As a 5 Star member, you are entitled to a signature. Your signature is displayed in the signature section at the bottom of every post you make. If you don't have one and you want one, you can use the Control Panel to setup your signature. You will see it called both the User CP and the Control Panel.
You may not say or do anything to get people to notice your signature. You should not say such things as: check my signature, see the link in my signature, click the link in my signature. In other words, do not talk about your signature in your post.
There are some rules for signature use and some members make mistakes at times. Most of these mistakes are because the member didn't know the rules.
The most common mistakes are: Signatures that have too many lines, signatures with too many links and signatures containing images. Here are the current signature rules:
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Signature Restrictions:
• Maximum length: 5 lines (breaks between lines count as lines)
• Maximum font size permitted is size 2
• No images or image files allowed
• No cookie dropping allowed
• No more than 3 links per signature
• No re-directs in signatures. Only direct links. Just like the search engines we want our users to only end up at sites they intend to go to with no tricks.
• CERTAIN TYPES OF SITES ARE PROHIBITED IN SIGNATURES or ANYWHERE ELSE ON THE FORUM:
NO GAMBLING, ONLINE PHARMACIES OR ANYTHING THAT DEALS WITH MEDICAL PRESCRIPTIONS, ADULT, ACTIVE X, ADWARE, DISHONEST LINKS, ANYTHING ILLEGAL or ANYTHING ELSE WE DEEM UNETHICAL or INAPPROPRIATE.
• NOTE: Administrators, moderators, 5 Star clients and paid forum sponsors may have longer signatures
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Signatures that don't fully comply are fairly common. We work with members to get them corrected.
I read every post and every signature. I check every link in signatures. So, I am the person who handles most of the signature problems.
There are people who spam and think they can get away with it. Most members know that we take care of the problem posts.
There are also people who try to do things with signatures that they know they shouldn't. We want it known that signatures are also checked. They aren't only checked once and never checked again. Changes are made in signatures. A member could have a signature that is in compliance at one time but not in compliance later. Signatures and links in signatures are checked on a regular basis to try to keep them in compliance with the rules.
Rules are necessary. But we don't want rules to get in the way of having a useful community. However rules violations which are ignored can lower the quality of a community.
If you are trying to be a good member and you happen to make an innocent mistake, we understand and we will work with you to resolve it. However, we handle matters a lot differently when it involves people who simply don't care.