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Have seen many of members wear signature avatar, Can you members give idea what that be expected from wearing signature avatar on your profile?

It's for free advertisements, like an banner ad in any site, the higher the rank the prettier it will look ^{(depends on the design ofc)}. It can be personally yours or promoting someone else business/service.
Well, when we say promoting, ofc, it will be with a payment. Now talking to a paid signature campaign, you can see it on Services^[1] board or on this thread^[2].

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=52.0
[2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615953.0

Apart from casinos and mixers receiving exposure for promoting their businesses, the signature campaign could potentially influence the traffic within the forum. This could be another reason why Bitcointalk is such an interesting place for quality discussions with knowledgeable members.

Another benefit is that, at some point, there are interesting project that people wear on their signature which is quite interesting. It could be their own made bitcoin related projects that anyone can visit and learn, a list of resources and sometimes a cause for something debatable topic/ issues around bitcoinverse  :P

Simply

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You forgot the NSFW parties (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5445047.0) :)

The signature is a space in your profile that has a maximum amount of words it can contain depending on the member's rank, and this space allows you to advertise either a paid campaign or a charity campaign. The advantage is that it can enable a project to get exposure after putting on the signature and making some quality comments on different boards of the forum. The second advantage is that you can earn bitcoin from the signature you advertise if it's a paid campaign.

There are two kinds of paid signatures: the first one is on the Altcoins bounty board https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=238.0, and the second one is from the first link provided by PX-Z.

Signatures on the service board pay memebers with Bitcoin, while signatures from the bounty board pay memebers with either some altcoins or fiat crypto.

The disadvantage is that if you post shites, no campaign manager is going to accept you into signature on the service board, but you can be partially considered on the bounty board.

The forum used to auction ad slots^[1] which appears in the signature space of members, so that used to be a use of signature slots.

Members can also display anything on their signatures and avatars as long as it does not break the rules. You can have a personal text and avatar picture of your choosing (if you are a full member or higher) or advertise for a paid or charity campaign.
Personal texts to me are the most personal of the options.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5407725.msg60976136#msg60976136

- Jay -

All attribute space on your forum profile is rentable for money.

Let me break down the image 😉.
The signature space on your profile is pot of money 🤑
It's always party after party.

In general, users use avatar and signature to promote certain services or project on forum, they get incentives from they activity.

However, you will also know that not all users use signature and avatar for the purpose of making money, it may serve different purposes from one user to another. Some spread awareness about their personal services like campaign management, website design and others, escrow or some other things. But I agree, avatar and signature are mostly used because users want to earn money.

Ads and promotions. Then youll get compensated by exposing these ads through process called signature campaign. Of course there are different rules on that but youll only needign to post across different threads and show that signature on your profile to make it expose to more people and thats marketing. But some uses the space too for their own business or services here. Its depend on the user how he will make use of that privilege when he got a higher rank for the signature codes and avatar.

Many Forum users wearing signatures and avatars, and some of us are wearing them because we are promoting a specific casino. But some of us are wearing because of us wearing their picture or other image as Avatar. But here in our communities as we can see that once you are wearing an avatar and signatures about casino then the owner of the casino paid for their services in order to promote.

Signatures are designed with a codified link to a specific site. Although not all are in form of link such as for the junior members which is just a written letters containing information about what's your signature. Some people use their signature space to offer promotional services for others while others use it for their personal purposes. Avatar on the other hand is in form of image under your forum username with same purpose as signature.

The main purpose of a user wearing a signature and avatar on his profile is to promote that product or casino site and earn some weekly money with it. No one will ever promote a project for free.  Allocate some budget with a project or company and run a signature campaign for their promotion.  And some qualified users are accepted to promote that company and then put signature and avatar on their profile and discuss various topics and that company gets promoted. that is the main reason of wearing signature & Avatar

There are two categories of signatures or avatar you can wear, a paid signature and avatar and a free or voluntary signature and avatar, you need to be a full member before you can wear an avatar regardless of which one, you can also wear one being a newbie by purchasing a copper membership, if you're interested in applying for a campaign on bitcointalk, you will have to read the campaign rules and regulations as stated by the manager on the first page and first post of the thread, if you meet up with the requirements then you can apply, know that participation in any signature or avatar campaign is not mandatory on this forum, it's a choice which you decide on wether to do or not.

It's pretty much about the visual representation of whatever is occupying the avatar space and in most cases compliments the signature.

And the idea of wearing these avatars is part of marketing and in some cases could boarder around a picture says a thousand words.

Btw most avatars come paired with the signature and is all about helping a project get known around the forum.

Signatures are branding belong to either an individual or some company. The forum has been designed in such a way that, users depending in there ranks have this space opened up in there profile for some showcasing or advertising. Signature space virtually becomes available once your member and from Full member, you can have your avatar space opened for you.

Avatars are simply a branding logo and it applies just as the signature except for the fact that, Avatars are images and have got no link embedded but signatures comes with links in some configured codes. The signature space one has varies based on ranks as there are acceptable number of characters within a space.

Benefits one can derive from signatures and Avatar spaces is nothing more than exposure. Now, its either you are advertising your brand or that of someone else or company and based on what is agreed, you might get paid or get incentives from referrers.

At the moment @OP, you don't have that leverage and you should be more focused on improving your crypto knowledge.

Bitcointalk is the oldest and most reputable bitcoin community there is, and because of that, it is not uncommon to see ICOs, crypto exchanges, bitcoin mixers, casinos, and generally new crypto projects come to the forum to advertise their services. Having the community's approval is very valuable to these companies that want to build their reputation, they usually create an ANN thread to announce their service and address any concerns the forum may have, and launching bounty/signature campaigns is a great way to spread word about the company or project.

Ah, I thought those are usually reserved for the higher echelons of the community :p

It is a campaign or advertisement. Different casinos or online gambling sites run different signature campaigns for their online campaigns. And those signature campaigns have certain signature codes and avatars that need to be added to the profile and posted in different sections. When you post a specific project's avatar or signature code in different sections, through your post, those online casinos or gambling sites will attract the attention of different users and they will enter those sites and conduct their specific activities. Basically, various projects are promoted through signature code or avatar.

Many above have tried to answer your question properly, but I think that First of all, no one has a correct answer to the question you have asked. Most signatures and avatars are used to promote a campaign. But there are few signatures that people like Bitcointalk use.

Wearing the signature and avatar of a company or casino shows that you are advertising the company and also promoting them. Most new company who are into bitcoin comes into the forum and seek for forum members to help them advertise their company and the services which they render,so that they can get new customers. In doing this there is always a reward for the ads and promotion. Automatically it means that your signature space is for rent and is a means of making income in the forum. While some forum users does this ads and promotion voluntarily. Avatar is optional and on this you can put whatever avatar you like to use if you don't care about renting your signature space.

I am trying to explain this as easily as I can. You may have noticed that various football teams or cricket teams add some other names to their jerseys in addition to the team name and they always keep those added names on the jersey. Now you may be wondering why they carry another text on their jerseys. The main reason for this is the sponsor.

Means that the company with that name has sponsored any football team or cricket team and they have bought that sponsorship for a few years, so in the contract of several years they have bought the sponsorship, those teams will play or do all the work with the name of that company on the jersey. Through this, the company will have a good marketing because the games of all those teams are usually seen by people of different countries and the name of the company that will sponsor the company will be promoted to the people of different countries. 
The team that performs better will get more sponsorship.

Same thing with ID. If you are at a significant rank in the forum, you can join different signature campaigns and the signature campaigns you join have specific codes that are on your profile. You have to add so that if you post various things, you will promote all those signature campaigns through you. This is the work of adding an avatar to your profile.

In addition to that can we consider aesthetics?
Well wearing signature and avatar beautifies our profile.
This is especially when you wear a well designed signature and avatar of the same company. There is a kind of uniformity that appeals the eyes.
Then it is not compulsory to wear any of them, but because of the reward that is associated with it, almost everyone except a few people wear the signature and avatar.
I learnt that when this forum was newly created, the avatar space used to be profile picture space.

I can say yes for signatures but not for avatars. Since avatars don't have links, I wonder how the services they're meant to promote get visibility. I'm referring to avatar only campaigns, not those that combine avatar with signature campaigns because investors can simply click on signatures and get the information or web addresses they want.

Yeah, there are free-to-wear/ pro bono ones as well but custom made designs might cost you a pretty penny if you want someone with skills to make one.

And we have Bitcointalk to thank, for letting us advertise projects on our profile for money, as a token of gratitude we need to keep this forum interesting with topics and discussions about Bitcoin and everything related to Cryptocurrency.
It's a privilege to be part of this forum and a signature campaign so for that privilege to remain we have to abide by the forum rules and have relevant and updated topics and discussions about Bitcoin, and all topics about Cryptocurrency.

Avatar and signature are intended to spread visibility about the project or service being advertised even if one of them requires the user to obtain a link to the site in question. While signature are ideal for helping users find sites quickly due to the availability of links within them. The point is equally to spread visibility among forum users though signatures are more ideal. Another thing that serves the same purpose is personal text, that space can also be utilized.

Avatars, signatures, personal text and other spaces can be used for advertising space, but not all users are willing to use them for advertising space even if they can make money.

isn't it the same as when we watch television and see advertisements? we see only pictures or video footage. but it is attempted to attract someone's attention or curiosity to visit the site or whatever is advertised.
indeed, advertising for signature campaigns will be better because only one click will direct us to the intended site. a similar system seems to exist in social media ads that we often encounter today on our smartphones. see an image or video and when we click on it, we will be directed directly to the destination site.

both ways are still good marketing methods. and on the forum, we are lucky to get the opportunity to advertise with the space provided in our account.

Free advertisement space for the user. It could be used either personally or offer it to be rented by other(s), just similar with the real world. With this, you might be able to reach people about the signature content. It helps a lot of Bitcointalk users to earn some bucks too.

You get paid while when you out on a campaign signature or avatar, you can also do that for free for either yourself or any other person you which to take on promotional offer, but one of the reasons the campaign managers always encourage to remove the signature when a campaign is paused is in other for them to get paid whenever they are ready to kick on back but if everyone keeps wearing the signature campaign or avatar, they may not run the campaign again and pay it participant since they were already wearing their signatures and avatar.

Wearing signature campaign and avatar is the part of advertising and user have joined signature campaign, they will earn or got payment after wearing signature code and use avatar on their bitcointalk profile. I think this reason why many people active in Bitcointalk forum and keep exist until right now after get as advertising on several project from gambling, altcoin promoting until mixing project have been popular right now.

You can wearing signature code right now in your account but due Member level not allowed for uploading or use avatar in your Bitcointalk profile, if you want wear avatar have push your account to Full Member level and under this level can't wearing avatar.

Just as many persons have continuously reiterate about the significant of signature and avatar as way of publicity and  advertisements of projects to the the knowledge of members in the forum. I'll like to also add that signature and avatar campaigns also act as a motivational tool to indirectly demand good quality posts from members that are in any campaign thereby promoting quality posting in the forum  as low quality posting can lead to the layoff of a participant or participants of a campaign. 

For now you may not qualify to be able to apply for signature due to your low rank usually that space is being reserved for advert and promotion purposes. Although there are some projects at the bounty sections that allows you to apply their codes on your profile and then you being compensated with the little amount they wishes to dish out to your ranks level.

There are mainly two kinds of signatures which are monetary and non-monetary. When you wear a signature because you will get some monetary gains, then you are in the monetary or financial sector. You might be advertising a company's product or your service. The company pays you for promoting its product. There are many crypto-related firms that there products or services are advertised in the forum.
But when you wear it because you want to promote a product, ideology, or an endeavor without any financial benefit, you fall in the voluntary, humanitarian or non-financial category. I have seen signatures to promote decentralization and support scammed victims.

This is one place the avatar gets its usefulness. Most times it aids me search for my posts in threads or other users I'm searching their posts in threads. Avatar serves that function well in captivating us like the TV analogy you pointed out easier than signature logos. I think that's all about where its function ends. If there's any other than that, then it should be there's a code embedded in the avatar. May be the coders in the house should enlighten us more on that.

Avatars carry the companies name, signatures do so too but with a direct link to the website, making things easy for whoever wants to access it. The only difference between them is that with the avatar whoever is searching has to do a little extra work to get the website (though some avatars even have the direct website on it, but you can't click it), and you just to type it in your browser, avatars are a good way to advertise, and people who are not lazy can easily find the website.
Do not advise OP to join bounty projects, he might never become a useful user in the forum if they do so, and his post history might end up being filled with only bounty reports.

It represents the company or platform that you are promoting not only the avatar but the signature in your profile, the advantage of having an avatar and signature on your profile means you have been hired to promote a project that you applied for.
You are getting paid as long as you have it and in exchange for being active here in Bitcointalk, it's a privilege and a reward, both the forum and the members benefit from projects using this feature, you get paid monthly and the forum is populated by topics related to its niche in the case of Bitcointalk, all topics are Cryptocurrency related.

Avatar is as important as signature campaign, people tend to respond to visual ads then they do to written ones. You see those users that search, that's where you customers are at. A users that takes his time to search your project or whatever service you're advertising is likely to patronage you than some user that randomly clicks your link from a signature campaign ads and get redirected to your landing page. The user that search, that user you already have his attention and it just depends on how well you present your project when he sees it as you can lose or keep your customers with in the first few seconds you try selling something to them.

Also if you noticed images stick to the brain, and an avatar you see continuously usually gets you curious about that project which is another success in marketing. I think between two projects adverting on the forum with similar payrate and equally quality of posters but one has an avatar while the other doesn't, the one with the avatar should be having more success than the one without avatar (somehow has to do a research on this to prove this statement correct but I'm positive the campaign with the avatar should be gaining more success on the forum).

Gamblers are very much welcome to the party, it can always use a bit of liveliness from craps. Though I'm more of a security detail than an actual partygoer.

The main purpose of wearing signature and averter is to promote something. It could be someone's personal advertisement.  For example, many campaign managers create personal signatures and avatars and attach them to their profiles to deceive themselves. others wear a particular signature and avatar for a particular purpose. Again, most of the users wear the company's signature and avatar to promote different companies for earning money. as you can see in the Services Thread there are many signature campaigns active and I am also wearing a bitcoin mixer company signature.

This will be an irrelevant answer but I'll answer you. Back when I first started here, I didn't know that signature campaigns will pay you. I have been through many sites and platforms telling me they will be paying this and that so I know I don't have to expect too much on everything online, at that time also my mindset is all about "if you want to earn money, first you need to have one", but as I received my first payment joining in campaigns I couldn't really believe it.

The advantage of wearing signature is that ;
For a newbie (when I first started here)

- it was cool and it felt like wanting to rank up as soon as possible to wear those cool looking banners from high rankers.
- some avatars are badass like the one I am wearing right it felt like a true pirate

For regular users on this forum;

- the higher the rank, the higher the rate of campaign payments
- you are a semi veteran and should show more quality appropriate with your rank (for better opportunities on the future)

Aside from those above, mostly all of the advantages are about the campaign rates, spreading information while promoting the campaign and sticking with a good record of quality posts, but as I've said, the more you ranked up, the cooler your signature gets.

I want to explain using signature and avatar campaigns is one way to earn money by showing ads in forums. However, it is important to pay attention to the rules and requirements of signature campaigns to ensure that your actions comply with the rules that apply in the forum and certainly you must rank up your account so that you can use these attributes.

When users gain higher rankings, such as obtaining signature and avatar codes, they should use them wisely and not misuse them for unethical purposes or harm other users on the forum.

In essence, wearing a company signature and avatar can be a way to rent out ad space and make money on forums. However, users should remember not to be spammy and always comply with the forum rules. Hope this explanation helps!

The general idea is clear, but there are some differences in the small details, mainly wearing a signature and an avatar in order to promote a company and get paid weekly.

Some signature campaigns force you to wear the signature and their avatar, but others require you to wear the signature only and you are free to wear the avatar or not, in which case you can wear an avatar for another campaign or an avatar that expresses your personal status.

Wearing an avatar and signature have benefited both the company and the wearer. The forum members who wear them will be paid (mostly paid with BTC) and it depends on how much the company pay their promoters. The company in this situation will be known since many forum members can see the signature and the avatar. You can say that it is an advertisement where you hire someone to advertise your company and then you pay them after a week since they rent the ad space of your account. Most companies that have done this are casinos and mixers.

If I directly say the advantage of wearing avatar and signature is to empower marketing or promotion.
And through the ability to do this promotion, you can do your own promotion or any other company or project's promotion or marketing. And here different projects can use this signature avatar for their own promotion or a person himself can do his own promotion. And the projects hire forum members who can promote them so that those who wear avatars and signatures can earn from them.
And sharing my personal opinion I consider it like a game , consider each rank as a level and merits as its task. And I consider Avatar and Signature Waring abilities to be rewards.

You know in truth that this forum platform is the only one that has seen if it can provide an opportunity to those who are active here that you can earn cryptocurrency depending on the rank you have here that you will not find in other forum platforms.

      Just like your question about the signature campaign, when you use or wear the banner code of a new campaign project here in the crypto space, you have the opportunity to earn via promotion or ads that your rate depends on your rank here in the forum, now if you are a Full Member and above you can wear an avatar, and those below FM cannot.

You are very right mate,wearing signature Avatar has many advantages,but there are some sacrifice involved in it,those sacrifices I will highlight them here for you and other person's who will ask thesame question to see,so that you will know how important it is to be member of this forum,and how wearing a signature Avatar is advantageous.
-You must be a regular poster in this forum for you to be eligible to wear any signature Avatar.
-you  must make quality post that will attract people to higher you.
_You must be able to follow the forum rules and regulations so your account be banned.
-you must have some merits in the last 120 days,and those merit are always gotten through quality post making.
Those are the few sacrifices one must make to be able to wear a signature Avatar.

It's the most active bitcoin and crypto related forum with lot of member base so the projects also find it as advertising source for their growth and mostly they are crypto related so they also find Target audience from the forum.The members are earning for the signature and avatars they are wearing but you also have to make contributions not any spam posting.The junior rank members can wear signature although there are few campaigns which accept lower then Full rank members and junior cannot wear Avatars on the profile.

As said simply money is the reason whether it comes from signature campaign or advertising your own service/products in the signature space which is eventually done with the intention of making money but there are exceptions some people like to spread awareness about Bitcoin, blockchain, scams and many other things.

The more you stayed here and explore the more you feel liable your every posts and for being a member here, that is the reason why I think wearing a signature on their profile means you are responsible enough to be given the task of spreading awareness. The way I see things here, it is not only you are qualified since you are chosen by the campaign managers but they are thinking "this guys will be responsible for his actions and would be an asset for spreading this name on each corner on this forum not a liability".

well and how much do the casino sites pay? Or do the referres pay for all?

@OP, it's very simple. You get paid for it. Companies pay for their advertising.

Depends on the campaign you are in. I saw campaigns to pay $20 to $160 per week. It also depends on the forum rank you have.

Thx good data.
Sure I'll wait a little: )

I can see that many users have provided answers to your question of why people wear signature and avatar.
Can we see it this way?

The forum has an avatar space which could represent your profile picture and then you have a signature space to promote your business. It might be that you don't have any business to promote, you then rent out your signature space, and also rent out your avatar space and some goes to the extent of renting out their personal text space and they get paid for it.

Then, can you ask if there is an offence if you refuse to rent your signature space out?
The answer is No, I have seen Philima57 JayJuanGee , frank1 and others who wear no commercial signature.

It's a good question though but that's not what is really necessary for your rank right now...at the same time, it's nice that you asked...
Signatures are more like paid ads for casinos and whatever feels like being advertised; it's worn from a certain rank...the full member rank. Signatures are coded to automatically redirect anyone that clicks on it to the main site and that's the main purpose of the ads... On the other hand, those members that you've seen on 'em signatures are usually being paid to do so.. all the same, you could be a partaker as well....it all depends on your growing speed in here.

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

Many forums have signature spaces available to enable users or members to benefit from the site's authority or traffics by advertising their businesses on the available space. Some, who at the moment, who doesn't have a personal service or product to promote may sell their space to people or businesses that desire the space. The forum has over 1m monthly visitors, so it's of great benefits to advertise on the signature spaces for more visibility or audience.

Ofcourse which is true to some extent that is why signature campaign still exists and brings the results for the money the company is spending whereas what is the actual benefit on our side its simply the money. I do agree that we can explore more if wr post more but there is no necessary that we should wear signature for making it happen so I just expressed what crossed in my mind not to offend anyone.