Rule 3 Amendment: No links or email addresses in signatures

[Erwin]

This is just notice to all members - Forum Rule 3 has been amended to disallow any links or email addresses in sigs. This rule is retrospective.

[nospam]

Staff will be editing signatures of members that contain links or email addresses to remove these. Please amend your signature as soon as you can, or staff will do it for you.

Links and email addresses may be placed in your Profile or CF homepage, just not in your signature.

Thanks.

[Terri]

Erwin does this no links include pictures too? I was trying to put an animated gif from an outside location and it wouldn't let me.

[Pseud]

=( What about links to threads, is that allowed?

[DJ B.K.]

So that's why my signature disappeared.:( I was wondering about that.

[Erwin]

Erwin does this no links include pictures too? I was trying to put an animated gif from an outside location and it wouldn't let me.
Ahhh... that is a bug... I will need to fix that... images are still allowed...

[Erwin]

=( What about links to threads, is that allowed?
Yes, that should be fine... again, I will need to recode it so that this is allowed...

I'm at work at the moment... when I get home I will do this...

[Pseud]

Yes, that should be fine... again, I will need to recode it so that this is allowed...

I'm at work at the moment... when I get home I will do this...

W00t! Thanks Erwin :) I'd give ya some blessings if it would let me :D

[WitchBaby]

Why ever not? What harm were they doing?

[Erwin]

Fixed the bug.

Signature rules are now:

You cannot:
Post external links or email addresses.

You can:
Post links to pages on CF including posts and threads.
Post externally hosted images. :)

[WitchBaby]

*repeats previous question* :D

[Hewitt]

*repeats previous question* :D
It prevents people from joining the site and posting for the shear purpose of promoting their website. People spam like this all the time and it's a pain. The Christian Forums are here for Christians to fellowship and come together, not advertise. Granted, not everyone that posted a link was not doing so for the sole reason of gaining more traffic to their site, but a rule has to be made. If Erwin makes exceptions, he loses control. This is the best solution for everyone. :)

[WitchBaby]

I'd understand that reasoning of not letting links beening posted if the person was indeed spamming the site with "EvErYonEE gOO to My SITE!!!!111one" but I've yet to see that. It's just a link in a profile. *shrugs* Not a big deal. Blahblahblah this board almost has as many pointless rules as school. Hah. *walks off*

[Pseud]

I think it's a fair enough rule. It's far too difficult to check all the links in everyone's signature for something inappropiate. But it's something that needs to be regulated. This is the best way.

[Erwin]

I'd understand that reasoning of not letting links beening posted if the person was indeed spamming the site with "EvErYonEE gOO to My SITE!!!!111one" but I've yet to see that. It's just a link in a profile. *shrugs* Not a big deal. Blahblahblah this board almost has as many pointless rules as school. Hah. *walks off*
Notice that you can still put links in your profile or CF homepage. Just not in your sig. :)

[Shekinahs]

I think it's a fair enough rule. It's far too difficult to check all the links in everyone's signature for something inappropiate. But it's something that needs to be regulated. This is the best way.
Blessings,

I totally agree.

Everybody can have a website link button that shows up with every post, we can put url addresses in the interest and biography section and when one gets 1000 blessings we can have a free CF page and place links if we like with arrows that blink in neon "click HERE" ^_^ . I mean if one really wants to get creative, record an auto file telling everrrrrrrrybody about your cool website :D

~ShekinahMoon~

[loveHIM_liveHIM]

yeah i guess this is the easiest way to handle it... i just miss seeing my page posted on my sig :( but i'll live

[BigToe]

why didnt someone just pm me and ask me to remove that portion of my sig instead of the entire thing? or why didnt that mod just remove the link part?

i dont understand why my entire sig had to be deleted?

[Erwin]

why didnt someone just pm me and ask me to remove that portion of my sig instead of the entire thing? or why didnt that mod just remove the link part?

i dont understand why my entire sig had to be deleted?You're right - that is inappropriate. I will make sure mods don't do this next time. All they need to do is remove the link. My apologies on behalf of whoever did it.

I've blessed you as compensation...

[Pseud]

Blanton, how did you get HALF a reputation point? ^_^

[DJ B.K.]

They took my whole signature too. I can't find the banner that I had in my signature now. :(

[BigToe]

hmm oh well its no worries, i just thought perhaps in the new rule maybe the quotes i had were deemed against the rules or something. so i wanted to know if that were the case before i replace them in my sig.

Erwin you rock. Thanks for making this place happy

[loveHIM_liveHIM]

apparently trouble-shooting is not completely done :(

although i hadnt had problems with the images on my sig, today i changed my website (where the images were located) so they are now replaced by those handy "x"s down there... I went to go change my sig with the new locations of the images, and it wouldn't let me because i was inserting "links" into my sig.

i thought this was fixed already?

[Erwin]

apparently trouble-shooting is not completely done :(

although i hadnt had problems with the images on my sig, today i changed my website (where the images were located) so they are now replaced by those handy "x"s down there... I went to go change my sig with the new locations of the images, and it wouldn't let me because i was inserting "links" into my sig.

i thought this was fixed already?
It is fixed. I can put images in my sig without problems. Are you sure you got the [img] tags right? I managed to put your images in my sig with no problems.

[Erwin]

I can see many other members linking to external images with no problems. So it's not a bug.

[Shekinahs]

apparently trouble-shooting is not completely done :(

although i hadnt had problems with the images on my sig, today i changed my website (where the images were located) so they are now replaced by those handy "x"s down there... I went to go change my sig with the new locations of the images, and it wouldn't let me because i was inserting "links" into my sig.

i thought this was fixed already?
Have you tried the insert image icon http://www.christianforums.com/images/editor/insertimage.gifverses using the img tag? That keeps you from inserting an url address into you signature.

[loveHIM_liveHIM]

i know i got the URL right cuz they displayed in the window, but when i previewed it said "error--no links in sig" or something along those lines... going to go try again and try shekinahs suggestion too.

[loveHIM_liveHIM]

i actually wasn't using IMG tags at all... just using the "insert image" button... and its still not working

so now i will try the tags

[loveHIM_liveHIM]

ARGH its still not working... maybe i'm doing something wrong... i give u complete permission to fix it if you can Erwin!

here it is...

Waiting for my prince to come... http://utweb.ut.edu/Student/JulieO/pictures/smilies/animated/L2/cupidoops.gif

thanks!

[Erwin]

Post the URLs and I will do it for you. I can't understand why it doesn't work for you when it is working for other people...

[katelyn]

It's not working for me either! I get the same "no links" error.

[Erwin]

Ooohh.... the insert image links is the problem I think... I will have to review that...

[LilAngelHeart]

apparently trouble-shooting is not completely done :(

although i hadnt had problems with the images on my sig, today i changed my website (where the images were located) so they are now replaced by those handy "x"s down there... I went to go change my sig with the new locations of the images, and it wouldn't let me because i was inserting "links" into my sig.

i thought this was fixed already?

Also make sure you go through all of your board options and check the boxes for displaying your image in case you forgot that. :)

[katelyn]

Also make sure you go through all of your board options and check the boxes for displaying your image in case you forgot that. :)

This doesn't appear to be the problem. It seems like it's thinking that the URL of the image is a link when in fact it's wrapped in image tags. I tried both using the editor's "Insert Image" button and coding the image tags myself. Neither were allowed to be saved and they both popped up the rule about no links or emails in signatures.

[LilAngelHeart]

This doesn't appear to be the problem. It seems like it's thinking that the URL of the image is a link when in fact it's wrapped in image tags. I tried both using the editor's "Insert Image" button and coding the image tags myself. Neither were allowed to be saved and they both popped up the rule about no links or emails in signatures.

Oooooh okay. Hmmm....that's wierd.

[Erwin]

This doesn't appear to be the problem. It seems like it's thinking that the URL of the image is a link when in fact it's wrapped in image tags. I tried both using the editor's "Insert Image" button and coding the image tags myself. Neither were allowed to be saved and they both popped up the rule about no links or emails in signatures.
Post here exactly what you were trying to put in your sig to see if I can duplicate this problem...

[katelyn]

http://www.amychelle.com/images/katelyn.jpg

[katelyn]

^ There's what I was trying to put in my sig.

[WesleyJohn]

Can you type it in again and put spaces between [ and img and ] so we can read the code? like this: [ img ]http://askdfpo ae[ /img ]

Peace,

WJ

[katelyn]

Sure thing, I wasn't exactly sure what about my sig would be helpful to see.

[ IMG ]http://www.amychelle.com/images/katelyn.jpg[ /IMG ]

[WesleyJohn]

just a bizarre hunch...what if you try lowercase [img]?

[katelyn]

Nope...doesn't work. :(

[WesleyJohn]

I didn't really think it would...

Just thought I'd give it a try...

I guess you'll have to wait for Erwin to figure out what's wrong!

Peace,

WJ

(Have some blessings to make up for the ones you just lost trying my dumb suggestion) :clap:

[katelyn]

Hehe...um, thanks, but I didn't lose any blessings trying your suggestion. The blessings don't get taken unless the sig actually goes through. (I did have less blessings than before, but that's because I blessed someone ;) )

[Dawn Marie]

I'm glad it's not just me having this problem. :)

http://christianforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4794

Just wanna see how it looks on CF...

[Terri]

http://luvjc.net/emoticons/angry/0005.gif (http://luvjc.net/emoticons/angry/0005.gif)

It does this to me every time I try to put a picture.

I've found that if I copy it into the notepad and then copy it back where I want it, it makes the link go away.

I got the picture below by copying the img stuff above onto notepad and then copying it back here!

http://luvjc.net/emoticons/angry/0005.gif

[loveHIM_liveHIM]

yup copying & pasting works!!! i was able to go back to my post where i included the sig i wanted and copied & pasted that into my sig... but that just circumnavigates the problem, not actually fixing anything...

[Terri]

yup copying & pasting works!!! i was able to go back to my post where i included the sig i wanted and copied & pasted that into my sig... but that just circumnavigates the problem, not actually fixing anything...
I'm afraid circumnavigating problems is all I'm allowed to do here! ;) :D