Agreed. Allowing people to buy out of the signature limits defeats the purpose of having signature limits.

See this if it causes that much of a problem.

@niki: Could you please take that gif down or host on a server that's not strapped for bandwidth? That image takes forever to load.

Done

Ah, so it's still within limits. Good stuff. Thanks Steve. :up:

When you right click on the image and look at properties, it says the pixel and byte size. (just discovered it:/\\k:)

I vote for establishing a SubSim Signature Council TM that would decide which sigs are permissible and which are not.

Possible members of the Council: Skybird, Tribesman, Takeda (?)
Possible rules of proceeding: verdicts must be reached unanimously (:har:)

I remember that Xabbarus gave me infractions once for some socio-economic sentence. The only problem was that it was uttered by Hitler.
I agree that any offensive, inappropriate, abusive sigs should be removed but c'mon... :hmmm:

For me a Limit is okay, but I would prefer a Sig Limit Size 700x150!

Signatures that are a little bit too big are fine by me, those that are overly political are unnecessary.

I'd pay a quarter to see that.:D

Here's the process:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dVo3nbLYC0

I have "two shoes that don't match"...? I assume that is an English proverb. But I do not know what it means, Neal. :hmmm: I never used pics, only coloured text. I never got any pics working in signatures. I change colour when I changed the text, which I do often: whenever I remembered or stumbled over a new - or new old - quote that I like.

On the issue, there should be size limits. Since it is about scrolling a thread, it mostly matters regarding vertical dimension, and thus I think a sig, may it be graphic or text, should not be thicker than 3-4 lines of text. Many, if not all forums I monitor, have limits much tighter handled than over here.

In the poll, option 4 my choice.

Only the sigs that are waaaaaay over the size limit bother me.

I think you should be on the council. You seem to have all the answers.

FYI, number of signature infractions given by Takeda: Zero.

Thank you. I'll do my best:salute:
(puts on Roland Freisler's hat)

I find it annoying if a signature occupies much more space than the actual mesage in the post.

If a single post covers half of your screen and I have to look for the message hidden somewhere above a large signature
(which might even contain animations), I tend to get so distracted that I don't really process what I'm reading.

I'm frankly more irritated by people who post uncompressed PNG screenshots. :/\\!!

It's a part of Subsim that's part of it's personality. Besides, I might want to get a really really big one...er, ahem, I mean a large...no, skip it.:o

Ps: Keep the Sigs!
D40:O:

It's the animated Gif's that get to me the most, no matter how cleaver they are they soon become just annoying.

Magic

Got the card as well,It's on my calendar.

I'm mostly on bad connections a lot, so... this affects me pretty directly. Not more than threads with exuberantly large screenshots, but at least for most of those, you kind of expect it when you click on a screenshot thread. Having everything constantly load and jump in every thread is a little annoying though :hmmm: