Would be a huge leap forward.
Odd that a community with so many coders, i.e. people who work with and understand closed formal systems, seems set against doing just that. 

Account farming. It's a thing.
Nothing is the root of all evil, we have to settle for making things better piecemeal, symptomatically even.
Paid signatures don't disincentivize spam/low quality posting, so let's get rid of them & make this forum a [slightly] better place.
Then we can keep making it better, one step at a time.

Do you have a moment to hear the Good News of our Lord Satoshi, or would you rather spend Eternity getting buttraped by Demons in Hell?
You must choose, Brother, you must choose!

Gemini, the most highly anticipated, most secure and legitimate exchange, with market manipulation proscribed by strictly-enforced regulations, an exchange with reasonable fees, easily funded via legit US banks ... if this exchange has no volume, what does it tell you about the volume of Slovenian/Moldavian/Shanghai/jhkjhk exchanges? Those volumes are 100% real and super legit, right?

Arguably, a Bitcoin discussion forum could do without gambling, ponzi promotion, selling of warez and stolen gift cards, hacked/farmed bitcointalk accounts, etc., etc.
Just spitballing here...

Also has crabs.

The emperor has no clothes. Never did. Though dwelling on on his nakedness isn't life-affirming.
Let us never speak of this again.

ITT: Guy suggests bitcointalk should not support known criminals, names a [presumably, have no idea] criminal operation as an example.
Responses range from camwhore pimping her site to "you're too stupid to use bitcoin."
Bonus: unholycactus points out that "People also use cash or credit fraud to commit crimes."

Not a single "could we stop supporting crime? Any ideas on how to go about doing it?"

Money isn't magic, not even bitcoin. It doesn't grow on its own, Mike. Don't buy into the whole "just buy my bitcoins, keep them in cold storage, and, after a few years of doing nothing? Hey presto! You're rich." thing. Where do you think the value of your bitcoin comes from, if not from the people who buy them from you? And why would they bother buying your coins, if you don't make them want to buy them?

And people will only want your coins if they think the coins will be worth more tomorrow, agree?

Well, making them think (the coins will be worth more later) is called "pumping," or "pimping." Pumping is hard work (as is pimping, which also ain't easy). It takes a well-coordinated, consorted effort by a large, multitalented crew, with all working as one towards one common goal: maximizing profit.  Successful pumps can go on for quite a while, and the dumping, when done skillfully, doesn't kill the pump--when done prudently, it's not even called dumping, but rather 'locking in profits.'

Re: "honest exchanges": People like to dump on the likes of Big Vern and MagicalTux, but they're the guys in the trenches, doing our dirty work, what needs to be done. They put us on the map. Without their able tutelage we'd be trading in the low single digits and mining with our CPUs.

Dumping is far less profitable without a well-orchestrated pump. People have forgotten that making money is hard work, expect to get rich by just waiting for it to happen.
No harm in rationalizing, I suppose. Missed opportunity is how I see it.

To be fair, double digits are just $145 away.
$1k? $755

Hard to tell from looking at this: https://cryptowat.ch/gemini/btcusd/5min
You decide.

@JayJuanGee, love your avatar <3  Know how people trying to offend & annoy with avatars? Swastikas, phalli--lame, childish shit, but yours?
Love how I can't quite put a finger on what makes it so eww!!!
Props, brah!

This!
Bitcoiners--the ones still around, the diehards--preached bitcoin for so long they're buying their own hype, to the point of actually believing shit's gonna pump itself.
Because mathematically assured, because this thing can't lose, because network effect, because tubs of purple Kool-Aid.

Stop getting high on our own supply! Let's get back to work and pump this thing.

Bitcoin saboteur confirmed
When done spamming our network with your poor person 'transactions,' why not just, you know... http://motherboard.vice.com/read/i-broke-bitcoin

Gemini... Not a native English speaker, but know how you guys turn nouns into verbs? Trend(n)->trend(v); parent(n)->parent(v), that sort of thing? And even adjectives (yellow(adj)->yellow(v))?

Now I was thinking "Gemini limps into obscurity," but not in "walking with a limp" sense (though "lame" is a bit closer, maybe "laming"?), more like the verb form of "flaccid" kind of limping.  Are you picturing it? Like flacciding but that just sounds all wrong.
Can anyone help?

You buy overpriced coffee by using PayPal? I use cash or CC, costs me exactly 0% +00 cents.  Try it!

Hey hey, welcome back! Like your new sig.
The issue is not theymos' banning people for attempting to post his dox, but rather theymos' duplicity, and lying by the staff.

Let's assume that theymos is being honest when claiming that users are not banned for posting his dox, but rather for how and why those dox are posted -- with intent to troll.

The corollary, of course, being "dox posted with sound justification will remain unmolested, as will the users posting those."  And, since "sound justification"" is wholly subjective, this leaves the banned user with no recourse & allows all the non-theymos dox posted on this website to stay up, because unimpeded flow of information and freedom of speech.  Sounds like a win.

But wait, dear reader, wait!  Could an auto-ban script [which triggers on a number of substrings contained in theymos' dox/phone#/BTC address] distinguish between trolling & justified doxxing?!

I reply, emphatically, NO!

I posit the script in question is an algorithmically-governed automaton, banning every instance of theymosdox with mathematically-assured indiscretion and certainty

Normal? I'd say superb!