Do you allow members to post affiliate links within their posts or in their signatures? If not, why? Do you consider them to be spam-like?
I have not really had a problem with people posting affiliate links. Nor do I have any rules on the issue.
In general, no. However I have allowed it in the Classified section if it was something I wasn't interested in being affiliated with myself (like the cleaning products a member posted a few days ago).
Haven't had to deal with the issue.. sigs are unchecked by default. If somebody was checking their signature with every post and had an affiliate link I'd ask them to stop, if not, no sig privileges and an infraction.
In signatures yes, in posts no. You're not allowed to create a thread/post just for the reason of advertising, as it's not a forum for advertising however we allow it in signatures.
We don't allow in siggys but if someone has a link to a site that can help with a problem in a thread then thats ok.
Be right back, need to go add my link to my sig on Kevin's site :p Anyhow, I haven't really made a ruling on this subject yet. We have a few people with stuff like gun blogs in their sigs which is cool but that is about it. I know I wouldn't care for people starting a thread just for advertisement reasons. There really isn't any difference in this and spam in my opinion. I also wouldn't want a gun related forum link in a sig either.
We used to not allow it, but now we have care free rules. So we have no problem with anything like that.
If somebody who posted a lot, and contributed to the forum traffic used an affilate link in their sig etc (providing it wasn't a competitior of an existing sponsor) then I'd be okay with it. But if a new username became active with affilate links in their posts and sig and profile etc. Then hell no, they'd be flagged by even just a regular member, let alone a mod, admin or me
Not in a post and it depends on if they can have it in their sig. If it's for another MMA related forum then no but if it's for anything else that won't affect the site's credibility then I don't have a problem for it.
i allow members to have a link in their signature to their websites or forums or whatever and there is a custom profile field for website, but they arent allowed to create threads promoting anything. any link posted by members must not contain anything that breaks the forums rules
