He will get a neglectible amount of credits due to very few words. Moreover, if a moderator happens to see that, his post could be estimated as pure spamming, and he will be strongly penalized.

lol good post i was wondering y there was no links in there cause on my site our shout box is over loaded with links so we deleted the shout box any way good post cause i wanted to post a link in it but now i wount

Then i dont write links in shoutbox then

I am not a huge link spammer, but I used to use links as resourceful shortcuts. Only going to throw myspace here as a quick example... There are the areas for bulletins, and I try to throw in a link so that way the users don't have to go from one page, to another, and another and so on just to get to what was advertised... But that is probably one of many important ways, and it doesn't scroll through like the shoutout box....

So I too believe that keeping the shoutbox clean and presentable will not just block spammers or not, but also make it easier for new users to be able to get a good grasp, without the clutter. I am still new and haven't really overused the box... but things could change... and I don't really know if there is a certain cut-off point to how many messages can be listed, but if there were a lot of links and spam, then how could someone follow anything!!??

It's like cleaning up your room, only with text... ok, I will stop now!

Yeah I think keeping them out is probably for the best.

There is always the forum, of course to let people know about those kinds of things, and it's better served here for everyone, so it works out best .

Good Rule! If We Had Allowed Links In The ShoutBox, Tons of People Would Be Flooding The ShoutBox With Their WebSite! I Hate People Who Do That! I Especially Hate The People Who Say "Get Free Money Here By <- snipped -> !" And They Just Put Their Referral Information To Get Something Like 40% Of Their Earnings. Thanks For Posting This vujsa! Excellent Rule

This post has been edited by Steven9088: Aug 30 2007, 05:55 PM

That guy was right, you really do use capitals an awful lot lol, might want to shave down on that one mate.

good idea, i don't blame you.

Lots of spam all the time normally in shoutbox's

Quite good, i might enforce that rule at my site hehehe

This makes plenty of sense thanks for bringing it up I am the type to do something like that lol.

Thank you, good post