[SPLIT] Increase signature length?

[stonent]

Mod Edit: Split from this topic - tomk

Can we have our signature length expanded so we can link to all these good ideas? I'm out of room! OT: Oh and I don't remember anyone coming clean on why graphics were disabled
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[andrew_j_w]

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[andrew_j_w]

Oops, I guess I should have checked before I posted... I got confused between the rules on different boards.

I guess 255 characters is a little small if you want to put some links in.

Andrew

[aethyr]

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[stormcrowley]

[puggy]

[stonent]

Well having links to just a few posts can push you over the limit. Especially when you name the link.
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[nevynxxx]

www.tinylink.com should solve the "I can't get enough links in my sig" thing. To some extent anyway.
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[stonent]

Well I'm at the limit here. I just inserted a size tag and had to remove some text so it would let me put the size tag. If only the limit were on the visible text and not the BBcode. That would have been perfect.

edit: Well I converted my links to tinyurl and got another line to fit.
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[abzs2k]

I once countered the "no image problem" using an ASCII art snippet.
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[aethyr]

Stonent, maybe it's a good thing you're at the limit. I think your signature is pretty long as it is ;)

[curtis119]

I've always enjoyed most of the sigs on the Gentoo forums. Most of them are pretty funny or convey a message important to the owner. I like mine to be either poetic, inspirational or philisophical. We should definitely keep images out of sigs though. Puggy was right abut 1/2 meg sigs taking forever to load in other forums and it's a pain in the ass. Maybe the suggestion to not count BBcode as part of the 255 character limit is the best idea. Just my opinion.

edit. Spam is a bad thing to most people (including me) so we should ban those that sign up for a forum account just to spam the rest of us. But spam in your sig should be allowed. Sigs are very personal and make a statement. You should be able to put whatever you want in them. Those that do will most likely be ignored by the rest of us though.
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[porodzila]

Its a signature, why should it need to be long?
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[sapphirecat]

If you really wanted, maybe you could put a page up somewhere, and have a sig like:
<url=a_single_url>Links for Portage on Solaris, Read/Search/Answer/Reporting on the forums, frobnicating screenshots, repairing dilithium crystals, and collimating the hyperflux quantizers!</url>
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[stonent]

Or the other thing, maximizing horizontal space instead of verticle. Which also could be done with more room.

Also I had thought about a links site but that means some people won't see it.

Wanna see a really large sig? http://delltalk.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=oplex_other&message.id=9592
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[aethyr]

[pjp]

At that point, it ceases to be a sig, and becomes something else entirely.

At this time there is no real useful reason to increase the allowed sig size, so it will remain at 255.
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[batterj2]

[quote="puggy]Yeah. I'm a member on a forum where some people have animated avatars and signatures, some of which hit 1/2 MB. It takes about 10 years to load a page on my cable connection if the stuff isn't cached. On a slow computer browsing the page is really jerky because of all the activity.

Puggy[/quote]

So why not have limitations like on other forums? eg no animations, 500x300 max? Any violation has there post deleted. In another forum I post at which uses phpBB has them deleted if 3 lines of smileys are used and they get a personal message from admin if their sigs are too big.

(admin must really hate me now......sorry, but i really dont see the harm)
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