end of all signature campaigns

[sonawer]

in this case on the project will remain true connoisseurs of this trend, but still the site as a place for discussion of projects and technical issues will live on

[Hexah]

I think it will not end because this forum is a great factor to many companies on how it advertised their products and it is really a big influencer in the marketing world. If signature campaign would end I know many would be upset if its happen because some only rely to that and not only signature campaign but also the bounty campaign here in forum, I think many would leave for good but forum I think will still be a place for crypto enthusiastic people and would never end, because knowledge about how to earn crypto to others will also be a factor to gain some BTC again.

[EpicFail]

Somebody already asked for this back in 2014:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=786662.0

but Theymos decided to keep allowing signature campaigns.

Pity.

[kenkoy]

I think that can never happen. Though, i think there will be a decrease on ICOs if other countries will ban it, then signature and other campaigns will be affected as well. This forum has been generating a lot of traffic nowadays as more people globally has been turning to cryptocurrency.

[detector]

It's a great advantage for between side !

Side 1 : Forum able gain revenue for advertising through auction and traffic
Side 2 : More people visit the forum because they got paid by the company who want to advertise on this forum

[yojodojo21]

There is a saying that There's no Forever.
Which actually true ( For me ). Maybe After How many years of making bitcoin a good Foundation for the currency all over the world.
but saying that bitcoin will end.? it will never happen. maybe also signature campaigns will end if there is no more Projects to be advertise. but the more the technology is upgrading and gadgets are improving, i don't think that campaigns will end. power of Internet is beyond Limit. Through campaigns, traffics is affiliated, cycle of earning Money. people always seeks money.

[Lecam]

what will happen if all signature campaigns end,? whereas most of us look for bitcoin through campaigns.
is it possible that this forum will be left behind, ..?
I also may be confused when this happens   

There's no reason for campaigns to end. First, the developers of this site is earning good money. Same goes with the users of this site. So, I think it's impossible for the owner and the users to abandon or close this site. However, maybe it's possible if one day the web site will crash for no reason or if it's hacked.

[jakagintiri]

what will happen if all signature campaigns end,? whereas most of us look for bitcoin through campaigns.
is it possible that this forum will be left behind, ..?
I also may be confused when this happens   

What factors caused no campaign or should close this forum? But I do not think there will be one reason to close this forum, there will be a lot of consideration to be done. This forum is the most powerful tool for campaigning, as omegastarscream staff says,
The more people joining this forum, the better putting a campaign here. Chances are very small, I will also be confused if that happens.

[dx_twisted]

The signatures campaigns will end only If:

1. The forum is closed for one reason or another.
2. Not enough traffic.

Both seem unlikely (mostly the second) because more users are joining the crypto scene and their first destination is these forums, the more users, the more traffic and the more advertisers will pay to place signatures and ads for their products and services.

I agree with you sir. As long as bitcoin lives, more people become aware and the popularity of it increases then I doubt that signature campaigns will soon end.

[OgNasty]

There's no reason for campaigns to end. First, the developers of this site is earning good money. Same goes with the users of this site. So, I think it's impossible for the owner and the users to abandon or close this site. However, maybe it's possible if one day the web site will crash for no reason or if it's hacked.

There is a reason for the campaigns to end.  They destroy the forum's content quality.  However, from a business perspective, the reasons for the campaigns to end would be reduced advertising revenue or a decrease in user participation on the site.  If that day ever comes, I imagine we would see action similar to what I have proposed previously...  Adding a 2 BTC donation level (perhaps contributor) and removing or severely restricting signatures from all non-donation accounts.  This would boost forum advertising revenue and increase donations while providing increased income for those willing to invest in the site.  Doing this before advertising revenue or site participation begins to decline threatens to harm your userbase and thus growth by removing a source of income for new user participation not to mention preemptively firing a weapon for fighting future revenue declines.  I imagine at some point this site will shift gears from fostering growth to unlocking value, but I suspect that day is a long way off.

[cellard]

I agree that there's a ton of shitposters that can't speak english properly trying to get bitcoins. I understand it, because on third world countries, they make more doing so than on some enslaving physical labour, but we have to keep some decorum on the forum. Completely shutting down signature campaigns on the forum would be a huge mistake tho.

There will always be a demand for this, and guess what will happen if you get rid of the signature campaigns: Bitcoin.com (owned by Roger Ver) would advertise his site as signature campaign friendly. This would mean a massive increase of traffic on their site, which would end up in a better ranked website on google searches than this site, and we don't want Bitcoin.com to become the number one ranked bitcoin forum for obvious reasons.

So I say keep the signatures, just ban the obvious 30 post a day shitposters and it will be good enough. It's worth the hassle, you don't want bitcoin.com becoming a dominant forum and believe me, traffic is key to rank good on google, so don't claim you are losing money because people would buy the native ad spaces on here, the better ranking due increased traffic is worth the money, and google doesn't care about what users are posting, as long as they are legit users and not bots it qualifies as legit traffic that will help you rank.

Don't forget that Ver has two goals:

1) Turn /btc/ as the better ranked Bitcoin reddit
2) Turn his website has teh better ranked Bitcoin forum

Anything that helps this not happening is welcomed.

[BLAST2MARS]

For now, I can see that there still will be a lot of campaigns that are coming but always keep in mind that this thing can't be permanent. Posting is not a professional skill so you really need to have any skills that you can rely once it ends.

[Don Pedro Dinero]

I agree that there's a ton of shitposters that can't speak english properly trying to get bitcoins. I understand it, because on third world countries, they make more doing so than on some enslaving physical labour, but we have to keep some decorum on the forum. Completely shutting down signature campaigns on the forum would be a huge mistake tho.

There will always be a demand for this, and guess what will happen if you get rid of the signature campaigns: Bitcoin.com (owned by Roger Ver) would advertise his site as signature campaign friendly. This would mean a massive increase of traffic on their site, which would end up in a better ranked website on google searches than this site, and we don't want Bitcoin.com to become the number one ranked bitcoin forum for obvious reasons.

So I say keep the signatures, just ban the obvious 30 post a day shitposters and it will be good enough. It's worth the hassle, you don't want bitcoin.com becoming a dominant forum and believe me, traffic is key to rank good on google, so don't claim you are losing money because people would buy the native ad spaces on here, the better ranking due increased traffic is worth the money, and google doesn't care about what users are posting, as long as they are legit users and not bots it qualifies as legit traffic that will help you rank.

Don't forget that Ver has two goals:

1) Turn /btc/ as the better ranked Bitcoin reddit
2) Turn his website has teh better ranked Bitcoin forum

Anything that helps this not happening is welcomed.

I totally agree with you and I expressed something similar in my former comment on this post although I didn’t know about bitcoin.com and Roger Ver.

I think one thing is to clean the forum of obvious shitposters and clear spam and another thing is to go too far as to leave only high quality posting and get rid of campaigns which would kill this forum and leave others (like bitcoin.com) the opportunity to take its place and get traffic and revenue transferred there.

[se150401317]

what will happen if all signature campaigns end,? whereas most of us look for bitcoin through campaigns.
is it possible that this forum will be left behind, ..?
I also may be confused when this happens   

Well the traffic and activity of this forum will be decreased significantly if that happens.
Lets hope it does not.

[trplzr]

what will happen if all signature campaigns end,? whereas most of us look for bitcoin through campaigns.
is it possible that this forum will be left behind, ..?
I also may be confused when this happens   

Well the traffic and activity of this forum will be decreased significantly if that happens.
Lets hope it does not.

No doubt that traffic will drop considerably ...
I like the signatures campaigns , I found it very original, I had never seen it in other forums.

[hilariousetc]

what will happen if all signature campaigns end,? whereas most of us look for bitcoin through campaigns.
is it possible that this forum will be left behind, ..?
I also may be confused when this happens  

Well the traffic and activity of this forum will be decreased significantly if that happens.
Lets hope it does not.

No doubt that traffic will drop considerably ...
I like the signatures campaigns , I found it very original, I had never seen it in other forums.

Yeah, I think it's probably pretty much original to this forum (though others have followed suit now (Roger Ver's one I believe)), but I'm guessing you haven't seen people shitposting as prolifically as they do here on any other forum either, because people are so desperate to earn as much as they can over as many accounts as they can possibly manage. Lazy campaigns need to be harshly punished and until they are nothing will change around here.

[odolvlobo]

what will happen if all signature campaigns end,? whereas most of us look for bitcoin through campaigns.
is it possible that this forum will be left behind, ..?
I also may be confused when this happens  

Well the traffic and activity of this forum will be decreased significantly if that happens.
Lets hope it does not.

No doubt that traffic will drop considerably ...
I like the signatures campaigns , I found it very original, I had never seen it in other forums.

I would love for traffic to drop because the quality traffic will remain, making it a much better site. I already have most of the sig campaign posters in my ignore list, so I don't think that I will miss anything.

[DannyHamilton]

No doubt that traffic will drop considerably ...

That would be absolutely wonderful.  Every night I pray to my favorite god for that to happen.

[madwica]

what will happen if all signature campaigns end,? whereas most of us look for bitcoin through campaigns.
is it possible that this forum will be left behind, ..?
I also may be confused when this happens   

I think more member here in forum will left because signature campaign is reason why more users enter in this forum it is the method which give them huge income and this method not requires investment. But me i do not left in this forum i learn lots of things about digital currency and what is the uses of this also there are other method that we can do as our source of bitcoin but i am hoping that signature campaigns, bounties will not end and continue to create more projects in crypto currency and make this forum much give more learning for all members.

[shesheboy]

what will happen if all signature campaigns end,? whereas most of us look for bitcoin through campaigns.
is it possible that this forum will be left behind, ..?
I also may be confused when this happens  

I think more member here in forum will left because signature campaign is reason why more users enter in this forum it is the method which give them huge income and this method not requires investment. But me i do not left in this forum i learn lots of things about digital currency and what is the uses of this also there are other method that we can do as our source of bitcoin but i am hoping that signature campaigns, bounties will not end and continue to create more projects in crypto currency and make this forum much give more learning for all members.

much better if they will just leave because it can bring back the good old forum with good quality contents and yes i agree that signature campaign and bounty campaign are the main reasons why there were more registered users here lately in the forum and i know that they only care about free money and working at home online , joining and promoting those crap coins.  as a result , the site now  looks unhealthy because of their garbage that made the forum looks polluted.