Sartorius Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 Hello ^_^ I personally feel attached to this forum, as it's a great community of artistic, imaginative people and but it makes me cringe every time I see X images in each person's signature which are badly put together or way oversized. Constantly, I have wade through signatures which are literally a page long. It both takes a while to load and is horrible on the eyes. A solution to this is to make a rule that the max signature size to 250x300 or so pixels (all pictures combined). This will both decrease loading times for pages and will make the forum have a better image to others. If the total image size rule is broken, the offending member will be PMed to reduce the size. If they do not do so within 24 hours, they will have their signature removed and replaced with a line of text announcing they have broken the signature size rules. This is my proposal. Please leave your opinions and comments below, I'd like to hear them. This is both a fair and righteous proposal. If anyone wants to flame me for it: DON'T or PM them to me. Thank You. <3 Ashley Alden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaco Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 Agreed, although, it seems like signatures have gotten a lot smaller since the new forum was released. There are still a few people who have MASSIVE signatures that would only be considered okay if it were 4th it's side. I think my Signature is pretty reasonable, but if someone thinks it's still too big, I could shrink it down a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rscrash Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 Would you say mine is too big? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sith Scott Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 Yes but just a little(Sarcastically) i think mine would need to be cropped or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sartorius Posted July 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 Of course it's big. It's HUGE. On ALL good forums, there's a rule about signature images. Let's see this forum improve for the best. Thank you all for your opinions. Keep them coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frunk Posted July 20, 2007 Report Share Posted July 20, 2007 I'd be glad for something to be done, but the question is what? It frustrates me no end too, I even turned off signatures in my User CP due to not being able to get it into some member's heads that theirs is too big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkill93 Posted July 20, 2007 Report Share Posted July 20, 2007 Nay! You cant put too much of a limit to people signatures, i dont think its right. But on some level it is :P I know I'm contradicting my self but i have 2 points of view. On some old forums i use the limit is 100x500 with was so small we couldnt be creative. Here it will be wierd . Because you cant go from having no limit then changing it to something too small. A resonable limit is fine but you cant restrict it too much. Even if a new rule comes its gonna take a while for people to get used to them because you know that 80% of newbies dont read the rules. Heres what i see reasonably.Shaco's sig - 100% reasonableRscrash - A tad too big Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sartorius Posted July 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2007 Frunk: Not everyone knows how forums works, so I suggest restricting signatures for newbies until they have their X post. (Maybe 50, once they've understood it) Most don't know how a forum should be and they want to be show example by all the so-called "veterans" of this forum. But it's not easy as most of the veterans are abusing their signature entitlements (Not sure on the word xD). Tkill: I disagree. I consider Shacos to be slightly bigger than needed. RS' spans more than a whole page which means it's Massively oversized. And if the rule comes in, we need mods to enforce it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaco Posted July 20, 2007 Report Share Posted July 20, 2007 Tkill: I disagree. I consider Shacos to be slightly bigger than needed. Would that be width wise, or length wise, or both? (just so I know what to cut out) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frunk Posted July 20, 2007 Report Share Posted July 20, 2007 Frunk: Not everyone knows how forums works' date=' so I suggest restricting signatures for newbies until they have their X post. (Maybe 50, once they've understood it) Most don't know how a forum should be and they want to be show example by all the so-called "veterans" of this forum. But it's not easy as most of the veterans are abusing their signature entitlements (Not sure on the word xD). Tkill: I disagree. I consider Shacos to be slightly bigger than needed. RS' spans more than a whole page which means it's Massively oversized. And if the rule comes in, [b']we need mods to enforce it.[/b] I hope you respect that it's impossible to deal with, as, whilst I often notify and request to members through PM that signature is too large, eventually, I've noticed on a number of occasions, members just go back to having large signatures. I'd prefer it if signatures are no larger than twice as big as mine AT THE MOST, but how? The forum cannot tell how big images are when using hosted image code into your sig, so, unless we ask YCMaker to make it impossible to insert pictures into your signature OTHER than uploading directly from you computer (Links will just appear as links AND add a pixel limit), and adding a character limit, what can I do as a Mod, personally? Would that be width wise' date=' or length wise, or both? (just so I know what to cut out)[/quote'] I haven't looked at your sig, but if there is a horizontal scroll as well as a vertical one on the pages that you post on because of your sig, then it is too wide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkill93 Posted July 20, 2007 Report Share Posted July 20, 2007 what can I do as a Mod' date=' personally?[/quote']Here's what I'd personally do; Personally remove there sig and enter in it "Your sig is too big, please make it smaller" Then if they kept making it bigger give them a personal warning. Then like a 1 or 2 day ban but i think members will listen the first one or 2 times. Which mods usually have the power to do. Tkill: I disagree. I consider Shacos to be slightly bigger than needed. RS' spans more than a whole page which means it's Massively oversized. And if the rule comes in' date=' we need mods to enforce it.[/quote'] I disagree. We do NOT need to measure it by height or width as much as we need to by KB. Like Shaco's sig is around 200 kb and sSth Scott's is around 300. Whos will take more time to load? Scott's.4 small .gifs will take longer to load than 1 big picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncheng1997 Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 Hello ^_^ I personally feel attached to this forum' date=' as it's a great community of artistic, imaginative people and but it makes me cringe every time I see X images in each person's signature which are badly put together or way oversized. Constantly, I have wade through signatures which are literally a page long. It both takes a while to load and is horrible on the eyes. A solution to this is to make a rule that the max signature size to 250x300 or so pixels (all pictures combined). This will both decrease loading times for pages and will make the forum have a better image to others. If the total image size rule is broken, the offending member will be PMed to reduce the size. If they do not do so within 24 hours, they will have their signature removed and replaced with a line of text announcing they have broken the signature size rules. [b']This is my proposal.[/b] Please leave your opinions and comments below, I'd like to hear them. This is both a fair and righteous proposal. If anyone wants to flame me for it: DON'T or PM them to me. Thank You. <3 Ashley Alden that is just stipid to me why not just change it to three pics max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkill93 Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 that is just stipid to me why not just change it to three pics maxBecause people can just screen shot it and make it all one really big image. And its not really a stupid idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frunk Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 ^That was uncalled for, notice on your keyboard 'U' happens to be right next to 'I', so it was a mere typing error. Here's what I'd personally do; Personally remove there sig and enter in it "Your sig is too big' date=' please make it smaller" Then if they kept making it bigger give them a personal warning. Then like a 1 or 2 day ban but i think members will listen the first one or 2 times. Which mods usually have the power to do.[/quote'] Modating this site at my level is a very time-consuming task, I don't want to have to do that X amount of times a day as well as all my other duties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rscrash Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 [align=center]I hate it too but there is so much i wanna show!ill get rid of my shu poster thing![/align] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal_Reese Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 I wonder if mine is too big? What do you people think of it anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frunk Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 ^ Meta: In my opinion, your's is the perfect size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axiom_Nor Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 i think mine is an ok size, is it? cause i hate forums where the sig pics have to be like banner size (ex. 500X130) EDIT: i am removing my letter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frunk Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 It's a bit too large. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axiom_Nor Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 even without the letter to the members? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkill93 Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 Here's what I'd personally do; Personally remove there sig and enter in it "Your sig is too big' date=' please make it smaller" Then if they kept making it bigger give them a personal warning. Then like a 1 or 2 day ban but i think members will listen the first one or 2 times. Which mods usually have the power to do.[/quote'] Modating this site at my level is a very time-consuming task, I don't want to have to do that X amount of times a day as well as all my other duties. I know, but thats why if this does hapen your gonna have to have a little faith that the members will listen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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