Cyborg Ninja, you've misread what's been said. The old rule wasn't in place since June - it was in place since before I became a member. You somehow fell through the cracks and we missed enforcing it. I recently cleared my sent PM box of about 50 notices to people who's signatures I either requested to be changed or notice that I changed it myself (for new people). The old rule did not allow links to outside sites to be in signatures without prior approval - I can think of 4 or 5 instances of that approval off the top of my head. Sorry that we didn't enforce the rule 100% consistently before, but we are now as of December 9th. Your signature wasn't in compliance before the rule change and it wasn't before Cynthetiq PM'd you.
In other words, you were in the wrong before the rule change and after the rule change. Cynthetiq was absolutely right to send that PM, and he just beat me to it. Amonkie and MixedMedia are being nice, but I'll be the blunt/bad guy and tell you that you only had your signature as it was because no one noticed it.
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