RE: Please, Don't Use Signatures in Comments
Hi Hipster
I saw you even wrote an article about it and feel that was taking it a bit far. I must say I am disappointed with this attack, if I was using my sig on your replies and posts I would understand and respect that, for example I don't use them for @ash out of respect for him and his views that it derails the replies. @thedashguy thinks it's great and is using it himself, we are all unique individuals. I represent a company and it is my duty to promote it however I can, I felt the signature was innovative (I think the first on Steemit) and I even streamlined it to make it less derailing on comments. Attacking companies that join Steemit is not a good strategy and overall will slow down the Steemit adoption to corporate.
I have been advocating Steemit to our company and wanting them to be more involved, I've lobbied to have a more in depth article written by our writers about Steemit to go out to our mailing list of 7000+ readers. I have seen people use .gifs in replies and that has been acceptable. Remember @ned says Steemit is like a dinner party and we all should try get along, I haven't attacked you personally and haven't written a whole negative article about you in at any time.
I have only supported Steem and tried to convert others, trying to stop me from expressing my entrepreneurship and creativity is in itself censorship and not in the spirit of Steemit. I have no problem respecting you and not using my signature on your posts and in replies to you, but please don't try control how I and my company uses Steemit.
PS thank you to those in this reply section who agree with our right to use signatures, especially in our own posts. I also saw a comment about proportion in size to the text...you should have seen my old signature, it was much bigger until @ash helped me out, I will however revisit it again and see what I can do to improve.
I do apologise if the signature has offended anyone, you must understand I am very proud to have been appointed Steemit Community Manager by BNC and created the signature to express my pride in both BNC and Steemit. Instead of preparing our next article, I am defending something as arbitrary as a signature, this is starting to become like Reddit...lol
I don't attack you. That is just expression of my though. Here community decide what is good or what is not. You see now opinions. Its obvious that what you do is not. So it is not any kind of censorship either. You still can do what you want to do. But don't expect that everybody will respect it. I put a lot of efforts in Steem and want to make users happy. That is. If you want promote your company deliver good content and do not clutter user experience, please. Thanks that you removed this annoying signature.
Hi Hipster, expressing your opinion will make you money if this post gets popular enough, I think that was the main driver as with anything on Steemit, otherwise why not tell me in private or just on my post like you already did as well, that's my personal view, not of the company. I haven't stopped using my signature, I have not used it here out of respect for you and your post. I will take feedback under advisement and revise my sig, even if one person doesn't like it, it is worth noting and trying to compromise. So "dinner table friends" going forward...what do you say?
Earning money on Steem is the matter of those who don't have one. For those who have there is one more goal which you realize than you will have. Defend already existing capital. Such simple. I did a post because you were not alone. I believe that should be a rule. There will be rich profiles soon here. You will be able to put your promos there.
BTW. Its not a cheap forum but a high value network. And it is already valued because there is no ads and distractions. It is clean and that is why it so awesome. Hope that clear