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Policy Change: User Signatures

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CarpeDiem:
Arantor, you seem to say about the potential lack of URLs I propose, "Very soon the community feels empty, since its only contents are what the people who are posting bring to it", but I disagree with this statement, as this is the very gold that people bring.  It's what people say that's important, not the flags and banners they wave.

You also say "No sharing of ideas from outside, no sharing of funny moments, just purely what each person has to give", but I don't think URLs do that; I think it's in their posts, in the very words that they write, that they do this sharing the most.  "Out there" in URLs is not where I see this happening in what I've seen here thus far.

I agree I don't know how best to handle the URL abusers, but taking hold of the abusers is nearer my heart than being tough on good people (I just hate going that route).

Arantor, I'm not disagreeing with you; I just think you feel that URLs bring more to the discussion than what I see in the SMF forum I've viewed (but you've certainly seen more of the forum than I have, so you're the experienced guide in this interaction and I'm the new scrappy hiker who just joined the trek who is definitely opinionated and questions and questions, and says "Let's go this way", "Let's go that way"...so I'll try to calm down and listen -- while I'm running in place!).

SleePy:
We are working on a solution to the links issue, but I don't know if it will change profile restrictions.
As a note, these are human spammers. The captcha and other tools SMF has built in to stop spam bots does not work against them.

In the mean time while we work on a solution, please just hang tight.

JBlaze:
The problem is this. This is a huge forum, and we have a limited amount of Team Members that can actively handle spam, etc. The Team is more focused on helping the community with issues, troublshooting, etc.

The point is, I don't disagree with the no-sig-until-you-made-10-posts rule. In fact, I believe you have to earn the right to have a sig. No point in having one if you are going to never post again after say 5 posts.

To get to your point about the Showcase, all posts there have to be approved, so there is no problem with linkage there. All links are checked and sites validated before the post is approved.

On a final note, spammers are the reason why forums, as well as other community-like sites, have to implement such rules. So blame them.

This is just my 2 cents. Take it how you will.

Regards
JB

JoeBowlerson:
Bummer.
I really wanted to spam here...

JBlaze:

--- Quote from: JoeBowlerson on June 30, 2009, 07:51:47 PM ---Bummer.
I really wanted to spam here...

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