Non-Profit Forum Signatures Initiative [+ Overview]

[uchegod-21]

I thought it could be a good idea to have a dedicated thread for any worthy projects that members who are not participating in paid-for signature campaigns could advertise in their signatures.

Are you suggesting that it is good to have a thread for non profit signatures or you have already created the thread. Being the op. If you are making suggestions for such, this post is ok here in meta. But if this is the thread about non profit signatures, it is not appropriate here, you may decide to open the thread in service announcement or service discussion board.

Also, since the majority of the community support the idea, you can lock this thread and open a new one to serve the purpose in service board.

[Sandra_hakeem]

That's a good one from pawal.
I've been in atleast one of those non-profit signature campaigns... Bitcoincleanup was really thing... Since it was about stoping/cleaning up the FUD and stupid lies that caused alot of stir and created pessimism in the whole bitcoin ecosystem. Unfortunately, I was in an active campaign - Trustdice.

However, since I had an intention of promoting one of those projects, peachbitcoin became a good option. Most accounts are temporarily out of campaigns; if we've got a thread to let them choose from it, then that's cool.

NotYourKeys.org - Community Contribution Avatar Campaign

I never knew there was a campaign like this, honestly 

[pawel7777]

Just a bump and a heads-up: I've just added to the OP a quick overview of all the suggested projects/initiatives for which signatures have been designed.
So far we have a total of 4, but if anyone has any more to add, please share.

Also, if you have any ideas of things worth promoting, feel free to post them here, maybe we can get a signature designed for it etc.

[noormcs5]

Just a bump and a heads-up: I've just added to the OP a quick overview of all the suggested projects/initiatives for which signatures have been designed.
So far we have a total of 4, but if anyone has any more to add, please share.

Also, if you have any ideas of things worth promoting, feel free to post them here, maybe we can get a signature designed for it etc.

I really like this initiative and all those who aren't in any signature campaign should wear these signatures and help for the awareness/cause.

I didn't know how to design a signature but if i knew, I would have made a signature for a public service message for appealing for humanity to have peace in the world and no war in the current times where we are so near to a world war  

[examplens]

Just a bump and a heads-up: I've just added to the OP a quick overview of all the suggested projects/initiatives for which signatures have been designed.
So far we have a total of 4, but if anyone has any more to add, please share.

Also, if you have any ideas of things worth promoting, feel free to post them here, maybe we can get a signature designed for it etc.

I'm not sure what you wanted to point out here, these are the offered signatures for volunteers and there is no fee for wearing them. However, apart from councleanup, all other services are commercial services.
I think you can wear any signature (even some from regular, paid signature campaigns), so I see no reason to attach importance to it.
As far as I know, some managers and similar services have their signature codes and everyone is free to use them voluntarily

[pawel7777]

I'm not sure what you wanted to point out here, these are the offered signatures for volunteers and there is no fee for wearing them. However, apart from councleanup, all other services are commercial services.
I think you can wear any signature (even some from regular, paid signature campaigns), so I see no reason to attach importance to it.
As far as I know, some managers and similar services have their signature codes and everyone is free to use them voluntarily

The Bitcoin.org probably also falls under non-commercial project (depending on how we define such) but I do understand your point.
Generally speaking, this thread is for "worthy" projects/initiatives that benefit bitcoin (or wider) community and that people might choose to support even without any financial compensation.
Sure, what is or isn't "worthy" is highly judgemental, just as the line between purely commercial projects and those run primarily for the good cause can be blurry. But just because we cannot define that super-precisely is not necessarily a reason to not have such topic.
Personally I'm happy to promote any good projects for free when I'm not participating in any campaign and hopefully others do too, so I think there is a case for having some sort of summary of such.

[satscraper]

very nice idea pawel7777

i remember making one for Bisq Market Day

i would be happy to help and create/design signatures for free, for any non-profit, or community initiatives
if anyone have any suggestion or needs one, let me know.

Bisq  definitely deserves the high profile here on forum. Would be nice if you modify your "Market Day" signature, reflecting several  important features of this p2p exchange  like its fully decentralized nature,  DAO on bitcoin blockchain,  open-source app and  commitment to TOR.

I'm active bisq/bisq2 user and as a matter of fact was thinking of designing such signature by myself but my  lack of experience in bbcoding ( specially logo images) would make this process a bit lengthy.

Thus, If you design such signature I will wear it with the pleasure at the time when my relevant space is free.

[nakamura12]

This is a good initiative mate since the threads in the service board for the non-profit signature campaign will get buried by other threads and you will have to see the next page unless it is bump by a forum member just like what icopress did with peach bitcoin sig thread.

[pawel7777]

This is a good initiative mate since the threads in the service board for the non-profit signature campaign will get buried by other threads and you will have to see the next page unless it is bump by a forum member just like what icopress did with peach bitcoin sig thread.

Thanks.
Yeah, I think Meta is much more suitable as this thread is not about any specific service and could potentially include all kinds of other initiatives. In fact, there are already 2 of them that don't fall in the Service category: BitcoinCleanUp and Bitcoin.org (unless we want to classify providing information as a service).

And I think the mods have agreed since the topic is still here.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

This is a good initiative mate since the threads in the service board for the non-profit signature campaign will get buried by other threads and you will have to see the next page unless it is bump by a forum member just like what icopress did with peach bitcoin sig thread.

It's a good initiative indeed, but it can only be complete if this thread gets pinned to the top on this board, else, I did say that every thread gets buried and this one will likely get buried too if for some reasons, op stops being active on this thread and other users stop commenting here as well.

You will agree with me that several good initiatives like this have been started on this forum; on different boards before, but it takes good discipline and great dedication for the op not to lose interest as time goes by.

[EarnOnVictor]

This is a good initiative mate since the threads in the service board for the non-profit signature campaign will get buried by other threads and you will have to see the next page unless it is bump by a forum member just like what icopress did with peach bitcoin sig thread.

That's a good point, anyway, having a dedicated thread as some had said might be the best approach to this which could be bumped once in a while as we often see users do on some threads. Of course, these projects are worth advertising but the lack of incentive attached to it is the issue.

I resolved to that suggestion as best because after reading what everyone wrote on this thread, I discovered that almost all who supported it are in campaigns and I believe that they will also prefer to change to another paid campaign if anything happens to the current one rather than a free service.

For this, you will only be seeing support for these projects by lip and not by action. The only time you may see otherwise is when a concerned user is not yet favourable to joining a campaign.

[skarais]

Looks like @icopress has opened another one of its non-profit signature campaign. Each participant who joins is only expected to post their username, he also makes rules that may disqualify users from the campaign if they post spam or other bad things.

⭕ BitList.co | Signature Campaign | OPEN

Short description of the campaign:

The content provided on BitList about .Mixers, Exchanges, Services, Casinos, Crypto Cards. is for informational purposes only. All submitted websites are reviewed by the community. If you notice a discrepancy or want a new site added to the registry, please report it in this thread. Feedback is welcome! ^[𝑖]

[pawel7777]

It's a good initiative indeed, but it can only be complete if this thread gets pinned to the top on this board, else, I did say that every thread gets buried and this one will likely get buried too if for some reasons, op stops being active on this thread and other users stop commenting here as well.

It's probably not the kind of topic that would get pinned. I'll try to bump it every now and then if it gets buried hopefully with some update. But I think if enough people have it on their watchlists, if they make use of it when they're outside of any paid campaign, and if they post something from time to time, there's a chance it could stay afloat.

But if it doesn't get any traction and dies, so be it. At least we tried

Looks like @icopress has opened another one of its non-profit signature campaign. Each participant who joins is only expected to post their username, he also makes rules that may disqualify users from the campaign if they post spam or other bad things.

⭕ BitList.co | Signature Campaign | OPEN

Short description of the campaign:

The content provided on BitList about .Mixers, Exchanges, Services, Casinos, Crypto Cards. is for informational purposes only. All submitted websites are reviewed by the community. If you notice a discrepancy or want a new site added to the registry, please report it in this thread. Feedback is welcome! ^[𝑖]

Thanks! I've added it to the OP.

[nakamura12]

I thought that the thread would be look like the same as you can see below even though I don't have any problem or issue as what it is shown in OP. It's your thread so it's up to you on what you want to do with it.

Overview of Bitcointalk Free/Non-profit Signature-Ad Campaigns
The following abbreviations will be used for campaigns (where applicable):

Campaigns:
OFAWP	||	Open for all who participate
Term:				Ranks:
free/non-profit	||	free		L	||	Legendary Member
free/non-profit	||	free		H	||	Hero Member
free/non-profit	||	free		S	||	Senior Member
free/non-profit	||	frer		F	||	Full Member
free/non-profit	||	free		M	||	Member
				J	||	Junior

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[pawel7777]

Thanks nakamura12. I appreciate the effort but I'll stick to the current look, as most of those columns are not really relevant for non-paid signatures. I think displaying actual signatures is a better approach.

[paid2]

Great initiative OP!
I've been thinking for a while about creating signatures to support non-profit projects that could be used between campaigns.

I was thinking of a signature with a link to donate to the Tor Project in crypto/Bitcoin, one for SimpleX, etc... My goal would be to have a thread offering a dozen or so signatures of this type, so that anyone who wants to can find a signature they like. There are an huge number of projects to support, which sometimes offer us the means to enjoy our freedom.
Unfortunately, for now, I still haven't had the time to create the signatures but I will try to do it before the end of the summer.

[nakamura12]

Thanks nakamura12. I appreciate the effort but I'll stick to the current look, as most of those columns are not really relevant for non-paid signatures. I think displaying actual signatures is a better approach.

I fully understand. As you can read on that post, I clearly explained that it's up to you and I don't mind whatever you want the OP to look like. I only thought that it would look like it or similar.

[skarais]

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Thanks! I've added it to the OP.

Unfortunately, I can no longer find the non-profit campaign thread above. It may have been deleted or moved to a restricted section, that's the message I get when I try to access the url. If this is removed for some reason, then you can remove it from the OP.

I hope I'm not missing something, but here's the message when I try to access the thread.

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I hope I'm not missing something, but here's the message when I try to access the thread.

I wouldn't be surprised if this signature is disallowed in line with the mixer promotion ban. Mixers are certainly an important part of the site, so in a way it can be considered as a promotion of links to mixer sites.

It looks like a match to this

But there seems to be some confusion around promotion. It would be allowed to post even a positive review thread for ExampleMixer, just as long as you don't post the UR]L and you don't violate the other rules. Promotion is only disallowed in signatures, avatars, and profile-bios; not posts.

[goldkingcoiner]

I like this idea!

And while the idea is great, I think perhaps we can add to it.

Non-profit does not necessarily have to mean non-reward. What if we added non-monetary rewards?

For example: Participants get paid in special tokens, which they could trade in for special Bitcointalk badges (comparable to the pizza badge or art contest badge)?

This would incentivize the participation, I think. And I am sure Theymos would not mind adding a badge or two for the sake of a good thing. And the participants would receive  well-deserved acknowledgment from the community for doing charity.