I'm starting to agree with serge , but here's an idea.
 

selling sigs is a lucrative business, but it is getting out of hand.

my sugestion is this - REGULATE it.

I say lensman turn off all sigs and allow people to purchase sigs ONLY through you.

that way you can easily remove those that post only to get their sig sceen, and take a small profit from the entire sig industry.


do I sell my sig - yes. does it effect my posting habbits - not in the LEAST - i'd post the same with or without my sig, but I'm rare, as I know of many people who sell sigs based on the amout of posts they make a day and even an hour. it's destroying the board.

sigs should be a regulated industry - and people should have the right to CHOOSE what sig they want to promote, but it should all go through a central broker to regulate the buying of sigs and elimination of sig whores or GFY will fall appart in the very near furtue.

it'll fall apart either way, centralized or no centralization.

Just turn sigs off, If you dont like those sigs :thumbsup

I sold my sig for few days then I put back my old one because I didn't want it to affect my posting ... So that's a good way. But turning off sig for everybody ? What about my own sig for my own sites ?

What about those who chose to not sell their sigs, or haven't been offered something for their sig space? Do we lose the opportunity to use 3 lines of text for a link to our site and contact information?

why not just say program owners and their employees can only have sigs. and not anyone else outside the company including you? I like my sig and i have never had a link in it, doesnt mean i dont want to keep it.

I have sigs turned off. Anyone else could do the same. Problem solved.

no - you're an idiot - it's not the sigs that ruining GFY - it's the VAST amount of useless posts people make to get their sig sceen.

turning off sigs doesnt' stop the useless posting - which is what's destroying this place. having lensman turn off EVERYONE's SIG would stop the useless posting.


do I give a shit about my sig - no. I'd actually rather see GFY withough them . - and I'm probally the highest paid sig guy here - if not the highest then in the top 2-3.

if sigs got turned off I'd make it up to the person with advertising on my site or refund them then money.

but that also means less page views.. so someone loses money

ahh, but he's loosing the people who come to GFY that are worthwhile though.......

I don't mind sigs in the least. I'd rather someone have a 750x100 banner in their sig than to startle the hell out of me with one of those gaping anal photos without warning or something. But I can't turn those off, I could turn sigs off if I wanted to.

I have only my own stuff in my sig, always have, but I think if others want to sell their sigs, that should be their right. Yes, there are alot of people who only post to whore their sig, but sometimes even sig whores post valuable information. I'd hate to lose them all.

I agree with Maru. Those who don't like sigs can turn them off. That's what the feature is there for.

another IDIOT

lol, he let Amp be a mod, you think he cares about the worth while posters?

*COUGH*

http://www.richardhesse.com/kissass.jpg


*COUGH*

and yet ANOTHER idiot...........

Selling your sig is different from whoring it out for 25 cents per post.

When Lars bought the sigs, he did it right. Pick the big, respected posters and flat out pay them. No posting requirements, no incentives to post a pile of useless shit.

Turning off sigs doesn't remove the 50 dumb ass smiley posts from every single thread.

LOOK MOM, I AM SLEAZYDREAM!!!



http://www.jsbielicki.com/Zdenek/kissass.jpg

btw, my sigs are already turned off. So it's obviously not fixing the problem.

I cannot believe people are having a hard time understanding what the problem is.

i think he does.

remove the useful posters from here and this place falls apart.


there's probally 50 or so regular posters that are somebodies in this industry.....loose them and the rest of the idiots dwindle away.....

the somebodies here keep the rest around.

tell me about it. I can't believe how stupid these people are

I'd much rather see avators than sigs

My sig pays for my beer :glugglug

Yes, I agree the board is being ruined by these idiots doing useless posts to make a few cents.

I don't even come here much anymore. It's getting to annoying to weed through all the dumb newbie sig posters BS posts.

if sigs were turned off, even if they werent paid per post.. people would be less inclined to post at the same rate.

GFY just needs some moderators who aren't blind, or drunks.

Aren't there vast amounts of useless posts on GFY normally though? :)

Cheers,
Matt

Again:

Selling sigs is ONE THING.

Paying people PER POST THEY MAKE, is an entire different thing.

Look at all the paid to post people posting non stop rubbing it in both the mods and the owners face, no one even really cares.

THAt is why this is out of hand.

:Graucho Nice shit :Graucho

theres another 1

i agree, the morons who dont add anything what so ever need to be stopped. a smile isnt worth 25 cents if you ask me, and the people paying should see that as well. eather way, sig or no sig, im still going to post my useless insite on wtf ever the topic is

and serge eats cock

allow the sigs only for people with 3k+ posts

you're right - the way i can see to correct it though is regulate the purchase of all sigs through a centralized GFY broker.

Is this YOUR message board? Why do you care? If GFY goes down in flames, people will go elsewhere. This is the Internet.

As to the 50 important posters holding GFY together; This is probably true. But without the rest of us, the place would become very boring. It's a combination. As to useless posters: Blacklist the ones you don't like.

it's a matter of percentage. before sig buying 10% was useful, now 1% is useful and it's getting worse

Fucking regulate it yourself..

"ignore" on ppl you think don't add value.
and/or
"turn sigs off"

Is it that hard?
I'm lazy too, the shit annoys me too, but...


THE TOOLS ARE RIGHT FUCKING THERE!

blacklist???????

yeah- ignore 500 people and new names every day,

god I hate idiots

WTF, Sleazy?? I thought I was one of the people on GFY that you actually kind of liked (or at least didn't mind)! Geez, I don't know who to talk to on GFY anymore. Everytime I start to like someone, they turn on me. :(

Do you think calling people and idiot is making a worthwhile post? You complain about all the people on GFY making worthless posts, yet you stoop to making posts to belittle people... WOMEN even, because their opinion is different from yours?

I personally don't mind the people that post 99% smilies in their posts, but it's the people who insult other people for no good reason that truly bother me. I don't think posts that call people idiots are worthwhile by any means. They are certainly not constructive in any way.

Geez, I woke up happy and smiling this morning and now I'm hurt and depressed. What a day. I may go back to bed for a while.

you're an IDIOT for that statement. if you don't realize just how fucking stupid that remark was in this thread within the context of this thread then that only PROVES just how STUPID you really are.

I certainly think paying per post is way out of order because it creates so many useless posts -
There is good reason for banning that -

On the other hand, does Lens sell advertising space on impressions or clickthrus or time?

I wouldn't like to lose my sig based on other's misshandling - But there is a case to look at change -

how much does cecash pay for sigs?

I understood what YOU were saying, but I only stated MY point of view as well. I can't believe that YOU of all people would act this way over someone's opinion. That's terribly closed-minded of you.