Signatures

[jewishjosh]

It's been complained about in various threads so I thought I'd make one just for this issue. We should be able to use BBCode and smileys in our sigs again. I just tried to update my sig and it said it could only be 50 characters long, that rule also needs to go.

Admins, if you don't want to change it back, please explain why not.

[PyroOwned]

Yeah, I'm only allowed one sentence, no BBCode, no quotes, and no images. What's with that?

[letteratlantic]

Every time I try to quote someone it wont let me. I think the whole 50 characters should go.

[PyroOwned]

We should be allowed:

Quotes
Images
BBCode

No 50 Word Restriction

[Benjaman]

something like 85 would be nice.

[BKS]

Well, I agree with the no 50 word limit, that prevents people from using certain things in their sig, which makes it hard.


However, seeing someone with 6 quotes in their sig would just get annoying.

[Beefynick]

The signatures should be limited to two quotes or maybe 100 characters (including smileys). I think 100 is more than enough and the two signature limit (if it is possible to do that) would allow people to use quotes but avoid the 6 quotes problem.

[SODA]

how about limiting it to a number of pixels, like 200px high

[Far]

Everyones sig possibly this tall?
http://www.filterforge.com/more/help/images/size200.jpg
If there is a way to disable others from seeing them then sure, otherwise I and I'm sure other aren't fond of big ass sigs.

[Matterialize]

God no. I used to browse forums where idiots had these ENORMOUS sigs, piled high at the bottom of their post like a goddamn art gallery. It's really irritating when a one or two-line post is suddenly dominated by a whole mess of HEY HEY HEY EVERYONE LOOK AT MY SIG bullshit.

We use the forum to discuss things, not to show off our fucking signatures. I, for one, like the current dimensions as they are.

[Killer Carebear]

Signatures should be expanded a little. Not too much, just more than right now.

[Rob]

Here's what happened.

Quotes are annoying because they interrupt the flow of the thread and are only used for stupid circle-jerking purposes.

I tried to turn them off in sigs, but for some reason it's not working and it's messing with other features. I'm trying to work out the kinks.

Eventually, you'll only be able to use images and plain text in sigs.

[BKS]

Im down with that. I only got one cause the other one I had wasn't working.

[Jamez5000]

I wish we could embed .swf fies as the signatures :(

[Spastic]

I wish we could embed .swf fies as the signatures :(

Hooray for malicious code!

[RabidMonkey]

I agree with 100 character limit, 2 quotes limit, and the current size for pictures. 100 characters should sufficiently hold two quotes. And you don't want some massive picture either, or multiple massive pictures.

[Tempest]

I think the height limit for images in sigs should be upped just a little bit.. Maybe like 70 instead of 50, or if you're feeling generous, 100. A lot of stuff I want to put in my sig just doesn't come out right at 50 pixels high, it's either too small to see some of the detail needed, or it pixelates too much.

[RabidMonkey]

My sig comes from a 8000x8000 pixel image :indiff: The details are pretty good, but on the original, the details make it look like a real planet. So I don't really know what you're complaining about being pixelated?

[jewishjosh]

I understand the circle jerking problem, but if I want to sig a quote that's actually funny like this one...
I'm not putting a dong on the main forums page.
...I'll be called a suck-up. It's too bad you can't infrac for unfunny circle jerks in sigs. Or can you?

[ToastmasterAlpha]

I think we still need more than 100 characters. Maybe 150? Also, It doesn't really matter if quote tags are disabled or not. You can just put "Username: Quote text."

[PyroOwned]

Would we be allowed moving .gif images? Because I made an awesome one but I'm not allowed it. :frown:

[Far]

Then you're doing something wrong.

[Oberlin]

I think that links shouldn't be counted towards the character count, like it used to be. 50 character limit isn't a problem, but not being able to link an image or page because the URL is too long is kinda retarded.

[opn4bzns]

I think that links shouldn't be counted towards the character count, like it used to be. 50 character limit isn't a problem, but not being able to link an image or page because the URL is too long is kinda retarded.

Yeah, I've always thought that too. You can resort to using tinyurl though.

[Snowland]

I've seen forums having scroll bars in the signature place. You could just scroll your way around, and it didn't interupt anything.

[Kenneh]

Its annoying when you scroll down a page and have to scroll down a signature by accident.

[Snowland]

Its annoying when you scroll down a page and have to scroll down a signature by accident.

Hmm, that's true, it can be annoying if your cursor goes over the scroll thing.

[Kenneh]

Yes thats exactly what I said.

[Matterialize]

Its annoying when you scroll down a page and have to scroll down a signature by accident.

Some forums have special spoiler tags, where a whole block of text is not only hidden but is completely compressed and stuffed behind a little "spoiler" button, so that it takes up no room on the table. Clicking the button makes the text spawn wherever the spoiler tag is. People on those forums often use this in their signature, so they can keep enormous images and quotes there without cluttering the page and to keep posts small and legible.

That's probably the best system, actually. Anyone who really wants to see their sig can click the spoiler button, and anyone who doesn't won't get distracted by huge sigs.

[Mr Anorexia]

I can't take out the Ert thing from my sig without taking out my other image :frown:

[Cristo]

Some forums have special spoiler tags, where a whole block of text is not only hidden but is completely compressed and stuffed behind a little "spoiler" button, so that it takes up no room on the table. Clicking the button makes the text spawn wherever the spoiler tag is. People on those forums often use this in their signature, so they can keep enormous images and quotes there without cluttering the page and to keep posts small and legible.

That's probably the best system, actually. Anyone who really wants to see their sig can click the spoiler button, and anyone who doesn't won't get distracted by huge sigs.

Do you frequent a forum called The Student Room or something along those lines? Because everything you've mentioned so far is in that and I thought perhaps you did.

[Kenneh]

Do you frequent a forum called The Student Room or something along those lines? Because everything you've mentioned so far is in that and I thought perhaps you did.

No, many IPB boards have that function.

[Matterialize]

No, many IPB boards have that function.

And users with gigantic stupidhead signatures.

[Assassin]

I don't know, I like seeing people's signatures, so I don't feel like clicking everytime to view them. And the thought that there are people who aren't viewing my awesome signature is just wrong.

Imo, the signature image restrictions are good the way they are. Or maximum 500x100.

[Matterialize]

Assassin, the spoiler-tag method is just for hiding ridiculously huge sigs or lots of quotes. People could still post images directly to their sig, if they were within reasonable size limits.

[GSOM]

What about sigs?

[MistyTehMoose]

As long as they are not ridiculously huge, then I don't see why the character limit can't be changed. As far as I see it, the character limit isn't the problem, but the size of images that some people put in their sig. I think that should be restricted, instead.

[spaj]

Do you frequent a forum called The Student Room or something along those lines? Because everything you've mentioned so far is in that and I thought perhaps you did.

I thought of the Student Room first when he mentioned spoilers as well.

I genuinely believe they'll help a lot. You can fit a load of shit in a spoiler, and it's up to the user to click on it or not (though it's annoying when people think they're original by embedding an infinite amount of spoilers within spoilers).

[Shadowpriest]

I can't take out the Ert thing from my sig without taking out my other image :frown:

Why dont you just save that other image you want to keep then put it back after you erase them both?

[Oberlin]

I'm offended by Shadowpriest's signature.

[InTransit]

Hiding sigs is a bad idea because slack mods like myself, who will never click to see someone's sig, won't be able to tell if there's any goatse-type images there.

However, I think the 50-character limit should change. I tried changing my sig today using the normal user-cp and a Photobucket URL won't fit in the limit. My picture only had 3 letters in the file name.

[Tempest]

Hiding sigs is a bad idea because slack mods like myself, who will never click to see someone's sig, won't be able to tell if there's any goatse-type images there.

However, I think the 50-character limit should change. I tried changing my sig today using the normal user-cp and a Photobucket URL won't fit in the limit. My picture only had 3 letters in the file name.

I suggest tinypic.com for images, it shortens the URL to almost the perfect length. However, I agree that it needs to change.

[Matterialize]

Hiding sigs is a bad idea because slack mods like myself, who will never click to see someone's sig, won't be able to tell if there's any goatse-type images there.


Good point. I suppose a report system might not be effective, because they could just edit their sig to remove the link...

But then again, people can edit offensive content out of their posts too. Perhaps in addition to the report-post button, a user could have a "report user" button in their profile. Offensive sigs could be included in that.

[CharlieH]

I say, make the charachter limit 100, one quote only and the keep current picture dimensions. Very few people will then ever complain about that.

[Assassin]

To be honest, I'd put goatse in my sig with the spoiler thing.

[I_Smell]

So do we have big avatars now or what? That was the plan about a week ago, did it happen?

[BadAnkle]

I haven't been able to change my sig for months. I can't even change the link in it. So I guess you can all just look at this thing until I die.

[Jrod]

Why should u need more then 50 characters??

[Mirrorman]

There are more than 50 characters in quite a few signature pictures filenames when you upload them somewhere. Also you can't add more than a sentence of text.

[Rob]

I haven't been able to change my sig for months. I can't even change the link in it. So I guess you can all just look at this thing until I die.
Probably long after considering how old you are.

No progress on signatures. Still can't get VBulletin to allow IMG code but not FONT and SIZE, which get abused way too much.

One idea is to not show signatures on posts by default, but have a checkbox that lets you show yours if you want. The opposite of what we have now.

[Mirrorman]

Actually I think that it really doesn't need the IMG code thing. I uploaded mine from my desktop and it works just fine.

[Rob]

Whoa. You can upload signature pics?

I didn't know that. We could disallow bbcode completely.

[Mirrorman]

I guess so, atleast I did that.

[Matterialize]

Whoa. You can upload signature pics?

I didn't know that. We could disallow bbcode completely.

But, why? Wouldn't it be better if people didn't host their images on your server?

[Jiggz]

ISo I guess you can all just look at this thing until I die.

At least we won't have to wait long.

Has any progress been made on this yet? Could we up the character limit in the meantime?

[Tempest]

Whoa. You can upload signature pics?

I didn't know that. We could disallow bbcode completely.

If you do that, you should definitely change how big the images can be on upload. Currently, the actual upload option restricts it to something like 9kbs. Not enough, at all. :indiff:

[EeK··]

I've been having lots of problems with doing a signature. It basically won't allow anything unless it's 50 characters of plain text or less. :indiff:

I'm all for upping the character limit. Oh, and as matterialize said, if you disallowed any and all BBC, people would just be hosting images from your server, which wouldn't bode well for the speed of things around here I assume. :think:

[Mirrorman]

I think its kind of BBCode too, because if you upload it here, it requires to write [SIGNATURE ] [/ SIGNATURE] in your signature box
*Without the spaces ofcourse.

[Matterialize]

Even just excluding BBcodes from the 50-character limit would be good enough, I think.

[BadAnkle]

I used to change the link in my signature periodically. If I saw something funny on the internets, I'd make my sig image link to it. I miss being able to do that.

[Mirrorman]

Just download it and then upload it here.

[Matterialize]

Those things aren't always conveniently sized for fitting into a 50px tall box. And he doesn't necessarily mean images, Mirrorboy.

[BadAnkle]

Just download it and then upload it here.

But I'm old. I want to do it the same way I always did. New things scare me.

[suszterpatt]

Is there a way to limit overall signature dimensions in pixels? E.g. all sigs must fit in a 500x100 box or something.


Also, what's wrong with color and size tags? Or VBcode in general, for that matter? (read: I'm new here and don't know what people did to get that stuff banned)

[RabidMonkey]

Ok sorry about reviving this thread.

BUT

COME ON GIVE US MORE SPACE. I just tried to put this here in;

"Once upon a time, someone said "lol" in real life.
I shot him."

I got 3 errors;
-Over 50 characters
-Cannot use the Center bbcode.
-Too many lines.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS BULLSHIT? Oh shit, I had a 2 lined, 68 character, centered message, this is really going to infringe on our view of the forums.
FUCKING NOT.

[CharlieH]

Do you reckon that everyone changing there sigs to "Rob is a Douche" that would kick him into action. C'mon man. Just change the limit to 100 Characters and 2 lines. just for now. :argh:

[Tempest]

Do you reckon that everyone changing there sigs to "Rob is a Douche" that would kick him into action. C'mon man. Just change the limit to 100 Characters and 2 lines. just for now. :argh:

Yeah, it probably would. You do yours, and I'll edit mine when I get the chance.

[Assassin]

I'm pretty sure there's a good reason for it.

[CharlieH]

Name one.

[Pelican Man]

Not having massively large sig cluttering up a forum, where the idea is to discuss topics, rather than showcasing some image, or large drawing of your username.

[Jiggz]

Obviously Peli, but that's not what we're asking for. Just some extra space to allow for individual creative expression. Or some bullshit like that.

[BeneBreadstick]

I only have a problem with the character limit. 75 or 100 would be good in my opinion. And besides, it's not like the admins are inconveniencing us :indiff:

[Assassin]

Name one.
I didn't say I know a reason, I said I'm sure they have one, smartass.

[Pelican Man]

Obviously Peli, but that's not what we're asking for. Just some extra space to allow for individual creative expression. Or some bullshit like that.

I know that, but he asked for one reason, so I offered a suggestion.

[RabidMonkey]

Just change the character limit to 100 instead of 50. Because 50 doesn't allow for anything.
Also allow at least three lines. Three lines won't hinder anything. And allow the code center to be used.
WHAT HE FUCK, BB CODE IS COMPLETELY BANEND IN SIGS NOW. BULLSHIT.

[Tempest]

Just change the character limit to 100 instead of 50. Because 50 doesn't allow for anything.
Also allow at least three lines. Three lines won't hinder anything. And allow the code center to be used.
WHAT HE FUCK, BB CODE IS COMPLETELY BANEND IN SIGS NOW. BULLSHIT.

It's been like that for a while now, only the img tags can be used :indiff:. Some people need to get a grip on reality.. It's not going to hinder your forum-going experience if you can't put a multi-line, centered sig.

[jewishjosh]

Do you reckon that everyone changing there sigs to "Rob is a Douche" that would kick him into action. C'mon man. Just change the limit to 100 Characters and 2 lines. just for now. :argh:

I don't see you doing it. It's an interesting idea, but my sig is a remnant of the [QUOTE] tag days. I don't plan on changing it until we get BBcode back, but you never know.

[RabidMonkey]

Just change it back already!

[Assassin]

:stfu: