Rule # 7 - Signature in Profile - Allowed?

[nutildah]

When I joined this forum it seemed like everyone had their donation address in their signature. It wasn’t uncommon back then to get a BTC or two for making a good post. Even a funny joke could get someone sending you a BTC to grab a beer as thanks. It was a different time back then when this forum was populated with Bitcoiners instead of professional forum users.

I guess my point is that this forum has fallen so far from it’s original intent that even providing a BTC address now that could possibly lead to Bitcoin use is considered bad by some.

I guess it's mainly due to the hefty fees and the lack of the Lightning Network.

That and the fact that bitcoins were a lot cheaper back then. In addition to paying a transaction fee of zero, you could buy 1 BTC for less than $14 up into the first month of 2013. Bitcoin simply is no longer practical for tipping. So it's not the forum that's "fallen from its original intent," it's bitcoin.

BTW, not to brag, but last year I did get an anonymous donation from somebody, and I've never asked for donations. That was pretty cool of whoever it was.

With Merits, that overshadowed any other "tip" too.

Merits are a fun tipping mechanism but being able to tip posters fNFTs would be better.

[TheBeardedBaby]

Just a note here. We see in the rules that no referral links are allowed, but this applies only for the posts. I've seen people ( and also reported people) who had referral links in their signatures and I was told it's allowed, respectfully the reports were marked as bad ( or not handled I don't remember really but were not approved).

[Lucius]

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Referral links are allowed in signatures as far back as I can remember, but they are also allowed in personal text and the website option. In exceptional cases, such links are also allowed in posts - you have concrete examples in the Gambling board where some members have been promoting their ref links for years.


As for the OP case, I had some experience with DashingAgent posts in the Trading board where he mostly shilled altocins, and for his speculations he expected donations - which in a way is not correct and could be considered begging.

[DaveF]

From my 100% non scientific observations most of it really depends on how it's done to.

Both in terms of referral links and asking for donations.

I have posted addresses for some things, when I did something for some alt coins that cost me money out of pocket. I posted about what I did and essentially said, if you want to send great, if not also great. Didn't do it to make money, did it because it had to get done. Now it's done.

Same thing thing with referral links. Look I paid to get this coin listed on this exchange, here is my referral link for the exchange. However I was always clear that it was a referral link AND I posted an non referral link too. Same attitude, want to throw me a few pennies you can do it here. If not don't worry about it.

I have done the above and seen many people do it with no issues.

When you get to the:
Hi please send money to this BTC address
Or the I need BTC to do this thing or it wont get done, it's a different story IMO then it's just begging.

-Dave

[UserU]

That and the fact that bitcoins were a lot cheaper back then. In addition to paying a transaction fee of zero, you could buy 1 BTC for less than $14 up into the first month of 2013. Bitcoin simply is no longer practical for tipping. So it's not the forum that's "fallen from its original intent," it's bitcoin.

BTW, not to brag, but last year I did get an anonymous donation from somebody, and I've never asked for donations. That was pretty cool of whoever it was.

Indeed, and now we're seeing the effects on Dogecoin too. From a meme currency, now tipping comes with a higher fee despite being inflationary.

And that's so nice of that person! Just curious, was it a large amount?

Merits are a fun tipping mechanism but being able to tip posters fNFTs would be better.

That's a nice idea too, don't mind having some collectibles to show off.