Do you like to see an Avatar Campaign? [POLL]

[Amph]

absolutely yes, more easy money  , i'm all in favor for it, and also it should not increase the spam, because it is included in the sig campaign, so 1 post for the sig will count for the avatar too, no one will post more just for the avatar

[irfan_pak10]

I voted Yes! I will Love to see a sig campaign, Because From this I can earn some extra amount. I will only join a sig campaign if its worth it to join like .02 or Above BTC. Probably looking from bit-x  .

[marcotheminer]

Please lock this topic once you have enough replies (a few more will do) or you will have the entire forum posting here several times with their own (slightly different) opinion.

[dothebeats]

Weird. Did the submitted votes just reset? I voted earlier and it seems that the number of users who voted decreased. I also suggest that the thread be locked so as to prevent redundant voicing of same ideas and opinions.

[nikona]

Depends if the question is directed towards people who would like to wear an avatar or towards people who would mind looking at an avatar. I honestly don't mind either. As currently I don't have an avatar, having one and being paid for it, wouldn't be any harm.

I just looked at the only avatar campaign on the forum, seems the pay isn't competitive, so I guess it might not be worth for that much trouble.

[dogie]

One important point, as said in my above post, many are voting yes, simply taking into consideration that if found annoying it can be turned off. If a large majority of the active members of the community turns it off or blocks it, avatar campaigns won't be efficient anymore.

You can say that about signatures. Many already block them but the campaigns do fine. You also wont be able to tell how many users have them blocked or not but I think the vast majority of people will keep them on like they probably do with signatures.

But that's because sigs can / are meant to hold useful information. Avatars are superfluous to our actual needs.

[ndnh]

Weird. Did the submitted votes just reset? I voted earlier and it seems that the number of users who voted decreased. I also suggest that the thread be locked so as to prevent redundant voicing of same ideas and opinions.

Please lock this topic once you have enough replies (a few more will do) or you will have the entire forum posting here several times with their own (slightly different) opinion.

Yep. The poll was accidentally reset. Sorry.
I have no idea what happened tho.

Will lock this thread tomorrow. I had some 20 votes, now just around 10..

[franckuestein]

Don't care but will not block it.

In my opinion, avatars are useful to recognize some users without looking at their nickname, but if new managers decide to start icon campaigns, they're not going to disturb me. If I'm reading some comments and I see a promotional icon, I'm not going to start crying  . Maybe I discover interesting projects thanks to this advertisements.

We'll see what happens. IMO the bit-x proposal it's interesting:
User logo + little announcement of the signature campaign service if required.

[ndnh]

Don't care but will not block it.

In my opinion, avatars are useful to recognize some users without looking at their nickname, but if new managers decide to start icon campaigns, they're not going to disturb me. If I'm reading some comments and I see a promotional icon, I'm not going to start crying  . Maybe I discover interesting projects thanks to this advertisements.

We'll see what happens. IMO the bit-x proposal it's interesting:
User logo + little announcement of the signature campaign service if required.

We had a suggestion of having a set of 5 different avatars for say 20 participants. But eventually, the idea was not taken.

[1Referee]

I will not have a paid avatar on my account, but do not mind if others will. People love free coins, which is understandable.

It's a win - win situation. People get free extra coins, and services get extra advertisment exposure.

[Grand_Voyageur]

Weird. Did the submitted votes just reset? I voted earlier and it seems that the number of users who voted decreased. I also suggest that the thread be locked so as to prevent redundant voicing of same ideas and opinions.

Please lock this topic once you have enough replies (a few more will do) or you will have the entire forum posting here several times with their own (slightly different) opinion.

Yep. The poll was accidentally reset. Sorry.
I have no idea what happened tho.

Will lock this thread tomorrow. I had some 20 votes, now just around 10..

 
It seems to have resetted again.
 

[redsn0w]

I will not have a paid avatar on my account, but do not mind if others will. People love free coins, which is understandable.

It's a win - win situation. People get free extra coins, and services get extra advertisment exposure.

...and users are banned from post and send PM // sarcasm .

ndnhc, have you in plan to start an avatar campaign like marcotheminer or not?

[ndnh]

ndnhc, have you in plan to start an avatar campaign like marcotheminer or not?

Of course. Might test a small scale version.. But the avatars are the issue. The images will be similar or so.

[redsn0w]

ndnhc, have you in plan to start an avatar campaign like marcotheminer or not?

Of course. Might test a small scale version.. But the avatars are the issue. The images will be similar or so.

You can create 10-15 different avatar or just do as marcotheminer (add a little write to the right or left side of the avatar).

[cakir]

Voted for yes, but also there should be "personal message" campaign along with it because of position of it.
Let's say if you're promoting an avatar which is not clear about product than you should write something about it to the below.

For instance that avatar you've showed is too colorful and I didn't pay attention to it much, also didn't try to read.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1022171.msg11063794#msg11063794
If you've written "dadice.com" under it as personal message, I would understand it better.

[shapeshift]

Voted for yes, but also there should be "personal message" campaign along with it because of position of it.
Let's say if you're promoting an avatar which is not clear about product than you should write something about it to the below.

For instance that avatar you've showed is too colorful and I didn't pay attention to it much, also didn't try to read.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1022171.msg11063794#msg11063794
If you've written "dadice.com" under it as personal message, I would understand it better.

Agree with him , they should be used  together. Otherwise , its meaningless.

Besides, I think , each campaign use  at least  3 avatars so that people just dont get bored.

[Gyfts]

I feel like some "decorative branding" wouldn't be too bad. For example, there are some nice lucky bit avatars rolling around. Nothing official that all participants must have, but it has some nice stylish branding that isn't overly annoying but elegant rather. What would be nice to see is a campaign that involves matching signatures and avatars that are specifically designed hand in hand. What's annoying is a mismatching avatar and signature that represents the same site.

[tidus1097]

Who wouldn't like to see another advertising campaign other than the ones that have a lot of btc. Campaigns are a great way to get the bitcoin community involved with other community members and see how beneficial bitcoins can be versus fiat currency.  With more and more adoption of btc, the more word of mouth, the better. Bring on the ads!

[ColderThanIce]

I'm on the fence about this. On the one side I really like making extra BTCBTC but then on the other side I really like seeing a bunch of cool creative avatars. i think that with more avatar campaigns the community would lose some of the cool avatars that some people have.

[Mt. Gox]

I've seen many Internet forums during my time online and I don't think I've ever seen one where users are financially rewarded for changing their avatars to advertisements. For a newbie who is new to the forums, it would probably look quite strange.

That being said, I don't think it's a huge issue. As others have already mentioned, it's likely that avatars would be less useful for quickly identifying and distinguishing different users if avatar campaigns became widespread. However, it's really not that different from forums that have one or more default avatars (which ~70% of the users might not even bother changing).

Yes you are right but as I said previously there will not be a problem if the "promotional ad" go to the left or right side of the avatar. Everyone will keep his personal avatar and no one will be wrong to identify the user (remember there is always the username).

Yes you are right but as I said previously there will not be a problem if the "promotional ad" go to the left or right side of the avatar. Everyone will keep his personal avatar and no one will be wrong to identify the user (remember there is always the username).

Having an additional image advert edited onto the avatar won't be very effective from an advertisers point of view nor do I think it will become popular. I just think marco wanted to keep his current avatar as that's the one he was known by whilst promoting Bit-x. Maybe he will change it in the future though.

Unless it was part of the forum rules, there wouldn't be much point in this. You would have avatar campaigns that ask users to change their whole avatar to theirs and other avatar campaigns that do what redsn0w proposes. The benefits for the former type of campaign would be greater so they would pay more than the latter type. Those who want to change their whole avatar to get the most money would be able to do so while those who want to keep their personal avatar and attach a promotional ad on the side would be able to do so as well. And really, that's not all that different from how the current system works.