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Thanks, and sorry for showing my frustration that directly. Since September 2002, when I stepped into the Sea Dogs forum to ask for some help, I have been quite active in half a dozen community forums. In most of them people -including myself- use signature pictures and animations for expressive purposes. Personally, I don't have a problem with them, I didn't have when I used to be on dialup either.

The point here is the rules/guidelines/you name it set for the community so that everybody should obey. You may disagree, you may not like, but you have to obey or go. My signature image was violating the rules, albeit with a comparatively small margin, which doesn't matter at all. After the announcements made by Tosa and moderators in this very thread, I changed it in accordance with the limits. I added the "Europa Barbarorum" lines in the same fashion. As it is, my signature hosts my flag, our brotherhood logo, our brotherhood motto, EB logos; and it is only 4.39 KB (4492 bytes), which shows that you can express something, show out some art and still keep within the regulations.

What blew up my bomb was a recent discussion in a hidden subboard. I posted in a related thread:
...these signatures are too big in file size. The allowed upper limit is 10K...
and then:
...it's the file size that has to be 10 KB maximum.
but people insisted on showing up with 60+ KB images. Althugh I believe that it's not their intention, that manner is equivalent to shouting loud "you fool!" at my face.

I'm going to post a link to this thread there...
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