There's a duty on forum members to make constructive posts. It's VERY unfortunate that idiots make meaningless comments just to get their post count higher for a $0.15 of payment. However I think the instances of these bullshit posts are few and far between. And while it's fine that forum members report these bullshit posts to the moderator they shouldn't have to! The owner of the signature campaign should be policing their advertisers and refusing payment for bullshit posts. It's the only way that we'll all see a cleaner collection of thread comments and more constructive posts.
Some of the people here criticizing forum members earning income from signature ads are appearing VERY hypocritical. Some of these people (who claim to be offended) even have personal ads in their signature, so clear that their frustration could not that people advertise but rather that people are getting paid to advertise.
It's important to put this debate into perspective so that the right solution can be found...and so that the rule abiding, signature selling posters among us aren't being ostracized for our enterprising approach to bitcoin (especially from accusers who clearly display their hypocrisy in their signature.)
Signature selling helps grow the Bitcoin economy...increasing awareness of bitcoin companies, getting paid in bitcoin, using that bitcoin to buy goods and services.
I agree with you. I really think ideas like
MZ's one trying to improve spam and other abusive posts reportings by paying a few satoshis to users after succesfull mods action can be a really smart idea. If Campaigns donate some of their
BTC to it..this could end like a way to compensate Signature campaigns negative
externalities (spam). Some sort of a Pigouvian taxation without resorting to taxes!
