New Signature and Link Restrictions

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Post September 13th, 2009, 12:24 am

Oh, what on earth! It is now showing. Never mind. :)

EDIT: I see sig in this topic but not on the Google forum where I made a post. Is there some other rules I am missing?
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Post September 13th, 2009, 12:24 am

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Post September 13th, 2009, 3:04 am

For some reason you had unchecked attach signature in that post in the Google forum. I edited it and rechecked it. Check your User Control Panel settings and make sure you have checked to attach signatures.
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Post September 13th, 2009, 3:11 am

Don't think I touched that option as far as I remember. But thanks for fixing. Appreciate it.
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Post October 4th, 2009, 9:29 pm

I don't think this rule should affect at people staying here if they are real normal human users. It probably does like some people pointed out...

Signature is like a trail, left behind by the poster... something that isn't (most likely) related to the content of the actual post...

Besides, this is a nofollow site, so having a link to your site in the sig doesn't help your SEO rating directly... true, it could lead to more visitors to your site, but to a percentage directly related to the content of your site.

I think that made sense.
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Post October 5th, 2009, 6:00 am

Regardless of the nofollow status, we still have a large number of members and a huge amount of daily visitors. Just having the text there is enough to persuade some people to spatter useless posts across the board.
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Post October 5th, 2009, 10:38 am

Second I believe other search engines such as Yahoo ignore the rel="nofollow" attribute. That may have changed, but that was the last I have heard.

Since not allowing signatures or links for that group of users it has really cut down on the spammers here. So it is working.
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Post December 6th, 2009, 6:31 pm

Hello guys... I understand the new roules...

Just my few cents....... time is money... and I have to say that 90 days and 150 post are a huge amounts...

I do not care signature so much but what I do care is to post sometimes a link to some sample like some website (not necessarly mine) in order to show what we are talking about in the post....

I have just done my first post here and i took out the reference to my websample link so became quite a ''cold'' ''to much code'' post. Is a pity.

Anyway... keep fighting!
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Post December 6th, 2009, 6:38 pm

It's only unreasonable if your main objective is to get functional links posted. There are plenty of ways to get an address across without using an actual link. :)

I'm still thinking this is a good idea.
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Post December 6th, 2009, 7:07 pm

Hi

My purpose basically is to learn from forums.

I tryed a couple of ways to post a link and I have been warned as error, so I stopped of course, above all... why force the roule.

I will post without link till 150 + 90 (big goal!!), probably in the photophorums, will see.

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Post September 2nd, 2010, 5:12 am

Yes 90/150 is quite heavy. As far as the ones here that didn't have to wait that long, I have no doubt their opinion would be a lot different. So I'll only believe those that went threw it.
Its extremely disappointing, I was hoping to see something reasonable.
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Post September 2nd, 2010, 10:30 am

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Yes 90/150 is quite heavy. As far as the ones here that didn't have to wait that long, I have no doubt their opinion would be a lot different. So I'll only believe those that went threw it.
Its extremely disappointing, I was hoping to see something reasonable.

The only people who seem to be so disappointed with the policy are people who come here with the primary intention of advertising links. If that's your only reason for wanting to join the community here than it just shows why the policy is in effect in the first place.
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Post September 2nd, 2010, 5:56 pm

Well of course you and the rest in your boat aren't. Because you aren't and never have been in the same situation so please your reply is truly meaningless. We said it should be reasonable but since as I said it doesn't and hasn't applied to you. Why should I believe you. If I was like you said I would just leave. I wonder why the people in your shoes aren't disappointed? its obvious you can't even guess why. IT doesn't apply to you does it. Anyway I think I said it clear enough but I have my doubts you'd even get it .
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Post September 2nd, 2010, 6:16 pm

I quit using my signature, just to be an asshole.

You freaking signature people are like a broken record. None of you ever come up with any sort of proposal that doesn't amount to whining about the number.

The funny thing is for some retarded reason, every time this subject comes up I come up with some sort of compromise on the moderator forum for signatures and you turd burglars get all huffy with an attitude making me feel like a dumbass for even reading this thread.
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Post September 2nd, 2010, 7:18 pm

Thats what it been about is a compromise but so far I haven't seen one. I didn't even see you either suggest one. If you want one then half .Amazing too how I said it once and I'm accused of being a broken record. Anyway its not just the signature part I seen the links and who knows what else has gone over board. If you actually took the time to look I could have had the signature back in 2009 ? . I just can't stand bias and unfair treatment with no compromise and people never got the chance or were asked like reasonable people would have asked. I'm responding the fud I was just fed.
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Post September 3rd, 2010, 5:45 am

Blade, I think you sort of missed what Joebert was saying. To make it a little more clear, you haven't seen compromise yet because there hasn't been any. However, that does not mean it isn't being discussed. In fact it was Joebert that brought up the discussion, which reading this thread after the fact, I have to believe was prompted by your posts.

If it was up to me alone, there wouldn't be any compromise. You are not the one who for years has to deal with removing the spammers from the board so that people like yourself may have a beneficial and "spam free" board to read and post in. You have no idea how much better this board has been since this restriction was put in place. The quality has greatly improved.

In regards to having a signature back in 2009, well then why didn't you? In my first year with OZZU I had nearly 5000 quality posts, helping people and asking questions when I needed answers. You could have had a significant number of posts by now in which your signature would have been visible. As a contributing member to OZZU I now have my signature posted here in almost 23,000 posts. OZZU has long been my biggest referrer even though our signature links are no-follow.

But no, instead of contributing to OZZU for the year that you have been a member, you wait nearly an entire year to make your first 7 posts, all of which were done yesterday. One was posted to a thread that hasn't seen the light of day in over 7 years, 2 posts were merely comments to threads that were a couple months old and didn't do much to contribute, and the remaining four posts are all the ones whining about not being able to have a signature.

In the time you wasted whining about it, you could have already contributed at least a couple dozen posts that add to the quality of this great forum.

In addition, instead of posting a "normal" handle when you signed up in the first place, you had to choose one that clearly spams your hosting.

It shouldn't come as a surprise that we are neither impressed, nor do we really care a whole lot about compromising, in your specific scenario.

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