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Ca$h68
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Apr 29, 2002, 02:29 PM
 
Animated sigs SUCK. If you want hte message board to look like las vegas, go find some AOL/animated/newbie moron messageboard.

And I second the lines ot text thing. some people have VERY annoying sigs with like 2 paragraphs underneath each post. BLECH.
     
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Apr 29, 2002, 03:01 PM
 
Originally posted by Ca$h68:
<STRONG>Animated sigs SUCK. If you want hte message board to look like las vegas, go find some AOL/animated/newbie moron messageboard.

And I second the lines ot text thing. some people have VERY annoying sigs with like 2 paragraphs underneath each post. BLECH.</STRONG>
Subtle animations like Cellery's are fine, and make for a really cool sig. However, some people go way overboard.

Oh and commenting on your sig....there is a twin-turbo'ed WRX with a sticker on the rear windshield that says "Vtec Sucks!"

It runs an 11sec 1/4 mile too
     
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Apr 29, 2002, 04:06 PM
 
I tried a version of my sig using png. I was trying to get just the letters, with a slight transparant shadow. It was over the limit and didn't even look as good a the GIF version I have today.

I am still waiting for a guess on the mountain viewed in my sig, and better yet the location it was taken from..
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Apr 29, 2002, 05:38 PM
 
Originally posted by Demonhood:
<STRONG>i personally haven't ever told anyone that they can keep their animated signature. and i've been advising a few people here and there to change their over the limit sigs.

if one of the other admins/mods wants to change the guidelines, they can talk to me. but until i post different, it's still what is posted at the beginning of this thread.</STRONG>
like demon said, there have been no changes to official policy regarding sigs.
let's take this opportunity to remind people who have animated sigs to self-censor. thanks
     
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Apr 30, 2002, 01:30 AM
 
Originally posted by MindFad:
<STRONG>Bam, 140 x 23, static, 5.7K. I feel so constrained. I had to decrease from 150-something pixels. Shame on me.

</STRONG>
5.7k??

A signature like your's could be as low as 1k-3k

My signature is only 6k
     
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Apr 30, 2002, 02:47 AM
 
Originally posted by Adam Betts:
<STRONG>

5.7k??

A signature like your's could be as low as 1k-3k

My signature is only 6k</STRONG>
I like your new sig Adam.
     
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Apr 30, 2002, 03:02 PM
 
Text: No more than 4 lines of text. Or no more than one image and 2 lines of text. Yes, it's difficult to tell "lines" with browser window sizes and all, but no huge paragraphs of text in your sigs please.
Aargh. Just seen one thats like 9 lines of text and an image. Here's a novel idea... why don't we have no images in sigs for a short while, see how many members freak out?
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Don't have a sig, but a suggestion. Can the UBB automatically size sigs? In other words, have it insert "WIDTH = 140 HEIGHT = 40" into the IMG tag.

Sounds like a perfect solution, that way, people can't change it no matter how hard they try.
     
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Apr 30, 2002, 03:46 PM
 
Originally posted by hayesk:
<STRONG>Don't have a sig, but a suggestion. Can the UBB automatically size sigs? In other words, have it insert "WIDTH = 140 HEIGHT = 40" into the IMG tag.

Sounds like a perfect solution, that way, people can't change it no matter how hard they try.</STRONG>
It can be a good solution but will create lot of problems. What if the signature is smaller than 140x40? It'll stretch and look awful. If they can make it smarter by look if the signature is smaller than 140x40 then leave it alone, it'd be better solution.
     
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Apr 30, 2002, 05:04 PM
 
Is flash ok? Me too lazy to read the guidelines

[ 04-30-2002: Message edited by: mattstoton ]
New sig coming soon. Yes, it will violate the sig guidelines :p
     
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Apr 30, 2002, 05:11 PM
 
Originally posted by Adam Betts:
<STRONG>

It can be a good solution but will create lot of problems. What if the signature is smaller than 140x40? It'll stretch and look awful. If they can make it smarter by look if the signature is smaller than 140x40 then leave it alone, it'd be better solution.</STRONG>
If it looks nasty, then all the more reason to make it fit within the space..

People freaked last year when image sigs were disallowed. Seems like every month or so, the weeds need to be trimmed.

I say if MacNN is free to annoy us with popunders (that nobody clicks.. PowWeb? WTF?!), we should be free to annoy them and each other with mega-sigs and flashing, 50K, neon crap.
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Apr 30, 2002, 05:19 PM
 
Originally posted by itomato:
<STRONG>I say if MacNN is free to annoy us with popunders (that nobody clicks.. PowWeb? WTF?!)</STRONG>
According to Nick in this thread, the pop-unders should be gone tomorrow. Here's hoping
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May 1, 2002, 12:59 AM
 
Originally posted by mattstoton:
<STRONG>Is flash ok? Me too lazy to read the guidelines

[ 04-30-2002: Message edited by: mattstoton ]</STRONG>
animation is not allowed anyway, so just export your made-in-flash static image as a format that more people's browsers will be able to read.
     
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May 1, 2002, 01:00 AM
 
Originally posted by itomato:
<STRONG>we should be free to annoy them and each other with mega-sigs and flashing, 50K, neon crap.</STRONG>
and this benefits whom exactly?
     
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May 1, 2002, 01:03 AM
 
Originally posted by Adam Betts:
<STRONG>My signature is only 6k</STRONG>
you removed your old animated sig. wonderful.
you replaced it with a new animated sig. wonderful.
what about this policy is so hard to understand?
animated sigs are not allowed
     
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[edit: message removed. immature post, sorry]

[ 05-23-2002: Message edited by: Adam Betts ]
     
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May 1, 2002, 01:27 AM
 
Graah! Sigs!

Why so much trouble!?
     
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May 23, 2002, 01:31 AM
 
*reminder bump*

the admins/mods are debating changes to the signature guidelines, but in the meantime, please abide by the current ones.

don't make me spank you.
     
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May 23, 2002, 01:38 AM
 
Does any one even listen?
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May 23, 2002, 01:38 AM
 
Originally posted by Adam Betts:
<STRONG>

5.7k??

A signature like your's could be as low as 1k-3k

My signature is only 6k</STRONG>
Hey, I have to have the best quality. Lowest compression, best quality for me.

And Adam's sig isn't annoying. Flowing water doesn't bug me ... as long as you don't get any on me.
     
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May 23, 2002, 01:44 AM
 
Originally posted by MindFad:
<STRONG>

Hey, I have to have the best quality. Lowest compression, best quality for me.

And Adam's sig isn't annoying. Flowing water doesn't bug me ... as long as you don't get any on me.</STRONG>
You should put NSFG in your sig.
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May 23, 2002, 01:46 AM
 
My sig moves but... come on losen up sig. nazi.



[ 05-23-2002: Message edited by: neoapple ]
     
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May 23, 2002, 02:03 AM
 
Originally posted by Mac Zealot:
<STRONG>

You should put NSFG in your sig.</STRONG>
He is ... kinda. *Cough*. The store has plenty of NSFG goodness. I wouldn't want to bother shrinking him down to 140 x 40 (whatever) pixels. I'm not sure I could ... well ... fit him into those dimensions.
     
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May 23, 2002, 02:04 AM
 
Originally posted by neoapple:
<STRONG>My sig moves but... come on losen up sig. nazi.



[ 05-23-2002: Message edited by: neoapple ]</STRONG>
Cool! A Miami, FL person like me! Where do you live? I promise I won't stalk! JK

Hey, cool sig, too.
     
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humm... calculating chance that your a demented stalker tracing my ip as I type this....

ahh... screw it. I live in South, South Miami, I'm talking south of Metro Zoo. I might as well be Homestead.
     
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Originally posted by neoapple:
<STRONG>

humm... calculating chance that your a demented stalker tracing my ip as I type this....

ahh... screw it. I live in South, South Miami, I'm talking south of Metro Zoo. I might as well be Homestead. </STRONG>
Bah, too far for me anyway. Ah well. Live and stalk another day.
     
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May 23, 2002, 02:55 AM
 
Originally posted by elzinat:
<STRONG>
you removed your old animated sig. wonderful.
you replaced it with a new animated sig. wonderful.
what about this policy is so hard to understand?
animated sigs are not allowed</STRONG>
Better now, eh? Let me know if you decided to allow animated signature
     
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May 26, 2002, 06:38 PM
 
Bump
     
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Jun 25, 2002, 08:51 PM
 
monthly reminder/bump.
     
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by Demonhood:
<strong>monthly reminder/bump.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Thank you. I was thinking about bumping this again, but I don't want to be a sig nazi.
     
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Jun 25, 2002, 10:14 PM
 
Is it possible to emblem a quicktime movie as sig?
     
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Jun 28, 2002, 02:47 AM
 
rampant, please change yours.

no real need to bump this anymore, since the guidelines are now listed in your profile. that's right, directly to the left of the space where you type in your code, it says:

Signatures images should be: 140 pixels or less in length, 40 pixels or less in height, less than 10KB, and not animated. Signatures should be no more than 4 linies of text, 2 lines if you also have an image. You may use UBB Code in your signature, but not HTML. UBBCode Images are permitted.

that should reduce confusion. a lot.
     
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Jun 28, 2002, 04:38 AM
 
Sorry for bumping this yet again, just curious if the two added smileys in my sig line is "kosher" or not

Mike
     
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by MikeM32:
<strong>Sorry for bumping this yet again, just curious if the two added smileys in my sig line is "kosher" or not

Mike</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Nah, I'd say its fine like it was for Stinking Billygoat Billyboy, the globby bottle of cheap stinking chip oil.
     
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Jul 24, 2002, 11:33 AM
 
didn't think bumping this was necessary since the sig guidelines are now listed in the Edit Profile screen, but i see that it still is:

Signatures images should be: 140 pixels or less in length, 40 pixels or less in height, less than 10KB, and not animated. Signatures should be no more than 4 lines of text, 2 lines if you also have an image. You may use UBB Code in your signature, but not HTML. UBBCode Images are permitted.

i'm going to ask the other mods/admins if they want to change the pixel restrictions a bit. but until i come back with a decision on that, please respect the current ones.

<small>[ 07-24-2002, 11:34 AM: Message edited by: Demonhood ]</small>
     
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Jul 24, 2002, 11:37 AM
 
I think mine is fine. If anyone objects my sig, let them do it here.

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hey look, i'm bumping my favoritist thread in the whole widey wide world!

i'll try to put the guidelines into the User Center so that there is a more permanent and logical location for this info.
     
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yes, i'm cracking down on all the violations once again. there has been some discussion of disabling signature images altogether, but i'd hate to have to do that. so i'm sending lots and lots of people friendly reminders that they need to change their signature.

a lot of people will say i'm nitpicking a few pixels here and there, but we only have three choices: strict guidelines, loose guidelines (and we all know how well that'd work in the lounge) or no signature images at all.
     
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Can't you make this a sticky? Or does that only work with new threads?
     
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Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
Can't you make this a sticky? Or does that only work with new threads?
good idea

totally forgot about that option.
     
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Heh, now you just have to inform everyone who doesn't visit the Lounge
     
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Sep 13, 2002, 12:13 PM
 
Alright, time for a little revolution here.

In today's world of increasingly large displays and insane resolutions, these sig guidelines are just outdated. Take for instance, my signature. Does this look too big to ANYONE? ANYONE? No. It doesn't. Neither does 90% of the signatures here. So I present a 4th option: Change the sig guidelines a TAD. I think a LITTLE bit larger sigs would be fine, not everyone will use the extra space anyway.

Agree?

Good. Slightly larger sigs should now be fine.

- Ca$h
     
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Demonhood

your sig is 32k....please conform
     
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Originally posted by ironknee:
Demonhood

your sig is 32k....please conform
It's 8k...
     
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Yeah I agree, 60x160 would be allot better.
     
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Originally posted by dazzla:


It's 8k...
28,760 bytes....or better yet do something creative

oh wait....i saw the web site....nevermind about creative
     
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Sep 13, 2002, 12:33 PM
 
Originally posted by ironknee:
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your sig is 32k....please conform
you don't really think i'd send out all this stuff if my signature didn't already comply, do you?

my .mac account reports it as 5KB. some browsers (IE for sure) don't save images correctly. so they'll appear to be quite huge (say, 32k instead of 5k) when they aren't. try saving it from netscape/mozilla/omniweb and see if you get different results.

as for changing the guidelines, we're sticking with 140x40 for now. if we change it in the future, we'll let you know. if people can't comply with the current guidelines (always wanting to go a bit bigger), what's to stop them from doing it again once it has been increased. so let's first make sure that everyone can abide by the current guidelines.
     
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Sep 13, 2002, 12:33 PM
 
Oh just ban signatures ya power-hungry nut-case. Quit whining.

Also, how do you define 4 lines of text? Heck, on a 48" plasma display 4 lines of text is very, very long.

As far as I'm concerned making the sig guidelines a little looser wouldn't hurt. Ok, it might hurt your ego... but thats not my problem.

On a totally unrelated note, I think demonhood should be replaced with a blind hippie All in favor say "aye".
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Originally posted by invisibleX:
Oh just ban signatures ya power-hungry nut-case. Quit whining.

Also, how do you define 4 lines of text? Heck, on a 48" plasma display 4 lines of text is very, very long.

As far as I'm concerned making the sig guidelines a little looser wouldn't hurt. Ok, it might hurt your ego... but thats not my problem.

On a totally unrelated note, I think demonhood should be replaced with a blind hippie All in favor say "aye".
Yaah what good is having a sig size limit when people have 4 or 5 lines of text below it.
     
 
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