New members who have a desire to post links fail to realize that there is a reason they are denied the privilege, and tend to post rapidly in order to meet the requirement, with no consideration for the quality of posting desired from it.

Okay. I started to suspect that before the replies.

What about a waiting period of x days after a first post before links can be posted?

Also, could sigs be disabled for all or require moderator pre-approval?

Honestly, it would just be easier for us to remove spammy links from signatures rather than having every legitimate contributing member constantly ask us to change their signatures. The avatar request thing is already enough, I don't need more work to do when I log in here.

These are all reasonable suggestions, however, we are not administrators, and we do not have access to any of these forum tools, nor are we allowed to have them. We've made requests for similar features in the past which have all been denied or ignored by the owners.

I dont blame admin they have a job to do Its ok Ill cop it sweet and I understand the spam chit but hey my bands do not need to spam

baptism by fire

As an experience mod/admin of another forum, much bigger than this one (almost 1.5 million registered members) I feel I have the right to comment.
I love the mods here. They might be hateful *******s at times, but if you saw the discussions in the private mods forum, you'd know they're applying the same standard to everybody, speak their minds even if it's unpopular. They might be offensive at times, but hey, this is the internet, grow a pair and get a thicker skin if you can't handle some mockery.
The amount of drama here is minimal, when I compare it to my other site - mods there are usually 50 or older, many are very conservative, many religious etc... silly issues drag on for weeks. Here it's simpler. Pure.
Yac.

Good god your avatar is huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuggggggggggggggeeeeeeeee

He basically runs the place so I guess the avatar size is a liberty he can take advantage of here. The max size for avatars is 500 x 500 believe it or not.

Amen.

At the end of the day we all feel confident that we're doing things in the right way and for the better of the forum in general. The fact that members can't see the discussions that go on in the staff forum means that will always be brought into question and I guess thats understandable. Also, where we have questions certain procedures and rules ourselves, we have actively put something in place to evaluate potential change and/or changed certain rules and guidelines outright as a result.

You can never please everyone, just set out to please the most people as possible and/or make the correct decisions for the forum and community as a whole.