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Wha?! Max size of signiture 255 characters!

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macgeek417

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Oh, yeah? I'm posting this from a DS screen whch is what, 320x240?

Why are you using Internet Exploder? you should use Chrome, Safari, or Firefox.

Edit: Got on a REAL computer and edited the typos/grammer errors!

 

Anonymous Freak

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Oh, yeah? I'm posting this from a DS screen whch is what, 320x240?Why are you using Internet Exploder? you should use Chrome, Safari, or Firefox.

Edit: Got on a REAL computer and edited the typos/grammer errors!
:p

Most of the time, I run Google Chrome on the netbook; without Flash installed. And now that the Norton trial has expired, I'm going to tempt the beast and go AV-free.

Yes, the only reason I used IE (pronounced "aaiiieeeeeee!!!", of course,) was to demonstrate the problem. Yes, I then turned on all the various bars that I normally would have off, even when I have to use IE.

 

Mars478

Well-known member
I think the slightly edited version someone posted is a great idea. and get rid of the Bunny stuff.

My signature used to be like 10 lines long with EXACT info on each of my macs. it was maddening.

 

~tl

68kMLA Admin Emeritus
So do I. But, it's still over the 255 char limit... however, the one I've just imposed (as possibly one of my last gestures as an admin here) isn't [:eek:)] ]'>

 

Mars478

Well-known member
So do I. But, it's still over the 255 char limit... however, the one I've just imposed (as possibly one of my last gestures as an admin here) isn't [:eek:)] ]'>
OWNED!

(No offense to MacGeek.)

 
Let's just disable signatures. They've been more or less whittled down to nothing (we've gone from 500 characters, smileys, and links, to 255 characters, no smileys, no links), and we're all being told to use the Wiki anyway, right? How much more are signatures going to be trimmed back? Hey, let's go to 200 characters. That seems reasonable. Or 150, that looks fine. Let's ban BBCode because it's a Wednesday and I have a hangnail!

Maybe someone can make some kind of browser add-on that automatically pastes in a fake signature at the end of every post.

 

Bunsen

Admin-Witchfinder-General
Or we could all get together to whine about the terms of the free service we're using

 

iMac600

Well-known member
I'm sure i'm not the only one to remember back when this place had an army motif... people actually had some clever uses for their signatures back then. Lets see more of that... while we're at it, how about the army motif back as well...

...never gonna happen. Oh well.

Or we could all get together to whine about the terms of the free service we're using
I thought that's pretty much what the entire forum was reduced to these days... or so i've been told...

 

macgeek417

Well-known member
Let's just disable signatures. They've been more or less whittled down to nothing (we've gone from 500 characters, smileys, and links, to 255 characters, no smileys, no links), and we're all being told to use the Wiki anyway, right? How much more are signatures going to be trimmed back? Hey, let's go to 200 characters. That seems reasonable. Or 150, that looks fine. Let's ban BBCode because it's a Wednesday and I have a hangnail!
Maybe someone can make some kind of browser add-on that automatically pastes in a fake signature at the end of every post.
Yeah. Ridiculous.

Noone complained about my sig OR avatar until just the other day.

I have a better idea: Let's make it so emoticons are auto-translated and anyone who uses one gets banned!

EDIT: ooh, ooh, ooh! How about we make the max text size of a sig: be this big!

Of course, everyone can easily read that! Seems resonable enough!!!

 
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macgeek417

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So do I. But, it's still over the 255 char limit... however, the one I've just imposed (as possibly one of my last gestures as an admin here) isn't [:eek:)] ]'>
I thought you were "not an admin anymore" and "retired"

> :(

 

LCGuy

LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Let's just disable signatures. They've been more or less whittled down to nothing (we've gone from 500 characters, smileys, and links, to 255 characters, no smileys, no links), and we're all being told to use the Wiki anyway, right? How much more are signatures going to be trimmed back? Hey, let's go to 200 characters. That seems reasonable. Or 150, that looks fine. Let's ban BBCode because it's a Wednesday and I have a hangnail!
Maybe someone can make some kind of browser add-on that automatically pastes in a fake signature at the end of every post.
Really, how big does your signature need to be? What do you want to put in it that could be of use that is over 255 characters? I mean, really.

 

macgeek417

Well-known member
Or, How about you do signitures like they do at GBAtemp.net - Make each one be a max of foo x bar pixels. If it's over that it has a scrollbar added.

 

porter

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Or, How about you do signitures like they do at GBAtemp.net - Make each one be a max of foo x bar pixels. If it's over that it has a scrollbar added.
Signatures are just replicated noise, they don't add anything. I suggest that 255 is too many.

 

macgeek417

Well-known member
Wellbythatdeffinitionweshouldjustbanuseofspacesbecausetheyarejustrepettivenoise. WeshouldalsobanuseofpunctuationandanycharactersbesidesAZand09. Whilewereatitwhynotjustbanuseofthewordsandtheimeorastheyrejustrepettivenoise.

Translation:

Well by that deffinition we should just ban use of spaces because they're just repettive noise. We should also ban use of punctuation and any characters besides A-Z and 0-9. While were at it why not just ban use of the words and, the, I, me, and or, as they're just repettive noise.

See how much space that saves? People with netbooks should just *love* that!

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~tl

68kMLA Admin Emeritus
WellbythatdeffinitionweshouldjustbanuseofspacesbecausetheyarejustrepettivenoiseWeshouldalsobanuseofpunctuationandanycharactersbesidesAZand09Whilewereatitwhynotjustbanuseofthewordsandtheimeorastheyrejustrepettivenoise.
Translation:

Well by that deffinition we should just ban use of spaces because they're just repettive noise. We should also ban use of punctuation and any characters besides A-Z and 0-9. While were at it why not just ban use of the words and, the, I, me, and or, as they're just repettive noise.

See how much space that saves? People with netbooks should just *love* that!

vent.gif
Don't be silly. Punctuation is a vital part of ensuring the legibility of text.

It's more about the post/not-post ratio than anything else. If you have a line or two of post and 11 lines of signature (which doesn't add anything to the discussion topic) then the signal to noise ratio is pretty low.

I thought you were "not an admin anymore" and "retired"> :(
Still not quite retired yet. Still a few things to sort out. However, you'll be rid of me soon, don't worry [:eek:)] ]'>

 

Osgeld

Banned
I thought you were "not an admin anymore" and "retired"> :(

How rude!

anyway, yes looking back 99% of your post's are barley a full sentence and a eighth page of signature, its silly, and as already stated (and should have been the end of it) use the wiki, there you can document all your stuff to your heats content, which in the end would provide more usable info to the community.

 

luddite

Host of RetroChallenge
No one's mentioned that you can actually turn of signatures (along with images, flash, smilies and avatars) in the User Control Panel (Board preferences --> Edit display options). I realize it wouldn't be necessary if everyone were polite and considerate etc, but reality is often otherwise... :(

 

Anonymous Freak

Well-known member
It's more about the post/not-post ratio than anything else. If you have a line or two of post and 11 lines of signature (which doesn't add anything to the discussion topic) then the signal to noise ratio is pretty low.
And the quoted/original ratio is also a common indicator of readability and politeness.

;)

 

macgeek417

Well-known member
Yeah, It's not like the Mods will change anything unless they want to. They don't have to change anything unless they want to, therefore they won't.

Personally, I think the rules should be like a democracy, but the Mods wouldn't like that because they wouldn't be able to use their power of their dictatorship.

:disapprove:

 
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