hey Bobby
I think you may have misunderstood the "rules" and in fact they have been relaxed a lot in terms of posting to other websites and forums to be helpful to members
The only kind of linking that is against "the rules" is to just come here to solicit for other forums, and to post commercial links or inappropriate ones
I had thought that misunderstanding had been cleared up via PMs .....but.....anyways..... you better get busy and go replace all those links you deleted
So to repeat.... DocJohn has explained the linking guideline is to prevent spam style solicitation, not useful links to other places on the web that can benefit the members