Site Management Do you have any restrictions on how a forum signature is used in your forum?

[Heatman]

Forum signatures are used to promote and advertise on forums. It's one of the free channels to bring visibility to your forum by having it in your account signature when you post on other forums. Most forum owners allow the use of signature without any restrictions while some forum owners have requirements a signature must meet before they can be used in their forum.

Do you have any restrictions on signatures in your forum?

 

[Empire]

Yes and no, I keep it basic as I do not want to restrict them too much otherwise you make them not too happy, and at the same time not going overboard like porn images in signature is not allowed. But those that have upgraded groups account have more options to do in there signature like more space and more links

 

[Jane]

Nope..as long as it isnt rude..ie pornographic and not so large it takes over the forum..

 

[Jason]

I don't really care what people do with their signature, as long as they're not being rude. Anyway, I don't think you can turn off a signature on XenForo. How do you do that? Well, I don't have any reason to do that, though.

 

[cdub]

Anyway, I don't think you can turn off a signature on XenForo.

There's a permission for it with a ton of options. You can definitely turn it off.

I have links disabled in mine currently.

 

[Spartan]

I haven’t messed with signature settings much since switching to XF, as it’s not a big issue on my forum, but before on MyBB I did have limited characters and one image I believe

 

[Arantor]

I took the view that I should just restrict the size of the signature area and if you put in images that didn’t fit in that area, that was mostly on you, and it’d just cut you off.

And if you used it for link smuggling… well, bye bye signature privileges.

 

[Cory]

Aside from the general size of images and the signature as a whole, I don't have any restrictions. You still need to abide by the forum software's TOS, of course.

 

[Arantor]

You still need to abide by the forum software's TOS, of course.

Only in the hosted sense.

If you self host, they’re generally not going to police what you have in signatures, because they generally can’t, short of cancelling your licence (as happened to Kiwi Farm), but in general self hosting means you can publish what you like, and the more you own of the stacks the fewer people have a say in that.

If you as the operator own the servers too, there’s very little that can be done assuming the content is *legal* where it is hosted. (I never heard of a data centre kicking out someone‘s servers for inappropriate content, only when the cops came knocking. I have, however, heard of AWS kicking people off their services.)

 

[Cedric]

Aside from the general size of images and the signature as a whole, I don't have any restrictions. You still need to abide by the forum software's TOS, of course.

There was a time where half of us didn't understand why we had to abide to IF/ZB's rules when it was on a different forum. And when we made a forum, we copied most bits over from other forums for our own TOS. So, that's a bit funny to look back on.

 

[Cory]

Only in the hosted sense.

If you self host, they’re generally not going to police what you have in signatures, because they generally can’t, short of cancelling your licence (as happened to Kiwi Farm), but in general self hosting means you can publish what you like, and the more you own of the stacks the fewer people have a say in that.

If you as the operator own the servers too, there’s very little that can be done assuming the content is *legal* where it is hosted. (I never heard of a data centre kicking out someone‘s servers for inappropriate content, only when the cops came knocking. I have, however, heard of AWS kicking people off their services.)

I didn't know that, I always thought all forum software had a TOS laid out that users had to follow. Well, you learn something new every day!

There was a time where half of us didn't understand why we had to abide to IF/ZB's rules when it was on a different forum. And when we made a forum, we copied most bits over from other forums for our own TOS. So, that's a bit funny to look back on.

Yeah, it was a different time, for sure. A lot of ideas were copied from one forum to the next, not to say that's still not done today, but considering most message board owners are fully grown adults I think they have the brain power to think of more unique ideas rather than copy ideas from other forums.

 

[Arantor]

I think they have the brain power to think of more unique ideas rather than copy ideas from other forums.

Citation needed.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I don't really have any restrictions other than the size and I don't allow mature themes like images or links to mature websites.

 

[Cory]

Citation needed.

Well, they do say as you grow so does your brain. 🤷‍♂️

 

[Arantor]

That's just my point: people don't grow. So so so many people just reinvent what's already out there, and that's before we get to the knock-offs for a quick buck.

 

[Cory]

That's just my point: people don't grow. So so so many people just reinvent what's already out there, and that's before we get to the knock-offs for a quick buck.

Too true, people often profit off of other's original ideas. I suppose inspiration isn't a bad thing, but when you're completely replicating someone else's work then that can be a discouragement to the original creator.

 

[Sinistra]

As long as it's not too big, offensive, or have any nudity, I don't have that many restrictions on signatures in my community. being an anime community that promotes artistic creativity such as contests like Sig of the Week, and Wallpaper of the Month. I want to see what our members are capable of when it comes to graphic design! Being a graphic designer myself, I feel it's key to promote other artists!