Changes in signature rules

[WagerWitch]

Thanks for the fix. But sorry, B's call on this. I'm sure he'll chip in when he's back from EIG/WPC.

Awwwwww... come on - I got a fiver here for ya...

[maxd]

Awwwwww... come on - I got a fiver here for ya...

Nice try.

[Webzcas]

I also removed my signature links pointing to my sites when Bryan brought this new rule in. Hence I am now only linking out to parts of CasinoMeister which are helpful for new members here.

I believe Bryan has a links directory on the site or did have, whereby he would consider link exchanges with webmasters. Might be worth asking him for a link trade if this is still running.

Signature links are not worth much seo wise. However with a site with the volume of traffic that CasinoMeister gets they can prove useful in getting traffic from your posts.

To this extent I can fully understand why Bryan brought this new rule in. As unfortunately there are always some people who will abuse the ability to link out in their sigs to less reputable sites.

BTW BingoT if you want more links I can do a recip with you

[lots0]

Signature links are not worth much seo wise.

Very true, especially when Bryan has the sig links 'no-followed'.

WW you might be best served doing like someone said earlier (Sorry I forget who) Put a message under your name something to the effect... "To Visit my cool web site, click my name" or something similar.

[Casinomeister]

Well I'm back and rather p.o'd.

I had no idea that this would be an issue worth discussing - yet here we have a multi-page thread - webmasters up in arms over a policy that changes the sig rules. So in short, you are participating here just to boost your site or gain some traffic? This long and hard about that - that is extremely self-serving in my opinion.

And even when I changed the policy over a week ago, a number of you decided to just drum your fingers, roll your eyes and wait, some even changed the link to a pseudo link - WTF?

Tell me why I shouldn't just shut off the sigs globally, or a least just for the webmasters.

[WagerWitch]

Well I'm back and rather p.o'd.

I had no idea that this would be an issue worth discussing - yet here we have a multi-page thread - webmasters up in arms over a policy that changes the sig rules. So in short, you are participating here just to boost your site or gain some traffic? This long and hard about that - that is extremely self-serving in my opinion.

And even when I changed the policy over a week ago, a number of you decided to just drum your fingers, roll your eyes and wait, some even changed the link to a pseudo link - WTF?

Tell me why I shouldn't just shut off the sigs globally, or a least just for the webmasters.

It's your site Bryan - absolutely. WITHOUT A DOUBT...

And if you want no signatures that is cool.

Reasons (as you asked) - I hope I'm answering the question you asked.


I DO like clicking easily on the small link below other people's posts to get to their sites if I want to. So for me --- about other people - it means EASE of use.


This is just me:


Do I participate in CasinoMeister Forums to boost my traffic? NO.
I haven't seen a lot of traffic from people from CM - I think maybe 20 in a year??? or something like that. Which is cool - and really nice, and I appreciate it a lot... But that isn't why i like it there.

Do I only want "MY" link in so that people want to click on me? NO. I mean -I love it when I get visitors and comments and people using my bonuses HECK YA --- But really - I just think it makes it easier than having to click on my profile to get to that info... Still - its not the real reason why I like signatures.

Do I want to leave my link just for SEO? NO (because I know it makes no major or real difference - the slurpmobile only really looks at one link... For the WHOLE site - RIGHT?)

I guess overall - just like it there - maybe to save people time - or just as a "pride" mark, I dunno.

But still - Again - I really have no space to talk. THIS IS YOUR SITE... And I do see that many people have made links that are horribly blinky or very annoying, etc.....

And I don't know why I'm bothering to tell you - because I certainly do not want to upset you, since I do like you... You're funny as all get out. I just thought maybe my 2 cents would be worth something, perhaps.

I guess I just kinda feel like my site is my baby - and the link is kinda like my badge of honor... Dunno if that makes sense...

To me - my signature now - with or without the link -- I think its pretty - and it's small and I colored it and put an underline to emphasize it... To me - it's my little badge of pride about my work that I have done. Yanno?

Anyhow - hope I don't upset you --- I didn't realize that this was a topic that wasn't open for feedback and discussion - regardless of the decision or final decision.

[zebedy]

Dont people still have links to there homepages here , or am i missing something,
does it matter if the link is below there post, or in the drop down box by there screen name, i cant see how it could matter that much, a link is still a link

[WagerWitch]

Dont people still have links to there homepages here , or am i missing something,
does it matter if the link is below there post, or in the drop down box by there screen name, i cant see how it could matter that much, a link is still a link

Why am I getting Picked on?

[BingoT]

WagerWitch

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Change it to this.
WagerWitch

[dendrite]

Tell me why I shouldn't just shut off the sigs globally, or a least just for the webmasters.

Shutting off the sigs completely for everyone sounds perfectly OK. I think it would make the forums even more readable. People can just visit the profile page if they want to find out about the poster, so I don't really see why people would have issues with it

Something confuses me about this solution to this spam problem, though...

If the reason for disallowing links is simply because of spam, it sounds as if you like the idea of links, but not when they are spammy in their format. If that is the case, then there must be a way to allow links, but to present them in a non-spammy way. Limit the number to say, three links, present them with no colors, sizes, fonts, or surrounding text, but just a simple, plain text list of links that would look something like this:


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http://www.casinomeister.com/
http://www.casinomeister.com/rogue/
http://www.casinomeister.com/poker/