I criticized them for it already. it's fine to use a signature in posts for all I care, but it's extremely derailing in comments as they are now

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

Completely agree, this in my opinion creates too much distraction from the actual content at hand. Seriously you are a community manager, nobody really cares that much about you to be honest.

Although I do believe that steemit should implement a profile section in which it displays stats, other social accounts, website and a description, this would deter people from having to write who they are or use signatures.

Wow just woke up to this. Ok well i didn't realize the community felt so strong about this. My intentions really are only to create awareness to the Crypto community that is it. I am very new to the crypto community so i am still getting my feet wet but my understanding is to try and spread the word as much as possible, and all my links are  helping new users, so it is not for a  monetary gain at all.  I think rather than creating a post though to  financially gain from this, it would have been more appropriate to contact me directly. But i can see everyone's point and i don't want to create or display anything that will cause a negative effect in the Steemit community:).

I think it shouldn't be allowed in the comment section. But in submissions you would be free to do so.

I can agree that I don't like it...but they are using the platform in a correct manner. It's the same as if you replied with a video, gif, jpg, etc...

I've no problem if it's just a little rect 12x12px but yeah that's way too big.

Отчасти согласен. Если каждый начнет лепить такие огромные подписи, то читать комменты станет невозможно. 

С другой стороны, на форумах подпись - это нормальное явление, то там можно её ограничить.

On the one hand it's their posts and nobody can tell them what to do with them, though downvoting/flagging is always an option.

On the other I can see that it's already become a link spamming endeavor and the logical conclusion is a bunch of low value comments everywhere with loud and spammy images linking to anything but something relevant. The Bitcointalk forums are a perfect example of this.

Thanks for bringing this up, I think low value comments with these loud signatures should be discouraged with downvotes. Discretion should be used if the comment is worthwhile and on topic though. 

For instance, it looks like @bravenewcoin's comments are high value and on topic, although I find the image to be pretty big compared to the size of the text. I hope some reasonable balance can be achieved.

Thanks, I'm fighting spam,copy pasta and annoying comments like a MOFO. We don't want SteemIT to become the next low quality website no one visits.

Well I completely agreed with you. They just tie-in their blog every where.

It is indeed adding visual "noise" when repeated in comments.

I believe this is a wrong  method in decent online community.

Ya true. This is not a advertising community like Facebook. So better make it simple.

*Much Ado About Nothing* 
I personally have nothing against signatures and referral links, I consider them to be parts of *CryptoTalks boards* traditions :-)

@hipster I think your *power* deserves much better and creative application than *anti-signature struggling*