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There have been several questions and a few hurt feelings lately about signatures. We altered the signature guidelines in response to the flood of NooB's that came on along with the "Arctic" Here are the new guidelines:
You may have ONE link to your retail website in your signature.
Only the owner (or representative) of the website may do this. You may not have multiple "employees" including the same link in their signatures
You may NOT have multiple links to different products in your website.
You may NOT post links to third-party, referral or bonus type links in your signature
Also, endeavor to make your posts relevant to the content of the thread it is posted in. Leaving unrelated posts in a thread just to get your signature posted is considered SPAM.
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(example of a bad post = Greetings from Israel. )
(cut-n-paste of example)
"Wondering if DX still sells 200mw laser?"
note - this comment was in a thread where a new member was just saying, "Hi!"
Everything below the line is signature !!
(links defeated in example below)
__________________
$36.00 True 100mW Green Laser Pointer
$ 41.18 ASKY 200mW 532nm Green Laser Pointer
$44.86 True 200mW Green Laser Pointer
$12.82 Green Laser Pointer Pen 50mW
IF you want to know about PA, click here!
the owner of <website>, come here not for spam, but for introduction and customer service, I will never give you a rubbish post or thread, all are sincere,impartial,and reliable just as my website
(end of cut-n-paste)
This example has one, short, unrelated sentence in it in the "post." It is followed by over 10 (6 of links along with double and triple spacing) lines of over-sized text that were almost all links to different products in his website
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There are no limits to color or size. However, if it is obnoxious enough for multiple members to complain about, you will be asked to change it
Large graphics files (including GIF's or animations with MANY frames) are also a problem.
Here is an easy "rule of thumb." If your signature alone requires people to have to "scroll down" just to read the thread or have to "wait" excessively for the page to load, you will be asked to change it
Peace,
dave
You may have ONE link to your retail website in your signature.
Only the owner (or representative) of the website may do this. You may not have multiple "employees" including the same link in their signatures
You may NOT have multiple links to different products in your website.
You may NOT post links to third-party, referral or bonus type links in your signature
Also, endeavor to make your posts relevant to the content of the thread it is posted in. Leaving unrelated posts in a thread just to get your signature posted is considered SPAM.
*********************************************
(example of a bad post = Greetings from Israel. )
(cut-n-paste of example)
"Wondering if DX still sells 200mw laser?"
note - this comment was in a thread where a new member was just saying, "Hi!"
Everything below the line is signature !!
(links defeated in example below)
__________________
$36.00 True 100mW Green Laser Pointer
$ 41.18 ASKY 200mW 532nm Green Laser Pointer
$44.86 True 200mW Green Laser Pointer
$12.82 Green Laser Pointer Pen 50mW
IF you want to know about PA, click here!
the owner of <website>, come here not for spam, but for introduction and customer service, I will never give you a rubbish post or thread, all are sincere,impartial,and reliable just as my website
(end of cut-n-paste)
This example has one, short, unrelated sentence in it in the "post." It is followed by over 10 (6 of links along with double and triple spacing) lines of over-sized text that were almost all links to different products in his website
*************************************************
There are no limits to color or size. However, if it is obnoxious enough for multiple members to complain about, you will be asked to change it
Large graphics files (including GIF's or animations with MANY frames) are also a problem.
Here is an easy "rule of thumb." If your signature alone requires people to have to "scroll down" just to read the thread or have to "wait" excessively for the page to load, you will be asked to change it
Peace,
dave
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