Option to disable signatures as alternative to self-moderated

[LTU_btc]

Well, that's not bad idea. It would help in spammy boards if you want to start more serious discussion there. I see only one downside - it would add much more extra work to signature campaign managers because they would have to check every post of user to see that signature is visible on it or no. It will be not enough to just to look at list of user's last posts.

You could expand it and automatically drop sigs at X pages.

Don't agree with this. Not every long topic is spam megathread.

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I don't think this is needed at all.
You can simply go to Look and Layout Preferences options in your profile and disable or enable all signatures in forum, but I am sure you know about this.

That's different thing. You won't see signatures, but all these spammy posts will remain in topic. Suchmoon offer would remove initiative to spam in some topics.

[Upgrade00]

This would be a good idea if it gets implemented, but I have a few reservations:
- It would likely push more replies to low-quality discussions (threads) which displays signature and the regular bumping would make them occupy the first pages of the boards.
- It could lead to more threads started for the purpose of being used as signature boosters.

I did a quick run through the Bitcoin discussion board and out of the 40 topics in the first page (excluding the 3 stickies)
14 topics were started by newbies,
11 topics by Jr. Members,
2 topics by members,
2 topics by full members,
4 topics by a Sr. Member,
1 topic by a hero member,
3 topics by Legendaries.
Rank does not necessarily determine post quality, however, if the majority of topics are started by newer members it's less likely they would use this feature.

Its advantage is that it would keep quality discussions spam-free without the need for censorship.

[suchmoon]

- It would likely push more replies to low-quality discussions (threads) which displays signature and the regular bumping would make them occupy the first pages of the boards.

That's a good point. If that becomes a problem perhaps bump-score sorting can be implemented like in Altcoin Announcements.

- It could lead to more threads started for the purpose of being used as signature boosters.

Possibly but there are many of such threads already so it could remain at roughly the same level and accommodate the same level of spam.

I'm not saying that the suggested option would add a lot of threads of great content and somehow push spammers off those boards. Probably not. At best it would create more favorable conditions for a few more threads of better content. It'd be up to the users to take advantage of it.

[Findingnemo]

First of all, I like this idea which has not yet suggested here from my knowledge and also I don't think it will be too hard to implement.

It's a good alternative from disabling the signature from the overall forum so people get some incentives while making posts as of now and also people who don't want to get invaded by spam posts on their thread will get satisfied.

Con of implementing this feature: None.