It seems that a good number of posts here have ads in their signature. While it is annoying to be bombarded with ads, I don't see being advertised to as a problem in itself.
The problem is that these advertisers pay users per post usually, so users will try to get in as many posts as they can. This leads to low quality, short, and often meaningless posts.
There are many examples of users polluting this forum, one user consistent enough for me to have ignored is Bitpop
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=14283;sa=showPostsUsers normally wouldn't be allowed to include ads in their posts, and most other forums disallow ads in signatures. Overall, this change would have a positive effect on this community by filtering out poorly thought out, short posts that are 20% content and 80% ad.
you don't know what are you talking about .... I am a sig seller and I can tell that you MIGHT have right for some of sig sellers but not for all of US.
We are paid to post CONSTRUCTIVE posts.
If our companies will see that we make only short-nonsense posts they might say bye bye to us.
So good sig seller is someone who is writing many posts (yes) and he indeed want his posts to be creative.
For example - science I am a sig seller I read a tooons of posts from all users, and I learned so many new things about bitcoin and not only.
So I improve my knowledge, reply to posts, and earn some BTC at 1 time.
What's wrong with this?
Anytime you see a post that is off topic you can report it to mods and post will be removed and guy will be not paid for this post.
So good sig sellers are just people who LOVE this forum, love to post in here and need some cash....
Eh..