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legendary
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March 11, 2015, 09:43:49 AM
#96
I'm pushing for a way to easily disable signature advertising on a per user basis, it would be a setting in your profile you could set yourself. Either filter them by keywords or regex, disable special characters and formatting to make signatures less obnoxious, or something similar.

That would be good! It would also help people using mobile data to disable specific ads.

If one can disable forum ads, one should be able to disable sig ads as well. Since signature ads are so much more prolific it only makes sense. Shouldn't have to disable signatures entirely just because because of ads, users should have the choice.

A similar option is available here:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=profile;sa=theme but we can't disable specific ads, right?

Signature advertising would still be possible, just less effective, and would cut down on the spam without so many users needing to be moderated/banned.

Agree.

It would also mean sig campaigns would need to be much more responsible. If your campaign has lots of spammers in it that you are not controlling, then people are going to block your ads. If your ad is obnoxious, people will block it.

That would be more effective! Is it in the future feature list?

   -MZ

Yes, currently you can only disable signatures entirely, which is undesirable. Signatures can contain valuable information. Mine contains my PGP key for example, though I should probably add it to my profile now that I think about it.

It is not in the feature list, though it shouldn't be difficult to add, either as a feature or by theymos later.
hero member
Activity: 560
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March 11, 2015, 09:39:46 AM
#95
I'm pushing for a way to easily disable signature advertising on a per user basis, it would be a setting in your profile you could set yourself. Either filter them by keywords or regex, disable special characters and formatting to make signatures less obnoxious, or something similar.

That would be good! It would also help people using mobile data to disable specific ads.

If one can disable forum ads, one should be able to disable sig ads as well. Since signature ads are so much more prolific it only makes sense. Shouldn't have to disable signatures entirely just because because of ads, users should have the choice.

A similar option is available here:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=profile;sa=theme but we can't disable specific ads, right?

Signature advertising would still be possible, just less effective, and would cut down on the spam without so many users needing to be moderated/banned.

Agree.

It would also mean sig campaigns would need to be much more responsible. If your campaign has lots of spammers in it that you are not controlling, then people are going to block your ads. If your ad is obnoxious, people will block it.

That would be more effective! Is it in the future feature list?

   -MZ
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March 11, 2015, 09:39:21 AM
#94
I'm pushing for a way to easily disable signature advertising on a per user basis, it would be a setting in your profile you could set yourself. Either filter them by keywords or regex, disable special characters and formatting to make signatures less obnoxious, or something similar.

If one can disable forum ads, one should be able to disable sig ads as well. Since signature ads are so much more prolific it only makes sense. Shouldn't have to disable signatures entirely just because because of ads, users should have the choice. Signature advertising would still be possible, just less effective, and would cut down on the spam without so many users needing to be moderated.

It would also mean sig campaigns would need to be much more responsible. If your campaign has lots of spammers in it that you are not controlling, then people are going to block your ads.

Sounds like a great idea and compromise. It has my support. How about an 'ignore this user's signature' button in a similar way you can ignore users? Or maybe certain staff or admins could have the choice of disabling certain user's signatures as punishment instead of a ban. The option to either disable them for a short period of a week or something or for three-time offenders disabling them forever (or something extreme like several months even up to a year) may be a greater deterrent.
legendary
Activity: 1652
Merit: 1128
March 11, 2015, 09:23:14 AM
#93
I'm pushing for a way to easily disable signature advertising on a per user basis, it would be a setting in your profile you could set yourself. Either filter them by keywords or regex, disable special characters and formatting to make signatures less obnoxious, or something similar.

If one can disable forum ads, one should be able to disable sig ads as well. Since signature ads are so much more prolific it only makes sense. Shouldn't have to disable signatures entirely just because because of ads, users should have the choice. Signature advertising would still be possible, just less effective, and would cut down on the spam without so many users needing to be moderated/banned.

It would also mean sig campaigns would need to be much more responsible. If your campaign has lots of spammers in it that you are not controlling, then people are going to block your ads. If your ad is obnoxious, people will block it.

Edit: I've made a thread to discuss possible signature changes here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/signature-changes-985516
legendary
Activity: 2898
Merit: 1017
March 11, 2015, 09:18:47 AM
#92
Will the new forum have signature campaigns?

Yes it will, I am sure.
provably. There is a very large economy and advertisement opportunities created by signature campaigns. First it creates spending money for people who don't own lots of bitcoins, and it creates lots of advertising.

There are many sides to how that kind of advertisement affects the forum, for good and for worse.  It will sure be interesting to see how things turns out with the new forum.
hero member
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March 11, 2015, 09:18:07 AM
#91
Alpha by June 2015 -_- At what point do we unretire soonTM?

Be positive! Smiley Theymos said that there was some problems. It may have caused the delay. We don't want to be impatient! Slow and steady is good for this project! Smiley

   -MZ
sr. member
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March 11, 2015, 09:13:07 AM
#90
Will the new forum have signature campaigns?

Yes it will, I am sure.
provably. There is a very large economy and advertisement opportunities created by signature campaigns. First it creates spending money for people who don't own lots of bitcoins, and it creates lots of advertising.
hero member
Activity: 742
Merit: 500
March 11, 2015, 09:05:54 AM
#89
Will the new forum have signature campaigns?

Yes it will, I am sure.
legendary
Activity: 1666
Merit: 1185
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March 11, 2015, 08:56:48 AM
#88
Any idea how much longer it will take to complete?

Repaeting: Slickage told that they are at the end. So I think we can see a alpha/beta/stable release by 1-3 months.

   -MZ

Alpha by June 2015 -_- At what point do we unretire soonTM?
sr. member
Activity: 364
Merit: 250
March 11, 2015, 08:43:47 AM
#87
Will the new forum have signature campaigns?
legendary
Activity: 2898
Merit: 1017
March 11, 2015, 08:42:29 AM
#86
And that would be the end for our sig campaigns! sell your hero member now !!  Cheesy
hero member
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March 11, 2015, 08:30:52 AM
#85
What will happen to this one?  Will the new one run on this domain ?  Sad

I think yes. There maybe downtime when it is released for adding the software and for migrating all data. Else, there maybe server migrating but obviously, not domain.

   -MZ
legendary
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March 11, 2015, 08:24:13 AM
#84
What will happen to this one?  Will the new one run on this domain ?  Sad
legendary
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March 11, 2015, 08:09:11 AM
#83
Any idea how much longer it will take to complete?

Repaeting: Slickage told that they are at the end. So I think we can see a alpha/beta/stable release by 1-3 months.

   -MZ

Thanks
hero member
Activity: 560
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March 11, 2015, 08:01:53 AM
#82
Any idea how much longer it will take to complete?

Repaeting: Slickage told that they are at the end. So I think we can see a alpha/beta/stable release by 1-3 months.

   -MZ
legendary
Activity: 2156
Merit: 1393
You lead and I'll watch you walk away.
March 11, 2015, 07:50:07 AM
#81
Any idea how much longer it will take to complete?
legendary
Activity: 1652
Merit: 1128
March 11, 2015, 06:28:43 AM
#80
Can't watch a thread without posting in it, can't unwatch a thread without deleting your post (which doesn't always work). (fixed by theymos)

Oh, I'm in another SMF forum where exactly this is an issue. Might one get their hands on this fix, somehow, please? Smiley
To be exact, we are wondering if there's a way to stop seeing a thread in "unreadreplies", like when someone posts in a thread which proceeds to degenerate into unending spam and trolling and keeps showing up although you don't want to see it anymore. If this is something else, never mind.

No, that's exactly it. Show new replies to your posts is kind of useless because you have to post in a thread to make it show up there, and a lot of people are lurkers and don't have anything to say, they just want to be kept up to date on specific threads without going to a dozen different boards to find them. And then once it's there, there is no way to remove it. IIRC some people reported success by deleting their posts in that thread, but some didn't, but with how large some threads are it can be hard to find all your posts.

Theymos made the watchlist himself, mostly to get around this specific issue, it was causing lots of nonsense posts (I remember one particular user posted "hmm..." in every thread he was interested in). It has all the features of show new replies, also the watch and unwatch button, and watch boards.

Theymos handles the technical side though, I'm no coder or anything, computers are just a hobby at best for me. I don't know if what he did will work on new versions of SMF. You'll have to talk to him about that.
legendary
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Merit: 1348
March 11, 2015, 05:06:02 AM
#79
Templates are easily changeable. Anyway I disagree. From my experience with HackForums I definitely prefer this.
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legendary
Activity: 1582
Merit: 1010
March 11, 2015, 01:52:17 AM
#78
Can't wait for the new forum.

Hope it has a good BG and template like HackForums...

That forum was never good...  Huh
sr. member
Activity: 420
Merit: 250
March 11, 2015, 01:39:25 AM
#77
Can't wait for the new forum.

Hope it has a good BG and template like HackForums...
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