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Things that are unacceptable in a signature

  • Bad/foul language and swearing.
  • Personal Insults or Attacks
  • Your own or anyone else’s email address (this is for your own security) or other personal contact details
  • Any information on how to hack or crack or produce code with some other malicious intent.
  • Content that is religious in nature
  • Content that is political in nature
  • Spam

Links in signatures

You may put links in your signatures but please note they must conform to the following rules.
  • No links to a site that contains inappropriate content or content that would break the posting guidelines if posted directly on Bytes.com, specifically but not limited to bad/foul language or sexually explicit sites.
  • No spam links, that is links to sites whose sole intent is to sell or advertise something
  • No malicious links, that is links to sites whose sole intent is to dupe the user into giving out some personal information that is likely to be harmful to themselves
  • If you are a contractor of some sort then you may include a single link to a website advertising your services
Note that if you include any sort of link in your signature it can not be used (enabled) on a technical forum except where all of the links are to pages on Bytes.com.

Where can a Signature be used?

Your signature is automatically put at the bottom of any PMs you send.

By default you signature is not placed at the bottom of any posts, however you may add your signature if you wish by editing the post after you have made it to enable display of your signature.

You may not enable a signature that contains any links on a technical forum. If you do so then the signature will be removed by the moderators and in the first instance you will receive a warning. Continued breaking of this rule may result in banning.

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