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01-14-2006, 10:30 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 24  | Your signature policy, your forum! We are having a discussion across the forum circuit on signatures, it seems we have some forums that disable signature links so that guests can not view them at all. What do you guys think about this? Please state your policy in this thread so we can get this discussion going on this major issue to all forum owners!
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01-14-2006, 10:34 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 10,246 Location: Athens, GA   | Yeah...I've seen forums do this before and I'm not a fan of it. I feel like it's discouraging to your members. Face it, the majority of the members here at AF promote their own sites via their signature. That's fine with me, they should be able to do that. If they are taking the time to visit my forums and participate in them, I should return the favor by allowing them to self-promote via signatures. If I visit a small to medium sized forum which does not allow guests to view signatures, I will not register and post, it's that simple. I would never do that to the members of my own forum either. By the way, our policy at AdminFusion says that you may only have 3 clickable links in your signature. Could you be so kind as to adhere by this?  | ||||
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01-14-2006, 10:35 PM
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Title: I'm a MALE =\
Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,143 Location: Michigan   
| we on 4TeensOnly.com allow siggy links AS LONG thay are NOT linking to porno (or that site has links to porno) or direct competition... but besides that thay are free to link to there sites thay like. | ||||
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01-14-2006, 10:36 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 24 | Quote:
OK my brother, but what about images in signatures, do you also show them to guests? Yeah man, I will dump one of the links 
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01-14-2006, 10:44 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 24 | Cool Ryan, now that members are aware of this issue I think a lot of us out here will just quit posting on forums that rip us off and steal our work (content) from us for nothing!
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01-14-2006, 10:54 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 24 |  Quote:
How about I say it for you then Ryan, because that is exactly what it is! In addition you only hurt your own forum when members start talking about things like this! It is a major issue that is going to back fire on forum owners if they don't play their cards right! You can bet on it brother! I am going to make sure of it...... 
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01-15-2006, 07:24 AM
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Title: Forum Addict
Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 1,948 Location: Michigan | I also have no problem with showing signatures to guests on my forum. I see no reason to block them because a good amount of people that visit a forum may never register. At least they have the opportunity to notice a link that might be something they are looking for.
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01-15-2006, 08:06 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 105 | I don't block signatures either. I am a part of a forum that does limit signatures to members who have been with the forum for a certain amount of time and/or have more than 30 posts. The only thing I've restricted in my forum are images in the signature(except for one member who got it in before I made the change). Fortunately, his banner isn't too crazy. | ||||
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