LH66, you have made several good points.  This forum is pretty troll infested.  Why do you think bitcoin.org moved us into the ghetto?

However, I do take issue with your objection to *text* porn links in member's sigs.  Porn has ALWAYS helped new technology.  It spurred the adoption of the VHS player.  It certainly helped the internet become popular.  This article http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2002/mar/03/internetnews.observerfocus even argues it drove adoption of mobile phones.

Bitcoin is a liberating technology.  It frees us from government control.  This means a lot of things, but some of the things it means is we are free to spend it as we wish, on gambling, and donations to organizations the government would rather did not exist (wikileaks), and yes, on porn.

Also, many bitcoin supporters lean libertarian.  I am one.  A liberal-libertarian, but libertarian none the less. Libertarians HATE to be told what to do.  We especially hate it when it's the government doing the telling.  So, we love free speech.  That means that, if we want to say what we want to say, we must tolerate it when other people say things we don't want to hear.

That doesn't mean we can't argue with them.

I also would not recommend this forum to many of my friends.  There are a lot of asshats here.  But they are asshats to everyone.

Eventually, bitcoin will get a forum thats a lot less toll infested.  Some users are working on this one: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/30763/bitcoin-crypto-currency

Thanks