It may be best to remove all sigs anyway.
Well that's certainly one way to stop the sig spam once and for all but it's something theymos doesn't seem to want to do or is only going to do it as a last resort. I don't think we should ever remove signatures from everyone all-together though as it's not fair that spammers will ruin it for everyone else and those will be the people that will immediately leave this board to never return if that happens. It would be best to either remove signatures from all ranks until you've earned x amount of merit and/or charge people for them via more donator ranks.
Yep ban their sigs, slap them back to snr member. But to lose your legendary account here is the loss of all your work. Some have put a solid year of their lives ....solid in hour terms into this board. To have that deleted is massive over 1 copy and paste.
You could remove their signatures until they've earned x amount of merit. Say, if you're spotted copy and pasting then your signature is removed until you've earned 100 merit or so. I did suggest previously that users have their signature banned until they've shown that they can contribute something here, but since merit has been implemented maybe that would be a good indicator of how much they're actually contributing and it gives them a chance to atone for their sins and get their signature back providing they've contributed something here in the meantime.
I'd guess this would be equivalent to permaban for 90% of them.
Yeah, many would probably just give up. My only issue with this though is I reckon most of them will just hang around like a bad smell trolling and complaining about how unfair it is.