Please edit your comment signatures
By Daniel Rothamel, the Real Estate Zebra, Thursday, October 23, 2008.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!
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Submitted by Brian Wilson on October 24, 2008 - 10:49am.
Could anyone tell me how you make your signature links have a title rather than just showing the links like I have here?
http://zolve.com
http://thewoodlandsrealestatevoice.com
Submitted by Jay Thompson on October 24, 2008 - 12:09pm.
Brian - I don't think you can. Looks like the profile editor won't accept HTML.
Jay Thompson
Broker / Owner
Thompson's Realty
Blog: www.PhoenixRealEstateGuy.com
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Submitted by Eric Bouler on October 28, 2008 - 6:21pm.
I put another in since I only thought one ULR was allowed.It would be nice to have a link that you could name.
Eric Bouler
Prudential Gardner
New Orleans,La.
www.neworleanscondotrends.com
www.ericbouler.com
Submitted by harris akram on February 3, 2009 - 4:20am.
Duplicate post due to no search results for 'edit signature' sorry but where do I go to choose the appropriate forum? This is my second moved thread!
Plus why did I get 3 alerts for your one response?
Submitted by harris akram on February 3, 2009 - 4:20am.
Duplicate post due to no search results for 'edit signature' sorry but where do I go to choose the appropriate forum? This is my second moved thread!
Plus why did I get 3 alerts for your one response?
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Submitted by Andrew Brentan on March 24, 2009 - 2:30pm.
Well, last week in San Diego there was an article in the Union Tribune announcing that the median home price went up (by $5000 from January) for the first time since last April. However, this was the median of all of San Diego county. The fact is, there are some areas such as the coastal communities that don't have nearly the amount of foreclosures as other areas, and they should be starting to stabalize soon. Areas further east who are still getting bombarded with foreclosures will continue to see a decline in home prices for some time to come.
Andrew Brentan
Team Aguilar Real Estate
San Diego Real Estate | Real Estate Blog