VincentASM Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 (edited) Please be aware of the new specifications, described below. Entire signature Maximum height - 300 pixels (reduced from 400) Signature images Maximum length - 550 pixels Maximum height - 250 pixels (reduced from 300) Maximum filesize per image - 300 Kb Automatic settings Maximum number of images users in this group can add to their signature - 7 Maximum dimensions of images users in this group can use in their signature - 550 x 250 Maximum number of urls users in this group can add to their signature - 7 Maximum number of lines users in this group can use in their signature - 15 Edited February 17, 2010 by VincentASM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santino Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 An improvement. I gotta ask: when it says "max number of urls" does that mean clickable links? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VincentASM Posted February 9, 2010 Author Share Posted February 9, 2010 Yes, that's right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uguu Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 Are links really so terrible that you can only have half as many of them as you can have pictures? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashGordon94 Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 What's the automatic settings bit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel M Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 *Thumbs Up* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tino Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 Are links really so terrible that you can only have half as many of them as you can have pictures? It's more of a security issue than an aesthetics issue. Links can be used to link to illegal content, pornographic content, viruses, or whatever other kind of malicious content/site/program. The less links that are allowed in signatures, the easier it is for us to catch such links. But there's a little more to it: what do you need a maximum of more than 3 URLs for? I don't think anyone really needs that. And if you do, it's likely for advertising, which we can keep somewhat limited this way, too. Advertising is still allowed in signatures, there's just a limit as to how many sites you can advertise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VincentASM Posted February 9, 2010 Author Share Posted February 9, 2010 What's the automatic settings bit? The forum complains to you if you try and break those settings and doesn't update your signature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightmare Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 ^Something funny happened to me, actually. My previous signature was larger than the now-allowed size and when I tried to change it, it didn't change into my new signature...but still remained oversized. This is good, I suppose. No more distracting sigs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balcerzak Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 I haven't tried changing my signature directly, so cannot confirm Nightmare's issue, as I just changed the images being pointed to instead. That said, if I forgot one in the randomizer, let me know so I can fix it, and bring my sig into conformity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekkah Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 Victory is mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judas Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 hello i would like to make the entirety of the divine comedy my signature however under these rules this is not possible please consider revising them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoNameAtAll Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 I assume my signature is ok? I don't usually have a signature anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tino Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Your signature is perfectly fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fayt Zelpher Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Could you clarify what the rules are designed to prevent? If it's a matter of signatures merely being too long on the monitor, then spoiler tags would help, while they would make the issue worse if the underlying problem is storage space on the server. I guess that the other problem is that I really don't know how to tell what '15 lines' is supposed to mean, either. I'm just after some clarity here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just call me AL Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Anything about the condition of my signature here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ϲharlie Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Anything about the condition of my signature here? Your sig is too tall. The image alone is 300 pixels high, never mind the text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tino Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Could you clarify what the rules are designed to prevent? If it's a matter of signatures merely being too long on the monitor, then spoiler tags would help, while they would make the issue worse if the underlying problem is storage space on the server. I guess that the other problem is that I really don't know how to tell what '15 lines' is supposed to mean, either. I'm just after some clarity here. A discussion forum like this should have the discussion on it as a main focus, not the 'zomg awesome' signatures some people like to make. If somebody makes a one-line post (that may very well be highly contributing), but has a signature that takes up the rest of a random user's screen, that really draws away the focus from the post. 15 lines means exactly what it says. Say this was your signature. TextMore text A longer string of characters Text You now have a signature containing 4 lines of text, thus... 4 lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ether Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Just hoping to confirm,is there any issues with my Sig? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tino Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 There are no issues with your signature at all ; ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Spoon Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 This is a wonderful move on the staff's part. The only thing that they could do to make this better is to enforce it, which they might actually do. --- I should be fine. I set the length of anything I might use in a signature to 300, and have the height stay at the same ratio. So no troubles there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tino Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 (edited) Just as a heads-up to those who think we're not going to enforce this, we've decided we can alter signatures without notice if it breaks the rules. So if you suddenly see your signature being different, it's because we altered it due to it breaking some rule. EDIT: Actually, we'll leave a comment in your signature that we removed something, so you also immediately know what and why there was a problem. Edited February 11, 2010 by Tino Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crystal Shards Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 (edited) It's more of a security issue than an aesthetics issue. Links can be used to link to illegal content, pornographic content, viruses, or whatever other kind of malicious content/site/program. The less links that are allowed in signatures, the easier it is for us to catch such links. But there's a little more to it: what do you need a maximum of more than 3 URLs for? I don't think anyone really needs that. And if you do, it's likely for advertising, which we can keep somewhat limited this way, too. Advertising is still allowed in signatures, there's just a limit as to how many sites you can advertise. Well it certainly fucks up my signature, considering I like to have my 5-6 adoptables in it. Edited February 11, 2010 by Crystal Shards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fayt Zelpher Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Just as a heads-up to those who think we're not going to enforce this, we've decided we can alter signatures without notice if it breaks the rules. So if you suddenly see your signature being different, it's because we altered it due to it breaking some rule. EDIT: Actually, we'll leave a comment in your signature that we removed something, so you also immediately know what and why there was a problem. My video suddenly vanished in the last 12 hours or so; I take it that video links in signatures have been banned as well? (Yes, I reverted it to a link already...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tino Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 My video suddenly vanished in the last 12 hours or so; I take it that video links in signatures have been banned as well? (Yes, I reverted it to a link already...) That video alone already exceeded the maximum height your signature is allowed to have. So I removed it. Forgot to notify you, though, so sorry about that : o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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