Changes in signature rules

[Casinomeister]

As the mass PM states, I'm killing the URLs in signatures.

The reason for this is that it's virtually impossible to monitor the URLs. Some members either are not aware of the rules that govern these, or they disregard them.

Signatures will only be allowed for Moderators, and i-Gaming reps. That's it. If you have a hyperlinked sig, you may want to change it to text before I turn the URLs off, They will look fugly if you don't.

Thanks for your understanding.

[NASHVEGAS]

As the mass PM states, I'm killing the URLs in signatures.

The reason for this is that it's virtually impossible to monitor the URLs. Some members either are not aware of the rules that govern these, or they disregard them.

Signatures will only be allowed for Moderators, and i-Gaming reps. That's it. If you have a hyperlinked sig, you may want to change it to text before I turn the URLs off, They will look fugly if you don't.

Thanks for your understanding.

How many bullets do you have?

[Casinomeister]

Just so there are no misunderstandings, rule 4.2 is being changed to the following Content Restrictions Please do not post any ad-copy or advertisial language. References to websites are not permitted.

[RobWin]

Fixed mine!
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[aksana]

Thanks, done it.

[mojo]

I never did put my siggy on so no problem here.

[JHV]

To comply with the new regulations, I have removed all my affiliate links to Golden Palace, Cirrus Casino (*chortle*), Grand Prive casinos and...with some reluctance...my signature links to Sluts Alley also.

[KasinoKing]

I wont pretend to be not bothered, because I am.
I am also perplexed at this sudden & severe action seemingly out of the blue.

OK, so I had a LOT of links in my signature, but there was no restriction, so why not?
If Bryan had asked me to reduce them or whatever I would have been happy to do so, of course.

Having links in my signature here undoubtedly helped my websites be more successful, and I really do appreciate that. But similarly myself and the other regular affiliate posters here have also contributed significantly to the CasinoMeister forum success in my opinion.
It was a two way thing; I have links to CM on all the main pages of my sites (that's about 40 pages) - should I take them off now this is a one-way deal...?

If there was a perceived problem why not just limit links to 1 or 2 max?
It's Bryan's forum and I will obey his rules, of course.
But I'm not going to pretend to be happy about it.

KK

[vegetagirl2008]

I had removed all of mine yesterday..I will find a other alternatives to promote my site.

[RobWin]

I wont pretend to be not bothered, because I am.
I am also perplexed at this sudden & severe action seemingly out of the blue.

OK, so I had a LOT of links in my signature, but there was no restriction, so why not?
If Bryan had asked me to reduce them or whatever I would have been happy to do so, of course.

Having links in my signature here undoubtedly helped my websites be more successful, and I really do appreciate that. But similarly myself and the other regular affiliate posters here have also contributed significantly to the CasinoMeister forum success in my opinion.
It was a two way thing; I have links to CM on all the main pages of my sites (that's about 40 pages) - should I take them off now this is a one-way deal...?

If there was a perceived problem why not just limit links to 1 or 2 max?
It's Bryan's forum and I will obey his rules, of course.
But I'm not going to pretend to be happy about it.

KK

The more I have thought about this today, I do emphasize with you KK. It will be the good ethical affiliates that will be hurt the most by this since the next google crawl for me will be tomorrow and my backlink count will drop significantly as well as PR most likely will too. I too have Casinomeister listed on 30 static pages and then since mine is a blog site there are another 128 backlinks to Casinomeister there from the archives and search pages.

The thing is though, our sites will be hurt and impacted a hell of a lot more than Bryan's is here though. The more I have thought about it today...I have to admit too that I am really dis-heartened by this move after all of the time, effort and hard work I have done this year to become an affiliate and build my site up to what it is now and now it will suffer immensely the devastation of losing all those backlinks from here..I'm not just talking about the home page link and a couple of article links I had in my signature either. I'm talking about the 100's of backlinks that were crawled from my forum posts here that led back to my site and google counted...

Just wish I had spent more time building more reciprocal backlinks instead of putting so many of my eggs in this one basket so to speak...no offense Bryan. I'm like KK, this is your forum and I greatly thank you and very much appreciate the fact that you allowed me to have my links in my signature for the time that you did.

The blackhat guys have definitely beat this ole boy now... Life's story and highway, turn left and take the shortcut or turn right and try to be ethical and do the right thing and end up halfway back at the starting gate. Two steps forward and three steps back.
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