I support the idea of ignoring signatures with keywords. I could add the keyword "ponzi" or "cloud mining" to my profile and all signatures containing those keywords will hide. I could do the same for a particular signature which hurt my eyes

IMO, the forum should disable large font size and glow to be used in signatures.

Sure, people should have an option to ignore sigs, just like they have an option to use addblock on other sites, especially since sigs are sometimes bigger than posts
That said, it's funny that this forum is full of wannabe economists and people screaming about freedom of speech but some of them run to the authorities (admins in this case) asking to ban the campaigns. On one hand you believe in capitalism and free market laws and on the other want the higher power to help you.

I suppose these changes will be applied in the new forum software (because the thread is here). It will "no-sense" to add this feature on this forum (based on smf) because in a couple of months we will migrate to the new epochtalk forum software, so at the end it will be a "waste" of time.

So you seem pretty confident that this is actually going to happen.  I guess I began to dismiss all such talk about 6 or 8 months ago when even then it seemed that the speaking of new forum software was already supposed to have happened some time ago.  I recall a lot of drama about people who donated money to see it happen and they were sad/pissed off that we were still on smf.

Will this be implanted in the new forum or will we start doing this right now?

Got the answer.

I think filtering the sig ads with keywords is good, maybe a site you already know and use, you could filter that.

But maybe add a rank exclusion? Such as newbies or junior members can't do this, just as only hero member and above can block the forum ads.

And doesn't advertising ruin the concept of signature?

Oh I see, you have an ad.

Hilariousandco, are you "hilariousandco" and "hilariousetc"? In this series of quotes "hilariousandco" says "I'm just proposing the option to get the design pre-approved beforehand..." but it was "hilariousetc" that said it.

As for the topic at hand, the ignore individual's signature is the most direct way to fight the too many advertisements issue. And since the code exists to ignore an individual's posts and code exists to ignore signatures, you can surely revise and blend the two to have code to ignore a specific individual's signature. That said, the greatest offense people are feeling is not the signature/ads, it's the content of the post. If fewer people wrote frivilous posts (i.e., repeating answers already provided, not providing thorough comments, providing off-topic comments) the threads would not be as littered with advertisements (because there wouldn't be as many posts to each thread.) The existing "ignore" user is the most effective way to ignore the spam-heavy posters, and it's already available!

In the new forum, surely it would'nt be too much to implement a simple 'box' where the sig would be, blockable by the user, using right click? Then admins dont need to worry about what is what, the user block or not?

disabling or filtering sig ads can reduce post spammers yes, but it will decrease helpful post too even a little.. but for me, maybe the option to filter sig ads can only be enabled and disable based on the forum rank of the user.. the higher the rank the more option/s they will have