Observe my protest at the bottom of my post:
EDIT: If any of the community leads or WotC staffers want me to take this down, feel free to PM me with a request and I'll do so- right now the gigantic sig is to get exposure for the issue.
Not everyone has cable, even in this day and age- a friend of mine has 25meg DSL, and it takes his browser up to ten minutes to load some pages when multiple people have large signatures- I don't think he should have to suffer reduced forum functionality because some people are compensating their egoes.
That being said, I will poke WotC about getting some restrictions placed on signatures.
Actually, I just respond to these things by blocking the user, like I just did with whatsizname above.
Which would be fine and all, except for the fact that about 50% of the cases, signature is completely visible even if the user is blocked. I've seen this happen more than once.
That blocking usernames doesn't make people's sigs go away half the time is part of it- and yes, you can turn sigs off, but to be completely honest you shouldn't be required to. We can get along fine with limitations to the sizes of picture-signatures just fine. People who want picture sigs get picture sigs. People who don't want to spend an hour loading a page don't have to spend an hour loading a page.
Everybody wins.
I didn't see that it was part of a protest until now.
Is that the kind of publicity you were hoping to raise?
I reported one of your posts becuse of the signature. It looked like you were just being a giant ass to me.
I didn't see that it was part of a protest until now.
Is that the kind of publicity you were hoping to raise?
Basically yes to a certain extent. It did its job and got noticed- and isn't the sort of thing that I see happening ever again, :p
I'm not a giant ass unless I have to be, and usually issues like these get much worse before they get better. Better to make an impression now- yes, I got a post reported, and yes WotC sent me an angry letter telling me it better not happen again. But hand in hand with that, someone from WotC read the relevant information.
People's sigs don't usually distend the forum formatting, that much is true- but the really, really long ones with lengthy pictures get quite annoying, especially if someone is an active poster. Even the other ones in this very thread that are of a much more reasonable size are still pretty big- and they're not fun to look at after a few hours. At the same time, I don't want to have to turn signatures off, because someone else is being a gigantic ass.
If it were userbars, or if someone had a normal sized sig, then I'd be fine with it. It's just that the prevalance of truly massive sig-pics is really annoying, so I decided to try and get it at least looked into, and in that respect I've succeeded, it seems.
Ideally sigs should be around this size at most:
Sigs this size aren't too wide, and they aren't too long. They fit in the box without making it truly massive. Motivational posters and lolcats, though, are another story- they may not be exceedingly wide, but they are 'tall' and they rapidly become a blight to look at.
- where to find the list of abriviations
- how to make spoiler blocks (with example)
- how to create deck blocks (was used in DnD for powers) (with example)
- how to create tables (with example)
- ...
however, my actual signature wasn't that long, as it was spoiler blocked (it contained 2 blocks: "need help on the forum?" and "my personal stuff").
once sblocks are revived, I plan on doing the same (introducing a short htlm tutorial)
1 simple edit to their CSS can take care of that, so that size is a maximum of x PX, and everything else gets scrollbars...
--edit--
that's part of my various stylish fixes to their forums...
.mb_t_p_t_signature_div {
max-height: 100px !important;
overflow: auto !important;
}