Sigs....

[TosaInu]

Hello Mouzafphaerre,

The rule applies to everyone. To be honest: I'm thinking about adding a 10,241 bytes in my own, demote and free myself from this kindergarten.

[Herakleitos]

Hello Herakleitos,

I could only find this one http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pics/A_Herakleitos.gif
perhaps you uploaded another? Could you tell what which uploader you used and/or the name of the file?

Thanks.

Nope, this is it. Thanks very much. Looks better too; bit fuzzy maybe but a large (high) picture in your sig looks stupid when you write a post of just a few lines...

[Mouzafphaerre]

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I like the place, the people, and I like the signatures too. I will not turn them off because of a bunch of selfish, irresponsible individuals.
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[Uesugi Kenshin]

Yeah, even if I don't agree with many people in the backroom at least most of them discuss topics. Overall an excellent forum, thank you Tosa for putting in the effort to get people to comply with the signature rules.

[TosaInu]

This e-mail is send to the 44 users who have not updated their sigpic.

Dear forum user,

You may have noticed that your account has been changed this week. This is due to a heavyhanded action to enforce signature compliance.

The rule is basically unchanged since it was made in fall 2002 and is made to allow both individual expression and comfortable forum browsing and usage for people with less powerful hardware.

Here's the most recent topic in the Watchtower about it https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=40255 .

I know your current account level is not a pleasure to use, you can send an e-mail to tosainu@totalwar.org containing your forum name and a copy of the rules for signatures as can be found in the faq https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/faq.php? Once you've read and understand the picture limits, your account will be updated again.

Thanks for your time reading this.

[kankou1razor]

I did received ur email Tosa but to be honest i dont understand what you are asking. Can u give me some lights in this issue???

[therother]

I did received ur email Tosa but to be honest i dont understand what you are asking. Can u give me some lights in this issue???

Hi kankou1razor

The picture you had in your signature was larger than the allowed 10KB (10,240 bytes). As part of an announced crackdown on such pictures, your account privileges were downgraded to a bare minimum. To ensure that those who were breaching the forum rules, perhaps unknowingly, are now aware of the signature picture rules, TosaInu is asking you to email a copy of them -- along with your username -- to the email account above. Once you do this, Tosa will restore your account to normal.

Hope that helps clarify things.

[The Wizard]

Hello,

I have not recieved a single email from the Guild regarding this issue, but I can no longer edit and I do not see anything regarding the editing of signature in my profile in my account, nor do I see my signature anymore. Therefore, I shall assume my account has been reduced to a minimum of privileges. Therefore I wonder how in any way I should have known that I should have changed my signature to less lines of text (because when I added the sig itself, I checked the forum regulations to see if it was ok and it was), other than reading this thread.

I, for one, almost never come to the Watchtower. Why should I? Discussions over usually minor issues or issues that have nothing to do with me are no attraction to this place. So I didn't know of this deadline for the changing of sigs, although I was aware of the existence of this thread.

Therefore, I find the system used for notifying users they have a too large sig quite abominable and unfriendly, something I am not used to in this place. Perhaps a more widespread notification would have pointed out my 'violation', so I could have been spared this useless waste of time that is showing once again that I have knowledge of sig regulations. I was not aware, however, that a smaller sig than allowed still means only 2 lines of text.

Personally I find sigs a great thing, expressing one's character and interests. Egocentrism in no way comes to mind when I think of sigs. But rules are rules and breaking them on a place like this shall get you trouble and that is a waste of time and effort, and therefore I try to follow them. But if there is no knowledge of a supposed violation, than how can I follow them? If I did not know something in a store costs something and must be bought, how would I refrain from stealing?

Of course, going to this forum more often could be a solution. But, as I said, there really isn't anything interesting in here 95% of the time. So there is no reason to visit often. Perhaps a better system of notification to things decided in here would limit unpleasant experiences such as mine.

Thanks,



~Wiz

[KukriKhan]

On 15 Jan, I posted "please fix your sig" notices in the 6 most-frequently-visited forums. Apparently, I missed posting such a notice in the forum(s) you visit The Wizard. Sorry about that.

[The Wizard]

Ah, then I understand. I wasn't very active from that period up until the deadline, due to exams and other work concerning school.

That and the fact that I don't really visit such places as the Colosseum and Tavern forums.

Then the staff has done nothing wrong, as far as I'm concerned. I apoligize for my somewhat hastily constructed opinion

One question remains -- why didn't I recieve an email from the Guild detailing my violation?

Thanks,



~Wiz

[TosaInu]

Hello The Wizard,

Good and a fair question. The signature picture rule is made in fall 2002 and there have been various discussions about it since, not only in the Watchtower.

There are no tools available on this server to list users who exceed the signature limitations. Staff has to do it by hand, which is time consuming.

Accounts with an oversized signature, have the picture removed and get moved to the minimal options group (that account allows viewing and posting in all forums except the backroom and removes about any other candy). There's no public blacklist, only a grouping in the ACP that can be sent an e-mail using a tool that doesn't require another huge time investment. I've also posted the content of that mail here, because:

a. users may not have their e-mail updated.
b. users may not check that e-mail.
c. the server may fail to send the e-mail.

We all like to return to normal and enjoy the forums, don't we?

Sending each user a detailed mail/PM is too much work considering the amount of accounts not complying and the amount of other things I (yes, me) have to do.

Sending me an e-mail containing a copy of the sig pic rules from the FAQ and your forumnick is enough to get your account restored to normal.

[UglyandHasty]

email sent to you Tosa ! can i have my rights back so i can access my user CP and delete that sig ? sorry for any inconvenience or trouble

[octavian]

hey alrighty, i ws off the forums for a while and was unaware of this new legislation, on my way to the CP now.

Peace...

[octavian]

um, is there a particular reason im not allowed to do anything in my CP? im trying to remove my sig but i cant get into the menu.

[octavian]

me and my big mouth, didn't read all the way to the bottom of the page/email. i got an email sent out to u tosa, i think i did what u asked.

[Morat]

Hi

Didn't know exactly where to put this but I suppose here will do. I've noticed a few patrons with sigs quite substantially larger than 10k. One is closer to 500k. Is there nothing that can be down to stamp this out?

[Shambles]

Well Im afraid to tell you this,
but i visit a lot of forums,

And this problem plagues them all,

At 1 in particular When you eneterd your Sig image in your user cp It told you That it was to big,
then people Just enetred a name for a small picture, then after it had been accepted they simply went to there server and changed the sig, So they were still able to use LARGE sigs

how did they fix this you may ask?

Simply by disabeling ALL signatures,
Many people were outraged,
(mostly the ones who Had LARGE snazzy purpous made sigs "the ones breaking the rules")

But dissableing the sigs did help alot, and page loading times Were signifigantly redused for 56k users.

I like my lil sig's and Il probably make more. But Its no reall loss if they go.


Any way this is my last post for a Few hours , so c u ppl later,

[TosaInu]

Hello Morat,

It's not possible here to do software checks on that. So we'll always have to react after it's done. Oversized signatures will be taken away if you PM a moderator or me.

[Morat]

That's a shame. Reading the thread (probably should have done that before posting, but what the hey) it is disappointing that the host does not change the PHP configuration. Is it a security thing?

[tibilicus]

How do you put pictures in your sig. Just wondering.