Signature gone AWOL

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jennyrusks

jennyrusks

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Hi there,

Just noticed my signature is missing from my posts and it was there a few posts ago. I had a look in the control panel and there doesn't seem to be an option to edit the signature anymore, and I am checking the "show your signature" box in the options before I submit. Am I doomed to signatureless hell?

If anyone could point me in the right direction to get it back I'd be very grateful.

thanks

Jennifer
 
jennyrusks

jennyrusks

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Thanks Paul

Used that link and I'm getting a message that I'm not permitted to have a signature. Any idea what that's about ?

thanks

Jennifer
 
ButtermilkJack

ButtermilkJack

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I think there was a change recently which meant new users must reach a certain amount of posts before they are allowed a signature. Maybe 50 or something... not sure:confused:

EDIT: Actually, come to think of it, that may have been for avatars?
 
mneylon

mneylon

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I edited the signature permissions - they may need to be tweaked a small bit more - as I am sick of spammers signing up here simply to get their signature on their profile and one one useless post.

Anyone who is a regular member and contributes will be able to have a signature, though as I said I may need to tweak settings a bit
 
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johnmryan

New Member
I can relate to the spam side of it, i had an inactive forum, which I was keeping as an archive, except i had about 5 new registrations a day - all spammers, just closed the whole thing down now
 
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dereko

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Yea i was wondering what was going on as well. I wouldn't worry about stopping people from using avatars though?

I can see where your coming from and there is a balance to get.
 
mneylon

mneylon

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Basically what's happening is this...

The site seems to be ranking very well for certain key phrases.. Spammers and general chancers come along. Signup. Add a "lovely" signature and vanish.

So I tweaked the settings so that people who actually contribute and hang around get signatures etc., and those that don't, well they don't :)
 
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Gavin

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johnmryan said:
I can relate to the spam side of it, i had an inactive forum, which I was keeping as an archive, except i had about 5 new registrations a day - all spammers, just closed the whole thing down now
Click to expand...

John looks like your recent blog feed is broken on here. Check out the url in your profile.:)
 
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CiaranR

Weeno Ltd + Skimlinks.com
Code: 
[CaRP] XML error: Mismatched tag at line 233

These kind of errors 90% of the time come from an '&' in the blog title.
 
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CiaranR

Weeno Ltd + Skimlinks.com
Not sure whats going on with your feed. No matter what I do in an efforts to see the acctual XML I get redirected to http://feeds.feedburner.com/JohnMRyan

Must be some feed burner plugin acting up.

Or as i said above it could be the '&' in the title of the post WordPress 2.1.3 & 2.0.10 try changing it to 'and' and see if its fixes it. I won't be anything on the board causing the problem because as as you can see everyone else's is working.:)​

 
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johnmryan

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Frodo, my feed is designed to do that as Feedburner manages the feeds for the site, its a wordpress plugin..

Sorry there was a problem with the URL in Feedburner, it was using the wrong source....
 
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CiaranR

Weeno Ltd + Skimlinks.com
Yup thought it was plug-in problem all right, couldn't even sub to you feed before but can see the '&' is parsed in the XML now. That '&' problem used to break the RTÉ feed all the time, well annoying.
 
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