Signatures to guests

[Smithy]

Signatures to guests has been enabled.
Not a lot of forums have this enabled, we decided to do it.

Guests who view DiscussionHQ forum will see your signature.
Just a heads up, add a signature your profile.

 

[Rey619]

SWC has that enabled as well.

 

[Smithy]

SWC has that enabled as well.

It's great option to let the guests view everyone's awesome signatures.

 

[Nebulous]

I have nothing to advertise so it doesn't matter to me.

 

[Smithy]

I have nothing to advertise so it doesn't matter to me.

Not about advertising, about showing off your awesome signatures to every visitor.

 

[Nebulous]

Not about advertising, about showing off your awesome signatures to every visitor.

...which is a space people use for advertising most of the time.

 

[Smithy]

...which is a space people use for advertising most of the time.

True, but used for other things like awesome pictures like you have in your signature.

 

[Rey619]

...which is a space people use for advertising most of the time.

Agreed lol

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Just a little off-topic, but about forum guests. I am just looking at the stats, and we have 9 members online right now, and 114 guests ! ! That is the most guests i have seen on this forum to date.
It is maybe the SEO, and we have started threads that people are doing internet searches about…….. yea us !
When we were having the discussion about our senior’s forum ,SOC, crashing; we had over 40 people who were looking in to read about it, and after that was squelched, then most of them stopped watching.
Now, we have more threads about topics that people are searching for information about; maybe health information, and the Tesla attacks, are probably some of what is bringing in more guests.

 

[Smithy]

Just a little off-topic, but about forum guests. I am just looking at the stats, and we have 9 members online right now, and 114 guests ! ! That is the most guests i have seen on this forum to date.
It is maybe the SEO, and we have started threads that people are doing internet searches about…….. yea us !
When we were having the discussion about our senior’s forum ,SOC, crashing; we had over 40 people who were looking in to read about it, and after that was squelched, then most of them stopped watching.
Now, we have more threads about topics that people are searching for information about; maybe health information, and the Tesla attacks, are probably some of what is bringing in more guests.

Most of them are spam-bots trying to register but failing to get past the "Registration security system"
I have been advertising so that may gain a few guests as well.

 

[Cpvr]

Most of them are spam-bots trying to register but failing to get past the "Registration security system"
I have been advertising so that may gain a few guests as well.

I’d recommend discouraging those ips. That’ll stop most of them as well. I usually do it if I catch multiple ips on the same page on my forum.

 

[Smithy]

I do this but spam bots have a lot of IP's.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I do this but spam bots have a lot of IP's.

I think that one of the things that helped us with our senior’s forum was the registration requirement to use a name that looked like an actual name. It had to have a first and last name, like “Sally Jones”, or something that could be a real name. People had the option of using an actual name or a fictional one, but most of the bots didn’t follow that requirement, so the registration was automatically declined.

 

[Smithy]

I think that one of the things that helped us with our senior’s forum was the registration requirement to use a name that looked like an actual name. It had to have a first and last name, like “Sally Jones”, or something that could be a real name. People had the option of using an actual name or a fictional one, but most of the bots didn’t follow that requirement, so the registration was automatically declined.

I will see how the spam bot prevention goes if any get past it I will up the security.

 

[Marie Mallory]

I don't know how to put in signature, which would be either Ayn Rand or less political Mark Twain.

 

[Cpvr]

I don't know how to put in signature, which would be either Ayn Rand or less political Mark Twain.

You can go to your user preferences, then go to the “signature” section.

It’s a drop down menu, but the signature section is also located on the side on the sidebar.

https://discussionhq.com/account/

 

[Smithy]

I don't know how to put in signature, which would be either Ayn Rand or less political Mark Twain.

https://discussionhq.com/account/signature is the location to edit your signature.

 

[Mary Stetler]

I don't know how to put in signature, which would be either Ayn Rand or less political Mark Twain.

How about Marie Mallory?

 

[Axel Slingerland]

Signatures to guests has been enabled.
Not a lot of forums have this enabled, we decided to do it.

Out of former Forum Admin curiosity, where did you hear that? I've been going to forums since before they were called forums, and all of them have allowed that except for a couple that were run by people with serious power trip issues.

 

[Smithy]

Out of former Forum Admin curiosity, where did you hear that? I've been going to forums since before they were called forums, and all of them have allowed that except for a couple that were run by people with serious power trip issues.

I am on a lot of forums and the big active ones don't allow signatures.
Probably because a lot of users make big signatures which makes it harder to scroll through the posts.