Those "which (blank) are you" sigs are huge!

[Morrus]

[joke]
I still think one day Crothian is going to start blackmailing Morrus.
Gimme X amount of money or I make a big sig

Imagine a huge sig appearing on over 17,000 posts at once?
Oh the horror!!!!
[/joke]

That's OK... it's a problem which can be "removed" with a couple of swfit mouseclicks.

 

[Airwolf]

That's OK... it's a problem which can be "removed" with a couple of swfit mouseclicks.

That's kind of scary. The man who touches the heart, of the message boards that is. He can just tighten his fingers a bit and it all fades to black.

Morrus, you are starting to creep me out.

 

[Usurper]

These giant sigs are driving me nuts too. I finally went in to my cp to totally disable the inline images via the img tag. However, since html is enabled in sigs for some reason, you still can't disable all of them. I really don't want to disable sigs entirely, since a lot of them have turned out to have useful links in them.

 

[Psionicist]

Most larger signature images are badly optimized too, and some are downright awful... I can remember someone with a rather large "I am xxxxxxxx" Dragonball Z image that's incredibly ugly.

 

[Azure Trance]

An alternative remedy could be to up your screen resolution so enormous sigs are no longer a problem? I here 1600x1200 is quite comfortable in that regard ...

 

[Alzrius]

I don't think the large sigs are so bad. Honestly, there are a lot of better things to get worked up over. I'm so desensitized to sigs that my eyes just roll over them without seeing them anymore. We can have sigs, so there's no problem with having a pic in there thats larger than a thumbnail. Just live and let post people.

Also, Psionicist, I have no idea who that person could be.

 

[Piratecat]

Heh - Alzrius, yours is at the upper end of what's appropriate (but okay). The problems come when someone has 2 or 3 of those as a sig.

Remember, if your sig is large, it's good manners just to show it once per thread instead of on every post.

 

[Psionicist]

An alternative remedy could be to up your screen resolution so enormous sigs are no longer a problem? I here 1600x1200 is quite comfortable in that regard ...

1600x1200? Same here.

 

[krunchyfrogg]

Actually, what would be extranice, except for the serverload I guess, would be to allow only one sig per page (i.e., show the signature of someone only in that person's first post on a thread page).

I agree. Heck, I try to do that, just out of courtesy.

Why not just do away with IMG's in signatures? Those of us without a high speed connection would really appreciate it!


NOTE: Just don't remove Airwolf's ability to post images in signatures.

 

[Usurper]

The problem would be solved imo if html were disabled for sigs. No need for it when url and img tags work perfectly well. Then people could just block in-line images that use the img tag.

And, honestly, Alzrius's sig bugs me the most. I'm about to add the server it's on to my blocked list, but that's tedious to do for all the large sigs, or the ones that are hosted on sites I might visit. (No offence, Al, you're a swell guy and all.)

1280x960 res. Still bugs me. ::shrugs::