Dead wrong, Friend. It
is a forum started to advance Bitcoin.
Satoshi didn't start this place for you to scratch out pennies by whoring out your signature, and then lose those pennies to other, slightly smarter scumbags in the gambling section.
Fuck you

Yeah right...
I believe "Satoshi" would've been here a long ago if he actually wanted to put a stop to this. He's not, and he's chosen the admins carefully who think in best interest of the forum. Just wonder how popular bitcointalk would be without all the drama, signatures etc and only "Technical discussion" . The ones who don't wear signature(except a select few), come and answer questions in weeks.
Edit: Thanks.