One thing I’ve noticed about this forum is the ridiculously large size of the signatures on these forums. I’m normally used to seeing forums where pictures aren’t allowed in signatures, and no more than six lines are to be used. I come here and see freakin’ dictionaries of information in the signatures (where normally we’d gasp link people instead of forcing them to look at your life’s story in a signature), some of them so big they take up the entire page (or nearly so)! So I’m on the quest for who has the largest signature.
Rules:
No changing your signature to make it larger.
A point for every line your signature uses, spaces are included (between lines).
Pictures count double, or triple or quadruple depending on size.
A friend of mine once told me he loathes folks whose signature is bigger than their post; that if they’re going to have a sig ‘that big’, they’d do well to make sure all their posts are at least ‘that big’ as well. Can’t say I agreed with him, but I’d say it’s worth repeating given present context.
And, personally, I don’t mind sigs with lots of text, as long as its worth reading. As for images, well, not to offend anyone, but I can’t stand them. An avatar is more than enough to distinguish yourself without some massive image below all your posts - generally speaking that is.
[size=117]Also, for those who may not know, the place to construct your ‘sig’ is in the post-editing-box.
Pick a thread, any thread, click on ‘post reply’ make your sig there using preview to see what it
looks like - AS LONG AS YOU DON’T CLICK ON SUBMIT, THERE’S NO HARM DONE - Then
simply copy n’paste your finished code into the signature box on your profile page.
[ size = 14 ----- color = #A1B2A1 (hundreds of colors) ][/size]
I think your friend is right. We’ll program it into the forums.
If (averagepostlength=<signature)
then {
force rewrite signature =<averagepostlength
}
As for the picture thing, I completely agree. It’s freggin’ pitiful, you have an avatar, make it good. I don’t want to see your entire school’s yearbook pictures every time you post. Oh well, nothing I can do to change it.
I like your signature, too. It’d be even greater if you could get rid of the image (not that the image isn’t cool, but it’s a signature, meant for writing, not pictures.).
- This post is hilarious when seen in it’s original context - 