Quote from: alc on June 04, 2015, 06:28:49 PM

With sincere respect to Danny's efforts, he is attempting to win a game of whack-a-mole, which history and logic warn against. I wish him well on his war against the moles, but consider it a distinctly Sisyphean task

Clearly, but until/unless some other solution is presented, this solution at least keeps me from abandoning the forum entirely.

Quote from: alc on June 04, 2015, 06:28:49 PM

- and more to the point, it shouldn't be necessary.

Sure, but at the moment it is.

Quote from: alc on June 04, 2015, 06:28:49 PM

(He also apparently shitcans people for other, more subjective transgressions, such as profanity, which leads to the amusing possibility that, were I to adopt his list, I'd be unable to see my own posts.)

You are mistaken. You are not on the list. I do not ignore people for using profanity. I ignore people for "exceeding my patience with posts that contained profanity and offensive language". I've got a LOT of patience. There are probably less than a half dozen users on this forum since June 2012 that have been ignored by me because of their offensive language.

Quote from: alc on June 04, 2015, 06:28:49 PM

In any case, it's a heavy-handed, all-or-nothing approach to treating a complex symptom, when there's such a simple way of tackling the cause.

But it's the best solution I have available to me at the moment.

Quote from: alc on June 04, 2015, 06:28:49 PM

Nobody needs ad signatures

Nobody needs a bitcoin discussion forum at all.

Quote from: alc on June 04, 2015, 06:28:49 PM

I just don't understand why the glaringly obvious solution continues to be ignored.

I don't know for certain, but I suspect that the forum administrators and moderators don't want to have the responsibility of trying to decide which signatures are valid, and which are part of a campaign. Furthermore, it's the low quality posts that are the problem, not the sig ads specifically. The sig ads unfortunately create an incentive problem that leads to low quality posts, but perhaps the site administration feels that high quality posters should be allowed to benefit financially through advertising for their participation.