Do you ever click on links in signatures?

[Peter Lambert]

I am wondering if all those links people put in their signature space are actually worth anything? Do you ever click on links in ads in signature space? Or do you just have the signatures turned off?

[greyhawk]

I have never clicked on any signature links.

I may if you'd pay me though.

[malevolent]

I am wondering if all those links people put in their signature space are actually worth anything? Do you ever click on links in ads in signature space? Or do you just have the signatures turned off?

I do click on peoples' links in their signatures (usually out of curiosity) but I don't click on their paid ads' links.

[Peter Lambert]

I am wondering if all those links people put in their signature space are actually worth anything? Do you ever click on links in ads in signature space? Or do you just have the signatures turned off?

I do click on peoples' links in their signatures (usually out of curiosity) but I don't click on their paid ads' links.

How do you know if something is a paid ad?

[malevolent]

How do you know if something is a paid ad?

Show me someone's sig and I'll tell you
Most of the time it's easy to discern.

[No 1]

lol last time I clicked a link I got redirected twice then finally landed on a phished yahoo search page... so yeah clicking sig links is not advisable

[dree12]

I am wondering if all those links people put in their signature space are actually worth anything? Do you ever click on links in ads in signature space? Or do you just have the signatures turned off?

I do click on peoples' links in their signatures (usually out of curiosity) but I don't click on their paid ads' links.

How do you know if something is a paid ad?

I used to have a paid ad in my sid. It's pretty obvious. It looks something like this:

COINFOO.MUSEUM—The first BTC museum!
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[Gordon Bleu]

You can also misuse it to Tip someone, but obviously not from your Wallet
and most People click a few hundred Link's per Day, one more doesn't matter.
I click if i don't know what it is


Most Referal Links got a Random Number or Letters when you hover over it.

[Haro]

Sometime. Just out curiosity.

[🏰 TradeFortress 🏰]

I am wondering if all those links people put in their signature space are actually worth anything? Do you ever click on links in ads in signature space? Or do you just have the signatures turned off?

Yes, people do.

[favdesu]

If I think it's interesting. though I stay away from those huge eye-cancer signatures. they're annyoing, and I'm not supporting this.

[🏰 TradeFortress 🏰]

Bitcointalk uses SSL, so no - HTTP REFERER is not passed through. However, my CoinChat advertisement contains the r:sigad tracking code, and many users are from my signature.

[favdesu]

you could use an url shortener with tracking to record the bitcointalk stats.

[monbux]

I click on those interested worded ones, I prefer plain and simple.

[jackjack]

How do you know if something is a paid ad?

Colors + big font + glow + shared by several low activity accounts

[whiskers75]

I make my signatures colourful, interesting and unobtrusive.
I include WhiskChat (which is basically CoinChat, a service by TradeFortress) because I made the client, and I include Inputs because it's cool. TF has ignored me on Bitcointalk, so I don't think he'll be paying me for either of those
I'd be glad to share the code for my sig, if you want it.

[bitcoin44me]

I never click on forum links, you never know where you will arrive, if the website is safe or stealing your personal data.
I am paranoid, I guess.

[The Bitcoin Catalog]

I do. I found interesting stuff within signatures.

[Raize]

I voted "Yes, but not often." Then I see if you're asking about if people click "ads" in signatures. It's pretty easy to tell if it is an ad or not, and if it is, I don't click it. I suppose the only "ad-like" one I click is organofcorti's signature link to his blog, but it's because it almost always has something of value on it.

[syn999]

never ever