New Rules Regarding Links In Signatures As From Today
 

Rule Changes To Forum Signatures

The moderating staff have decided that the current rules for what is and isn't allowed in signatures is rather murky & confusing so we have decided to review the rules and as from today the following will apply.

If you have been a member of the forum for over 3 months nothing has changed to affect you so none of the below will apply to you.

If you have just joined us we ask that for the first 3 months of your stay here any links in your signature will have to be moderator approved. You do not need to do anything to get approval just put your link up, if it breaks any rules it will be removed and you will be informed why. If you ignore this warning your account will be banned.


For your first 3 months here only the following links will be approved.

• Last FM charts
• Any other social media sites as long as they are PERSONAL ones and not an outlet for music

Links that will not be approved that you may include after you have been here for 3 months

• Band Websites,
• Band Facebook pages
• Any music streaming sites
• Personal Blogs
• Youtube channels

You may also post links to

• Professional websites
• Professional blogs

On the condition you are not affiliated with them. This will be at the moderator's discretion based on your posting history.


And finally, links that are banned and will get you an instant ban if you include them

• Profit making websites
• Pornography
• Any sort of advertising
• Any links related to items for sale

Also adding a youtube videos to your signature is annoying. You won't be banned but it will be removed.

Please remember this all at the moderators discretion and our decision is final.

Thank You

Wait, so after 3 months, I can put links to pornography in my signature?

The last list is ones that will get you banned regardless of if you've been here 3 minutes or 3 centuries.

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Like Right-track? :laughing:

Cheeky ^

Dude, Urban's been here longer. I think he might have joined this site on an ENIAC.

What's an ENIAC? :confused:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...85px-Eniac.jpg

Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer

basically one of the first official computers.

And that's only half of it in that photo!

I can assume then, that those are the world's first two nerds? :laughing:

nah the first was Charles Babbage

I'm kinda confused about the advertising part. Surely there are forms of advertising one could include that wouldn't be objectionable? Say for example I set up a website for my professional portfolio, or if I were to become involved in a business venture entirely my own.

Would that be entirely inadmissable as it's advertising, or would there still be the traditional leeway extended if it were a longstanding member such as myself?

All of that is advertising. Especially anything that you will make a profit from - so no linking to any personal business sites. We already perma ban people for that.

What if it's just like some dude's Deviant Art page (or whatever)? I mean, they're not really getting money from it and it's not like we've got fifty million people showing up just to advertise their Deviant Art page.

This is just me being curious, BTW. I don't actually have a Deviant Art page.

I would say that new members should err on the side of caution. If you've been a member less than 3 months and you think the link you want to post might be in a gray area, don't post it.

I'd put DeviantArt in the same category as personal blogs or soundcloud pages.

This is intense they aren't fooling around

Good initiative and job clarifying those rules.

I can't even remember what I have in my sig.

The idea is that in three months, you will have become a contributing member to the forum. It is not enough to abandon your account for three months and return with your link being the only thing you've given to us.

By all means, get to know us. We're not so bad.

You haven't contributed anything yet, so...

"Contribute" does not mean posting music. Contribute means joining in conversations with others and discussing various things around the forum.

If you want to know how to "contribute" AND post your music, look at one of our members, Plankton. He chats with people, posts a lot, is friendly and nice to talk to, and he also plays guitar and posts his work in the Songwriting section. He should be your model.

To quote Janszoon,

:laughing:

I blog professionally and I have a professional blog but my signature was banned. I looked at other peoples blogs in their signature and ours look on par with eachother. Why was my signature deleted?

If it's a personal one you can include a link after you've been here 3 months.
If it's a professional one (I.E. Someone else owns it and you're a paid employee) you cannot post it at all.

When you remove someone's signature, why not replace it instead w/ "na na na na na na you can't link this" instead of "Sig removed please read rules. Mod." At least then the treatment of users as children would be "less" obvious.

You mean like that?

I thought you'd change it back almost straight away so I decided to screencap it

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l99/urbanH/gob.jpg

Exactly, but you forgot to sign it "sincerely I'm abusing my powers as a mod"

You should always sign your work, even if it is below average.

Ha!

^that is not a signature.

I just noticed that you screen shot it, you should hang that on your fridge.

Best abuse of power since Richard Nixon.

Ahahahahahaha
Urban Hat€monger: 1
Ass Napkin: 0

Do our pictures get bigger the longer we stay on the forum?

Clearly someone forgot the George W. Bush years as president :nono:

:rofl:

It's so brutally honest, I like it!

Hahaha. Yes. The growth rate is around 2 pixels a month...