Signature Restrictions?

[AbsentAbe]

I just tried to edit my signature to update the amount of Blu-ray Discs I have from 20 to 23, and it now tells me that I can only have five lines of text, and that I have too many. I easily had ten lines before, and would like to keep my signature length. Why is it doing this now?

I tried making my signature small in size and not distracting in color and boldness when I first signed up on the forums. I don't think I should be restricted from having ten lines in my signature. Just look at it, it's really fairly sized. *Shrug*

[Kayne314]

Try it like this?

Westinghouse 37" 1080p Monitor, Samsung 1400 Blu-ray Disc Player - Firmware ver.1.2, Sony STR-DE835 Receiver, Front Loudspeaker - Sharp CP-7700, x2 Center Loudspeaker - Optimus Pro-CS511, Surround/Rear Loudspeaker - KLH AV1001B, x2. 23 Blu-ray Discs and counting.

[Bizdady]

hmmm this is just a recent change then.

[seto]

Some changes were made to restrict signature length because some members were abusing it creating almost half-page-length signatures.

[PeechCobblerPie]

Originally Posted by Bizdady

hmmm this is just a recent change then.

hmm, all your smilies transformed to their coding instead of the pics

[Bizdady]

Originally Posted by PeechCobblerPie

hmm, all your smilies transformed to their coding instead of the pics

Ya i noticed that LOL im cool like that! lmao

[PeechCobblerPie]

Originally Posted by Bizdady

Ya i noticed that LOL im cool like that! lmao

must have just changed that too. i wanted to put the dancin banana in my sig

[cathexist]

I'd like to say thank you for restricting the signature length...although I had to chop down mine a bit as well.

I was tired of seeing a couple posters with signatures that were longer than any post on the thread

[RUR]

Originally Posted by cathexist

I'd like to say thank you for restricting the signature length...I was tired of seeing a couple posters with signatures that were longer than any post on the thread

+1 and high time.

[Clark Kent]

While I understand the impulse for monster sized signatures I generally think the smaller the better for readability. If anything I would add a rule that only smaller fonts are allowed in the signature. It's much tougher to visually skip the signature when its font is as big as the main text itself.

[gearyt]

Did my share.. It needed to be smaller anyway
I would trade space for smilies

But I do tend to disable w/ multiple posts

[MCWHAMMER]

It's sad that a moderator will not even reply to this thread.

I wanted to edit my signature, it only had 3 lines of text stacked on top of each other to begin with. The problem is, it had a lot of coding, because I was having fun with different font colors, plus bold and italics. So, with more code, it made my signature "5 Lines", even though it wasn't. Ridiculous stuff going on here. I squeezed every bit I could out of it, but this is not how you handle a problem.

You send offenders with large signatures a PM, tell them to please edit their signature, and give them a week to do so. Don't go messing with people's accounts without notice, or instituting a forum rule of 5 lines or less without warning people.

Mishandled is what I'd call it.

God, after reading what I just wrote, I realized how silly it all sounds... people, it is just a box of text on a website. How are we getting so worked up about it?

[melikefish]

Apologies if I missed the earlier discussion on this, but was there some other problem with users putting images in signatures (maybe bandwidth or ?)

I wanted to put in my personal & team FAH stats as an image, which is free from Extreme Overclocking.com http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/?nav=IMAGES but when I tried to add it, I realized this forum restricts using images in our signatures.

Thought it would have been cool if I could use this: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...00CC&c5=FFFFFF

[buckshot]

changed mine now. not happy but it will do.

[jubaiweaponx]

Originally Posted by buckshot

changed mine now. not happy but it will do.

nice,and that pic of your grandpa always cracks me up