Signature Sizes

[PyTom]

I've been noticing that a lot of people have been starting to stick fairly large sig images in their messages, and I think I want to try to nip this thing in the bud. We're a technical forum, and excessively large signatures, or other things that make the forum harder to read, probably aren't appropriate.

So let me throw down some guidelines for sig images: A sig should in general be less than 4 lines high, and a sig image shouldn't be any larger. So that means a decent vertical height should be about 50 pixels or so.

There's a little slack here, but there's been a recent rash of people with sigs that are 150 pixels high or more, and that's getting to be inappropriate.

Thanks.

[Nafai]

Whoops, guilty. Removed the pic sig for now then ^_^

[lordcloudx]

there ya go

[DaFool]

LoL. I bet I can guess whose sig sparked this message (the fourth(?) Flip on these forums...)

[mugenjohncel]

- CONTENT NO LONGER RELEVANT -

[monele]

Aww... but could the sig owners just remake them, yet smaller?... It makes things livelier ^.^

[PyTom]

It actually wasn't just one person that inspired this, but a trend I wanted to nip in the bud. I second monele's point... there's nothing wrong with an image sig, provided it's smaller than, say, 50-60 pixels high and 400 across.

[Laveil Kurtis]

I'm guilty as well XD

[Nafai]

Well in that case... ^_^

Is my newly resized sig alright Py'tom?

[monele]

Eheh, chibi sig... cute!

[PyTom]

Nafai>>> Size-wise, it's fine. As an aesthetic issue, you may want to dispense with the URL, and instead link the image directly to the appropriate thread, using code like:

[url=http://www.link.com/page/][img]http://www.link.com/img.png[/img][/url]

[mikey]

I like this initiative. Though I'm more or less against any pictures in signatures, when used with care, it's okay. Especially when it's something relevant, the popular project status or some announcement/self-advert that doesn't justify a separate topic. The balance is good now - it's not some puristic text forum, but there's no animated gifs giving you heart attacks (and no it's not me being old, remember the children watching that famous episode of Pokemon! ^_^)

[PyTom]

The balance is good now - it's not some puristic text forum, but there's no animated gifs giving you heart attacks (and no it's not me being old, remember the children watching that famous episode of Pokemon! ^_^)

Or the 2012 London Olympics logo.

But yeah, I think that expression (like in sigs) is an important part of making a forum a community, so it's important to allow it. At the same time, after a while sigs get so large that they disrupt the forum. So it's important to strike a balance here.

My current idea is that 4 lines of sig is about right... with 5 or 6 being okay if you shrink the font size enough. What people want to use it for is up to them, provided it doesn't become overly divisive or annoying.

[Nafai]

Was wondering how to do it that way - thanks Py'Tom