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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 5136524" data-attributes="member: 18701">No problem man. You've always come across as a respectable mod without having an attitude (it's much appreciated). So I'm glad to know you recognize my post as being sincere. Sometimes it seems like no matter how hard I try, my post will be misinterpreted as if I'm trying to be a whiny jerk. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />After I wrote my post I realized that I wasn't thinking about the fact that subscribers will still be showing a sig & non-subscribers will still see their sig. So if I find something useful from a subscribers sig, that's great. Stuff like blogs, other gaming sites, other stores, or just links to resources & gamer aids are good finds. But it would still be nice to not be limited to just subscribers. I'd hate to miss out on a good link just because the guy is like me and doesn't subscribe. And on the flip side, I don't get to share my D&D resources with people. Maybe nobody ever uses them (I don't know), but it felt good to be able to throw them out there via my sig. I've had 1 user here contact me once to ask if he could link to my resources from his own website...very flattering!Then we may lose the ability to find players for our games or find games to join? These are things that I use ENworld for. Now I'm being told they may not be available unless I pay. So for me, I'm losing a lot of what I had always got from ENworld. Being a regular on other sites would be more beneficial to me if that is the case (that is not meant to be a lame threat in any way).How much are sigs burning into the cost of maintaining the website? Enough to call it noise? I may be stating the obvious, but taking sigs away from non-subscribers seems like nothing more than someone who is trying to make money being upset over others also making money (off sigs). If that's the case, then that's fine...greed is nothing new to me. I've had a powerful man take an entire business from me when I was just 19; a business that made no more than $75 a week. He did that for no other reason than because he's a greedy old man and because he could. If I'm wrong about the intent of restricting sigs, then I truly apologize for the accusation.Yes, I'm not going to deny that I don't also appreciate being able to advertise a link to my website. I was upfront about that in my original post. But don't get me wrong, I posted here for years before I started advertising anything via a sig. I credit ENworld as being a reason I started selling gaming stuff online. If it wasn't for the ENworld Marketplace forum, I never would have bought my first batch of D&D minis. And after keeping the ones that I thought would be great for my campaign and reselling the minis that I didn't want on the same forum, I wouldn't have realized that I enjoyed the experience and tried to see what could come of it if I did it again.And honestly, I'm lucky to get 2 people using my website a week via ENworld (or 2 people from anywhere for that matter). I have a full time job that has nothing to do with gaming or my website. So it's not as if I'm counting on a link in my sig to support me financially. It's just a small perk while I'm enjoying myself on the forums.I don't know if my ramblings have cleared any misunderstandings about my original post, but this is my attempt. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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