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Kentigern

Please be courteous when promoting Short-Media Forums by not spamming other web sites with your referral link just to gain referrals.

Not sure what constitutes spamming

I would like to use a link to folding @ home and to Short Media in my signature on another forum, would this be spamming

Thanks for your help

QCH

Depends on the other forum's rules. We prohibit signatures until "X" posts then they can make a signature. We keep an eye on links inside sigs but for the most part, we don't mind. But again, it's up to other forums.

profdlp

QCH covered it pretty well.

Most other forums are much more amenable to this sort of thing if you approach a mod over there and ask first. An explanation of what the link actually points to is usually helpful, too. There are some who think that FAH is some grand money-making scheme for Stanford, so clearing that up might help. (Believe it or not, there are some research projects like this which are run by For-Profit organizations...)

Linc

I'm not sure if you meant to use one of our F@H signatures, but just as an FYI those use javascript and so typically will not work on other forums. At some point in the future I plan to modify ours to eliminate the pasting of javascript into signatures... bit of a security problem, really.

Q and prof got the rest - all forums have different standards

Kentigern

Thank you - Q & Prof for the heads up on forum etiquette

Keebs - re the links I thought to just use text with a hypo to joinfolding com and the same for SM - would this be ok?

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