Merged Avatars and Signatures thread

[Kichwas]

You have more than that in your sig.

Since when is 234 > 250?

64 if you just count what shows on the screen. The rest is vB code for the URLs.

Try learning to count.

 

[Tsyr]

Since when is 234 > 250?

64 if you just count what shows on the screen. The rest is vB code for the URLs.

Try learning to count.

305 including spaces (which count as a character in my software), and all code. Or so says a quick character count in a word processor.

The problem people are having is not that 500 characters isn't enough just for text on screen, but also links and such.

 

[Nifft]

I'd limit sigs to text (no images), but not count URLs or markup towards the 500 character limit. I'd also disallow SIZE tags above 3.

That way, you'd have 500 visible characters per sig, and no pictures except the Avatar.

Finally, I'd limit sigs to six lines -- two more than USENET allows, because I'm a generous kinda guy.

-- Nifft

 

[Emiricol]

I'd limit sigs to text (no images), but not count URLs or markup towards the 500 character limit. I'd also disallow SIZE tags above 3.

That way, you'd have 500 visible characters per sig, and no pictures except the Avatar.

Finally, I'd limit sigs to six lines -- two more than USENET allows, because I'm a generous kinda guy.

-- Nifft

Unfortunately, I don't think you can separate the code from the visible text. You just set the character limit, and that's that. I could live with 6 lines and no images, but again, I think the images are a great feature, one of many that make EN World such a vibrant place to be.

 

[Nifft]

Unfortunately, I don't think you can separate the code from the visible text. You just set the character limit, and that's that. I could live with 6 lines and no images, but again, I think the images are a great feature, one of many that make EN World such a vibrant place to be.

... while I see images as unnecessary things that cause pages to load slowly AND take up too much screen space. Sure, some little ones are fine -- the size of Avatars, or so -- but then there are huge honkin' ones that convey no useful information, or are animated ads. Bleah! Killfile them all, let Kibo sort them out. Using Mozilla, I block most of the originating sites, so don't see them, but that's a sub-optimal solution.

Anyway, it's not impossible to strip out tags from the counter, it's just extra work for the admins. It would have to be more complex than a simple character-counting Javascript function. But that's why they get paid the big bucks, you know.

-- Nifft, programmer & sysadmin

 

[A'koss]

I'm with you I'd just like a 1000 character limit, and a guideline of no more than 6 lines of text +1 small picture.

You gotta be kidding. What, this site isn't slow enough already?!?

And you guys want more space... heh... for sigs?!?!?!



I think the current limit is more than adequete. If anything, I'd like to see less. Sorry.

 

[dave_o]

I think sigs are a nice way to express yourself, so, images good. Just maybe slap a pixel size limit on images?

But 500 characters is just not enough.

Any administrators checking out this thread?

 

[Magic Missile]

I'm always a tad amused by people who's sigs are regularly twice the length of their post, but it doesn't really bother me too much.

To be honest I have never really looked at anyone's posts here and thought "wow, that sig's ridiculous"... so I'm on the fence for this one.

 

[Emiricol]

Okay, spaces don't count. My new (shrunken) sig is 495 characters, and around 530 with spaces.

Sniff sniff I miss my Iconic.

 

[Piratecat]

We'll discuss it, but don't be surprised if it stays at 500 characters. Frankly, there's a possibility that we might remove images from sigs altogether, but that's far from certain. We'll update you when we reach a consensus.