Signature policy

MrBow · **Posted:** Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:39 pm

Like Belgarath and Crumpets mentioned, nowadays the rule violating signatures are more common. Just one single question to the Moderators: are you enforcing this rule at the moment, or are you going to? Do you want us to PM the names of 'rule violators'?

I'd like to do anything to help this forums get easier to read.

An answer to these questions would be great :love:

Crumpets wrote:

Belgarath wrote:

Just wondering if the new phpBB has a sig control option. It's continuing to get out of hand. If need be, I will keep a list of everyone who is violating the FORUM RULE of 550x200.

TwelveEleven
Jstar1
non ego man
Disconn3cted
Hellzowner
CrimsonNuker
Silver0
x_CodeZero_x
Icealya
satman83
hemagoku
Sylhana
Casey613
Fat_Smurf
DESOUL
_SomeOne_
redneck
firefox6
KomizDK
Silkroad
thAi
Blackdragon6
[SD]Isidro
Crni_Vatreni
ThisIsAvalon
the_wicked

We think alike, nothing pisses me off more than having to scroll to a next post because of someone's clearly obese sig.

salmissra · **Joined:** Nov 2007 **Posts:** 1487 **Location:**

umm ok but does it really matter. just scroll down >.<

Millenium · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 2732 **Location:** Waterloo

Thanks for reporting. The mod team will go through the list and PM those who have signatures with inappropriate sizes.

However, I want you to consider that even the rules state the signature must be 550x200 its hard to enforce it strictly. What I mean is, when I have a pic with 200px height and few lines of text and maybe another little userbar or something, that makes the dimension of the signature "box" add up to, say perhaps, 400px.

For example your signature, MrBow, is approximately 400px-500px in total with an image, few lines of text and the new ugly quote box (which is not your fault its ugly).

So, please understand that for this reason we won't be PMing everybody who's over the 200 height limit, but those that clearly cause others difficulty browsing the forums.

We again apologize :love:

for not paying too much attention on sig size lately(since we've been busying with 3.0 and mod application and all that stuff). We'll definitely be looking out to those extreeemely long signatures and PMing them to replace it when a less page-stretching one.

MrBow · **Posted:** Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:27 pm

Thanks for the quick and warm answer Millenium !
Ofcourse I know it's very hard to enforce this rule 100%, but there are some signatures that are just way too big (see the list of Belgarath). I'll edit my signature and remove the quote to give an example.

Dyegov · **Joined:** Dec 2007 **Posts:** 940 **Location:**

I have to agree with this. There are some sigs that are definitely annoying and don't allow me to surf the forum smoothly. Thanks for the nice answer and for taking it into account

StealMySoda · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 5245 **Location:**

Generally, if I see a signature that is WAY too big. I will PM them asking them to resize/remove it. Already PMed 2 people today, resized the Signature Image for one of those people myself.

Millenium · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 2732 **Location:** Waterloo

Gooo Soda

*Stays back, eats chips happily as Soda does the work*

NuclearSilo · **Posted:** Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:37 pm

And I also got a pm because of my image in signature has a size over 2Mb GIF

Millenium · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 2732 **Location:** Waterloo

NuclearSilo wrote:

And I also got a pm because of my image in signature has a size over 2Mb GIF

Thats outrageous, though those animated GIFs of LiuYiFei are my :love:

too.

Jstar1 · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 4757 **Location:**

Your going to have to scroll down all the way anyways, I don't get why its such a huge problem to scroll a couple more times.

MrBow · **Posted:** Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:58 pm

Jstar1 wrote:

Your going to have to scroll down all the way anyways, I don't get why its such a huge problem to scroll a couple more times.

well sigs like this are annoying..

SM-Count · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 2761 **Location:** /wave

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10

MrBow · **Posted:** Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:05 pm

SM-Count wrote:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10

I understand where you're comming from. But this shouldn't be the way to deal with it.

StealMySoda · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 5245 **Location:**

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
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http://www.janrique.com/~soda/SRF/GM/bb ... ly.user.js
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WIN

Belgarath · **Joined:** Jun 2006 **Posts:** 1745 **Location:**

Thanks for giving me credit at least lol. Yea....

Millenium · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 2732 **Location:** Waterloo

Just an update for this.

Our friendly wizard, Ace, has made us a script that automatically checks the images in sigs when it gets uploaded. It doesn't work on existing signatures though.

Ryoko · **Joined:** Dec 2005 **Posts:** 6390 **Location:**

I think that was an option in the control panel.

Nonetheless.

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