Signature suggestion

Bullitt · 08-19-2005, 02:06 PM

UT, just wondering if it would be feasable to allow small pics to be in your signature. Example being http://www.thereallybigone.com/horoscope/fire.jpg which i would love to have. I know you probably want to avoid giant avatars that will eat up bandwidth, etc. I'm just asking to allow small pics, say no bigger than say 150 x 120?

BigV · 08-19-2005, 02:18 PM

Let me know when the voting opens to general population.

Undertoad · 08-19-2005, 04:08 PM

If images are let in the sigs, there will be no (technical) way to limit the size of them.

I'm quite strongly against it, for all the same reasons as avatars, plus in this case an img could be hosted outside the Cellar and break all sorts of things in threads. No now that I think about it, it's a bad idea all around.

Bullitt · 08-19-2005, 04:40 PM

haha well, that got shot down

wolf · 08-20-2005, 12:50 AM

I am on several boards that use avatars, and also allow pictures in .sigs ... it's like Hell. Only worse. Especially since at least 3/4 of them are animated, with overly quick cycle rates. And too bright colors.

Take a look, if you dare.

BigV · 08-20-2005, 01:44 AM

Ouch.

Next time I'll yield to fear...

Happy Monkey · 08-20-2005, 09:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

If images are let in the sigs, there will be no (technical) way to limit the size of them.

Just as a pure technical question, not an aesthetic one, couldn't you only allow images that are uploaded, like attachments? Or automatically insert a "height=x width=y" to the img tag?

Undertoad · 08-20-2005, 09:34 AM

Well yes you could do something like that, but it would involve a vBulletin "hack", which means the whole thing is more difficult to maintain at that point because each change has to be reintegrated into new versions of the software.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-20-2005, 12:46 PM

Hell No....do you want every signature as annoying as Lady Sidhe?
Christ, they're be half as many posts per page an ten times the garbage.

08-20-2005, 07:28 PM

One board I post to allows images in the sig line, and it is incredibly annoying. Some people have so many images that a one word reply from them takes up the entire screen. No, thanks.

wolf · 08-21-2005, 02:29 PM

Although they really help, smileys alone don't make a poster annoying.

footfootfoot · 08-21-2005, 03:59 PM

Wolf is the love child of Dorothy Parker and Oscar Wilde.

Remember, in the realm of the absolute all time is occuring simultaneously.

It's only the realm of the relative that there is differentiation...

Elspode · 08-21-2005, 05:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolf

Although they really help, smileys alone don't make a poster annoying.

Excess smileys *can* make an already annoying poster positively infuriating, though.

Queen of the Ryche · 08-22-2005, 10:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Wolf is the love child of Dorothy Parker and Oscar Wilde.

Remember, in the realm of the absolute all time is occuring simultaneously.

It's only the realm of the relative that there is differentiation...

Dude - been hangin with Mystic and Velvet? Whoa.........deep..........

footfootfoot · 08-22-2005, 12:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Queen of the Ryche

Dude - been hangin with Mystic and Velvet? Whoa.........deep..........

Don't know Mystic and Velvet. I've actually been reading too much Dogen.

08-19-2005, 02:06 PM	#1
Bullitt This is a fully functional babe lair Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Akron, OH Posts: 2,324	Signature suggestion UT, just wondering if it would be feasable to allow small pics to be in your signature. Example being http://www.thereallybigone.com/horoscope/fire.jpg which i would love to have. I know you probably want to avoid giant avatars that will eat up bandwidth, etc. I'm just asking to allow small pics, say no bigger than say 150 x 120? __________________ Kiss my white Irish ass.

08-19-2005, 02:18 PM	#2
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Let me know when the voting opens to general population. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

08-19-2005, 04:40 PM	#4
Bullitt This is a fully functional babe lair Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Akron, OH Posts: 2,324	haha well, that got shot down __________________ Kiss my white Irish ass.

08-20-2005, 12:50 AM	#5
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I am on several boards that use avatars, and also allow pictures in .sigs ... it's like Hell. Only worse. Especially since at least 3/4 of them are animated, with overly quick cycle rates. And too bright colors. Take a look, if you dare. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

08-20-2005, 01:44 AM	#6
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Ouch. Next time I'll yield to fear... __________________ Be Just and Fear Not. Last edited by BigV; 08-20-2005 at 01:46 AM.

08-19-2005, 04:08 PM	#3
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	If images are let in the sigs, there will be no (technical) way to limit the size of them. I'm quite strongly against it, for all the same reasons as avatars, plus in this case an img could be hosted outside the Cellar and break all sorts of things in threads. No now that I think about it, it's a bad idea all around.

08-20-2005, 09:34 AM	#8
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Well yes you could do something like that, but it would involve a vBulletin "hack", which means the whole thing is more difficult to maintain at that point because each change has to be reintegrated into new versions of the software.

08-20-2005, 12:46 PM	#9
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Hell No....do you want every signature as annoying as Lady Sidhe? Christ, they're be half as many posts per page an ten times the garbage. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-20-2005, 07:28 PM	#10
marichiko Guest Posts: n/a	One board I post to allows images in the sig line, and it is incredibly annoying. Some people have so many images that a one word reply from them takes up the entire screen. No, thanks.

08-21-2005, 02:29 PM	#11
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Although they really help, smileys alone don't make a poster annoying. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

08-21-2005, 03:59 PM	#12
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Wolf is the love child of Dorothy Parker and Oscar Wilde. Remember, in the realm of the absolute all time is occuring simultaneously. It's only the realm of the relative that there is differentiation... __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

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