Do you click on signatures?

[logfiles]

I have personally gotten to know and use a half a dozen services due to long term exposures from signatures here. The services I ended up using mostly were advertised over a long period. I don't want to list them but most have been casinos and a couple of Bitcoin mixers.

The long term advertisement for a service comes with a feeling that a service is trustworthy and can be relied on by a possible consumer/customer. To be honest, I think short term advertisers don't feel the impact because it takes time for the consumer to get familiar and comfortable using a service. So before users even think about using the service, they have already pulled out their signatures, and they get forgotten faster than they even advertised here.

[UserU]

Where is this incentive to make high quality posts?   There is none.

Some campaigns such as Bustadice do have a reward pool for the top X constructive users.

There is an additional 100$ bonus that will be split between up to 5 participants in the campaign. The most constructive users will be chosen to share this bonus

But how that "constructive" term is intepreted is up to the manager though

[Beparanf]

I often do clicking the signature of services that I used such as Chipmixer and Bestchange. I don't know but I always want to visit the website whenever I saw the signature from member here while browsing in the forum.

[Yogee]

I clicked mostly gambling signatures. I find it more convenient sometimes since I don't have to search for the casino's ANN that could be on the second or third page of the gambling board.

..... I've disabled them shortly after joining although I have one on my profile currently

I have actually done this when I wasn't on a campaign and I had it enabled after I started. I realized it would be hypocritical to get payment week after week while "hating" on forum signatures.

[btcb3g1nn3r]

after realizing people are posting even after all possible answers are provided already, I chose to hide users' signatures from my preference view, even without this setting, I still wouldn't have clicked any of those banners.

[Darkelf11]

To be honest, I rarely click on signature links. Most of the time that I click those signatures, it probably because I misclicked. I just type the website on the url section of the browser then browse it. I click more those linked photos than clicking on signature links.
I know it's one point for the sig campaign to gain more  clicks and loyal users. But they still can just by having seen their company details on user's signatures specially if they are high ranked members.

[iamsheikhadil]

I think more than just clicking and making some new users registering on their websites, signature campaign companies actually think about the long term implication of visual representation of their ads on users mind. Not every user out there will go and click on the signatures and register and make a revenue for the websites, but since bitcointalk is such a popular forum, it makes sense that visual representation of any company for the long term will generate a great number of users in future because it works on a psychological level! For my personal experience, I clicked on a gambling website signature once and registered and actually won there but then I continued to be a user there on a frequent basis

[FIFA worldcup]

There are businesses that are advertised on bitcointalk in the long term. For example, for more than 1-2 years. Usually, these are the businesses that run high-paying signature campaigns. It is clear that these businesses have a huge profit, from the entire process, otherwise they wouldn't pay that much.

You have already answered this question that signatures are being clicked by many people on this forum. That's the reason companies run signature campaign on this forum because they get real traffic and business from this forum. If this was not the case, we would not see long running campaigns here.

As far as i am concerned, i do click on the signature if i found it appealing and something related to my interest.

[Jet Cash]

I don't click on signature links that are obviously just there to gain campaign payments. I don't believe that most posters use the products, or have even verified the offers. If I trust the poster, and I am interested in the offer,then I may click the link.

[cissrawk]

Yes, but not all signature. Only signature that i find its interesting and most of them are services such as exchanges.
Its really helpful to find some interesting service that i can use for long term from signature.

[darklus123]

That is why if you were the advertiser it is important to know where to post and to know what to post.

Ex: you were advertising a gambling site. By commonly using our sense we should be ramping our post in gambling area because users that are posting there should have the common interest and can be converted into  a lead generation (that is how it is supposed to but unfortunately those sections are also has more trash posters than in the other sections).

This forum is active mostly from signature campaign participants that want to earn their weekly payment, including me of course. These users have an additional incentive from making high quality posts and thus, they do.

Where is this incentive to make high quality posts?   There is none.

I'd say 90% of signature campaigns do not post high quality.

10% goes to the highest paying signature campaign that is currently running in the forum I guess?

If the user is getting a lesser amount then the quality is also degrading. That was based on my personal observation

[shield132]

When you are interested in something, I guess you want to check it. Same applies to signatures, when you see something new with interesting text for you, it makes you to click on it and get the information that you are intrigued by. That's what signature has to do in order to gain your attention and get traffic from the website, their aim is to make you click on it and then try their best to turn you into their customer.

People click on the signature I think that there is another reason why some companies run signature campaigns for 2-3 years and even more. The more you see the same thing every day, the more you remember it. For example, I see the chipmixer here for more than three years with aggressive marketing, they have a lot of participants. When I read the word "Mixer" somewhere, chipmixer is what comes to my mind despite the fact that I knew other good mixers before them. Now, for me, chipmixer is associated with the word "Mixer" and I would say that their marketing worked very well despite the fact that I don't click on their signature link.

I would say the same on Bitsler, Crypto-Games, 777coin (yeah), bestchange, betcoin.ag, Fortunejack. The colours play a huge role too, colour psychology is a great thing, maybe that's why I didn't remember Bustadice (they run sig campaign from 2017) as well as others (but still remember because I just reminded them )

[pugman]

Most of them just blend into the monotony of life unless it's something either truly eye catching or relevant to your interests, though maybe the advertising works more subliminally than we think.

I believe that the purpose of an advertisement may not be making you click it. I don't know about youtube, since I have adblocker and I nearly watch some of them from my smart tv, but once advertisements take place on bitcointalk, the thing changes. I'll talk about ChipMixer, which is the best example.

There are thousands of pages containing posts from ChipMixer participants. Tens of thousands of posts above the ChipMixer ad. Whether you'll click it or not, you know what mixer you'll use if you ever need one. And that's because it is advertised by the most trusted and helpful users of the forum. Every user that will make an account on bitcointalk will find out about ChipMixer sooner or later. Even if you won't click it, as long as you're discussing, you'll continuously read the ChipMixer logo until it's officially "stuck" in your head.

ChipMixer is everywhere, which means that it has achieved the main purpose of an advertisement.

CHIPMIXER SUPREMACY!!!! *evil noises*


Regarding the topic of the thread, I definitely click signatures, it makes me curious you know? Half the time I spent on this forum, I end up clicking on things and get distracted way too easily. It tickles my pickle ok? dont judge. IT IS right there :/

So its more of a personal preference for each person. Like I can assure you that there are people here who click on signatures just to see if the link advertised is a scam/shitiest of the shitcoins/contain malware. Not everyone clicks the site and uses it for what the site is intended for.  At the end of the day, the signatures get impressions which matter quite a lot, so win-win.

[LTU_btc]

I click on signatures, but very rarely. Mostly I click when I see some new service advertised. But I can say that I signed up and started using on several services which been advertised through signature campaign for a long time. So, I can say that advertisement worked, but not in direct way. Similar like billboard in the streets
I always been wondering how effective signature campaigns is. It's not very cheap way to advertise and most campaigns don't even have tracking tags in links on their signatures. But maybe it's not about just direct clicks. I'm not expert in these things, but maybe it's also about backlinks, SEO. Also, they want to stick in peoples head, like billboard or ads on TV.

Ironically I don't click on signatures since I've disabled them shortly after joining although I have one on my profile currently

Personally, I find such things really strange. As said above, it looks hypocritical.

[aoluain]

I click on signatures, but very rarely. Mostly I click when I see some new service advertised. But I can say that I signed up and started using on several services which been advertised through signature campaign for a long time. So, I can say that advertisement worked, but not in direct way. Similar like billboard in the streets
I always been wondering how effective signature campaigns is. It's not very cheap way to advertise and most campaigns don't even have tracking tags in links on their signatures. But maybe it's not about just direct clicks. I'm not expert in these things, but maybe it's also about backlinks, SEO. Also, they want to stick in peoples head, like billboard or ads on TV.

Ironically I don't click on signatures since I've disabled them shortly after joining although I have one on my profile currently

Personally, I find such things really strange. As said above, it looks hypocritical.

Thats it, as some other posters mentioned the sig. campaigns are about awareness,
if someone clicks on them its a bonus. I occasionally click on them when they are new but
only when I am on the PC or laptop, not on the phone.

I liked the OP, some really good points made about posting because you are wearing
a signature and how it creates its own ecosystem and keeps the forum alive eventhough
there is a lot to wade through.

[Pmalek]

The thing about signatures on Bitcointalk is that they all advertise the same things. We don't have that many types of services that are advertised via bitcoin signature campaigns:

- Crypto casinos
- Mixing services
- Exchange services

It gets boring with time. I do my sports gambling on the same two casinos/sportbooks all the time. Therefore, I don't need to click on new casino signatures because chances are very slim that they'll win me over as a player.

It would be really nice if we got some more variety when it comes to signatures and advertisements. That would arouse my interest, and I would click on the links to see what is on offer. I do remember two signatures I definitely clicked on, but for different reasons: ChipMixer and WolfBet.

ChipMixer was and still is advertised by the best posters on the forum and I wanted to know what is so special about it. I thought the blue WolfBet avatar looked cool and it got me to click on a signature to check out the platform. I have also clicked on the BestChange FAQ when the site started its signature campaign to learn more about the features of the exchange.

[Findingnemo]

I used to visit gambling sites by clicking the signatures not from google search simple to avoid entering into fake gambling sites.This is the biggest crypto community ever so there is no better place than advertise any service related to crypto than here but I am not sure they are making money from clicking the signatures on bitcointalk but they are profitable so they can afford to spend long term for their advertisement.

[UserU]

The thing about signatures on Bitcointalk is that they all advertise the same things. We don't have that many types of services that are advertised via bitcoin signature campaigns:

- Crypto casinos
- Mixing services
- Exchange services

It gets boring with time. I do my sports gambling on the same two casinos/sportbooks all the time. Therefore, I don't need to click on new casino signatures because chances are very slim that they'll win me over as a player.

It would be really nice if we got some more variety when it comes to signatures and advertisements. That would arouse my interest, and I would click on the links to see what is on offer. I do remember two signatures I definitely clicked on, but for different reasons: ChipMixer and WolfBet.

ChipMixer was and still is advertised by the best posters on the forum and I wanted to know what is so special about it. I thought the blue WolfBet avatar looked cool and it got me to click on a signature to check out the platform. I have also clicked on the BestChange FAQ when the site started its signature campaign to learn more about the features of the exchange.

Can't blame the advertisers. High competition and the discussion topics are pretty limited to technical and Bitcoin, aside from the local languages.

So naturally the whole thing isn't able to expand to other businesses like food delivery, unless maybe that service offers Bitcoin as a payment. But in the end, those won't last long either.

[TedMosby]

I rarely click on the direct link on the signature. if the signature has a link to the ann thread, I visit the ann thread first.
sometimes I google it first because I need to know what people say about it.
the signatures might not get my direct visit, but still, the brand awareness makes me research more about it.
I almost did it for most of the signatures that I've seen on this forum. 9/10, mostly non ICO/IEO signatures campaign.

[LTU_btc]

It gets boring with time. I do my sports gambling on the same two casinos/sportbooks all the time. Therefore, I don't need to click on new casino signatures because chances are very slim that they'll win me over as a player.

It would be really nice if we got some more variety when it comes to signatures and advertisements. That would arouse my interest, and I would click on the links to see what is on offer. I do remember two signatures I definitely clicked on, but for different reasons: ChipMixer and WolfBet.

Good point. I also play on few crypto and few fiat sportsbooks, and as long as I'm satisfied with their services, it would be difficult for me to find reasons to switch to new service.
I'm also a bit bored about advertisements on Bitcointalk. We have just gambling websites, exchanges and mixers advertising there in general. I'm sure that there is more kind of crypto business with deep pockets, but for some unknown reasons they don't come to Bitcointalk to advetrtise here.