Visian
look out!!!
Let's get back to the basics. It seemed to many of us that the sig line policy was a solution looking for a problem, and it found (created) one.
that depends on your long term vision for our web site, its relationship with the rest of our media, and the vibe you'd like the forum to have. one thing for sure, if all commercial links are disallowed, we will lose valuable contributors.
so the question becomes: how to best strike a balance?
If the problem is some fear that members with commercial interests might take advantage, then simply prohibit links to commercial sites. That, however, would eliminate many of the most useful posts we've seen.
Tempest in a teapot!
after extensive discussions with members who would be most affected by a "no commercial links" policy, who not-so-coincidentally are some of our best contributors, an acceptable compromise was reached.
unfortunately this was characterized uncharitably (polite word) by someone who did not understand the concept.
ian