Wha?! Max size of signiture 255 characters!
The fact that your signature is quite often longer (in some cases significantly longer, such as every post of yours in this thread) than your posts.
Some people are still using dial-up; and some others (such as myself) just like threads that don't have half of their page height taken up with signatures.
In general, four lines is considered to be the maximum 'polite' length for a signature. Yes, with modern wide-screen displays and small fonts, it can be easily possible to exceed 255 characters (and possibly even 500,) while staying within 4 lines (see MrMacPlus.) That said, having a fixed character limit can help to encourage shorter signatures. (And, obviously, it is possible to have a 255-line signature in 255 characters; not counting blank lines!)
Your signature is 16 lines long. Five lines detailing your machines (which could easily be placed in one potentially line-wrapping line,) one line detailing the fact that you have liberated one single 68k Mac, six lines dedicated to 'cruft', and four blank lines.
Yes, the bunny was funny the first two or three times I saw it. It's not any more. Yes, the quotes are each semi-funny. Pick one.
You could quite easily be down to 255 characters; and/or 4 lines, and avoid annoying people in the process. A quick search of your posts reveals that in the latest three pages of your posts, you have only *ONE* post with more lines of original writing of your own than your signature takes up. And it has 17 lines to your signature's 16. (In fact, if you hadn't used a double-line break in that message, it would be equal to your signature in lines.)
I am not saying that your contributions to this forum are unwelcome; not at all. I am merely pointing out that your signature is a cause for annoyance.
(Yes, I've been too lazy to make a signature on here. I suppose I'll go copy my .sig from either MacRumors or The Vintage Computer Forums...)
So? I spend a significant amount of time browsing on a netbook. Your signature takes up HALF my screen. Seriously, don't you think that's too long? Although it's no longer really my place to enforce it, I bring your attention to The Rules on this matter:But my sig is in small text. compare. This to this!
Mi sig is ~11 lines of *normal* text.
So, the moral of the story is keep it to three or four lines max. Please, for the sake of everyone else. Add your list of machines to a Wiki user page and make a link to that, if you really must.
No. We really wouldn't. Again, to quote the rules:Oh, would you prefer this as my avatar?
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Please don't use animated GIFs. It's a guaranteed way to piss everybody else off.
There's also the fact that a bright flashing avatar such as that one could be potentially hazardous to someone suffering from epilepsy or a similar disorder...while I don't think we currently have any members in that position, its certainly something to think about...No. We really wouldn't. Again, to quote the rules:Oh, would you prefer this as my avatar?
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Please don't use animated GIFs. It's a guaranteed way to piss everybody else off.
Anyway, I'd like to second Tom's recommendation to shorten your signature and think about putting your list of machines on the wiki. Really...I think by now we all know how many of what Macs you have and all, and those who don't...well, they should know where to go (the wiki) to find out.
Mars478: His avatar is an animated PNG - a format which is only supported by Firefox and maybe a couple of other browsers. Just, guys...please, just don't use animated avatars of any kind.
You can link to the wiki by putting a link inside wiki tags.
[wiki]User:Cory5412[/wiki]
I agree with the sentiment that the longest signatures and most animated avatars are not only completely unnecessary, but I'd go as far as to say extremely annoying. I'm on a 20-inch iMac right now, and this is the biggest of the computer displays I use throughout the day, and if I maximise the height of the browser on this machine, signatures can still account for approximately half of the display space.
To put it simply, what I've noticed is that signatures tend to be filled with information that, for all intents and purposes, we don't need to read underneath every single post, so I'm going to go ahead and recommend that everybody puts their machine list and quotes list on the wiki, where you can create a page that's thousands of characters long, detailing history and everything for each machine. Heck, the wiki lets you create subpages [wiki]User:Cory5412/machines/Schlangenbeschwoerer[/wiki] like this one about my old iMac.
[wiki]User:Cory5412[/wiki]
I agree with the sentiment that the longest signatures and most animated avatars are not only completely unnecessary, but I'd go as far as to say extremely annoying. I'm on a 20-inch iMac right now, and this is the biggest of the computer displays I use throughout the day, and if I maximise the height of the browser on this machine, signatures can still account for approximately half of the display space.
To put it simply, what I've noticed is that signatures tend to be filled with information that, for all intents and purposes, we don't need to read underneath every single post, so I'm going to go ahead and recommend that everybody puts their machine list and quotes list on the wiki, where you can create a page that's thousands of characters long, detailing history and everything for each machine. Heck, the wiki lets you create subpages [wiki]User:Cory5412/machines/Schlangenbeschwoerer[/wiki] like this one about my old iMac.
Most of the time, I run Google Chrome on the netbook; without Flash installed. And now that the Norton trial has expired, I'm going to tempt the beast and go AV-free.
Yes, the only reason I used IE (pronounced "aaiiieeeeeee!!!", of course,) was to demonstrate the problem. Yes, I then turned on all the various bars that I normally would have off, even when I have to use IE.
Let's just disable signatures. They've been more or less whittled down to nothing (we've gone from 500 characters, smileys, and links, to 255 characters, no smileys, no links), and we're all being told to use the Wiki anyway, right? How much more are signatures going to be trimmed back? Hey, let's go to 200 characters. That seems reasonable. Or 150, that looks fine. Let's ban BBCode because it's a Wednesday and I have a hangnail!
Maybe someone can make some kind of browser add-on that automatically pastes in a fake signature at the end of every post.
Maybe someone can make some kind of browser add-on that automatically pastes in a fake signature at the end of every post.
I'm sure i'm not the only one to remember back when this place had an army motif... people actually had some clever uses for their signatures back then. Lets see more of that... while we're at it, how about the army motif back as well...
...never gonna happen. Oh well.
...never gonna happen. Oh well.
I thought that's pretty much what the entire forum was reduced to these days... or so i've been told...
Yeah. Ridiculous.
Noone complained about my sig OR avatar until just the other day.
I have a better idea: Let's make it so emoticons are auto-translated and anyone who uses one gets banned!
EDIT: ooh, ooh, ooh! How about we make the max text size of a sig: be this big!
Of course, everyone can easily read that! Seems resonable enough!!!
Wellbythatdeffinitionweshouldjustbanuseofspacesbecausetheyarejustrepettivenoise. WeshouldalsobanuseofpunctuationandanycharactersbesidesAZand09. Whilewereatitwhynotjustbanuseofthewordsandtheimeorastheyrejustrepettivenoise.
Translation:
Well by that deffinition we should just ban use of spaces because they're just repettive noise. We should also ban use of punctuation and any characters besides A-Z and 0-9. While were at it why not just ban use of the words and, the, I, me, and or, as they're just repettive noise.
See how much space that saves? People with netbooks should just *love* that!
Translation:
Well by that deffinition we should just ban use of spaces because they're just repettive noise. We should also ban use of punctuation and any characters besides A-Z and 0-9. While were at it why not just ban use of the words and, the, I, me, and or, as they're just repettive noise.
See how much space that saves? People with netbooks should just *love* that!
Don't be silly. Punctuation is a vital part of ensuring the legibility of text.WellbythatdeffinitionweshouldjustbanuseofspacesbecausetheyarejustrepettivenoiseWeshouldalsobanuseofpunctuationandanycharactersbesidesAZand09Whilewereatitwhynotjustbanuseofthewordsandtheimeorastheyrejustrepettivenoise.
Translation:
Well by that deffinition we should just ban use of spaces because they're just repettive noise. We should also ban use of punctuation and any characters besides A-Z and 0-9. While were at it why not just ban use of the words and, the, I, me, and or, as they're just repettive noise.
See how much space that saves? People with netbooks should just *love* that!
It's more about the post/not-post ratio than anything else. If you have a line or two of post and 11 lines of signature (which doesn't add anything to the discussion topic) then the signal to noise ratio is pretty low.
Still not quite retired yet. Still a few things to sort out. However, you'll be rid of me soon, don't worry [I thought you were "not an admin anymore" and "retired">
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How rude!
anyway, yes looking back 99% of your post's are barley a full sentence and a eighth page of signature, its silly, and as already stated (and should have been the end of it) use the wiki, there you can document all your stuff to your heats content, which in the end would provide more usable info to the community.
No one's mentioned that you can actually turn of signatures (along with images, flash, smilies and avatars) in the User Control Panel (Board preferences --> Edit display options). I realize it wouldn't be necessary if everyone were polite and considerate etc, but reality is often otherwise...
Yeah, It's not like the Mods will change anything unless they want to. They don't have to change anything unless they want to, therefore they won't.
Personally, I think the rules should be like a democracy, but the Mods wouldn't like that because they wouldn't be able to use their power of their dictatorship.
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Personally, I think the rules should be like a democracy, but the Mods wouldn't like that because they wouldn't be able to use their power of their dictatorship.
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