[OT] Noisy Profiles of Posters

[SylverFlame]

Hey. I've just noticed that over the last little while I have gotten a pretty noisy profile. I have two sigs, a quiz (I love my care bear ) and an avatar.

Anyways, I ran into an issue. Just how noisy can a profile get before it gets annoying? Stupid thoughts running through my sleep deprived mind (I hate the paper writing crunch time).

 

[Clay_More]

Well, I must say yours is approaching the annoying barrier

Off course, you could say the same for mine, but lets not mention that. I have seen a few truly horrible, picture + quotes + a billion links kinda sigs, so its not bad, yours. I do get a little annoyed when you have to scroll up & down for half an hour to get to the text that people write. Isn't there an option in your profile to turn sigs of when watching forum messages? Even though it would hurt a little of the feel sigs give, which I actually like...

 

[Iron_Chef]

The care bear is totally huge and annoying. I generally don't like, read or pay attention to anybody's avatar, but yours is so monstrous that I can't help it. Of course, I resent the fact that it is so big I was forced to pay attention to it in the first place.

 

[gamecat]

This should be in meta, but while I'm here, is this sig annoying?

 

[Clay_More]

Well, its not so bad since its wide, not tall. The problem with my sig is sometimes that its a tall picture. Would look completely stupid if I widened it out or made it smaller though and I loove it so...

 

[Painfully]

Like gamecat said, this belongs in meta.

Anybody who has a sig bigger than their average post is annoying IMO. A sig should be brief, and show a bit of individual expression. What it shouldn't be is a large block of waste before getting to the next post.

As an example, imagine if everybody had a large sig the size of a care bear (or whatever), and then imagine EVERY POST with that sig. It gets out of hand when there is more space devoted to sigs rather than posts. Don't be a hog. Keep the sig a reasonable size and let people move on to the next post.

As a final note, the care bear sig would be less annoying if you had a longer post than your sig. Same for gamecat or anybody else for that matter.

If I had my way I think I would ban pics from sigs. Picture attachments and avatars are sufficient, and I've seen some people really abuse their sigs with bloated banners and "What kind of XXXX are you?" pics. Those are ALWAYS annoying.

 

[green slime]

I agree with Painfully.

There shouldn't be any bloody pictures in sigs...IMNSHO.

 

[Gez]

The sig should not be over 3 lines. When your sig is bigger than your post, it makes you look stupid. Beside, yes, pictures are annoying. Alzrius' one is getting on my nerves. You should check in you profile that your sig would not be displayed by default, and only include it, like, the first time you post in a thread, if you don't want to remove an invaside picture.

And meta-ize that. I was going to report the thread, but it says: "reports only spam, advertising messages, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts". Even with stretching things, forum errors may difficultly be seen as rude. Oh well.

 

[SylverFlame]

Okay. I did not expect this many people to reply, so I have made a decision:

I am gonna start a poll as to whether or not the care bear should go. After three days of voting, then the majority will have it!

Viva la democracie pour ENWorld!!

EDIT: I'll put the poll in another forum while I'm at it. (It was put into Meta.)

 

[Ravellion]

Piratecat's reduced image in the other thread should be used regardless of whether people want your care bear though. Now. Not in three days. I like it, but not on that much of my screen. Not everyone is running 1196x768 resolution. If the numbers are off... that's because i am not running that resolution, so how should I know ?