forum sig post options

[batkinson001]

Hey all, not sure where to post stuff about the forums, but can somone turn on the img fuctions for signatures? i want to update my sig but without img support alli get is a stupid text link when i want my nice sig bar to show.

http://card.mygamercard.net/gelsig/batkinson001.png (http://profile.mygamercard.net/batkinson001)

bout time it showed... i want to put the above in my sig. its a short bit of code wich for somereason i can ONLY see in IE

[Mindfield]

I think the general consensus is that allowing for graphic sigs opens the door for large, distracting, sometimes gaudy sigs that detract from the content and eats bandwidth for what amounts to little good reason.

[batkinson001]

way to rain on my parade lol

i know that it eats bandwidth, if i didnt care about it i would have posted a huge fat one (they have those availiable) i chose something small because of that reason. if rules could be relaxed to allow for SMALL images and not large bandwidth eating ones ( i have been to sites with those so i understand where you are comming from on this) it would be nice...

[justabitcrazee]

something small and NOT distracting seems nice, BTW, I like yours. Better not for sake of those dialuppers. :)

[Taz]

Images used to be allowed in sigs a while back but some found it to distracting and some were very gaudy. And of course those limited to dial up suffered the most. You could send a PM to Les or Deb but I wouldn't hold your breath on it. If I remember correctly their was a great sigh of relief from the membership when images were no longer allowed in sigs

[dbusguy]

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Look for an official posting buy Deb/Les soon.

[Dr.Dan]

Just post it at the bottom of any post you do that it's relavent to..

Your gamer card is of no use to me or most people on this board.. only to those that follow the gaming room forum..
So why should we all have to see it every time you post?
I think a link to it in your sig is good... then anyone that WANTS to see it can click it... the rest of us don't.

I for one am very happy that they don't allow pics in sigs... I see way too much of it on other boards and I'm happy that I don't have to see it here too :)

No rule change please :bsu:

[debbie]

I think I've seen a function in the vB controls that restricts a person's sig to post only once in a thread they participate in.

I don't mind the sigs myself although on 800x640 some show up with 8 lines or so.
*cough*Mindfield*cough* ;)

I remember the graphic in sig discussions and still agree with the decision made not to allow them.

Smilies look good in a sig though.

[Les Shaw]

Text lets the threads load faster ..

[Tess]

What actually happened was that signatures were allowed, but a certain percentage of the membership decided to ignore the restrictions and it all got way out of hand. The restrictions couldnt be board designated, so there were guidelines set and much controversy and arguing about what would be allowed (content wise) size of graphics and how many lines were taken up by text and on and on.

When it couldnt be resolved amicably, signatures were turned off, no signatures, no problems, arguments or headaches in enforcement.

I dont think it's an option to revisit allowing signatures.

[Mouse]

As for dial-uppers, they probably have "sigs off" in their profile already. :)

[batkinson001]

Well, it was an idea, it's annoying that so much DOESNT work in firefox (like Amazon's many sites and Ebay).

nice to see that I got a good ammount of responses, normally my posts dont warrent so many...

as a result clicking the link on the image takes you to the xbox forums login page, so guest viewing of the card is somewhat USELESS and non existant. M$ needs to fix that... however I found a proper non logging in link which I will add after my system specs...