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I've noticed a few people starting to put external links in their forum signatures. Can't blame them, as we have no rule preventing that at the moment, and it's not as if they are links to direct competitors.

But I wonder if this is a good thing, and whether we need some sort of policy to prevent the forum becoming cluttered with referral links? After all, it does mean that you have to read these same links time after time when reading posts by a particular member. And surely that value to other members (of informing them of other sites of interest) could be achieved just as well by having a discussion topic about such sites?

As a 'mutual' company, it's not for me to impose any rules. It's up to you lot! Thoughts, anyone? Should we have restrictions on the length, content and/or font size of signatures?

** UPDATE **
Polls on specific signature rules

Charge for signatures? RESULT: 14 in favour, 20 against
Restrict links in signatures to "imutual" ones? RESULT: 8 in favour, 4 against
Allow banners / images in signatures? RESULT: 1 in favour, 10 against
Restrict font size in signatures? RESULT: 14 in favour, 1 against

To be honest I've not noticed them.

dorisisfurtheraway wrote:To be honest I've not noticed them.

there are some out there

I do not have a problem with signatures having referral links. It maybe could be limited to one I have seen one or two with multiple links.

As long as they do not distract ie large font size / over the top colours etc then even referral links are fine by me.

underdog wrote:As long as they do not distract ie large font size / over the top colours etc then even referral links are fine by me.

This seems like a reasonable approach to me.

Mel wrote:

underdog wrote:As long as they do not distract ie large font size / over the top colours etc then even referral links are fine by me.

This seems like a reasonable approach to me.

+1

dorisisfurtheraway wrote:To be honest I've not noticed them.

Eurovisionfan is probably the most xtreme.
Not sure I'm bothered providin they're not promtoin reval sites
Bye the bye a Q four RY, is there any point in havin a Imutual ref link in your sig?
Would you get the Ref shares if someone clcik on it?

richard@imutual wrote:Should we have restrictions on the length, content and/or font size of signatures?

There are some quite distracting signatures being used now (e.g. banners & one member has a large font link to Superpoints), so I'd vote yes!

Why does anyone need a signature. Just disable the facility. I find zulu17's quite annoying and the Superpoints links are just over the top.