I wonder if there'll be mass suicides across the world if this forum ever bans signatures?
I really wish we made it so that you can't have a signature until you either have a ridiculous amount of merit or pay a ridiculous fee for one ($1k or something).
Yes your guess is accurate, there'll be. Just imagine facebook decides to removed its "LIKE" feature if photos and Posts. Facebook will lose almost all of its user so will bitcointalk of their decided to remove signature. in fact I read somewhere that the rate of new members on bitcointalk increase in last 2 years than pervious years. (Most of the new accounts were created just for bounty purposes). Then the merit system was deployed to police that act which it has been successful.