I still think signature campaigns are pretty sweet I just don't want them to flood into the Ivory tower. It isn't a common feature in many forums to have this kind of market place atmosphere that we have at Bitcointalk. I like Ivory tower just the way it is. The other forums may have some additional changes to make them better. I'm not sure what those could be.
I agree it's a place safe from pointless posts.
The point was, is IT proof that we shouldn't make the whole forum like the IT.
Not that IT is no good, or something like that.
It's rather interesting and a good section (emphasis on section).
What really makes me wonder, is who the hell clicks on signatures? Pretty much nobody I'd think, but apparently that can't be so. Campaign managers that allow a certain quota of posts really should watch where in the thread they are making those posts. Somebody making a post on a thread 13 pages long probably will never get read. It is surprising any of these campaigns actually generate any money.
You can't say you don't know about Crypto-Games, FortuneJack, ChipMixer etc.
You usually google their names, but they got inside your head from the signatures.
It's mostly about branding.
My personal opinion is, although there is obviously some negative effects from sig.campaigns they are most certainly good for the forum overall.
They incentivize people to be active.
They help create active threads, sections, SEO rankings etc. etc.
If people need a signature campaign as an incentive to be active then no, that's not good at all. And most of the traffic it helps create is utterly worthless. Watch
Patrol for a few minutes - what's the point of all that crap?
It will take us a few months to see the effects of merit. If that doesn't work out I'd rather see the signatures (and avatars) banned altogether, at least outside of the Altcoin boards.
Some don't, some do.
A lot of people would just follow
BTC without bitcointalk.
Once you see an advantage of posting in something that already interests you, you get deeper into it and create content that might be useful for other people later on (and they'll find your experience online).