Just checking...

What's going down in the barracks.

Is my signiture too long?

1 - Tiny
0
No votes
2 - Small
1
7%
3 - Normal
8
53%
4 - Big
3
20%
5 - Huge
3
20%
 
Total votes : 15

Just checking...

Postby macgeek417 » 16 Dec 2009, 00:57

My current sig isn't too long, is it? IIRC, someone said "more than 3 or 4 lines is probebly too much" and it's about 4 lines of size=100 text, so just checking before someone bites my head off for having "too long of a signiture"

:)
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Re: Just checking...

Postby Mars478 » 16 Dec 2009, 01:02

I really do not think the line seperations are necessary. And the poll options are too spaced apart.
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Re: Just checking...

Postby macgeek417 » 16 Dec 2009, 01:06

It didn't make any sense without the line seperation after I modified it. And the " - " takes up 3 characters that could be used for other stuff.
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Re: Just checking...

Postby macgeek417 » 16 Dec 2009, 01:21

There. I added a link to my user page so later I can add stuff to said user page.
Guess I'll keep my sig like that till I get a new machine. Then I wikk put my main machines and put below that my other machines as a link.
Personaly, I don't think BBCode tags should count though. It actually takes up MORE space to make my sig SMALLER
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Re: Just checking...

Postby Mars478 » 16 Dec 2009, 01:23

Why not put it all in a line like I have done?
And How did you link in your sig? I thought that was removed.
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Re: Just checking...

Postby macgeek417 » 16 Dec 2009, 01:27

User:Macgeek417 or My 68kMLA Wiki User Page
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[wiki]User:Macgeek417[/wiki] or [wiki="User:Macgeek417"]My 68kMLA Wiki User Page[/wiki]
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Re: Just checking...

Postby macgeek417 » 16 Dec 2009, 01:27

Mars478 wrote:Why not put it all in a line like I have done?
And How did you link in your sig? I thought that was removed.

Because it makes it look squished.
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Re: Just checking...

Postby Mars478 » 16 Dec 2009, 01:38

Ahh whatever :)
I added a Wiki page.
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Re: Just checking...

Postby macgeek417 » 16 Dec 2009, 01:44

Cool. Personaly, I like my placeholder better.
Template:Alert dialog with no buttons that says:

Please insert disk
Please insert the disk "There is nothing here"
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Re: Just checking...

Postby Mars478 » 16 Dec 2009, 01:55

macgeek417 wrote:Cool. Personaly, I like my placeholder better.
Template:Alert dialog with no buttons that says:

Please insert disk
Please insert the disk "There is nothing here"

To add the pictures of my Machines do I have to upload them to the server or can I embed them?
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Re: Just checking...

Postby macgeek417 » 16 Dec 2009, 02:04

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Re: Just checking...

Postby macgeek417 » 16 Dec 2009, 02:26

There. I put stuff on my user page. Now it is v.1.1.1.3.4.6.9.8 Pro Basic!
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Re: Just checking...

Postby LCGuy » 16 Dec 2009, 05:07

Its better than it was, but really, I second Mars478's suggestion to put all your systems in one or two lines, like he has. There's no real reason for them to all be on a separate line.
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Re: Just checking...

Postby Bunsen » 16 Dec 2009, 11:56

macgeek417 wrote:" - " takes up 3 characters that could be used for other stuff.


So drop the redundant cruft:

Nicknames (because no-one cares)
"Summer 2000" (doesn't tell us much; instead ie "DV400")
"Now devoted to" and "the" (and "!" ::) )
"Macintosh" (we know who made the LCIII, ta)
"My 68kMLA wiki" ("User Page" is enough)
"68k Macs Liberated: 1 " (we can already see that)
and
"Compaq". (Preferably off a cliff)
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Re: Just checking...

Postby Cory5412 » 16 Dec 2009, 14:18

What if you made it so that your signature had just three lines.

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Line 1: a system or gadget that you want to feature that week. your newest, one you've been using a lot, or just something you pulled out of the closet and found interesting that week.
Line 2: a quote or project or other tidbit that you might want to share. Something like copy bunny but MUCH shorter.
Line 3: a link to your user page, where all of your systems and projects and things might be listed permanently.


That or do the cool thing and go without a signature. All of the cool kids are doing it these days.
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Re: Just checking...

Postby II2II » 16 Dec 2009, 22:43

I'm the type of person who thinks that a 2 line signature is more than too much. But it doesn't really matter on this forum anymore: if you don't like long signatures you can simply turn them off. (Same for avatars of questionable taste.)
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Re: Just checking...

Postby iMac600 » 17 Dec 2009, 06:07

There's nothing wrong with a 2-liner. I wouldn't go any further than a 3 though. I cut mine down as such and it seems to work fine.
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Re: Just checking...

Postby register » 19 Dec 2009, 09:10

Because I had my first experience with remote transmission about twenty years ago, using a modem to connect to simple mailboxes, I value the bandwidth (as anyone of us appreciates a snappy internet connection). Even in case you have many of kilobytes per second at hand, you might disapprove of orderly waste of transmission capacity.
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