ScottJC
At your service, dood!
More and more people seem to be using large sigs to express themselves and for one i'm getting sick of it. I'm sick of repeating myself so I posted this thread. Here's why:
1. I do not give a crap if you're a fan of this that or the other and to use a massive pic to show off how big a fan you are just pisses me off.
2. They post one line of text, it takes up most of my browser screen space and I just think thats rediculas.
3. They use a hell of a lot of BANDWIDTH usually.
I have some idea's that could help eliminate this problem. Best ones imo are highlighted in bold.
1. Use tv.com's method, by putting small frames on sigs that are too large with scroll bars (see pic 1) this would allow people to have large sigs without being a pain in the ass.
2. don't allow outside images, give people a feature that allows them to upload sig images to emutalk (with restrictions such as no larger than say 300x200 - just picked that number at random btw) and no more than one or two of these images and no more than a certain amount of text.
3. Give me the option to "ignore" someones specific sig so I can see say t0reks sig but not some jerk with a large sig.
4. Ban everyone with a large sig (nah not really, thats cruel I guess.)
5. Have the board do a check on the size of the image if you're using the img tag in your sig... php can do this easily... if its too large just make it not load the image on the page (my personal favourite idea). more info here: http://us3.php.net/getimagesize
6. Do something similar to the thumbnail attachments.
Just to show how annoying these sig images are i'm going to simulate the experience in my next (and don't complain about double posting) post. Obviously exaddurated but I trust it gets accross my point.
Its not that I hate sigs, its that I hate ones that take up too much room on the screen and I shouldn't have to scroll about ten bloody times to read 5 lines of text! Sigs are useful sometimes, they contain system specs, they show others what a user likes/dislikes but I don't need to see an image the size of london to get that you like Sonic the hedgehog.
I like sigs, but like turn quickly to hate when things are abused. People fail to realize that sigs appear in every post they make unless they tell it otherwise so you can imagine what a thread with three jerks posting constantly with large sigs would look like. Hope this gives you some ideas guys.
I say n00bs are the future, unless we stop them now.
1. I do not give a crap if you're a fan of this that or the other and to use a massive pic to show off how big a fan you are just pisses me off.
2. They post one line of text, it takes up most of my browser screen space and I just think thats rediculas.
3. They use a hell of a lot of BANDWIDTH usually.
I have some idea's that could help eliminate this problem. Best ones imo are highlighted in bold.
1. Use tv.com's method, by putting small frames on sigs that are too large with scroll bars (see pic 1) this would allow people to have large sigs without being a pain in the ass.
2. don't allow outside images, give people a feature that allows them to upload sig images to emutalk (with restrictions such as no larger than say 300x200 - just picked that number at random btw) and no more than one or two of these images and no more than a certain amount of text.
3. Give me the option to "ignore" someones specific sig so I can see say t0reks sig but not some jerk with a large sig.
4. Ban everyone with a large sig (nah not really, thats cruel I guess.)
5. Have the board do a check on the size of the image if you're using the img tag in your sig... php can do this easily... if its too large just make it not load the image on the page (my personal favourite idea). more info here: http://us3.php.net/getimagesize
6. Do something similar to the thumbnail attachments.
Just to show how annoying these sig images are i'm going to simulate the experience in my next (and don't complain about double posting) post. Obviously exaddurated but I trust it gets accross my point.
Its not that I hate sigs, its that I hate ones that take up too much room on the screen and I shouldn't have to scroll about ten bloody times to read 5 lines of text! Sigs are useful sometimes, they contain system specs, they show others what a user likes/dislikes but I don't need to see an image the size of london to get that you like Sonic the hedgehog.
I like sigs, but like turn quickly to hate when things are abused. People fail to realize that sigs appear in every post they make unless they tell it otherwise so you can imagine what a thread with three jerks posting constantly with large sigs would look like. Hope this gives you some ideas guys.
I say n00bs are the future, unless we stop them now.
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I had a good laugh while reading this.
