One of the features available to Inman.com users is the ability to have a personalized signature attached to all of your comments on the site.  We enabled this feature so that folks could not only personalize their Inman.com experience, but also as a way of promoting their services to anyone who visits Inman.com. 

I previously wrote a post outlining the guidelines we had in mind for comment signatures.  Recently, we have discovered a need to make the guidelines more specific, so comment signature guidelines have been added to the Community Guldelines page.  Please take a look at them.

Basically, what it boils down to is this:  don't put more than 2 links in your comment signature, and don't link keywords, just URLs.  If your keywords are part of your URL, more power to you.  

We want to keep spam at bay, and we don't want to make the links in comment signatures "no follow."  If everyone could make sure that their comment signatures meet the guidelines, it would help quite a bit.

Also, if you see a comment that has a signature that violates the guidelines, just flag it.  I'll get it in my moderation queue, and I can send a friendly reminder to the user, reminding them of the guidelines, and asking them to comply.

I love reading all of the insightful comments from our users and members.  The discussions that happen here at Inman.com are robust, lively, and interesting.  I really want it to continue that way, just without the keyword links. ;-)

Thanks!