Quote from: timmey on August 17, 2011, 02:54:41 PM

Quote from: LH66 on August 17, 2011, 09:08:30 AM

In other words, when somebody has a legitimate complaint, such as mine about the porm ad in relation to increasing btc adoption among women, shouldn't my view be tolerated? Shouldn't others tolerate it when I'm saying something they don't want to hear?

Where has your opinion about porn ads in signatures not been tolerated? Some said they disagree with you but no one here insulted you or made fun of it.

Quote from: LH66 on August 17, 2011, 09:08:30 AM

First, I cannot believe that porn ALWAYS helps new technology. That is a very strong statement. I seriously doubt it influenced the light bulb or gasoline engine, just to name a couple things.

If you insist to weigh one's words than of course it hasn't helped every technology. How could it? I doubt that geek-trader meant that word-for-word. But the porn industry did help new video technologies a couple of times. Porn sites developed video on demand systems since the beginnings of broad-band internet technology, even before most TV stations put their content online. VHS was already mentioned.

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Fun fact: the porn industry backed HD-DVD standard, and it lost.

Some studios like Wicked Pictures did choose HD-DVD but not the whole industry. Also, they switched to BluRay later.
The big porn studios and websites were one of the first adopters who shot "movies" in HD with newly developed professional equipment. Besides the format war, the industry knew that physical disc sales had gone down for years and that this wasn't gonna be the future of porn sales. That's why they focused on the internet. Producing HD discs wasn't profitable at that time, they just did it to show they can ;-) The early HD adoption also gave video streaming technology yet another huge push forward(in the technological part, specialized server design, protocol development.. etc). As before with SD streaming, HD porn streaming was way before HD TV series streaming for example. And before someone says "it wasn't porn alone", yes it wasn't porn alone but it had its part on pushing development forward. They experimented with the new technology and helped improving it where others just waited before they jumped on the HD train.

Quote from: TiagoTiago on August 17, 2011, 11:05:21 AM

Just a note here, there are plenty respectable women out there that enjoy porn

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To attract average jane&joe to this forum, Bitcoin must become easier to use. The fact that there are so view woman on this board is (imho) just because Bitcoin is still too nerdy and it's not a secret that there are much more male nerds than female nerds on the internet. Removing my signature won't change this and won't bring more women on this board. I think the number of people who are afraid of getting scammed when doing a trade on this forum or the number of people who give up on bitcoin when they see what they have to do before they can even get/use a single coin securely, is much much higher than the number of people who are offended by my signature porn ad.

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I think the number of people who are afraid of getting scammed when doing a trade on this forum or the number of people who give up on bitcoin when they see what they have to do before they can even get/use a single coin securely, is much much higher than the number of people who are offended by my signature porn ad.