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We need longer signatures
I am running out of room in my signature for all my Macs. :'(
hell...no.
signatures should be limited to a one-line nonsensical slightly humorous phrase.
a complete listing of all your machines is just damned annoying.
signatures should be limited to a one-line nonsensical slightly humorous phrase.
a complete listing of all your machines is just damned annoying.
Second the hell no.
A signature is displayed every time you post. As such, it should be short and sweet because people are going to see it hundreds of times over.
If you really feel that it is important to show off all of your machines, create a web page and add a link to that page in your signature.
A signature is displayed every time you post. As such, it should be short and sweet because people are going to see it hundreds of times over.
If you really feel that it is important to show off all of your machines, create a web page and add a link to that page in your signature.
Third the hell no. Its not like people read the huge listing of computers anyways, and they add alot of length to topics. I'm going to change mine once I come up with a witty phrase for it. *ponders*
I'm gonna have to go ahead and fourth (is that allowed?) the hell no, after softening it to heck no.
Although I was the one that originally campaigned for longer signatures, I came to realize that really long ones are, well, really long and they tend to clutter up the forums. I've since shortened mine quite a bit.
Although I was the one that originally campaigned for longer signatures, I came to realize that really long ones are, well, really long and they tend to clutter up the forums. I've since shortened mine quite a bit.
I fifth the softened version. I think it's fine the way it is.
no longer signatures please
255 characters is enough for anybody. As long as it can include links.
yeah, really just make a website with all your machines on it, and just link it.
The current signature limit is 500 characters, which should be more than enough... I'm not going to increase it anytime soon.
They're long enough already, but I won't be campaigning to shorten them. Just to clarify.
Does that include returns? 500 CRs would be a really annoying sig...
Yep it does, unfortunately! I'll remove anyone's signature that does that though [
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I've pulled the links out of my sig too. That's what the WWW button is for. 
But, but, but ...Yep it does, unfortunately! I'll remove anyone's signature that does that though [
What if we really want to emphasize that we have nothing to say?
Yell louder.
Okay, point taken... now what about these avatars???I've pulled the links out of my sig too. That's what the WWW button is for.
What about them? You seem to be the only one on here with a GIF as an avatar...
Regardless of format, the avatars take up more bandwidth than even the most excessive of sigs... of course I'm playing Devil's advocate here.
Quadraman - you might want to think about an animated giff featuring your whole collection rather than just listing them in your sig.
Quadraman - you might want to think about an animated giff featuring your whole collection rather than just listing them in your sig.
Gah! No big animated .gifs!
What about those who browse with older Macs on slow connections?
Some of us can't tell our browsers to load all or even certain types of images last. Because of this they cause the important parts of the forum (the post content) to not be high up on the list of things to load and it can sometimes take a while to actually read anything.
Well, this forum is not quite that severe but there are an absurd amount that are like that and it would really suck to see this one go down that evil path.
What about those who browse with older Macs on slow connections?
Some of us can't tell our browsers to load all or even certain types of images last. Because of this they cause the important parts of the forum (the post content) to not be high up on the list of things to load and it can sometimes take a while to actually read anything.
Well, this forum is not quite that severe but there are an absurd amount that are like that and it would really suck to see this one go down that evil path.
Okay, I'm in b&w now... 450 bytes. Not nearly as pretty, but I think I'm fully compliant now ;-)
hawt.
/me wakes his PowerBook 160 from it's slumber to check it out.
/me wakes his PowerBook 160 from it's slumber to check it out.
Your PB is 160 is on the internet!
That's schweet.
That's schweet.
-_- My better Mac Plus is sometimes used online. I use the P580CD as an Ethernet to LocalTalk gateway, but that might change now that I have an asante EN/SC Mini box thingie.
I may have posted a screenshot uploaded by my PB160 in the desktops thread but I cannot remember.. meh
I may have posted a screenshot uploaded by my PB160 in the desktops thread but I cannot remember.. meh
That's really cool! A while ago I tried that using dial-up, but it didn't work, as I'm unfamilialr with Dialupping(is that a word ) since I have had Cable since I can remember.
) since I have had Cable since I can remember.You mean like a banner ad with a scrolling marquee??
whynot just a link to a picture or site of all your stuffs? even a Flickr page....
Linking to a plain text file on some FTP or something somewhere would be fine. And that way you could include full specs too.
I dare you! }
I'd like to see signatures that expire after a single-digit n appearances i.e. signatures with incept dates. Helps to keep things fresh, lean.
And, of course, a process by which worthy signatures are nominated and, ultimately, included in a Really-n-Truly Wise-n-Worthy Signatures thread somewhere.