FAQ: Signature limits.

Banshee · Last edited by Banshee on Sun Feb 08, 2009 2:05 pm; edited 1 time in total

I'm gonna start enforcing some signature limits in this forum due to abuse of several members. Understand that the purpose of the topics that you view is to read what people post, not to read your signature, so bypassing the limits below will have your signature deleted without warning:

Width: 600
Height: 200

Signature size: 500kb.

The specifications above are for your whole signature (sum of images + texts + whatever you use).

Failure to comply with these specifications will have your signature deleted without warning
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Also, your signature must not have any:

- porn, nude or whatever disgusting adult rated content
- links to illegal activities (including warez)
- hacking material or links to it.
- flames or insults to any other forum member.
- anything that breaks the design of the forums.

Failure to this specification will result on suspensions or bans without warning.

These rules will be officially applied one day after this post. You'd better adapt your signature imediatelly.

ChielScape · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:37 pm Post subject:

not here too. my sig is large, but filesize is not. doesnt contain any adult/illegal/insulting/hacking material either. cant width be 800?

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Banshee · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:40 pm Post subject:

No, because some people may browse the forums with 640x480 screen resolution.

Mike · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:57 pm Post subject:

And now you are shoveling THEIR problem into OTHER people's hands, seriously banshee, that is wrong in every form of ethics that exist.

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Tratos · General **Joined**: 01 Jan 2003

Why? Nobody needs a sig that's 800 in width.

Banshee · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:00 pm Post subject:

PPM has to be a confortable place for any kind of visitor.

ChielScape · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject:

no human being with more than 3 braincells has a 640x480 screen resolution.

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Tratos · General **Joined**: 01 Jan 2003

chielscape wrote:

no human being with more than 3 braincells has a 640x480 screen resolution.

Then it won't make any difference to the way you view the forum will it.

Banshee · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 7:43 pm Post subject:

Some people like big fonts, chielscape.

ChielScape · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:23 pm Post subject:

then why dont we all type like this? just for those who like big fonts? and while we're at it, why not red too?

see how stupid it is?

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Banshee · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:00 pm Post subject:

because your small font will also be big for them. And your red big font will be giant...

Anderwin · General **Joined**: 16 May 2005

ah hehe not good #Tongue

..

OH MY GOD

Suiseiseki · Commander **Joined**: 06 Oct 2003

Any chance of making it so I can have a flash sig like my one at revora?

It's actually smaller size and dimensions wise than the one I use here... which would appear to be around.. 12 or so pixels over limits.

Banshee · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:08 am Post subject:

Why do you people need flashy, huge and whatever else sigs? It's just a sig, afterall... It's cool to link your sites or show the mods you are working for.... or make a propaganda to whatever link you want, but you don't need a huge space and flashy things to display your creativity.

ChielScape · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 6:30 am Post subject:

i cant help it Hitomi's dialogue box is 149x801 pixels...

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Twilus · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:11 am Post subject:

FFS it's just a sig, i don't even know why you have pictures. What banshee said, people read posts, not spend 20 minutes looking at/reading your siggyz.

ChielScape · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:23 am Post subject:

i do, not 20 mins though

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Tyler Adams · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 11:34 am Post subject:

chielscape wrote:

i cant help it Hitomi's dialogue box is 149x801 pixels...

So shave a PIXEL off the '801' side..

O_o

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Destiny · President **Joined**: 02 May 2006 **Location**: Singapore

Seriously, there isn't a need for signatures to be displayed when you post. My other forum doesn't. But if any person disagrees, I have nothing more to say. Look at mine. Just 2 lines of boring text. Isn't eye-catching.

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Suiseiseki · Commander **Joined**: 06 Oct 2003

Banshee wrote:

Why do you people need flashy, huge and whatever else sigs? It's just a sig, afterall... It's cool to link your sites or show the mods you are working for.... or make a propaganda to whatever link you want, but you don't need a huge space and flashy things to display your creativity.

I just want the music player since it's useful when I'm not at my home computer. #Tongue

Banshee · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:41 pm Post subject:

An important note for those who missed:

Quote:

The specifications above are for your whole signature (sum of images + texts + whatever you use).

So, if you have an image with 200 height, everything below it will disappear.

ChielScape · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject:

Kyler Adams wrote:

chielscape wrote:

i cant help it Hitomi's dialogue box is 149x801 pixels...

So shave a PIXEL off the '801' side..

O_o

i already did that, as i had that sig on TumSun too, and ackron was pretty bitchy. TumSun also changed its rules from 800 to 600 Sad

@ Destiny: i disagree.

@ Banshee: i noticed.

but i'll come up with this new sig that'll be just barely supported by the rules Twisted Evil

i wouldnt have if you didnt change the rules.

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Banshee · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject:

Carnivean, Kyler Adams and few others didn't noticed that.

Anderwin · General **Joined**: 16 May 2005

But why just 500 kb Banshee ?

Read the pm i send you ^^

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Banshee · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:50 pm Post subject:

Some people have internet with limited bandwidth or slow conection. On both cases, big files on signatures are extremely annoying.

Anderwin · General **Joined**: 16 May 2005

Okey then i think this forum will lose some sign #Tongue

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ChielScape · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:03 pm Post subject:

yup. im for double the size and 200x800 pixels. (its not like most ppl will use it anyway, those who already have text as sig wont change it, neither have we had any problems with bandwidth yet as far as i know)

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Morpher · General **Joined**: 28 Jan 2005

Its a signature, it's not the end of the world if it has to be smaller, if you get upset becuase you can't have a massive image in your sig your very sad.

As far as I know Banshee is the admin here and has more expirience in running a forum than most of you complaining, he makes the rules if there is a reason better than " it looks cool cus I l0ve big sigs that take up a quarter of peoples screens!!!! " then I'm sure he would have found it.

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Dreadlord · AA Infantry **Joined**: 19 Oct 2005

I don't understand people inserting different things like 1,5 megabytes GIF or something like that. What's the use of it?
Think about people who have slow connection or limited internet traffic.

Tyler Adams · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:39 pm Post subject:

Banshee wrote:

Carnivean, Kyler Adams and few others didn't noticed that.

O_o

Ah well, the text was kinda useless..

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ChielScape · Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 6:15 am Post subject:

Morpher wrote:

Its a signature, it's not the end of the world if it has to be smaller, if you get upset becuase you can't have a massive image in your sig your very sad.

As far as I know Banshee is the admin here and has more expirience in running a forum than most of you complaining, he makes the rules if there is a reason better than " it looks cool cus I l0ve big sigs that take up a quarter of peoples screens!!!! " then I'm sure he would have found it.

the only thing i get upset from are ppl like you, who put words in ppl's mouth they never said.
and i just happen to like a BFSig

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daTS · Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:27 am Post subject:

... chielscape... understand that i'm not disagreeing with you, because i run at a high resolution and like large signatures... but i do comply to rules... and the way you are heading with this is not a pretty path... continue on and i'm worried that Banshee may be pushed over the limit and warn you... which concearns me because you dont see many warnings on this board..

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ChielScape · Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:16 am Post subject:

thanks for the warning.
i think banshee got the point already anyway. though that doesnt mean he'll do something with it :/

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Denmon · General **Joined**: 12 Jun 2004 **Location**: /S/weden

Banshee wrote:

Why do you people need flashy, huge and whatever else sigs? It's just a sig, afterall... It's cool to link your sites or show the mods you are working for.... or make a propaganda to whatever link you want, but you don't need a huge space and flashy things to display your creativity.

Actually, i couldent agree more... other than one one point. I spent 5 minutes reading that LOTOR sig some guy here had. No not the one tratos had but the GIF one. Well i did read tratos old sig too but some sigs are kinda fun.

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Destiny · President **Joined**: 02 May 2006 **Location**: Singapore

GIF Sigs are sorta nice to read, but PNG/JPG static ones are good enough. Look at Morpher's. It looks the right size for a sig. Not a large sig that is more than 500kb that loads slow on Slower connections

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ChielScape · Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:23 pm Post subject:

denmon0728 wrote:

Banshee wrote:

Why do you people need flashy, huge and whatever else sigs? It's just a sig, afterall... It's cool to link your sites or show the mods you are working for.... or make a propaganda to whatever link you want, but you don't need a huge space and flashy things to display your creativity.

Actually, i couldent agree more... other than one one point. I spent 5 minutes reading that LOTOR sig some guy here had. No not the one tratos had but the GIF one. Well i did read tratos old sig too but some sigs are kinda fun.

that LOTR sig was funny, even though i hate LOTR

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Sk8erkid · INSANE **Joined**: 16 Aug 2002

True, the likelyhood of someone running 640x480 is absurd, but there are some of us that are running 800x600 (I am temporarily, yet temporary may last a while) and with the side columns being about 200 pixels, 600 pixel wide signatures are perfect for the realistic lowest reso users will be running.

No flash files should be allowed in signatures, if they are now (I don't believe so) then Banshee needs to remove this right immediately.

Thats all I got for now.

Red Dragon · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:27 am Post subject:

Damn, that would I must make a new one...

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Von Kriplespac · General **Joined**: 01 Sep 2004 **Location**: Somewhere

I didn't know they make 640x what ever still for Monitors....
I mean, my monitor can't support that resolution...If my video drivers loose data, they goto 800 instead. O_o

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Red Dragon · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:40 am Post subject:

One problem... I deleted my sig, but it's returning... huh>? Confused

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Destiny · President **Joined**: 02 May 2006 **Location**: Singapore

My 98 SE can support 640x480. But it's WAY too large. Sigs are just to display your creativity right?

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ChielScape · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:25 am Post subject:

or interests, or jokes (like the LOTR one), quotes, advertisement, etc.

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Destiny · President **Joined**: 02 May 2006 **Location**: Singapore

"Bears that shoot Laser Beams out of their eyes" Laughing

Then Chielscape your 'Hitomi' siggy meant you were... Laughing

Just kidding. I won't spam here.

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IcySon55 · Commander **Joined**: 19 Nov 2003 **Location**: Overworld

The best use of any sig would be for advertising the mod you are working on. If you're not working on a mod, then it would be to display your personal taste, whatever it is. (As long as it's within the rules of the forum.)

With a 500kb limit, my animated ShyTroop gif is only about 130kb with dimensions of 400x100. Personaly, I think sig images shouldn't be taller than 100 pixels or wider than 468. (468 is the normal width of a banner, like the advertisements you see on webpages.)

Images larger than this are needlessly large. If you want to see your image in a large size all the time, set it as your desktop wallpaper instead of creating threads where we have to scroll down forever. A normal 50 post (1 Page) thread on PPM is extremely lengthy, because all the sigs that are 150 to 250 pixels high.

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Dreadlord · AA Infantry **Joined**: 19 Oct 2005

The matter is not the resolution of users' screen. Try to open PPM forum threads with 1,5 Mb signatures while having connection capped at 8 Kb/sec...

Red Dragon · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:47 pm Post subject:

poor person...

Yeah, I understand your opinion

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friday-13th · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:10 pm Post subject:

Destiny wrote:

"Bears that shoot Laser Beams out of their eyes" Laughing

Then Chielscape your 'Hitomi' siggy meant you were... Laughing

Just kidding. I won't spam here.

i miss that sig lol.but i posted that before i saw this topic(rule).its fun what you could do with the lord of the rings. Laughing

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Dreadlord · AA Infantry **Joined**: 19 Oct 2005

Well, I have a small suggestion. This topic deserves to be a sticky one, and this should be added into main forum rules. Maybe then at least anyone will read it Very Happy

Dupl3xxx · Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 2:43 pm Post subject:

Is my sig. anside the limits?
Anyway, a small gif animation is cool, but i saw a animation that didnt load before I was finised reading the thred. And the 200x800 is OK. A image might get cooler if it's a bit smaller.
But still, this is inly my own thinkin....

EDIT: HALLELUJA, my star AND tiger is still here Smile

The size limitations are OK!! ;D

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Muldrake · Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 3:46 pm Post subject:

Actually they're too wide. They need to be a max of 600 wide.

So if you could reduced the width to 600 please.

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