This list is my personal expansion from
AGD's ignore list extreme. I feel
all signature advertisement campaigns, and their respective users, are detrimental to the integrity board no matter the quality of the post above it. There are no exceptions to this list; from "Brand New" to "Administrator" users, it all applies. All users that I find with paid advertisment signatures will end up on this list. If you feel the same, feel free to use it. If not, move on.
I also feel that this is only needed on
www.bitcointalk.org. I have several accounts across the web where large and even more obnoxious signatures aren't minded by me at all. Why? Because they are not intentionally degrading to the board. I can't say for certain all these listed users have low quality posts and topics, but as a whole they're near worthless.
This thread will remain un-moderated and unlocked. Feel free to share your criticism or ideas here and we can
politely discuss your concerns. This thread is not intended to rattle cages or upset anyone, but I'm sure it will regardless. And as such, I will not respond to simple minded hissy-fits.
If you want to be removed from this list, PM me without a paid advertisement in your signature.
If you want to experience what a lonely place bitcointalk.org can be without paid sig accounts, simply go to Profile/Ignore user options and you can add this list with copy/paste. Don't forget to save it.
Updated 3-17-17 with 4386 users:
Due to the limits of www.bitcointalk.org's thread length policy, I cannot surpass 64000 characters.
I am forced to use a 3rd party website such as pastebin. Any other recommendations would be great.
http://pastebin.com/7pCVdP0e
I will update this list as needed.
ALTERNATIVE SCRIPT BASED METHOD:Please visit this thread:
Signature Adblock Script [0.5.0]Follow Grue's instructions on the installation
BUT you must change "div .signature" to "div. windowbg2" (thanks to
Holdaaja). If you do not change this, then you will be subjected to all the forum posts of these users that causing massive forum degradation, just without seeing their signatures.
Note: This may unintentionally block users with bulky personal signatures as the script uses a scoring system to determine which user to remove. With that, it will also leave the signatures of mass advertisements that are not bulky (such as the lower tier ones without heavy formatting). This might not be the "best" idea, but it's quick and "mostly" effective.
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FAQQ:
Do you not care about high quality users that have paid advertisements in their signatures?A: A good example of my thought process is in the large paragraph of
this reply in this thread.
Of course there are many examples of quality posts within the 3800 users that are helpful, professional, courteous, and of high quality; I do not deny this. But you must realize the lesser quality material vastly outweighs the greater quality material. I firmly believe without mass paid signature advertising, we would have the vice versa, or at least many magnitudes less of the lesser quality material.
Q:
What about your signature? Is that not an advertisement?A: Yes, my signature is an advertisement for
my business. I am the only user on this forum with this signature, thus it is not
mass paid signature advertising as this thread was created to campaign against.
Q:
Why don't you block all signatures and move along?A: Because I care about the problem these signatures are causing, not the signatures.
Q:
I'm on the list but I don't have a paid advertisement in my signature. What gives?A: My list is a hybrid of another users list. There may be several users on the list who might not need to be there. PM me if you do not have a paid advertisement in your signature.
