I will strongly advise that you message Royse777, to allow you upto 14days to remove sinbad signature and avatar. You have to wear your project's avatar and signature and also launch a free campaign such that people that are not paid currently for signature will help promote your project.
After 14 days you may decide to return to sinbad promotion while leaving the campaign open.
I don't think he must wear a signature just to spread awareness of his service. For now, he is not making money from this project. It won't be a good idea to miss two-week payments from the signature campaign. He is planning to run this as long as possible. He may invest that signature money to his service to improve it further. Since it's exclusively for the forum users, his service will takeover all other services in no time. Imgur issue already let people think about the alternative site and people already getting in touch with Talkimg.
Moreover, Talkimg already got some support from the forum as well. Theymos added talking link on the help page of the forum. Also, Talkimg are going to have a factoid ads. So, he is already getting free advertisement which may worth more than couple of hundred dollars. If the factoid ads runs for a long time, we don't know how much it may worth.
See joker_josue's post here;
I take the opportunity to inform you that theymos was pleased with the project, and gave its support in two ways:
- On the
help page, next to the images tag, there is a link to TalkImg.
- And we're going to have a
factoid suggesting the TalkImg website.
I would like to thank theymos publicly for their availability and support!