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I don't understand how a 20 day waiting period deters spammers. Can't they still sign up for the forum, and spam the **** out of the place? What do the signatures have to do with anything?
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The signature restriction was put in place after a lot of sneaky spammers would post in lots of places across the forum, and then put a signature in place with a spam link. We typically review posts as they are posted, so it's a LOT harder for us to catch a post that was OK before, then had a spam link added later via signature (when you set your signature, it goes and updates all of your past posts). So it made tracking down spam a nightmare, because any post, even one you'd already reviewed, could turn to a spam post without you realizing.
Also, the board has a preview feature when you're on the main forum pages - you can roll your mouse over and get a text preview of the wording in the post. Sure, if that says "NIKE SHOES $29", we know we have spam. But signature info doesn't show up in that preview, so you actually have to click through to each post to see the fact that it's spam.
