Giant Signatures

[Buttercup]

I've seen other folks complain about this before, but lately it's been getting my goat too. I like signatures, especially those with an amusing quote or a useful link. I don't want to turn them off.

But those sigs with giant pictures

or multiple lines

of text

in different colors

like this

really annoy me. Would it be possible to put a foot down about how much space on the page signatures can take up?

 

[Darkness]

In any case... If a sig seems to be a bit too big or otherwise problematic, please report one of the user in question's posts so we know.

 

[Michael Morris]

One thing you can try is go to options and set a limit on how many lines of another poster's signature you will view. Also, I *think* the final version of Vbulletin 3.0.0 allows you to turn images off in signatures while continuing to display text in those sigs.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I've seen other folks complain about this before, but lately it's been getting my goat too. I like signatures, especially those with an amusing quote or a useful link. I don't want to turn them off.

At least we don't have the situation that they have over at the Wizards' boards.

Apparently, policy is to allow people to have as much garbage in their signatures as they wish, and if it irritates you, the admins will direct you to the control panel where you can limit sigs to 6 lines (or whatever).

Which has led to half a dozen idiots having sigs that go on for over a page - with badly-spelled misquotes from TV series, or character mottos, or links to "Foundation" threads, or whatever... finishing with a polite line like "Yes, it is absolutely necessary for my Sig to be this long. If you don't like it, fix your settings."

Makes me want to go berserk with a nailgun.

-Hyp.

 

[Piratecat]

Good manners indicate that an annoying sig should only be shown once per page. Really annoying sigs with giant photos should be reported to mods, please, so that we can privately let the person know that some alteration is needed.

Things got much better after we turned off html in signatures.

 

[Emiricol]

Sig length becoming irritating is such a subjective thing :/ Mine is at the limits of what I consider appropriate. Others might consider it well within reasonable boundaries, and still others might say it is over the limit.

Where do you draw the line? I'm glad HTML is out of sigs now, but I always wondered if there's something of a concensus on what is or isn't an appropriate length...

 

[Emiricol]

I also try (but don't always remember) to turn sig off on subsequent posts in a given thread...

 

[the Jester]

At one point I noticed that my sig was starting to grow out of control, with four threads of story hours pimped on their own lines and usually two lines of teaser with each one. I trimmed it back- without even being asked!- because I didn't like lookin' at it. :rollseyes:

 

[Hypersmurf]

At one point I noticed that my sig was starting to grow out of control, with four threads of story hours pimped on their own lines and usually two lines of teaser with each one. I trimmed it back- without even being asked!- because I didn't like lookin' at it.

I trimmed my sig back because Complete Warrior changed how Eagle Claw Attack! works

:rollseyes:

Bwaha! Not so easy now, is it?

-Hyp.

 

[Mark]

Is mine out of control?