It's really not that bad. You can turn off signatures in your settings. And if there were no idiots, no one would have time to talk on the forum.
Hiding the signatures doesn't solve anything. The spam is still visible.
OP, you have a valid point and people like Lauda and DannyHamilton has started doing something about it.
By DannyHamilton you mean their ignore list, or have I missed something?
Yet another thread about the problems this forum is facing won't help anything.
Indeed. There were plenty of threads about this.