Welcome to Website Babble!

To get the most out of your visit, please make sure you read the info and guidelines below. You'll find information on adding a signature, other forum permissions and yes, everyone's favorite... THE RULES. :)

Self Promotion is Not Allowed

What is self promotion? This is when you create a thread or post with the sole purpose of promoting or advertising your website or blog.

The only times you are allowed to include a link to your site in a post is...

1) You have a technical problem with your site and you need to illustrate the problem by showing us your page or code in question.

2) You are posting an introduction message in the New Member Welcome forum.

3) Requesting a review in the Site Reviews forum

However, if you are just posting a general question about your site, please refrain from dropping a link when it's not really relevant to answering your question. Take advantage of using the signature option (see next section).

Also, "Look-what-I-did" posts are not allowed. This is when you've added something new or done something to your site and you create a new thread with a link to your website just to show it off. This is self promotion.

While I realize many of these posts are innocent, I cannot allow them because it will get out of hand by people whose intentions are to spam/self promote. It will become difficult for myself and the moderators to manage and determine which posts are innocent and which are not.

Adding a Signature

You are allowed to add a signature to your posts after you reach a certain (undisclosed) post count. When you can add a signature the "Edit Signature" option will become available in the User CP. So you'll have to keep checking the UserCP.

Adding a Banner

You may have noticed that some members have a banner in their sig file. You must have 400 posts before you can add an image to your sig file. Details on how to do this will become available in your account when you reach that status.

The WB Reputation System

The WB Reputation system allows forum members to rate other member's posts. So if someone posts a very helpful post, you can click on the small scale icon located on the top bar (right side) of their post and provide positive feedback.

How many points you can award depends on your own reputation. So those who have a higher reputation, can award more positive and negative points than those who have little or no reputation.

You can read notes about a member's reputation by hovering your mouse over the bar icon located on the top bar of their posts.

Gray bar = No reputation

Red bar = Poor reputation (Has negative points)

Green bar(s) = Positive reputation points. You earn 1 green bar for every 100 rep points you receive.

Not everyone can assign negative reputation points. In order to give negative reputation points, you must have a certain number of posts and reputation points (undisclosed).

The reputation point system is purposely vague to avoid abuse of the system. Currently there are no awards or punishments associated with the reputation system, but I may choose to use this feature later to grant certain privileges to those who reach a certain reputation level.

Please do NOT award negative points if you disagree with someone's opinion. That's not the purpose of the system. The purpose of assigning negative points is to discredit members who post inappropriate or spammy/sneaky posts.

Posting a Site Review Request

New members with low number of posts cannot post a new thread in the Site Reviews forum. The reason for this rule is that there were a large number of people joining the forum just to drop a link or promote their site using the Site Review section.

Once you reach the appropriate number of posts (undisclosed), you will be able to ask for a review. Keep in mind you can still reply to other review requests, you just cannot post a new thread and request your own review until you reach the desired number of posts.