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This list is my personal expansion from AGD's ignore list extreme (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1652334.0). I feel all signature advertisement campaigns, and their respective users, are detrimental to the integrity board no matter the quality of the post above it. There are no exceptions to this list; from "Brand New" to "Administrator" users, it all applies. All users that I find with paid advertisment signatures will end up on this list. If you feel the same, feel free to use it. If not, move on.

I also feel that this is only needed on www.bitcointalk.org. I have several accounts across the web where large and even more obnoxious signatures aren't minded by me at all. Why? Because they are not intentionally degrading to the board. I can't say for certain all these listed users have low quality posts and topics, but as a whole they're near worthless.

This thread will remain un-moderated and unlocked. Feel free to share your criticism or ideas here and we can politely discuss your concerns. This thread is not intended to rattle cages or upset anyone, but I'm sure it will regardless. And as such, I will not respond to simple minded hissy-fits.

If you want to be removed from this list, PM me without a paid advertisement in your signature.


Updated 3-17-17 with 4386 users:

I will update this list as needed.

ALTERNATIVE SCRIPT BASED METHOD:

Please visit this thread: Signature Adblock Script [0.5.0] (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1003570.0)

Follow Grue's instructions on the installation BUT you must change "div .signature" to "div. windowbg2" (thanks to Holdaaja (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=174973)). If you do not change this, then you will be subjected to all the forum posts of these users that causing massive forum degradation, just without seeing their signatures.

Note: This may unintentionally block users with bulky personal signatures as the script uses a scoring system to determine which user to remove. With that, it will also leave the signatures of mass advertisements that are not bulky (such as the lower tier ones without heavy formatting). This might not be the "best" idea, but it's quick and "mostly" effective.

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FAQ

Q: Do you not care about high quality users that have paid advertisements in their signatures?
A: A good example of my thought process is in the large paragraph of this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1706244.msg17638051#msg17638051) reply in this thread.

Q: What about your signature? Is that not an advertisement?
A: Yes, my signature is an advertisement for my business. I am the only user on this forum with this signature, thus it is not mass paid signature advertising as this thread was created to campaign against.

Q: Why don't you block all signatures and move along?
A: Because I care about the problem these signatures are causing, not the signatures.

Q: I'm on the list but I don't have a paid advertisement in my signature. What gives?
A: My list is a hybrid of another users list. There may be several users on the list who might not need to be there. PM me if you do not have a paid advertisement in your signature.

Bad idea (generalization fallacy). You will miss out on posts from various groups, e.g. some staff members (e.g. hilarious, me, sometimes mprep), some excellent posters (e.g. Shorena) and even people contributing to Bitcoin Core (e.g. Achow).

I guess there is no point posting when OP uses his blockade.
But this pretty much sums it all. Lots of useful info is spread by sig posters.
Maybe OP is early adopter with trillions in his wallet, who knows, I dont care, thus that kind of add-on is good for the guy, but if someone is still collecting coins on a small scale than this thing will only bring harm.
Personally I like signatures, they are pretty  ::), light weight most in a really good taste and quality that is nowhere to be found, only here.
One of the best tutorials are made by sig-posters, lots of giveaways, I think the forum will look like a ghost board with this thing enabled. I wonder what is the impact on browsers performance? Looks like a big filter.

@Lauda: He won't even see this post since your on his ignore list. lol

@OP: Since I am still not on your ignore list I would like to mention a few things before I too end up there. lol

1. Lauda has a very good point about making exceptions to your list.
2. You are already missing a good amount of quality posts due to your ignore setting.
3. What's the point of being on this forum if your missing quality deals, quality posts, staff posts and posts from people who are actively contributing to Bitcoin Core?

I hope you understand what I am saying instead of adding me to your list too.

It seems like you made one exception: yourself! Big words from someone who's advertising his firearms business in his own signature.
Let me have a look at your post history:

I did not cut anything here, you really only quoted one word without adding anything!






And when someone asks you to explain your one-liner, you don't bother to come back to the topic:

I can only conclude you are a sigspammer yourself. If you think I'm spamming, my campaign manager (who's also on your list :D ) has a small reward for you if you report me.

I think it's a great idea. The guy doesn't want to read stuff from paid signature-wearing monkeys so let him do whatever he wants.
Wait I will just add everyone to my ignore list and pretend to own this fucking place and talk to myself all the time because my e-peen is so big I don't want to listen to some Internet plebs ;D

Dude who cares?

I'll un-ignore people who post here momentarily for sake of sharing ideas and criticism.


A generalization fallacy only occurs when I am basing a judgement off few examples or instances. Even you would agree that this is not the case. Unfortunately, yes, I will have to miss out. Furthermore, I did look into Achow's signature, I do not accept it with the ad-campaign as this is the root of the problem.


I would say performance would be increased being as some pages are perhaps less than half the size, even so it's negligible as this is not the point. Furthermore if you say "Lots of useful info is spread by sig posters", I'm interested in knowing what word, rather than "lots", you would use to describe the remaining material that isn't useful. Perhaps enormous, vast, colossal, gigantic, mammoth, prodigious or stupendous maybe?


I do understand what you're saying, and I should point out that I have no personal problems with anyone on the list, or who uses paid signatures. I feel as if the board is being deprived of sustenance when, as pointed out in other boards, 95% of the board is paid signatures repeating what's already been said into 250 pages (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=976903.msg14052868#msg14052868) of absolute redundancy (one of many many many examples). It's a large pill to swallow, but I do understand.


Feel free to add me to your ignore list. I do, and will, carry my own legitimate business branding. I can say that there is only one person on this forum who has a signature with my business in it. Let me know if there are others, I'll thank them in a PM.

I cannot say that every post I make or have made is extremely valuable, I have not claimed to have done such. I should note that I have tried my best to not included people who have their own business (like mine) or actual personal signature. It is unfortunate that you do not recognize the difference or understand the problem, I cannot help you.

Here's an open challenge:

Link me to a recent open discussion (not in the market) that has over 20 pages of replies where more than 25% of those replies DO NOT have a paid signature advertisement. Enable my list for a moment and give it a try. Note, I do not have everyone ignored that needs to be ignored so you may have to substitute and add your own.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=1.0;sort=replies;desc Go wild.

Whether or not there is a thread like this exists, you will quickly understand.

It's funny how your personal message is a blatant advertisement for some website but you didn't include yourself in that list.  ??? ??? ??? If you don't want to see signature advertisements, just disable signatures. I haven't seen a signature in months.  :D :D :D

How do you do that?
Visit 3,332 profile pages every seven days to ensure that no-one has stopped using a sig?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1706244.msg17098645#msg17098645 < Read the last note at my reply.


I update it by adding more. Rarely will anyone be removed from the list. Users can follow instructions in the first post to be removed.

 :D
I'm trying to work out what tone of voice that last sentence should be read in.

I'm still trying to figure out what tone of voice all of this guys posts in this thread should be read in. I can't tell if he is smug or angry or something else.  ???

I see people keep creating lists which are basically copies of the very poor ignore list created by DannyHamilton where signature spammers, helpful users with paid signatures, helpful users without signatures, spammers without signatures and random users were added alike.

You may want to add users yourself or at least check the list before blindly using it. Otherwise you'll lose some useful content.

Full disclosure: I'm on those lists and that's the reason why I checked it and know for sure it's very poor. Feel free to check my posts and signature and tell me whether you agree with me.

I don't know if I can find a thread where more than 25% of the posts are from users without a paid signature but I can surely find a handful of threads that are over 20 pages long and more than 25%-50% of the posts are constructive.

I support this idea, this list and I also like your business. Too bad I am living in a weapon unfriendly environment.  :-\

You along with gadman2 will be blocking the entire forum members and i can understand your feelings :) Be the king of the forum you can watch you own posts and threads .JAJAJA :D

"Biggus dickus"?  Lol, never heard of that guy.  In fact, I haven't heard of most of them.  And the users I do know, I wouldn't want on ignore or already have on ignore.  So like DH's list this one is useless to me.

That cracks me up,Biggus Dickus.It's surprising how most of the accounts in that list are not even active anymore or signature spamming temporarily.The one's flooding the spam are missed out.
Btw : In your next update,please don't be lazy enough to put that list in a sorted order.Would have been much easier to find my name.

If your goal is to ignore sig spammers (and wish to give zero allowances for helpful users with a paid signature -- which you probably should give) then you might be able to modify this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1003570.0) script to hide all posts from users with an annoying signature.

Have you read gadman2's old posts? These are consecutive ones that look more like spam than most of the posts by signature campaigners. They don't contribute anything to discussions. Over half of them are posted in other people's trading threads, and are links to his thread selling bitcoins for paypal.

I just read through the first page of biggus dickus's posts, and they're not really that bad.  Funny name, yes, but his posts aren't nearly as spammy as you'd think.  This list is overbroad.

It would be great to know if you have the objection with the advertisements as a whole, signature advertisements or those low quality irritating multi-colour advertisements.

If you choose the first option, you should not forget that you are getting content for free, so advertisements with content are a part of the deal. If you are blocking advertisements, then you are breaching the terms.

If you choose the second option, then the case is same. Since I am a blogger I love to produce content and to produce more and more quality content, signature campaign plays a role of reward, and it also keeps the forum active.

If you choose the third option, I agree with you.

If you read the post,the list is not about being a good poster or not.As long as you have a signature in your profile,you will be on that list.You can be a absolute spammer,just don't do it with a signature ,I'm sure OP will remove you from it.
 *How to be cool on bitcointalk,Episode 1.

Oh I get it, totally.  I guess I was pointing toward the overgeneralization of the list.  In other words, as has been pointed out before,  not everyone with a signature for rent writes crappy posts.

I'm not sure why you were on the list. It may have been from the previous list I extended where the previous author noticed a like signature or believed your posts to be not useful. Regardless I removed you from my list. I'll edit the list when I get on a pc.

Maybe I'll make a day of it at some point a day re-write the list from scratch.

Maybe I'll write a script to just search for similar signatures and automatically ignore them. That will be for another day.

Has anyone found a thread to my open challenge yet?

You mean this challenge?


Have a look at the last twenty pages of this thread and you will find less than half the replies have a paid signature. The thread's in speculation, not the market.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.321980

Ignoring sig spammers is a good idea but ignoring everyone who is participating in a signature campaign is an extreme solution,OP should ignore only the members who are in the SMAS list (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1545652.0) IMO.
Anyway, I hope he realizes that with this desicion he is hurting his own business.

My thread is set to email me when a reply has been  made. As said a few times before there is no grudge against anyone in particular. It is very easy for me to unignore someone and converse as I have done with you.

where you got that list of people dude  ;D ;D ;D i have 3 account but your missed me on your list

RIP legendary

A mod moved the thread here thinking a discussion about the forum doesn't belong in the board for discussions about the board.

I know this thread will rattle some cages across the board. It wasn't intended to do so, but it was inevitable. I've replied to any reasonable criticism appropriately thus far and will continue to do so.

I won't let the off topic section drown the thread. There are quite literally 5 times the amount of users in this board so I will seize that opportunity and increase my aggressiveness in this personal campaign. I'll continue to add about 50 or more users per day and have set this thread to a daily scripted autobump.

Its now in the same subboard the other lists are. This is also your personal list, not the forum or its state you want to discuss here. The forum and the state its in might be the reason you created that list. If that was the topic you wanted to talk about a different topic and thread might be in order.


Good luck.

Thread should be moved to META, where it belongs and sig campaigns should be stopped.

Please add yourself to the list. It is only fair since you are using your signature to advertise. You should be on the list.  :D

Please take note of what was said in a earlier post on this thread:


There is a very large difference between massively advertised signature campaigns (what this thread is all about) and mine -- a one of a kind signature of my own personal federally licensed and state taxed business. The bold part of the above quote is still true, if you cannot tell the difference then I cannot help you. Feel free to add me to your list if you see the need.

Since I feel your posts about the matter falls into the "simple minded hissy-fit" category, you will be ignored as well on a more personal basis. I probably won't take the time to remove you from the list on the next update.  Sorry.

You are the one who is having a hissy fit over people advertising in their signature. It doesn't matter if they are advertising their own service or someone elses. Just because you pay US tax doesn't make your business superior. And no I won't add you to my list of ignored users. I don't have a list. I don't censor people because of their signature and I don't block people with opinions I don't agree with.

On a personal note, i wish to add that it's a free forum (AFAIK), and you're certainly not breaking any laws by ignoring people. I respect your choice, and i even agree that at least 50% of the posts made by most signature campaign's members are spam or posts-for-money in some form.

However, i do feel that by adding so many members in your ignore list, you might end up littering the forum allmost as much as the signature-wearers you despise so much (for example: me  ;D).

In several occasions, i've seen senior/legendary members giving the same answer as was given only a couple posts earlyer. I often wondered if these individuals didn't take the time to read all responses before they replied to the thread, untill i noticed they were wearing a sig similar to yours: a cig to promote their own ignore list. So it became obvious: these users just ignored members that were giving fine answers, so they didn't realise the correct answer was already given, and they just "spammed" (for a lack of a better word) the original thread.

TBH, i haven't saved any of those post id's, nor am i in the mood to look them up...

Since it seems most of these lists are just made to one-up the previous person who posted his list, i've written a small python script that'll help you to create the master of all lists*:


* disclaimer: python script was written to make a point, and should NOT be executed by ANYONE... Executing this script will end up putting a big load on the forum and won't result in anything even remotely usefull!!!

To conclude: you're free to ignore whoever you want, but personally, i don't think it's a solution.

Piece out :)

It amazes me how many people keep saying that gadman2 needs to add himself to the list because of his signature. I find it extremely obvious the difference between his signature and the signature campaigns he is complaining about. His is his own signature advertising his own business, he is complaining about people having an advertisement in their signature that is paid for by someone else, such as mine. If the person/business that I am advertising for had the same advertisement in their signature and no one else had it he would be ok with that.

I understand his concern, which is that same of many users. People that post nonsense just to increase their post count for the signature campaigns that pay based on the number of posts.

While reading through this thread I kept thinking about what other people were alluding to and I think mocacinno summed it up right here:


And I also agree with 0xfff, I don't use ignore.


I try not to post nonsense, but go ahead and add me to your list because I am paid for my signature and because of this my opinions, statements and knowledge are not adequate. Also keep in mind, if I had been on your ignore list you would not have known to buy that Nest thermostat from me.

I don't know, I did not go through the list and look at it. Based on the following quoted comment he is also adding people to the list for personal reasons, so maybe Rollin.io made it there that way.


But more likely he added Rollin.io because they have the same advertisement that they are paying other people to use. Or simply because they are paying people for signatures.

Spam is against the rules, no matter the rank or personal ignore list. Probably best to report these users same as other spammers.

Does the Ignore list support the search via ''Ctrl+F"?

We have NEVER had a paid signature campaign. Every link in our signature is to a site in our network. Please remove from list.

You have been removed. I'll get it in the next update. Thanks for making me aware. I'm sure there are more examples like this on the list.

@ the previous replies, I just woke up and have to go to work. There are several good points and I'll address your concerns shortly.

Thanks for quick response  :)

My personal opinion is that overall the Signature Campaigns help boost the Bitcoin economy. You have many people who are new to Bitcoin that might not have many skills to earn BTC online, and Signature campaigns is a good way to start. Of course, I agree that low-quality posting can be annoying, but that is an issue on any Forum especially with Ranks. Cutting signature campaigns won't solve the low quality posting problem, only deleting posts/banning will do the trick there.

That's for keeping the list updated. It makes the forums so much better  ::) ::)
No really your list helps a ton  ::)
I mean it   :D

Any removals or just additions?
I'll read it later, after prayers.

wow so many ignore list

I have no paid signature, just my own blog but feel free to do as you please, I too have people on ignore, but not for sig spamming.
Only for personal reasons like verbal abuse to me.

In certain way I agree with your attitude. Myself participated in few sig. campaigns but have to end it because I'm not talkative enough to fulfill the campaign requirements and had to make some not fully relevant posts so I know what you are talking about.
But I'm pretty sure there is lot of users who deserves the rewards because they make relevant post in much higher counts than what is required from them. Just be aware the simple generalization is not always fair.

IMO The vast amount of guilt rest on shoulders of campaign operators because they require min. amount of posts thus forcing users to make useless comments, threads etc. In this I fully agree with you.
But for what is the signature space for if not for promoting my favorite sites, services etc?

Currently my signature contains reflinks to my favorite services (  which in certain way is also kind of paid signature ) but I won't beg you to remove me from your list.
Because to be honest: I don't care .. list whoever you want. I would care if you would personally check every single listed user and point out his misconduct. 

P.S How about activity hunters? To me they cause very same harm to forum quality. What about making list of everybody who create new post ( in general )?

There is quite a few high ranking trusted members in your list.  :o

I'd confidently say that as a newer user utilizing this list you would most likely have a higher chance of getting scammed since you are ignoring trusted members of the community and allowing brand new accounts to have prime real estate in discussions.

Hello gadman have you ever tried this solution

Your> "Profile, "Look and Layout Preferences" >>> "Don't show users' signatures."

Probably only a handful knows this list and no one cares about it too.

Don't confuse people here with common sense.. the OP's left eye is twitching by now i bet.
Guess what ?
You are on his ignore list now  :D

Can you take my name off?
I haven't been in any signature campaigns for last 4 months now.

Why block people on forum? I don't think there is anything wrong with getting some bitcoin while you are posting here as long as it doesn't turn into a mindless spam, then I can understand, but if someone is in signature campaign and would be posting here either way regardless of signature campaigns, then he might actually be a decent user here and would not spam.

That's not the idea behind these ignore lists. Granted, part of the problem may be solved by removing the signatures themselves however the huge amounts of spam and shit posting that comes along with it is still there, even with signatures turned off.

The problem is that a large number of people posting with paid signatures produce nothing but mindless spam.

OP has shown in his first reply to this thread that he isn't interested in unblocking anyone with a paid signature as they are endorsing the root of the problem. While I do not agree with him at all, and I believe he is severely missing out by blocking people such as staff members and high quality posters, I can understand his stance.

I haven't used a paid sig in a long time but you can keep me on your list for all I care..

I do not completely disagree with your position but think these are quite extreme measures.. 

Hey gadman2 did you ever try out Grue's SIG blocking script for browsers ?
I have been using it on Firefox and it works VERY well !  :)

No it is not... Your post is last edited December 30th.

Stop spamming this same massage here every day.
I have now checked new posts in this thread like ten times lately and every time only "new" post here is your useless repost of "the list has been updated" when in reality it has not been updated at all for last 14 days.

And you are complaining about other users low quality posts lol ::)

Interestingly enough I saw his firearms thread a couple months ago and was going to contact him in the future.  Last month when I noticed this thread I realized I don't think I have the ability to contact him via PM since I'm on his ignore list and took a trip to the local store instead.  I'm not saying he doesn't have the right to choose to alienate certain groups of individuals, but I don't think it's a smart business decision.

It would be wise for him to focus his time & effort on fixing/creating his website as I'm not quite sure why he keeps bumping this thread with no edits/changes as holdaaja pointed out above.  He should focus on his website because the #1 item in his HOW TO ORDER is instructing to email him at his active website address.


That's ridiculous he's requiring someone to send their signed and valid FFL to a non-existent website with no support/information whatsoever.  Give a gmail address or something if the website isn't functional, anyone can purchase a domain with no technical experience and choose Admin@domainname for their email address.

His site is listed right under his image, he should care as I'd expect a prospective buyer would visit the site before starting the firearms process with him.

https://i.imgur.com/7a1F2vWh.png (http://imgur.com/7a1F2vW)

You have been removed from the list.

Do you think its strange.

How some people put all their effort and energy into programs designed to censor or block people?

 :)

Well ? Have you heard of it ? Tried it ?
It is made by a mod here eh.. "GRUE"

The list has been updated.

I love how I am in the list when I actually have a Ledger Wallet sig that I only get paid for if someone clicks and buys it :) Not useless sig spam XD

I just read some older posts in this thread and found this, he is using script to post that same inaccurate message here everyday.
Complaining about paid signature posters while he himself is spamming so much he doesn't even have time to do it manually xD

Well, he does say in his first post that any users with (pay per post) sigs are bad "no matter the quality of the post above it.", maybe he also thinks that if you have no sig or paid per click sig (like he has) your posts automatically are high quality posts "no matter the quality of the post above it." ;D

Thanks for this!

Gaudy is accurate when it comes to most paid sigs here!

I met so many people with signatures i don't want to miss something interesting

Add me to your ignore list if you feel my posts or this thread has the same effect as the mass of paid signature users. Since this topics level of understanding is well above yours, that's the only recommendation I have for you.

Nah, I have never got that butthurt of anyone's posts here that I would have needed to ignore them.
Thanks for the recommendation though, but isn't it already quite obvious I am not interested using ignore list since I am criticizing your ignore list?

Since your criticism has very little constructive advice and more so taunts of childish-typical internet flares (eg: "butthurt" and your other condescending pots here), I choose not to discuss any of your irrelevant concerns and only my above offer is, again, your best option.

I try not to get into these arguments with your average Internet user and it still surprises me when I see myself begin to write responses like this one. I wrote this one in attempts that other users with similar posts to yours on this thread will notice it as well. Likewise, our conversation is over on my end. Continue if you must.

Edit. You do have a valid concern about the script posting that the thread is updated when indeed it hasn't. I'll adjust the message as soon as I can.

Good to see that you were able to understand my point about the script and admit that you were wrong. :-* (tomorrow it will probably just post "bump" but whatever, lol)

And only reason why I am using words like "butthurt" is that you also write in quite condescending ways in your posts (eg: "simple minded hissy-fits" or "this topics level of understanding is well above yours")

Or is it childish only because my "taunts of childish-typical internet flares" are not extended to 3-4 words or more like yours are? Well, you do have a valid concern there next time I will say "An inappropriately strong negative emotional response from a perceived personal insult" instead of simply saying "butthurt", will that be up to your scolding standards?

Looks like you've added 99% of the forum including the moderators and now want people to PM you to be taken off the list? Why would someone do it? You did not care about their opinion and put them on ignore without thinking if their posts were on topic and now you think they will come asking to be taken off? What a buffoon.

The 3800 ignored users are ~ 0.4% of the user base at the time of me writing this.

I only want users to PM me if they've removed their paid signature, which they can PM me. Ignored users can PM the users who have them ignored.

True, I have attempted to blocked anyone with a paid signature without considering their topics or quality of post. But, as said before in this thread many times, this campaign of mine [or a few] is about how the overall quality of posts among the forum has reached such as massive level of degradation due to paid signature advertising. Of course there are many examples of quality posts within the 3800 users that are helpful, professional, courteous, and of high quality; I do not deny this. But you must realize the lesser quality material vastly outweighs the greater quality material. I firmly believe without mass paid signature advertising, we would have the vice versa, or at least many magnitudes less of the lesser quality material. If you don't believe me, take look at any forum thread from 2009 to 2014 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=xxxx and replace xxxx with any number from 1 to ~900000). I feel these facts are indisputable. Take it or leave it.

To date, any post on this thread has been mostly complaints of possible higher quality posts being ignored or other silly irrelevant concerns. I would like to note that nobody has attempted to solve the problem that the list is addressing, massive forum degradation. It seems everyone who has replied is just peachy with the bulk of today's users monetizing the board and accounts... or.... a part of the problem themselves. I believe that says a lot in itself.

This is a scriped auto-bump. The list may have been updated.

Well here is the link if you guys never seen it..
Signature Adblock Script [0.5.0] (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1003570.0)

It's made a moderator here Grue and he did a good job.. it still works great.

I added a FAQ to the first post in this thread last night. I feel that may give you an answer as to why I don't block all signatures.

Another problem with this list is that most people on it probably don't even know they are on it.
I too was on that list for long time (even without any signature) before I coincidentally found this thread and was able to get myself removed from it.

You don't do anything to let people know they have been added on this list.
If you can't check your lists accuracy from time to time then you should at least pm people when you add them so they know to inform you after they have removed their signature.
Right now half of the people on that list may not actually belong on that list anymore.

As it happens, users add and remove mass paid signatures all the time and it is not plausible for anyone to sift through and routinely check. This is why I placed that responsibility in the hands of the user. I can individually track the ones who request to be off the list as I have a record within my pm box to make sure they simply don't re-add one after I've taken them off the list. It's a small price to pay, yes.

I do like the idea of pming each user on the list. I wonder what is the most users that can be applied to the send-to function within smf... I'll look into this later.

You STILL don't get it.
I see a pattern here.. you seem to be difficult and fail to "get" what people are saying.

The script / add-on thing i mentioned here that you ignored me on countless times..
does the SAME thing you are doing.

The signature or who uses it is not in question to me, at least.

Also the script your are mentioning, in fact, does not do the same thing I'm doing. This script merely makes it where I cannot see certain signature and does not ignore the user. This script is a self-inflicted [less than] band-aid.

If that script already finds and hides paid signatures it can easily be modified to also hide posts above them.
And then it would do what your list does with real time update.

I looked at the script and noticed a few problems:
1. It cannot be easily modified. This is programmed to block signatures, not users. You would need an entirely new script to ignore the users.
2. It downloads more scripts within the script, which seems potentially unsafe. Edit: Disregard this. The links do not function and are only for updating the script manually.  
3. (The Show Stopper) It uses a scoring system. So lighter mass advertisements would pass. It cannot individually determine good from bad, personal from mass. So this would stir up several more problems. The same problems which others (and you) say my list has, but much worse.
4. It does not record who is blocked.

1. It is very easy to modify actually, I know only some basics of js and took me 2minutes to figure out how to hide full posts instead of just signatures.
Just change "("div .signature")" to ("div .windowbg2") and it will do exactly that. Tested and working well.
3. Yep it isn't perfect but neither is this and it would bring in real time auto update which is big improvement.
4. Does it matter? It blocks them in real time so where do you need list?

As I said before, you and others are fine with the bulk of today's users monetizing the forum and accounts. I'm not fine with it. How does this script solve this and the problem of massive forum degradation?

what makes you think that you wearing a signature of your own business and thus monetizing your account and this forum
are better than those who wear a commercial/paid signature?
yeah,lets ignore everyone wearing a paid signature and miss out on posts by,lets say Shorena or others just because we dislike sigspammers
don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

Just like your ignore list does? It hides posts made by them.

You're right. I'll add this to the original post. My computer is doing some other work at the moment and I'm limited to mobile. I'll add it shortly. It will give users options on how they'd like to block these signatures and users.

I added this to the first post as an alternative method. Thanks.

Good idea adding Grue's script to the first post.
I did not know about the config option etc.
I used it as it is with no changes on Firefox.

So now users have 3 different ways to accomplish a similar result  ;D

If you own business that you advertise in your signature, does that count as an paid signature?   Because I see you added smoothie. He advertise his business in his profile signature.

Could you list name by alphabet? So we could easily browse each others.

Read the FAQ in the first post and then press ctrl+f to be amazed :o.

I wonder if this would lag the forum if enough people were using it.

I wonder if the forum would need as much resources without redundant material from paid signature users.

why not just disable show signatures in your settings?

I am not on the list. proud of myself. its a big honour for me :)

(cuz nobody accepts me their campaigns) :D

You asked this question because you didn't read (1) any of the original post, (2) the FAQ in the first post, (3) or any of the replies in this thread. Please do.

In my opinion you are spamming forum with your ignore list.

What would happen if every user decide to create ignore list and each create new thread for that? Massive spam of new "my ignore list" topics.

you have collected a nice list sir

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Hey guys, if you have a paid signature then OP is not going to see you post, hence why I'm quoting it it. I think @Febo and @velten make good points and I do have to agree with them.

I guess this is where we disagree. First I see no difference between your signature and a signature campaign, both are advertisements that you stand to gain from. Second, I heavily disagree with the later statement. There are plenty of people who post very high quality posts who also get compensated from signature campaigns. At some point I'll probably join a signature campaign so I can get a few pennies to do something I'm doing for free now, and thus I'll probably be blocked soon enough. See you, well never 'cause I'm probably going to be blocked right after you read this post.

I could go back and highlight every time I've mentioned this campaign is about "mass" signature advertising (it even says it in your quote [it even says it in the thread title]). So disagree without opposition; you are correct as my signature is an advertisement. If you disagree and believe that my signature is mass paid advertising... well... copy my list and add me to it then I guess.

And to your second point... I guess we'll just have to disagree. Maybe re-read the first FAQ question and answer.

I understand what you're saying, I was just pointing out the fact I disagree with this list. Obviously you can disagree with me, no hard feelings. See ya around.

Let him talk all he wants, but he does it with us, not with himself. Initially confirms the fallacy of his reasoning. I'm generally against the button ignore. Learn to defend their opinion.

I also think the same and agree with your opinion. Everyone should have the right to vote and to express their thoughts and at the same time adequately defend their opinions. And if someone does not like something, then let him suffer or speak about it without harming another user.

I see that it has been updated since my name is already on your list. Ha ha ha

Are not you afraid to be alone? Well, you know what you're doing, who am I to give advice?

Good luck with your list!

I think that this person smokes something and has already put many on this list. I can not understand why this is for him. Does he really want to be the only user on the forum?

I think it's a great idea. The guy doesn't want to read stuff from paid signature-wearing monkeys so let him do whatever he wants.

Personally I like signatures, they are pretty  Roll Eyes, light weight most in a really good taste and quality that is nowhere to be found, only here.
One of the best tutorials are made by sig-posters, lots of giveaways, I think the forum will look like a ghost board with this thing enabled. I wonder what is the impact on browsers performance? Looks like a big filter.

Throwing a fit about members with advertising signatures, to the point of making a list and being a jerk about it....

Is hypocritical in the extreme from someone that has their own advertising signature.

There is no difference between others having ads and you having an ad.

You need to get off your high horse, and quit trying to bully others with your antics.

I agree that it is hypocritical but I think this guy does not care. He is using a hot button topic to his advantage to draw attention to his own signature.  Whatever he has to do to get traffic and attention I am sure is his motto

I don't understand this, what is OPs problem with signatures exactly?

They are not intrusive, and take nothing from the experience.

If unwanted advertisement is his problem, OP himself advertised his own website in his signature.

I understand unhelpful spam comments just to fill signature quotas, but that is a problem with quality of new users and community management, not signatures themselves.

What a hypocrite. I respect this guy sells firearms and accepts bitcoin, but will not buy from his establishment unless he deletes this thread and never mentions his list ever again.  Even then I won't buy any firearms because I have enough of them, but my respect will be restored.

I find it rather amusing the number of people here who don't see the difference between

versus

Granted not every user of a signature campaign is necessarily that bad it's still getting a little out of hand

I took a look at the list and searched for a few people who I very much respect in these forums. To my surprise, I found that a significant majority of these people are in the list. I believe this speaks to its effectiveness (or lack thereof) and to what you *really* are losing when you use the list. OP must be using the strictest guidelines to add people to this list if there are individuals who do nothing but post constructively in it. What I am most surprised of is the fact that I'm personally not on the list, albeit I am expecting that my own posting here is going to put me in it. Perhaps it is due to my lower volume of posts. Regardless, anyone considering this should think twice about it.

Well said. Thanks.

I have joined a signature campaign aswell, but I couldn't find my name on the list ???

2 things.

1) You are part of the problem.
2) The list isn't automatically updated, it takes time to be added.

2 things.

1) I'm not part of it. I am the problem.
2) No, but Seriously, what problem are you talking about exactly?
3) How long?

That's 3 things.

Wrong! I was talking about your things. Then I listed my own.

eZ bounce-off, bruh!

Regards,
Trump

🤦

Ok, fine I'll take the time to address your points so you can get out another post for the signature campaign.

1) agreed
2) making posts that add nothing to the conversation or restate something already said contributing to useless noise
3) I don't know, I'm not the one updating the list

Thank you, my beloved billspill. I really appreciate your offer!

1) That's nice
2) I only make posts that contribute to the conversation and almost never restate something already said... And if I do restate something, it was accidentally.
3) So there is actually more than 1 person against signature campaigns?

Regards,
Trump

Who cares?  Most of us are for a free market anyway and like to know where we can spend our coin....you type of people can tuck all your bitcoin away in a dark place somewhere and try to stifle the bitcoin economy as much as you like, but you will realize, someday, that you can't kill the cryptocurrency movement.  Good luck trying to hide everybody's advertisements but your own....you might be all alone on that score--a one man network!

If I delete my posts from this thread, will it stop showing up in my updated topics list?

Unwatch, Unsubscribe, and Delete your posts - should make it stop appearing in the list

Interesting premise. I see how signatures can lead to that problem. But by the same token, worthless spammy posts are also a function of assigning status based on how many posts you've made - some users will keep posting just to move up a level.

Though i do not have an ad in my signature i understand completely somebody who does. I think its pretty childish to create a massive list of ad sig users to block them, they often contribute just as much or more than anybody else to a conversation. I wouldn't even consider censoring half of the users opinions just because their signatures have ads, you'd miss out on so much valuable information. Had i done that from the start i would have missed dozens of great answers, questions, conversations and polls, all because of a small line of advertising, most of which is super relevant.

I just realized the cruel irony that OP has an ad for his firearm shop in his signature.

Dozens, yes, I agree. But you also wouldn't have had to have sifted through the [quite literal] millions (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats) of other posts to find your dozen.


I only wish that you actually read the thread, including the FAQ, before posting this.

This is a scriped auto-bump. The list may have been updated.

This seems pretty silly to me.  Silencing people just because they have a paid sig is kinda messed up.  People who are helpful shouldn't find some form of compensation for there time?   Idk, this all seems like you were just trying to find a group to discriminate against, cause you know reasons.