This forum is for Bitcoin, and shouldn't have to cater for the needs of signature advertising. That's up to the 'managers' of the signature campaign by using their own resources and tools to do so. Many probably already do this.

I wish you the best of luck and hopefully you will have some good news with the visit.

Still using the trusty Nokia 106. Of course there isn't any fancy applications or it might not look great to some people. Although I tend to think it looks quite nice and have the attitude of function over fashion.

I use this partly because I'm quite active and physical and any touch screens or more modern phones tend to break. This thing bounces off walls. When away, I normally bring a laptop with me and do all my work and browsing on that.

Have a look of a thread in the staff forum: https://bitcointalk.org/ad_test.html

It's intentional of course, theymos has allowed entry for people to design ads for the site.

Ok, devthedev has the collateral in his possession. I've just sent the 1 Bitcoin: https://blockchain.info/tx/b63a0a4459d776371868d05e1094854c11cfd0bccb3c3e58838eec73b638e9ac

Loan amount: 1 Bitcoin.
Loan Duration: 1 month (Payment due 22^nd of March, 2015
Interest: 10%, additional 5% after each week if late.
Collateral: GBattaglia account.
GBattaglia receiving address: 13i7exDUG7fUTnmv5Z2WyHKV24Eo97wwvg
Welsh's return address: 1Cqw4Zix3cRLGqQr5T1cCD5RzgUSCLYUnS

I don't believe there will be any problems, I wasn't interested in the account itself, but I wanted some sort of leverage. The account is probably worth a little more to him personally than any other person. At least that's the plan. Certainly more than 1 Bitcoin to him.

You can't edit posts in the auction section, it's to avoid people changing terms etc.

I'm waiting on devthedev to contact me that everything is put into place, I'll then send the Bitcoin straight away. I'm hoping it's going to be completed by today as I'm away tomorrow for a while.

When it's sent I'll post the tx and also keep you up to date throughout the process.

It's something that is probably deemed untrustworthy by many, if you didn't disappear and explained the issue why you couldn't send the Bitcoin, then he may of been more lenient. Your best bet is to contact him, maybe he will change it to a neutral with a warning to others.

It's part of the collateral. No need to worry about it.

Yeah because not being online for a few hours is taking a holiday. Be patient. You'll get your answer, but you can't expect to snap your fingers and get your way. I can see why AT might be interpreted either way. Remember that the staff are volunteers and not employees.

This is the thread I think you are talking about: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=582736.0

Images in signatures is disallowed for a reason, it becomes a mess and an annoyance to look at. The forum used to allow images in signatures but, removed the ability to put a new image in your signature in 2011/early 2012.  

I believe, if users had a image prior to it being disabled, they may still have them in their signatures. That was the case then, I'm not sure if this has been changed or moderated since. If you want a image in your signature, have a direct link to the image. That way people can decide whether they want to look at it or not.

I know the majority of the users on this forum probably disagree and would like to have images, but it doesn't add much of a benefit of having them.

That's a lot of space, I don't want to be forced to hide signatures as I do like to look at some personal projects and such. But, having something as big as 8000 would be obstructive.

I think the signature limit of hero's is about right, if you want to differentiate between Hero's and Sr member, then may want to consider reducing the Sr member. I don't think either is necessary. 

That doesn't prove anything either. Could be trying to clear your account of bad feedback. I'm not saying that you are Candystripes, but the others who have given you negative feedback need something solid to work with to be able to remove it.

Signing a address isn't going to prove that he's not Candystripes. It just proves that he has another address, I've used multiple addresses like many others. Signing isn't going to prove anything in this case. He claims he was hacked but, there's no proof in that.

I'm not sure how ikydesu can prove that he was hacked, except for involving theymos or someone who can verify it.

Whenever these threads pop up it's almost reassurance that the moderator in question is doing a great job. They deal with claims that they are abusing everyday I would imagine and none of them have any merit.

Oops I just reported a few of his posts wasn't aware that he's already been identified and awaiting on action to be taken. Sorry Global moderator for spamming your report log

Yes I know. A user asked in the thread I linked if the list could be updated, BadBear responded with the quote above. I'm almost certain that Theymos is the only one who can do it.

If I'm understanding BadBear's response correctly he can't.

 
He's been part of the moderation team for a very long time, big part in Bitcoin too. You might know him with his alias "justmoon". He was the operator of and BitcoinJS.org & We Use Coins. He's fairly active, logs in from time to time, but doesn't post a lot lately.

Only Theymos can get that information. I should imagine he's too busy at the moment to do it too. He's had a few requests by numerous people, probably the people who have high reports and want to boast their ego.