What is this the only 1 url per signature??
Why?
When this madness will stop?

First avatars
then link in signature
after that colours
and now this?

This is just absurd.

Please note...
The one URL maximum rules was mistakenly left out when we revised the rules a few month go...

Hi Ckicken

No offense, but that rule is still absurd.

Oh well, its just 1 more thing the moderators have to look out for and moderate.

And 1 more way to confuse newbies ;)

Wonder if Matt was getting his balls crunched by his advertisers.

You're right...it would be HARD to be a newbie around here anymore and not get the boot. Pittiful.

I think it was put there to stop users from simply using WHT as a place to advertise everything and anything their company offers free of charge.

It may seem a little restricting but it is hosts that browse the board most of the time that complain about these rules because it stops them advertising excessively.

I hope you can see our point of view, and i can assure you we apologise for any inconvenience to people that used the area for non advertising.

Originally posted by xtstrike
I think it was put there to stop users from simply using WHT as a place to advertise everything and anything their company offers free of charge.

It may seem a little restricting but it is hosts that browse the board most of the time that complain about these rules because it stops them advertising excessively.

I hope you can see our point of view, and i can assure you we apologise for any inconvenience to people that used the area for non advertising.

Please show me the point of how 1 URL or 2 URL affect to host advertise.
Most host only have 1 url for their hosting bussines.

I had 2, and the 3rd was for a forum.

I don't mind to have 1 or 3, but I think that is absurd how WHT has been more and more restrict with things like this

BTW I support your decission of close that famous thread that everybody has to reply.
I'm bit tired of pointless thread, and pointless message in this board, and I saw that are only 4 or 5 people who do it.
I think that that affect more to the board than 2 o 3 urls in a signature.

Well.. just my 2 cents.

How about if its just 1 business website!?
Like I have a link to another site thats about WHT

Is the next step to charge all members for any advertising in there signature???

Joe

I'm not defending or anything, but I remember when there were no sig requirements and people would post these 10 line wonders. Then they imposed the 4 line rule and people complained...but I thought it was a good idea and people adjusted.

On the other hand, if it's not a pay site or host site or site you make money on, what is the harm.

In a nutshell...it's his forums...his site...his rules...or leave...

I personally think a huge signature is gawdy....but that's just me.

Ok, Matt, I want my 300 missing posts readded to my account. I went from 600+ to just over 300...

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I think the mod's are taking this a bit too harshly. I mean, hell it's a text link, not an animated banner.

Last time I looked at the name of the forum I had the impression it was about webhosting. Showing your companies, websites, personal sites, hobby sites, etc in a link seems to make it more interesting and part of the forum theme, in fact I find it rather useful.

I always liked the look of a smaller text, 4 line sig...

</opinion>

No sides taken but I believe the 4 line, 1 URL sig rule is a good one. When emailing your friends, clients, whomever, your signature is never over 4 lines as that is deemed unprofessional. You also don't go putting over 1 URL in your signature. You usually put your name, URL, slogan, and 1 other thing if you do. That rule should apply everywhere, even on message boards.

A simple readdition to rule affecting only a few (I think I counted 10) members and all this. :confused:

Jedito; what a shock that you're complaining. How many url were in your signature? four?
What's wrong with your name and website address? and if you wanna be cute a quote and smile, or something original, no one really wants to see your site map or list or your subcompanies.

We need to make "absurd" rules because of "absurd" behaviour.
And like I say the rule had been in place for a number of months, however mistakenly got left out when we revised them. We are now enforcing them.

Signature are there to identify people, sometimes with an anecdotes or famous quotes, not for a sitemap, list of sites etc...

>And 1 more way to confuse newbies.

How does that confuse newbies??? Do you want to paraphrase it to make it easier to understand?. I predict there will only be one or two newbie per thousand that actually break the rule and a simple e-mail will rectify the problem. Until I hear the masses complain I'm not even going to entertain a change.

I am considering changing the rule to 1 commercial/1 non-commercial. Or perhaps I should just define what a signature is, do away with the signature rules, and exercise discretion when deciding what is and what is not allowed.

Originally posted by Rewdog
How about if its just 1 business website!?
Like I have a link to another site thats about WHT

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http://www.rewdog.com/wht
Ok, its 2 URLs but 1 isn't a business

I don't see a distinction between URLs and 'business' URLs :rolleyes:


Participants may not use a "signature" with plan descriptions or any pricing information at the end of Forum messages. Signatures must be kept to a maximum of four lines and contain no more than one website address.

:homer: . . . . . . BAD Dog!!!!

<<EDIT>>
Seems Matt musta posted when I started writing :(
<</EDIT>>

Originally posted by MattF
. . . . . .I am considering changing the rule to 1 commercial/1 non-commercial. Or perhaps I should just define what a signature is, do away with the signature rules, and exercise discretion when deciding what is and what is not allowed.Why not just leave the rule as is.
You always receive some negative feedback with each new, or revised rule. :rolleyes:
It'll go away.

I don't even rember if I had 'three' or 'four' urls in my signature. But, one is enough.
Besides; there is a www button too:rolleyes:

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I had 3
1 downtownhost
2 sexy-hosting
3 webmastertalks


I can't see what is wrong with that.

After Matts point of view, I agree with him.

Level the playing field and Make a standard policy.

Maybe even set what they have to be

Line 1 =x
Line 2 =x
Line 3 = x
Line 4=x

That maybe the smartest way to do it.

Joe

Originally posted by SoftWareRevue


I don't see a distinction between URLs and 'business' URLs :rolleyes:


Participants may not use a "signature" with plan descriptions or any pricing information at the end of Forum messages. Signatures must be kept to a maximum of four lines and contain no more than one website address.

:homer: . . . . . . BAD Dog!!!!

<<EDIT>>
Seems Matt musta posted when I started writing :(
<</EDIT>>

What happens in the case of when .com is part of the registered name - eg., webhostcompany.com is actually the company name, and not webhostcompany - would that be classed as a URL?

Originally posted by voxtreme-matt


What happens in the case of when .com is part of the registered name - eg., webhostcompany.com is actually the company name, and not webhostcompany - would that be classed as a URL? I think we all know what Matt is talking about.
More than one thing in your signature directing someone to more than one web site address, no matter how, would be in violation of the rules (IMO).
Rules are not written to be broken. :rolleyes:
They allow us the freedom to present ourselves in a civilized manner.
Without rules there is chaos. :cartman:



:homer:mmm . . . . chaos

Does your signature mean all your traffic to your site? NO. I hope not. Why don't we accept the rules, stop showing off your sites, quit complaining and move on.

<laughing>
Dont take this in offense. Happy Holidays!
</laughing>

And you guys thought the Chicken Death Squad had gone away.

:D

I dont have a problem with the signatures...and people can look into your profile if they are interested enough in your services.
My main PROBLEM with this forum is being a support board for certain hosts....its REALLY gotten out of hand.:angry:

Ok, sorry, I probably overreacted because the situation in my country.

I apologies if my messages ofended to anybody.

Regards.

Originally posted by Jedito
Ok, sorry, I probably overreacted because the situation in my country.
Yeah, that's bad out there :(
Here is the latest news I just read:
(Reuters) - Argentine President Fernando de la Rua resigned on Thursday amid some of the worst social unrest in more than a decade over his government's austerity policies, a government source said. ``It's true, he's resigned,'' the source told Reuters. :(

Added: Sorry, my posting is off topic :cartman:

After reading most of the post on this thread I will present my 2 cents

I buy advertising (not on WHT, I come here to learn). I have in the past demmanded that certain changes be made on a web site to accomidate my clients ad message. Why because it helps the client. I think the most difficult demand I had was a spacing issue.

Is it fair in the case of wht to make the sig modification. I think so. Why, simple.

advertiser pays $ XYZ to brand themselves to you
then comes along joe with 3 different sig's
each one a seperate competitor of the advertisers
joe post all over the forum making sure that his free ad's are seen.
Mr. advertisers now get's a lower response rate.
mr. advertisers then talks to the forum owner demanding lower ad rate due to lower clicks.
Forcing reduce income to the forum owners.

-Sqposter / Michael