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[Nifft]

I guess sigs aren't really all that important to me. Usually, my sigs are just dorky little quips and sarcastic comments...if I bother to use one at all. If folks have something particularly important to say, I assume they will put it in the body of the post. (shrug)

But I can see the problem. A lot of people have links to larger bodies of work here on the ENWorld forum stored in their sigs, and in the past I have found them incredibly useful for finding large amounts of material quickly (Nifft, I'm looking at you.)

I have read a few of the arguments back and forth. I have to wonder...what does ENWorld really gain by restricting sigs?

MY NAME HAS BEEN INVOKED.

I'm among the most vocal sig detractors around here, and links are the one thing that I think every sig should be allowed to keep. Free or expensive, links add value for the community as a whole.

IMHO there should be limits on the number of visible characters in a sig, and there should be limits to formatting -- like no one should be allowed to use "moderator colors" -- and I personally find most images annoying, but links should be free.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Morrus]

Now why didn't I think of that? That's a brilliant idea. Our user profiles would be the perfect place to keep a library of one's own work, as well as lists of favorite posts and so forth. It's a little cumbersome right now in its current state, but that would be a great feature to incorporate in the future.

Yeah. At the moment you can store picture albums and have a blog, plus some details about yourself and your game, plus asides like your friends list and the like. I plan to make them far more useful (plus this ties into the GsG, so that when someone finds you on GsG and visits your profile, there's actually info there).

There are already privacy controls, of course.

 

[Nifft]

For those who use sigs as a storage mechanism for links, I have an alternative solution in mind. Part of the long term goal is to bring profiles a little more front-and-center, and such links will be a perfect fit there (in fact there will be room for far more).

There's some work to be done in that area, though, as right now profiles are not really very useful or functional.

In addition to beefing up profiles, you need some way to advertise the profile's content. It's rather foolish to expect everyone to click on every profile, hoping that there will be one useful link hidden among all the GsG info.

Or is your vision that people's sigs will say things like: "CHECK MY PROFILE FOR: Blog Updates - Custom PrC Designs - My Campaign World - Beer & Pretzels Rating Guide"?

Cheers, -- N

 

[CleverNickName]

MY NAME HAS BEEN INVOKED.

Penguin summoning complete!

Who says that rituals don't work in 3.5E? (ducks)

 

[Morrus]

On the Profile front - if you have Twitter, enter your Twitter username in your EN World profile under "Edit Your Details" and then check out your profile.

Or check out mine for an example.

 

[Sammael]

Don't have a Twitter account, but I just noticed the status thing and it seems to be working. Do you keep a history of past statuses (statii?) or just overwrite the current one?

EDIT: My community supporter image seems to have disappeared.

 

[Morrus]

EDIT: My community supporter image seems to have disappeared.

It did that days ago. Along with everyone else's!

 

[Piratecat]

The Twitter feed is pretty darn nifty! I'd rather have the user title where the status is, though.

 

[Nifft]

Penguin summoning complete!

Who says that rituals don't work in 3.5E? (ducks)

Duck rituals still don't work.

On the Profile front - if you have Twitter, enter your Twitter username in your EN World profile under "Edit Your Details" and then check out your profile.

Or check out mine for an example.

That box on the left is getting awfully tall.

Cheers, -- N

 

[darjr]

the 't' icon in your profile just took me to the twitter home page, not your twitter account.

Hmmm, it would be cool to have it popup the latest tweet.