Thank you, It's like you where inside my mind.
Very few people here with eligible accounts do not do signature... Very few.
Signature spammers became big part of this forum and in fact, it caused quality of discussion to decrease. Not decrease but basically they killed it.
I, hereby offer a solution;
When creating thread, another additional option should be available and that should be something like; No Signature
The reason Bitcointalk is lively and thriving is because of the signature ads... People are willing to respond to any question someone might ask and the post count is a bonus for the weekly pay for hanging around and being active in the forum... Merit has even added more flavor to this. it's a motivation of sorts
What is the problem with that?
You don't want to have a forum where someone asks a question which takes a week without being responded to, because members are less motived to be in the forum any more... do you?
i have seen uglier forums that are so boring to even be in. You ask a question and you get a response after decades.
The major problem is it's way to easy to create hundreds of fake accounts for this forum. It's a spammer's playground. Something has to be done to make it hard for them to create many accounts