you want to hide my Blog urls???

the reason I moderated the web link is that per forum guidelines ‘signatures’ are not welcome:

Signatures
Signatures in threads will be removed as they cause clutter and distract from the information and help provided.

this text is possibly a weak description for the fact, that this kind of added web links (signatures) are not welcome, as they can be used to spam the forum.

because distinguishing between ‘innocent’ informative links (which I am sure your links were intended to be) and ‘spam’ links used to push someone’s business would be too complicated, all signatures are treated equally and are removed if spotted.

putting your name below your post is generally tolerated as ‘signature’ – although even that is not necessary in my opinion.

besides, there are other general social forums and sites, if you want to publish and promote your site.

Hi alchymyth,

Thanks for response.

Saying that the forum guideline is “weak description” for the true reason behind wordpress’ poor decision is quite the understatement.

Claiming that my 16 letter signature on threads that hadn’t gotten any other posts (some that were ignored for more than a week) was “cluttering up www.remarpro.com” is pretty insulting.

I wasn’t advertising any business, just my very first personal blog.

If I cluttered up www.remarpro.com, they certainly have my insincere apology.

I won’t create any more clutter. I won’t even sign my name. Gets me out of here more quickly, where I can find someplace less oppressive to post and share what just happened here.

Claiming that my 16 letter signature on threads that hadn’t gotten any other posts (some that were ignored for more than a week) was “cluttering up www.remarpro.com” is pretty insulting.

as I tried to explain, this is nothing personal, and not about doubting your good intentions.
it is simply one of the ways to keep spam links out ouf the forum.

Gets me out of here more quickly, where I can find someplace less oppressive to post and share what just happened here.

at the end of the day, this is not a share forum.

I noticed that profiles don’t include a space for putting your blog url; I figured that must be an oversite, why would wordpress want to keep people from sharing their blog address??? so I didn’t think there would be any harm in putting it in my signature.

They do. It’s called ‘website’ and I see you’ve put yours in.

In order to combat spam, someone wrote a clever tool that doesn’t display your URL to everyone until some magical time has passed. Problem is we can’t remember what that is, so basically you have to be around and active and it’ll show up one day.

Thank you alchymyth and Ipstenu, I may have overreacted a skoach.

I can understand wanting to prevent the forums from being spammed and I appreciate the time you took to explain it to me. (I don’t like the “keeping the forum uncluttered” statement one bit though.)

Maybe I’ll stick around for a little while.

Heh. Sadly, we can’t run by ‘assume good faith’ all the time here. The spam queue, if unchecked for a couple hours, can get to over 400. So we do tend to act decisively.