt anybody, it is a nice way for newbies to get a bit of bitcoin and get a feel for how it works. I myself doubt the effectiveness of signature ads, but I am not one to turn down earning money just for placing one line of code in my forum preferences.
@misterbigg: You targeting the anti-ripple ads in your post sends up red flags based on your very outspoken pro-ripple stance. It sounds like you are trying to silence your competition. That will not fly on this forum, where the admins have from the beginning been openly advocates of speech freedom. Even people who generally agree with you will turn against you if you start using dirty tactics.
Because not everyone that is trying to buy signature space has the same kind of reputation rating.
Doesn't hurt to have a more formal approach to it
Doesn't hurt to have a more formal approach to it
Why don't we need full upfront escrow for everything?
You are kinda out of touch when I bid ~50 BTC a week on forum ads and you think I'm going to run with 1 BTC of ads?
You are kinda out of touch when I bid ~50 BTC a week on forum ads and you think I'm going to run with 1 BTC of ads?
We will need full upfront payment to a escrow for raffle payment for advertising.
Raffles can be provably fair..
You can disable signatures in your settings.
ITT: ripple shill bitching about anti Ripple ads. Just wait and see what a blanket AdWords+CoinURL campaign looks like.
You can disable signatures in your settings.
ITT: ripple shill bitching about anti Ripple ads. Just wait and see what a blanket AdWords+CoinURL campaign looks like.
I think buying and selling of signature space is free market at play. Some of you who have been using using the Internet long enough would have seen signature such as "This space for rent" in the past.
However, I think offering raffle to get free advertisement is inappropriate. There is no way to ensure that the poster will honor the raffle or will he be rigging the raffle result, or he may cancel the raffle half way through the advertising period (such as claiming not sufficient participation) but still ripped the benefits of getting some newbies into advertising the site for free.
However, I think offering raffle to get free advertisement is inappropriate. There is no way to ensure that the poster will honor the raffle or will he be rigging the raffle result, or he may cancel the raffle half way through the advertising period (such as claiming not sufficient participation) but still ripped the benefits of getting some newbies into advertising the site for free.
I agree with the original sentiment behind this thread.
It cheapens the value of bitcointalk.org and makes me want to go to reddit or somewhere else to talk about bitcoin instead.
It cheapens the value of bitcointalk.org and makes me want to go to reddit or somewhere else to talk about bitcoin instead.
Typically, what Ponzi schemes, pump and dumps, and MLM all have in common is that they urge the listener to invest or buy something. I have never suggested that anyone buy anything, least of all gamble on XRP which I am very careful to point is extremely risky as an investment and for all the reasons that others have mentioned (not open source yet, OpenCoin has almost all of it). Therefore, I'm having difficulty understanding how you can equate anything that I wrote with a dishonest scheme.
It's been stated numerous times that the Ripple system is not just the built in currency but that is a fact that gets overlooked. I've also been accused of being a paid shill, etc... although one has to wonder when people are receiving the chance of winning money in exchange for putting ads in their signature, who is really the shill?
So anyone with a desire to provide knowledge and clarity on anything which is not Bitcoin should be viewed with suspicion? I'm not seeing the logic there.
I do not know how to do the embedded quotes like you do, so I will just answer each of the above.It's been stated numerous times that the Ripple system is not just the built in currency but that is a fact that gets overlooked. I've also been accused of being a paid shill, etc... although one has to wonder when people are receiving the chance of winning money in exchange for putting ads in their signature, who is really the shill?
So anyone with a desire to provide knowledge and clarity on anything which is not Bitcoin should be viewed with suspicion? I'm not seeing the logic there.
1. my opinion is that there is investment going on by creating an insanely high value to a company by setting "exchange prices" and then getting more and more people to start trading it. Looks VERY similar to a pump and dump to me. No one in there right mind would value a piece of flawed software at $200MM.
2. I have not called you a shill but I am suspicious of your intentions (that is called honesty). People who put ads in their signatures are not shills as they are explicitly telling you why they do it. Shill came from vegas, and there is a nevada law that anyone at any table can ask and the casino must identify.... Not a bad law is it?
3. I think anyone on the any Bitcoin forum should be viewed with suspicion when their advice could cost you money or provide wealth to others. I think that have been proven many times in the last three years and I think you to pretend that you are shocked by this is disingenuous.
ads in sigs make me gag... they do not make me want to click that's for sure.
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