ArtMetal

E,
amazing what ya learn if we pay attention. Content spamming, tag spamming, spamdexing ya say?......new to me. I noticed that I must have been ONE of those that you
"spent the whole morning going in and editing individual posts by a couple of our members that have decided to create a keyword for their personal work and web sites. I consider this tag spamming!"
Considering that I started adding the CDMA to those posts many months ago......while in the learning curve of the new Site...and what the heck "cloud tags" were :) I have to plead ignorance to the fact that it was or wasn't RIGHT.

"I am not ashamed to admit, that I am ignorant of the things I do not know"!
Ciecro :)

All it would have taken was a lil "heads up", many months ago, and I'd have been more than happy to remove them and save you the trouble. I personally never looked at that tag as any more than a way to link ALL of the postings with a cloud tag........because 1. that's the way I understood the tags to work and 2. because I didn't see how any of the other cloud tags would accomplish the same thing. 3. NO ONE said anything when I did it. And it wasn't an original idea....I think someone mentioned it early on when there was all the discussion about what/how to use "cloud tags".
I'm not trying to pass any blame......I'm just passing on the facts. :) There seems to be an inference that it was my intent to spam. Nothing could be further from the truth. Sorry you took it that way. And I have a hard time thinking that anyone else that's a regular on the list /site would knowingly do that. But I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.
I've just noticed that you've added a lil HELP in the tag section....this really would have helped in the beginning. (DO NOT tag/spam your name, web site, etc. Tag metal related words only!) WHO knew, the fix could be this easy? LOL

well that covers cloud tags.....now I need to know the RULES on signatures. What's acceptable on artmetal.com? names with no active urls? NO urls at all?.......or what? And does this mean everywhere on the site? or blogs . or images..... ? I'm quite certain that all the regulars want nothing more than to do this right....we just need to know what the rules and expectations are. And just a lil "heads up" if the rules change.
Sincerely & with affection,
Bill Roberts