[...]The general policy here is to only ban the things that cause issues that can't be fixed, rather than banning paid advertising signatures, we would rather to help fix the issues they cause and continue allowing them, because from the user's point of view, its pretty cool to be able to post regularly and make some bitcoins. [...]
This pay-to-post thing just seems like the polar opposite of what a public forum (in the old sense of the word) is about. Not everything in the world should be monetized just because it can be. The point is paid sig space leads to account dealing which leads us here - more bad than good. This is a private forum, presumably meant for discussing money, not for making it as we talk.
@Quickseller: Not sure why you want to introduce another hot-button issue into a thread that's already pretty polarized. I'm not a gun control crunchy, I've used the example of sleeping with a gun because I had, because I had to. This is not what this thread is about tho.