Some members here are in the habit of advertising their website either as part of an automatic signature or as a manual addition to all of their postings. There have been some complaints about this, so we are instituting a rule that homepage and favorite links are no longer allowed to be included routinely in postings.
Such links can be placed in your member profile by clicking on "Profile" in the top menu. The link placed in the "Homepage" box in the profile is accessible directly to everyone via the "little house" icon found at the top of every post. The profile containing all information supplied by a member is also easily accessible from several sources, beginning with clicking on the member's name.
Those who have links in their signature are requested to remove them -- this can be done in the member profile. Future postings containing homepage or favorite page links will be subject to rejection.
We'd like to keep the AYP forums as focused as possible on the topics being discussed, with minimal promotional distractions.
For the same reason, signatures that are excessively promotional in terms of font size or number of lines may be subject to rejection as well.
After a number of ups and downs on various issues related to automatic signatures, it has been decided to turn off the automatic signature feature.
This will not affect signatures in existing posts, but will prevent them from now on.
I have never used the automatic signature feature, and have not found it to be a hardship. Not having automatic signatures makes for much cleaner and more readable forums.
If you want to manually add a sign-off to your posts, please keep it to a line or two and do not include promotional links.
No Links in Signatures Please
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Posted - Jun 30 2006 : 5:06:49 PM
