Links in Signature's

Hy everyone,

I think the links should be removed. This is a blog where you ask questions and look for help. If you want to promote your business  /blog / facebook  page, just pay some money and do it. You don't need to waist other people time by reading your garbage post just to promote your link. Agree for  immediate delete.

Signatures depends on the membership status of the member. It also depends on what type of signature it will be. Porn are big NO! I guess you need to read the Terms of the forums for complete details.

@John   Hi John

Actually I was little bit confused, I am not able to differentiate a non commercial nature of content and commercial content.  If a forum participate, posts his views, reply to unanswered queries depending on his skills, really doesn't deserve to get a link to his own site. Most of the time, when its a forum or articles directory, content are considered qualitative and even get direct link to the article or post.  But if the similar content is posted on some personal blog or website, it is taken commercial. please make me clear.

Thanks

For the reasons stated in the other posts, I believe that very few would want any changes in the present rules and practices.

And what about people like me, who DON'T want to share

their email addesses with the whole world,

and who, for similar reasons, don'

t have a blog, and dont want to get anywhere near to Faceboo

k, Twitter and the like?

If I want to know something about a participant who hasn't included that something in his/her profile, a minimum of courtesy would be to ask that person via a private personal mail.

Am I so old fashioned as to being alone in thinking like this?

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Prismmatics wrote on 10/7/2010 8:35 AM:

I am posting this thread, as more of a voting forum wherein we take a call on whether links after signatures should or should not be allowed.

I am not sure what your expectations are that will happen, but I want to

make sure you understand that these forums are not a democracy. You are

welcome to raise issues that you feel should change, but in the end

Adobe, by the voice of our BDFL, decides on policy issues.

For e.g - when a person signs after writing his reply or giving a answer he can put a signature like -

But the site moderator's delete the links as they find it unnessary.

It isn't so much a matter of necessity as it is a matter of value. Links

you want to add are judged on the value they add for the readers. First

by everybody who reads the message and has the opportunity to use the

report abuse link to report such links as spam, second by the moderators

who act upon those reports.

People would prefer to share their e-mails, blogs, Facebook profile, linkedin profile, web sites, etc.

Shouldn't we take a 180° different direction? Is it about what you want

others to see (that sounds very much like advertising), or what others

want to see about you?

If it is about the discussion, put it in the message. If it is about

you, put it on your profile page where interested people can still find it.

By the way, you should know that hosts/moderators don't go patrolling the forums to look for links.  When a link is removed, there's a very high likelihood that someone hit the "Report Abuse" button, or the offending post has been reported to the Spam Thread in this particular forum here.  Really, the hosts do have better things to do, but they will react when commercial or self promotion is reported to them.

Posting your email in public, where the automated spambots can harvest it, is not a good idea—unless you love to be spammed.

If the link leads to a page where something is sold, services are offered or donations are requested, it should and will be deleted.

This has ben the practice for over a decade and should continue to be.

The terms of use (TOU) prohibit self promotion on these forums.

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Wo Tai Lao Le

我太老了

I think the criterion is whether the link is to a commercial site.

Also there is oppportunity in the user profile for self-promotion.