Christopher Mowla
Premium Member
Hi everyone.
Several members (including myself) have chosen to make our signatures simply consist of links to speedsolving threads, personal websites, and other external sites.
I propose this thread to be a tool in which all speedsolving members can use to put as many hyperlinks he or she wishes in a single post. Such participating members simply can choose to put one hyperlink as part (or as the entirety) of his or her signature. This single hyperlink in his or her signature will link to the post he or she posts here.
That is, each poster in this thread should only post once. He or she can edit/update his or her post at any time to add more hyperlinks. This also could include hyperlinks to forum attachments.
Advantages
Disadvantages
This is an experiment, but I hope that if nothing else, this thread will start a discussion on how we can improve this aspect of the forum.
Several members (including myself) have chosen to make our signatures simply consist of links to speedsolving threads, personal websites, and other external sites.
I propose this thread to be a tool in which all speedsolving members can use to put as many hyperlinks he or she wishes in a single post. Such participating members simply can choose to put one hyperlink as part (or as the entirety) of his or her signature. This single hyperlink in his or her signature will link to the post he or she posts here.
That is, each poster in this thread should only post once. He or she can edit/update his or her post at any time to add more hyperlinks. This also could include hyperlinks to forum attachments.
Advantages
- Make internet search engines more accurate (Signatures are acting like misleading search tags)
Google search, for example, is actually "getting confused" with our signatures because we have cubing terms in them. For example, I (currently upon creating this thread) have a hyperlink to the 4x4x4 parity algorithms wikipage in my signature. Whenever I post on speedsolving and then I search for "4x4x4 parity algorithms" afterwards, my posts (which do not necessarily contain content or discussion about parity algorithms) come up as a recent result. This applies to any content written in a signature. - More signature space
Due to the limit amount of content we can put in our signature, if we want to post an extra hyperlink, we cannot. However by using our individual posts in this thread, we can each have "as many hyperlinks as we want". - Shortening signatures
I suspect that if someone who posts a lot has a "heavy" signature, shortening his or her signature can also "factor out code" from all of his or her posts on the forum. - Show history to the newcomers
There have been many good discussions on the forums which new members are not aware of and older members are forgetting (or forgetting at least where they are). Therefore another advantage is to share larger quantities of your contributions with others for a long time to come.
Disadvantages
- More frequent thread bumping
Clearly if a new member has access to content which is otherwise difficult to find, he or she might want to discuss an old topic and will probably bump the topic. This is obviously okay if there is significant added value, but I suspect in most cases this is not the case.
This is an experiment, but I hope that if nothing else, this thread will start a discussion on how we can improve this aspect of the forum.
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