How did the whole "Sig Whore" craze get started?
 

What program was the first to pay?

What's the History of it all?

sig spot....biotch

actually...it started with "groups" like BP4L & PG4L

boneprone came first.....but i still claim 2nd place ; )

atleast thats the GFY history, i'm sure someone on 0pr4n0 or another board had a fleet before us

i bet juicy knows

I heard ARS started it

There was a program that paid you for sig impressions.... I can't remember the name right now... Way before ARS...

After that a few companies started buying sigs and the sig market was born, along with the sig whores of course...

:)

4 or 5 years ago I paid any affiliate 25 bucks to put us in their sig. Those were the cheap old days ;)

And FREE isn't cheap enough for you?

Fine....I'll be invoicing you for $25.00 now. :glugglug

The way the market is at the moment, people are lucky to get $25 :1orglaugh

I don't think so... A lot of surfers are baking from their sigs right now like squisypimp....

Not to mention all the contest threads that are usually won by surfers...

define 'banking'...

Swoit sigwhores!? :)

I explained this already a few times. How the sig hype on gfy got started:

I had a small contest out of boredom and i said the winner would get my sig for a month or whatever. Nobody was interested i think because back then being in someones sig isnt what it is today. Anyway, someone won, dont recall who.

He didnt claim his prize so i made a post asking that person what he wanted in my sig. Sleazydream read that post and thought i sold my sig. So he then made a thread about it and thats when it all started.

That was after the ARS dialer which skinned all the boards, and were paying wasn't it...

I think this was LONG before anyone skinned the board. Yes im sure actually.

There were couple sigs sold here and there. But it really started when Lars and Lens started offering hte big bucks

i remember lars really starting the craze on it.

>>>>>>>>>>>swoit<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Man sigs were sold waaayy before that. Seriously, that post by Sleazy got it rolling. He was like i wonder how much i can get for my sig and i guess someone paid a crazy amount for it.

Sig whoring in the end is all about companies attempting to get more advertising and more exposure for less money. If GFY charges, say, $1000 a month for a banner spot at the top (in rotation), and you can pay some bored semi-surfer $200 to come in and post 100 messages a day with your banner on it, you are likely getting the same level of coverage and exposure for way less money.

GFY has attempted to regulate this situation by only allowing board sponsors to run larger banners, but that hasn't stopped the sig-hos from finding ways to create small but effective messages to make them their money.

Sig hos are the Zangos of chat boards.

Lars was the one who started buying up lots of webmasters sigs as an advertising experiment which was successful for him at the time. Then it just continued, at the time it was webmasters selling their sigs but now we have a ridiculous amount of sigwhores.

All sigwhores should be banned, they are not webmasters and should not even be allowed to post here. They have got to be the worst form of advertising EVER, talk about seriously diluting the content of a webmaster board

Worst craze EVER :Oh crap Worked well for him though :winkwink:

sig spotting

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I wouldnt mind if all sigs would be disabled...this wont happen though.

Yupp, you are right but small time sigwhoring was invented by the above mentioned I would say. When did the whole Swoit-era take place, autumn 2002 or something?

you'd lose your sig money !

NO SHIIITTT???

HE MUST BE KIDDING.Btw gfy is not only forum where you can sell your sig,on any big traffic forum sig can be sold even on mainstream forums.

Boneprone started it franck....but i'm sure in your delusional little mind-world...you started it all.

Wasn't it TCG who had a bunch of extra money they had to write off, so they started paying people 25 cents a post?

Lars brought that to a new level!!!! thx to him i have made some crazy money for doing nadda :thumbsup

I said Sleazy started it you idiot. Try reading before you bash me. I told you this before i think.

If GFY did want to clamp down on sig whores then all they would need to do is stop links in sigs from being clickable. This would mean that everyone could still have a URL in their sig but webmasters would actually have to copy and paste the URL into their browser to view the site.

That way you have the best of both worlds, you can still know what sites webmasters run and it makes sigwhoring more or less pointless because they'll only be able to drive a fraction of the traffic to the sponsor they are promoting in their sig

depends on who they are - i still get offers for $2K for mine - havn't wanted to sell it in years though

2 words: sig market

sorry, but you have no idea what the market is right now :winkwink:

I didn't read any replies but the answer is Lars :)

See sig:Oh crap

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Good responses so far :thumbsup

didn't likewhoa give away free hosting back in the day in return for a sig spot? I'm not sure who started it but it's been around for a while.

O'RLY???

No idea who started it, but it rescued many boards from extinction and - for better or worse - made a board like GFY possible. Let's face it... probably fewer than 5% of the posts on this or any other board would appear if sigs were banned and/or people were not paid to post.

everyone seems to be selling their sigs these days...

I post for beer

It started when someone got bored and decided to devote their whole life posting on various boards. :)

Lars started the craze

orly? :1orglaugh :1orglaugh