About large signatures and pics - Page 2

**Asa** · 06-17-2008, 09:59 AM

hmm...no problem with that^^

**sÖph** · 06-17-2008, 12:04 PM

than they'd have to put it in a spoiler or cut it

i know it's annoying and i think ppl should be limited, 2 sigs max
other large stuff go in a spoiler
and the forum has a max sig height
maybe an admin should change that into lets say 600/700?

**TakKi** · 06-17-2008, 09:59 PM

yes, would be a really good idea, I think.

**Deviette** · 06-17-2008, 10:45 PM

Good idea, I havn't seen that many people with large sigs, but if you have a rule in place, then it can't be a problem.

**Randmthotz** · 07-09-2008, 04:48 AM

Yeah, the messing of the top gets on my nerves too.

Also is there any rule against sigs with a lot of animation like mine?

**zeromus** · 07-18-2008, 02:02 PM

ok i would wrap it up into a spoiler but i dont know how to

**Shanasha1234** · 07-18-2008, 03:03 PM

Here's the spoiler link, zeromus: you put [spoiler] first and then you put whatever you want after it-then you put the same thing after your text/sig except this spoiler has / right before the "s" in spoiler.

**yoshikee** · 08-02-2008, 11:24 PM

so I've got my sig under 575px wide, but I think it's still widening the posts

EDIT: nvm that, seems to be someone else on the same thread

*zeDaBdan^* · 08-03-2008, 01:37 AM

Lol, the only thing that comes to my mind with those cracks on the UI are due to the coding of this forum.. Or the skin..

**Pirate_King** · 09-28-2008, 01:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yoshikee

so I've got my sig under 575px wide, but I think it's still widening the posts

EDIT: nvm that, seems to be someone else on the same thread

Ahh, Your sig is pretty big, Then again am one to talk

**ATZANIME** · 11-11-2008, 07:38 PM

So if i make a small pik i can always post it

**sÖph** · 11-12-2008, 07:46 PM

ya or just spoiler it

**Plectrum** · 11-13-2008, 06:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sÖph

than they'd have to put it in a spoiler or cut it

i know it's annoying and i think ppl should be limited, 2 sigs max
other large stuff go in a spoiler
and the forum has a max sig height
maybe an admin should change that into lets say 600/700?

Honestly, I think even 600 pixels is about 3-4 times too big. Signatures should be just what their name implies, a short, concise signing off on each post, for personalization and minor relief from the wall of text in a long thread. What I see a lot of people doing is making billboards, which make browsing any thread incredibly annoying, since the ratio of text to repetetive pictures and gifs on screen goes way down. I mean it's one thing if it's a thread for posting pictures and gifs in, but these are the same pictures and gifs over and over that occur with every post that user makes.

It gets old fast, especially when someone's signature takes up half the screen or more. The amount of scrolling I have to do just to read a thread when I have signatures enabled is too much, imo, particularly when you have half the people in a thread making posts where the text is shorter than their signature. It's supposed to be the other way around!

/rant

I'm just saying that because it's on topic. I'm not complaining. What I usually do is disable the display of signatures through my user control panel, so I don't see any of them most of the time. However, that's not to say I hate signatures. I just hate the way they are so enormous and over-animated on these boards.

One of the more effective ways I've seen on a message board for displaying image signatures was back on codegeassfan.com, the signature would show up for a user's first post on every page of a certain thread. Every following post by that user, at least on the same page, would not be followed by their signature. Since people here tend to like their billboard-esque animated signatures, I think this would be the best strategy for minimizing the annoyance of these things. After all, if it's just a matter of personalizing each post, the avatar does the same thing. We really don't need a user's signature to show up after every post he or she makes in the same thread. I mean, do I really need to be reminded that some person's signature looks like that with every one of his posts?

**Gojyo** · 11-13-2008, 07:31 AM

Honestly as long as the signatures don't stretch the page, they don't bother me. If the dimensions of someones signature(s) does do that I send them a private message reminding them of the rule. I can see what you mean about not wanting the sigs to appear in every post, but think about it like this. A lot of people work really hard on their sigs and would be rather upset if they didn't show up in every post.

**Plectrum** · 11-13-2008, 08:05 AM

I think that's part of the problem, though. Should more space in a thread about Topic X be devoted to showing off signatures, or to discussing Topic X? Simply by force of screen space, the huge signatures scream emphasis on the former, which to a certain extent can undermine a good discussion.