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dtw

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How do you feel about big signatures?

In the past we have had complaints about the use of "big" images in signatures, mainly due to bandwidth and readability concerns.  It's not easy to stop people using images in their signatures and it's an easy route around the char limit.  Avatars are restricted in size but sigs cannot be.

Anyway, let us know what you think in our 7 day poll.

Mr Green

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

  not sure they add anything to forum ....

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tomk

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

Hate them, in general, but the measure of hatred varies from case to case. I have been known to PM people asking them to remove offending signature bloat.

dtw

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

90 views and 11 votes?  That's pathetic.

Dusty

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

Disable bbcode and html in signatures.

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T-Dawg

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

they generally don't bother me unless they are rediculously huge and I rarely see many of them.

T-Dawg

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

I would also disable sigs that include binary code.

dtw

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

Disable bbcode and html in signatures.

No facility for that I'm afraid, Dusty.  Aside from that you could only then have a plain text sig - no links or anything, which would suck for _many_ people.

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

I don't even see the sigs anymore when browsing, so I voted "dont' bother me"

No, I'm not using a blocker of any sort, just don't pay enough attention to sigs.

kth5

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

big in sense of a banner in every signature, i seriously hate that. big in a way of a couple of lines of text, like a good quote, these don't bother me at all.
it's just that most pictures in the signature look as if people try to silently brag with something.

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ozar

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

Big signatures suck!

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The_Nerd

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

doesnt bother me either way really. i've been known to have huge sig's and other times i just erase it all. i like the fact that we can choose though. if someone is abusing the freedom, then lets drop them a pm and the problem shuold dissapear. its really not that big a deal imho and it doesnt seem that there is any need to do anything above and beyond... but.. thats just my two cents

kth5

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

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the point of that is? well, you could have done it all in one line. think of all the ten posts on one page having a similar sized signature. that would seriously wear off my cursor-down key.

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The_Nerd

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

ahah i feel sorry for your down key, or in my case my scroll wheel (still havent given up my mouse  :oops: )

sure it could be done in one line, but it wouldnt be as good looking... i guess its just a preference thing. but that being said, if you'd like me to change it then i'll be glad to move it all to one line.

i'll hafta see if i can dig up my old [H]ardforums sig from a few years ago... it was something like 15 lines of my computers specs and quotes from people from the forum. it went unnoticed for about 6 months then a mod pointed me to where they had set a 7 line limit for sigs in the rules.

i personally setup my signature as is, so that people can get a general feel of my computer without me having to post the full dmesg, lspci or something like that. its apparent that i have a radeon card from my sig, perhaps i "should check my fglrx driver if i have a problem with X" that kinda thing.

thats just how i've always used them and continue to use them today. i've never been a big user of pictures, i dont quite get the point of putting in a picture what can be done in text kinda a conky versus adesklet sysmon thing.

codemac

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

crap.

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iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

Would something like this work?

codemac

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

After 10 seconds of thinking, no one gives a crap about what song I just played

vvvvvv the new one should be better vvvvvv

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syd

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From: Auckland, NZ

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

Just condensed mine to one line.
I dont like people who change there pic's all the time. It gets on my nerves waiting for them to download when my brothers playing bf2 online.

dtw

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

After 10 seconds of thinking, no one gives a crap about what song I just played

It's a bit like having a fat friend that wears unflattering clothes - you want to say something but you just can't...

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

long sigs are why the scroll wheel was invented. You could soo adjust the formatting of a forum to fit it into one browser screen, there's so much useless info.

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arooaroo

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

It's a bit like having a fat friend that wears unflattering clothes - you want to say something but you just can't...

LOL!

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FUBAR

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

I hate big signatures. Especially when they're bigger than the actual post itself.

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arooaroo

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

Well, I think it's fair to say that the majority of users would be happier to see them go. Put something in the forum guidelines, and then the Forum Police can kindly pm offenders, or dtw could just do a bit of sql-wizardary to cull sigs from non-compliants.

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dtw

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

The poll is about big signatures so I mess up really, it should have been about images and signatures:

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I think post people realize the poll was about images but I think need another poll to decide what size image is too big

mezoko

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Re: How do you feel about big signatures?

Nah, if it is to big a mod bitches at the user

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