Merged Avatars and Signatures thread

[dave_o]

(Kinda Meta, but I want responses) Sig Length Limit!

So, I said "Hey, this Living ENWorld thing looks pretty rad, I'll put together a character!" Around thirty minutes later, Dylan Pontius, sailor-at-large was born.

"Wow," I thought, "that was quick, well, time to add him to my sig!"

Much typing ensued, followed by clicking submit.

"Error: Signatures must be 500 characters or less."



I hastily clicked cancel, because, what I have now is more than 500 characters - but I guess it got to circumvent that little limit since it came directly from the old boards. What gives, though? I mean, with all the numbers in a thread address, 500 characters is maybe one or two links.

But I guess it's for low-bandwidth users? Thoughts/angry rants/improvisational songs PLEASE!

 

[Emiricol]

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. I discovered the 500 character limit when I went to update the URL of T13K in my sig, but couldn't lol.

 

[nHammer]

Personally I think many sigs here are WAY to big...and there shouldn't be pics in sigs.

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

I'm going to have to check out the "living EnWorld" thread

I think there should be *A* limit but that 500 is rather small, considering some of the small pictures codes can take up that much...

Maybe 1000. Or maybe not a character limit but an item limit; such as you can have one picture, 5 links and 500 characters of text.

 

[Joseph Elric Smith]

simple and to the point Sig's work for me,but then again, I am not in to the whole phallic need for a large sig.
ken

 

[Emiricol]

Personally I think many sigs here are WAY to big...and there shouldn't be pics in sigs.

I disagree. They add a lot of personality to the forums, in turn helping generate that sense of community that keeps a lot of users coming back. No one wants half-a-page sigs for everyone, but there's a middle ground that isn't being met

 

[Emiricol]

simple and to the point Sig's work for me,but then again, I am not in to the whole phallic need for a large sig.
ken

How do you explain Djeta then

 

[Wormwood]

Some of the .sigs here are insane.

I like seeing .sigs in most cases, and they are more useful than not. But if I'm your collection of quotes or pictures is occupying half the screen---you're probably doing something wrong.

Yes, I'm aware that we can choose not to view them---but we can also choose to excercise a little discipline.

 

[Kichwas]

Cut it to 250 I say.

I don't need to see the same old crap every time I read a post by someone. If your sig is even 1/3 the length of your average post, it's too long.

On I think the wizard's boards, there's a person who's sig is a list of every single RPG book they own. They also tend to post a lot of one-liners. Very annoying.

 

[Tsyr]

Cut it to 250 I say.

You have more than that in your sig.