Excessive Signatures
 

There are a lot of signatures right now that are excessively big. Could we remind people of the forum rules regarding signature sizes and enforce against the large ones?

I agree; in my opinion, even your's and mine both are too big. It's rather disctracting and tends to clutter up the flow of a thread and unneccarily elongate a topic's page.

Do people still use 640x480?

Is there a way to add a feature that can shut images off for those who don't have the bandwidth to burn?

http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/pro...do=editoptions
Click off show avatars or signatures.

My complaint has nothing to do with bandwidth. It has to do with people who have images that are wider than the forum itself (in fixed width mode) and some that are as tall as a page on my screen. People don't need multiple/huge images in their sigs asking for people to sell them stuff and whatever else.

I'll dig up the one that put me over the edge after tolerating a growing number of these later tonight.

Saw that one too, eh?

See, this is just ridiculous:



And there are quite a few that are nearly as bad.

Hello!

Please let me know if my new sig..... if someone bothers my signature....
I was so happy addig the new banner....but if its too much I can fix it! I think I could change it for a gift/animated sig.
Also please accept my apologizes!

Thanks!!!

Yours isn't wider than a computer screen, Luzmagica...

I think your sig is a little too tall Luz... I would say that the height of Gobo's and the width or yours are ideal for a maximum sized signature image.

-ms

But she has two images which is allowed. Right?

Thanks! :tlove: :tgrin: !!!


Thanks so much Master Splinter!!!! :tgrin: I had fixed the signature with a gif with the 2 images....! I also re-sized a bit! :tgrin: :twink: :tcool:

Yes...As far I know you can include more than one imagen..... :twink:

I think I might be one of the offenders. I need to look at resizing things. Sorry guys.

^ You think?
;)

Hob's isn't that bad. Jasper's makes me wish I hadn't sold my purple fan club bandana to Luzmagica :toops:

Ouch! :toops: :tgrin:.....OMG! :lol: .... Hope you dont regret all the things you had sale to me this years! :lol: !

XERO's is pretty huge, as well, like it's about to kung-fu kick through my screen!

Is Mine Ok?

yours is out of the ordinary, I like that! is mine ok? :D :P

Sage Ninja's sig is damn ridiculous. Takes up my whole screen.

Ask them to use spoilers, I do

:oops: Oooo I hope my signature isn't too big...

Width is fine. Height is a tiny bit higher than the rules state but it's barely noticable, so I think it is fine.

The filesize is almost 1mb though. Does not bother me because I have fast internet both at home and at work. But the rule says 300KB so it is over 3x the size.

I think the rules on filesize (both in KB and width/height) are a bit conservative but a lot of people are still on slow or metered internet, particulaly those outside of the USA (Australia is really bad about this, and many other isolated countries)

You can read the rules here: http://www.thetechnodrome.com/frules.shtml

Yes, those signature rules (particularly the 300KB one) are a little outdated, since they haven't been changed in over 6 years... :P I think it would be safe to increase the limit to at least 600KB, if not more. What does everyone else think?

I think that'll do quite fine :D

Im agree!!!! ok!!!!!!! :tgrin::tgrin::tgrin: :tcool:

I'm not so much worried about the file sizes in terms of KB - but I think we need to enforce firm pixel height and width limit.

I use the fixed width style on the forum, and wider than about 700 stretches the style and drives me buggy. Height maybe 150, but definitely not bigger than 200.

I second this. I browse the forum on my Kindle Fire a lot now and some of the signatures are so large they shrink the screen down to such a small size I can't read it without zooming it and then I have to scroll back and forth endlessly.

I am not completely lazy but I think if it's a rule it should be enforced :tsmile: