I'm pushing for a way to easily disable signature advertising on a per user basis, it would be a setting in your profile you could set yourself. Either filter them by keywords or regex, disable special characters and formatting to make signatures less obnoxious, or something similar.
That would be good! It would also help people using mobile data to disable specific ads.
If one can disable forum ads, one should be able to disable sig ads as well. Since signature ads are so much more prolific it only makes sense. Shouldn't have to disable signatures entirely just because because of ads, users should have the choice.
A similar option is available here:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=profile;sa=theme but we can't disable specific ads, right?
Signature advertising would still be possible, just less effective, and would cut down on the spam without so many users needing to be moderated/banned.
Agree.
It would also mean sig campaigns would need to be much more responsible. If your campaign has lots of spammers in it that you are not controlling, then people are going to block your ads. If your ad is obnoxious, people will block it.
That would be more effective! Is it in the future feature list?
-MZ
Yes, currently you can only disable signatures entirely, which is undesirable. Signatures can contain valuable information. Mine contains my PGP key for example, though I should probably add it to my profile now that I think about it.
It is not in the feature list, though it shouldn't be difficult to add, either as a feature or by theymos later.