Topic: The no ad-sigs posters allowed topic - come and not be annoyed by rubbish posts (Read 5020 times)

I haven't stopped laughing yet, which is why I responded in turn with even more hilarity

I was aware that you were kidding.  Apparently you missed the humor in my response.


That's how conversations work.  People post responses to the things that other people post.


You're welcome.


I agree.

Well I was actually kidding, but don't let that stop you from being a humourless bastard. 

And since 3 of your last 4 posts were directed at me, I'd like to thank you for all the attention.  It makes me feel like a valued member of the community.  I think we all have a lot in common, and it's a beautiful thing when we can get together like this and be ourselves.

Hi CIYAM, I've seen several of your posts around the forum, and I'm excited about AT.  Also, I have always been impressed by your stylish sweater.

But doesn't your signature have an ad for CIYAM in it?

Everything is getting worse. I have given up and am automatically adding everyone with a paid signature campaign to my ignore list.

I hope it's okay if I join this thread. I have been a paid signature whore in the past, but I dropped it this month because I could no longer justify to be part of a group of users that spam borderline on-topic crap everywhere and that have shitloads of accounts. Yes, I do have a signature for Blocktrail, but it's not paid and I only have it to support a buddy of mine (Tjopper).

maybe you'll find this interesting: http://www.vox.com/2014/7/6/5874499/map-heres-how-much-every-country-spends-on-food.
indeed: europe does not spend much of their income in food (i do btw... but i am crazy )

I have to agree with your intent on creating this thread, when I first started reading this forum I just assumed people were trying to market new websites and technologies they were creating by having a website in their signature. After sometime on the forum you start to learn that the majority of the signatures linked to Ponzi/Gambling/pay per post and were not really users trying to "share" their technology.

For along while I had a Bitcoin news and price aggregation website I made one weekend in my signature. I decided to remove this link to my website after reading a similar thread you made on the Meta forum. Not because my website was a Ponzi or pay per post scheme, but because I wouldn't want anyone to think that's what was created as in the end. I actually noticed a few days ago I posted a thread about some new technology, a few people chimed in and essentially left no content/discussion. Perhaps they legitimately did-int understand the concept and wanted me to elaborate but their posts just seemed contrived.

I think theymos, and the other admins should strongly consider doing what was done with avatars. Save signatures as legacy for existing users and Add the option to remove signature. Remove the ability for anyone to add/edit signatures, and one day this issue will lessen/go away.

OK, thanks for the clarification. I believe your observation must be specific to Germany or maybe broader to the Western Europe.

In some Asian communities (both in Asia itself and expatriates in other continents) there is an opposite correlation: poor people tend to spend inordinate amount of time and energy&fuel to elaborately cook their ethnic food, to the detriment of their children who are drafted to help. On the other hand reasonably well-off people tend to use quick-food or self-bagged cold lunches to be able to effectively participate in economy and education.

the poor people i spoke of dont have enough money and suffer mentally illnesses so they are not able to cook or buy food to cook - its just something i do to help.

in germany anybody can have enough money to get internet, tv, an apartment and something to eat - but some people (which are considered mentally ill by society) are not able to get it or use it the right way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8mKMtEg7M from 2:07

Can you elaborate? Lots of warm food is poor or rich? I can't understand.

I'm still tempted to start creating threads that are all self moderated per topic from here on out, the thing that is keeping me from doing so is the time involved in watching those threads and the fact that it may scare users off from appearing that it was full of censorship because that is the reaction I have when I see a self moderated topic.


somewhat of a shame the new forum software isn't going to include any of the solutions slashdot has for decentrally moderating a topic --

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bHlm4NQkSzaBTT5tLIqQBmV92wSsbdOX5r-dRR9Dgg0/edit

And this might be end up being the reason why people end up moving from this forum to find a better place to post (I know I am getting tired of having to monitor my topics like a hawk and constantly just unwatch topics due to the drift towards pointless postings).

http://slashdot.org is a tech forum with a decent solution of rating/classifying the quality of posts and earning "karma" for contributions of value and sorting through the garbage .

Reading a thread with a 3 and above rating usually is fairly enjoyable.

If only we did see decent posts from the ad-siggers then there would be no need for this topic at all.

It is a pity the ad-sig sponsors don't realise what they have done - now as soon as I see any post with a bright shiny "ad sig" I just ignore it without even reading it (as I know that at least 90% of the time it is going to be just a crap post).

So any chance of me ever paying attention to one single post has now gone (and in fact now I delete any ad-sig post in my self-moderated topics as a protest - if they actually have anything reasonable to say then they should create a new account and post it using that instead).

So to those ad-siggers who complain I won't let you post - you can - just create a new account without your ad-sig (oh yes I forgot that is the whole reason you post didn't I).

china is way poorer than germany i guess.
its funny and sad at the same time... but: to change that anybody needs to do a little. but now we are really off topic

i'll leave this to be on topic again:

I have seen people here that use "makeup and clothing" to pretend they are 60+ years old (when they are only maybe 30) in order to "beg".

You only find out if a security person spots them and chases them - suddenly you see a supposedly 60+ old woman (who was trembling in front of you looking very unsteady on her feet) run faster than a 30yo man!

(seriously - I have seen that)

The real *country-side* Chinese would despise such people as honesty is actually a very important trait for them.

i prefer the amount of warm food as an indicator for poorness - luckily i am a good cook
i never saw people behaving like here in reallife (this includes myself btw - sometimes the horses are going through with me (german saying - not really translateable for my sucky english skills))