Member's Profile Restrictions..........Signatures are disable.....to see what that means see image below.......
Due to the increase in
comment spamming on East Tennessee Symposium....
comments and
web site links are not allowed in a member's profile!Because.......Forum comment spamming is the
creating of messages that are advertisements on Internet forums.
Forum comment spamming consists of links to external sites, with the dual goals of increasing search engine visibility in highly competitive areas such as weight loss, pharmaceuticals, gambling, pornography, real estate or loans, and generating more traffic for these commercial websites.
Sometimes these links contain code to track the spammer identity; if a sale goes through, then the spammer get a commission.