Quote Holocron Quote: Originally Posted by You are missing the point. Bioware said we can do it a long while back (check Eric's post history) and it has been in our sigs for a while. Now CS is banning accounts citing that ref links in signatures is against the rules.



They also deleted a major post about it showing all the CS statements and subsequent banning from it.



The last "official" word on it is that links ARE allowed in your signature.

While I don't know specifically how BioWare operates, CS for most MMO's doesn't deal with the forums and they're run as two entirely separate entities.

Typically, for forum behavior to cause an in-game suspension, the issue had to be escalated through the community manager to a CS manager who would then enact the game ban.



Conversely, Customer Service doesn't deal with forum behavior since that's what moderators are for.

Their system may be set up in such a way that a game ban also locks you out of the forum, but it's doubtful that CS is actually punishing people for things happening on the forum. I suspect that, as with most "I was unjustly banned" complaints, there's a part of that story that was conveniently omitted.The last "official" word on it is that links ARE allowed in your signature.While I don't know specifically how BioWare operates, CS for most MMO's doesn't deal with the forums and they're run as two entirely separate entities.Typically, for forum behavior to cause an in-game suspension, the issue had to be escalated through the community manager to a CS manager who would then enact the game ban.Conversely, Customer Service doesn't deal with forum behavior since that's what moderators are for.Their system may be set up in such a way that a game ban also locks you out of the forum, but it's doubtful that CS is actually punishing people for things happening on the forum. Keep up to date with game events at

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