I not agreeing with the OP
Ninja edit: This kind of poster we can obviously do without in the future and if thats spam to you,it is to me as well!
If you dislike signature campaigns you can just disable signatures in the settings?
That's not sufficient. The problem is that sig campaign members are incentivized both directly and indirectly on the basis of posting volume so the result is a lot of low quality posts.
I really don't understand why the forum allows it based on the fact that it both degrades the value of the forum and competes with the forum's own ads.
So what?
You mean to tell me that bitcoin projects run out of this forum do not benefit from having signatures floating around reading their threads. Hell they may even invest in something with those bitcoins!
There are two issues for me on the signatures and the first one is that they get blamed for all the blights of the forum and for sure they are a issue but there is more to it than just blaming signatures and washing our hands.
Take a look into a lot of the members that will bring a thread off topic just to point out a person has a signature and therefore it needs to be pointed out! Its insane that members are allowed to hijack threads like that but its the vogue of the moment and mods jump on it as well,maybe just Lauda.
The second part is getting better managers of these signatures,I have reported clear spam in the past and got no response back which is fine. Those members do not get kicked,which is a bit of the issue,when it is so clearly spam.
Implementing stricter guidelines would help address the issue and it will stifle these accounts that are also farming them to sell later.
Think leading by example does a part of the job because the spammers are not able to get away with half ass posts when they see every one else has written paragraphs. Their three word responses will stick out like a needle and will get plucked easier.
Nothing personal Smooth,was just thinking of the Fitness thread and was wondering how it was going,really only reason I posted!
Kidding..
Smooth and Smoothie aww,now that makes more sense,sorry for the mixup
Ninja edit.