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Old 08-08-2010, 11:28 PM   #1
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Change to the display of signatures to guests

I have made a small change to the forums to not show signatures in posts to guests viewing the forums.
I have done this for three reasons:
1) The forums are slightly faster for Google and guests.
2) We save on bandwidth and server resources.

(Both the above actions give only a very minor advantage, but it all adds up.)

3) Signature spammers are defeated at a stroke because Google won't see the links they include.

Assured Advertisers' signatures are unaffected and are displayed as they have always been.
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Old 11-08-2010, 9:25 PM   #2
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I installed Firefox and thought there was something wrong with my browser as I could not see any Signature's
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Old 16-08-2010, 6:27 PM   #3
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Great - very good idea
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