Quote Originally Posted by withm View Post
It seems to me that I once read on here that new members to the forum are somewhat moderated in that any links included in the first few messages are stripped out automatically. Then once the new member is determined to be, well, not a spammer, the links are restored to their signatures. I agree, the syntax is very bizarre. I've reported a number of these as well.
Something like this..and newbie posts with links or pictures in the message are moderated too. They don't show up until an admin has approved it.