Signatures

[wimiadmin]

So here's the deal with signatures.

I've had several people ask that I turn on bbcode for signatures. Not going to happen until you're a "trusted" user. I haven't decided specifics yet on what it will take to become a "trusted" user, but posting things like "nice post", or "thanks for the info" just to increase the amount of posts you have isn't going to help.

The idea of this forum is to create, promote, and enjoy a SPAM free environment. Linking to blogs or other web sites that have absolutely nothing to do with IP Addresses or anything in this forum doesn't help our users whatsoever. I'm not saying all links in signatures are SPAM, but I don't want WIMI to be used as a venue to promote personal interests.

I'm very keen on SEO methods and realize having a link to your website from this forum is very beneficial. However, from our perspective, an outbound link to a non-related site doesn't help us, in fact, it could actually hurt our SEO score. Plus, if someone wants to advertise on this site and they see we have a bunch of non-related links, it hurts our ad score as well.

Bandwidth and servers are very expensive. We need all the advertising dollars we can get.

If you have any comments, questions, or complaints about signatures, this is where to post them.

Brian