Signatures Are Disabled for Draft Day

[Basketball Jesus]

Can we just get rid of signatures permanently. Sometimes I don't have the time to take the few minutes to log in, and just want to read a few posts.

So I see the same inane signatures, that make it impossible to read a thread. All they do is distract the reader.

Get rid of them for good.

User Control Panel
>>Board Preferences
>>>>Edit Display Options
>>>>>>Display Signatures - No


You're welcome.

[randomhero423]

i won't be home anyway during the draft.

but we need pms again asap

[360]

Aren't people hosting their signatures on other servers? How do they affect the realgm servers when they're being hosted elsewhere?

[Fizzy]

Can we just get rid of signatures permanently. Sometimes I don't have the time to take the few minutes to log in, and just want to read a few posts.

So I see the same inane signatures, that make it impossible to read a thread. All they do is distract the reader.

Get rid of them for good.

User Control Panel
>>Board Preferences
>>>>Edit Display Options
>>>>>>Display Signatures - No


You're welcome.

... which doesn't actually solve the problem in question. Read the bolded part again.

IMO, boards full of sigs with giant images and quotes look extremely unprofessional and are much harder to read. Compare these forums to, say, the forums at ArsTechnica. Simple, clean, and effective. Avatars are more than enough "look at me, I'm special!" space.

[MyInsatiableOne]

Can we just get rid of signatures permanently. Sometimes I don't have the time to take the few minutes to log in, and just want to read a few posts.

So I see the same inane signatures, that make it impossible to read a thread. All they do is distract the reader.

Get rid of them for good.

User Control Panel
>>Board Preferences
>>>>Edit Display Options
>>>>>>Display Signatures - No


You're welcome.

Ya beat me to it...

[dflash3]

Can we just get rid of signatures permanently. Sometimes I don't have the time to take the few minutes to log in, and just want to read a few posts.

So I see the same inane signatures, that make it impossible to read a thread. All they do is distract the reader.

Get rid of them for good.

User Control Panel
>>Board Preferences
>>>>Edit Display Options
>>>>>>Display Signatures - No


You're welcome.

... which doesn't actually solve the problem in question. Read the bolded part again.

IMO, boards full of sigs with giant images and quotes look extremely unprofessional and are much harder to read. Compare these forums to, say, the forums at ArsTechnica. Simple, clean, and effective. Avatars are more than enough "look at me, I'm special!" space.

But, I enjoy Avatars and Sigs, since its how I identify some posters.

[Dirty Water]

If you don't like the board and the way it's set up, no one is forcing you to post here. Plain and simple.

[Gek]

A 400*90 signature isn't too much, just disable them if you don't like them dude. Good call doing this temporarily to save bandwidth, I actually just noticed the ability to post images was off and the sigs were off and I automatically assumed bandwidth saving for the draft even though I hadn't seen the thread.

[damo[23]]

How are people going to know that one or more squirrels went on a rampage yesterday if I dont have my sig.

Travesty.

[Malinhion]

At work I disable sigs and avatars so I generally keep it off. But during the school year I sometimes turn them on because it makes users easier to identify.

The only problem I have with the board right now is the gigantic thrad name at the top of every post. Why can't we tone down the font size/color on this? It used to be size 6 or 8 or something. Now its obnoxious. If I want to go to the beginning of the thread I can scroll to the top or bottom of the page.

[M_nus]

Had them disabled anyway, but thanks.

[Basketball Jesus]

... which doesn't actually solve the problem in question. Read the bolded part again.

IMO, boards full of sigs with giant images and quotes look extremely unprofessional and are much harder to read. Compare these forums to, say, the forums at ArsTechnica. Simple, clean, and effective. Avatars are more than enough "look at me, I'm special!" space.

Unless they changed something, I don't think you can see sigs unless you're signed in. At least I've never been able to.

Avatars are another matter altogether.

[SoundQuality]

There's a program called GIMP that does just about everything photoshop does, but for free. You can find other free photoshopish programs via google. You can make all the sigs and avi's you want.

[Buck You]

Hey, my sister got photoshop for free.

[evilRyu]

At work I disable sigs and avatars so I generally keep it off. But during the school year I sometimes turn them on because it makes users easier to identify.

The only problem I have with the board right now is the gigantic thrad name at the top of every post. Why can't we tone down the font size/color on this? It used to be size 6 or 8 or something. Now its obnoxious. If I want to go to the beginning of the thread I can scroll to the top or bottom of the page.

Agreed with both your points.. at work, i turn off both avatars and sigs.. makes the page load SUPER FAST, and I don't have to worry about my internet logs pulling up requests from random servers.. and it's a lot CLEANER in case someone walks by.

I also hate the thread title in each message.

[theTHIEF]

so when are we turning sigs/avatars back on?

[JN]

no comment

[JN]

... which doesn't actually solve the problem in question. Read the bolded part again.

IMO, boards full of sigs with giant images and quotes look extremely unprofessional and are much harder to read. Compare these forums to, say, the forums at ArsTechnica. Simple, clean, and effective. Avatars are more than enough "look at me, I'm special!" space.

Unless they changed something, I don't think you can see sigs unless you're signed in. At least I've never been able to.

Avatars are another matter altogether.

Thanks for the answer. In fact, this did change when the upload occured. At work I often just read "offline". Prior to the change no sigs were viewable when "offline". Now it is the other way around.

It's my only real complaint about the change... I just hate sigs, and I like the fact that I can disable them, of course. Just don't want to always log in.

[A.J.]

So are we getting sigs back?

[hermes]

So are we getting sigs back?

only if you are deemed worthy