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I have plenty of people on my site that even list there homepage in the signature and have yet to edit any of that. I figure the more recovery sites that we have the more help for everyone. Just wondering I guess.
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We have 33,000 members and close to 8,000 active members. The no links in signature rule came about when we had code in the links in signatures that hijacked threads to porno sites and prevented us from even editing the thread.
We had spammers signing up for the sole purpose of advertising their sites in their signatures though links or other methods.
We had links to sites in signatures that were inappropriate.
We had counters and signature images that contained code from other sites.
We had members posting numerous posts every month or so just to recruit our members to their forum and it was their only reason for being here. They were using us as a search engine.
Right now we have 5 to 10 spam bots register a day for the sole purpose of spamming the forums.
I've seen entire google links redirected to another site due to code put into a guest book on the original site.
We don't have time to look through every post and moderate every signature link. We have an average of 1200 posts per day. There is a place to safely post your link in your profile. We've left that option open to everyone. Spammers don't usually hit the profile page for some reason.
We allow up to 3 images in signatures and a quote, phrase, or actual signature. All advertisements, links, broken links, or promotional messages in signatures will be removed when we see them.