Sigs....

[JAG]

Is it possible at all to let us have a few more charactors for our sigs. It seems amazing to me that while people are allowed HUGE pictures in sigs which take up a lot of room and time in loading, people who want to put a saying of more than a few lines or a short - yes short, not talking huge ones here - poem are unable to do so due to the very restrictive 500 charactors. This, may I add, is also charactors WITH spaces, not without, so it is not even as if this is as big as it seems.

Is it possible for those who want to get a point across which is just as distinct and worthy as pictures in sigs get given the chance? These also will not only take up less room than the picture sigs, which are allowed at the moment, but also will not hinder loading onto computers like the pictures. Please could we be given a bit more lee-way in what we can put in our sig - word wise.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

i concur, i want more than 500 chars!

[Silver Rusher]

Yeah, I think that if it's possible on VB it should be a limit of 1,000 with only a few small pics allowed. (I only have one pic in my sig, a banner...)

[Louis de la Ferte Ste Colombe]

In my opinion, sigs are already way too lax... some topics look like slide show of sig. I'd really like the current rules about sigs to be enforced.

1 pic of very small size, and enough characters for a small poem, haiku style. No more. Make your point with limited means.

Louis,

[Tricky Lady]

One more reason to permanently hide the sigs. I'm glad that this is an option.

[JAG]

So... Tosa any chance of more charactors for sigs?

[Louis VI the Fat]

... some topics look like slide show of sig.

1 pic of very small size, and enough characters for a small poem, haiku style. No more. Make your point with limited means.

Louis.

I concur.

Louis IV.

[Admintestc3]

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[Kaiser of Arabia]

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[TosaInu]

AdminTest is an account I use to check things. The postcount is edited.

[Kraellin]

i'm against large text sigs for one simple reason; every time i see a certain person's text sig, i keep thinking this is a new post, plus he already has a sig pic as well. it's just too much. most every forum i visit you are limited to one or maybe two lines and no sig pic. now, we dont have to follow the crowd, that's true. but, it does get to be beyond a reasonable amount somewhere around 4 or 5 lines, and even that's pretty generous.

also bear in mind that every sig line and pic adds to overall 'weight' of the Org and we've already had to cut posts because of some cap which seems to exist either with this board or with the server we are on. so, do you want larger sigs and see your posts cut more often, or do we use a little conservation and save the whale :)

K.

[therother]

During my trawl of vBulletin hacks, I found one called User Selectable Signature Line Display Limit. Which basically does what it says on the tin - allows individual users to select how many lines of signature text will be displayed. Quite handy, I would think, assuming it works as advertised.

For the sake of completeness, these are the others I found:

• Quick Sig Image Size Limiter - reportedly limits, with modification, both the file size and dimensions of signature pictures. Problem is that the changes/add-ons to the original code are in the thread and have not been collated in the original post.
  
• Easily limit the size of user signatures - with this one, the browser will only show the "first" x pixels in width and y pixels in height of the signature picture, and the rest will be hidden. x and y are admin definable. No file size limit though.
  
• Signature Mod v1.0 Beta 2 - older hack that seems to have been superseded by User Selectable Signature Line Display Limit mentioned above.

Anyhow, looking forward to seeing what new feature(s) you are currently concocting for us Tosa!

Edit: Forgot one

• Showing signatures once per page - again, fairly straightforward: "This will cause each user's signature to be shown only on their first post on each page."