Removal of Signatures

[Null]

Signatures no longer appear under every post. I felt like they cluttered the forum and made content hard to read. When two people with large and/or animated images had a conversation, it became extremely annoying to actually pay attention to the text -- which is the main feature of an Internet forum. It's also very difficult to regulate signatures. How big is too big? What constitutes an unsightly signature? What constitutes too annoying? I could add CSS rules to restrict size, but content is entirely different.

Someone literally had a desktop wallpaper as their signature so I disabled inline signatures system wide. This is a bit of a test. I think the improvement is immediately apparent, and people can view your signature in your profile, so if you want to deck that shit out with animated GIFs and music like it's a 1990s geocities webpage knock yourself out.

Discuss.

 

[LM 697]

Fine with me. Maybe you could keep text or something, though. I like seeing "I once knew a man from NANTUCKET!" on all of Brooklyn's posts.

 

[Null]

Fine with me. Maybe you could keep text or something, though. I like seeing "I once knew a man from NANTUCKET!" on all of Brooklyn's posts.

I'd love this as a solution but phpbb is really garbage. I enabled the setting for signatures but disabled the

 

[Mourning Dove]

I'm fine with it. I think our avatars are sufficient enough to identify ourselves. Big flashy signatures do tend to clutter up the pages...

 

[Surtur]

I don't care either way. Too bad there was just no way to reduce the sig size.

 

[Dork Of Ages]

In my opinion, it's better to put spoilers in signatures, especially big flashy images, instead of simply removing them. Take The Dude's spoiler sig as an example. Of course, not forced spoilers, since that wouldn't work well, but more of a recommendation to make visual clarity of other users less confusing.

 

[Pikonic]

I know a lot of people (including myself) had one of Hitlers vanity smilies.

But if the images are getting too big and you can't put a size limit on them, do what you gotta do.

 

[Null]

I don't care either way. Too bad there was just no way to reduce the sig size.

Well, there is. With CSS rules I can do something like this:

.signature
{
	max-height: 300px;
	overflow: none;
}

.signature img
{
	max-height: 300px;
	max-width: 100%;
}

This caps signatures at 300px tall and scales images to fit the screen and the signature box. If there's any spill over it gets completely hidden. I could try something like that, and it's probably what I'm going to end up doing. Just a bit of a test. I can also do display: none; in the image definition to hide images, but it won't stop the browser from downloading them.

I'll probably end up doing this. Seems people enjoy their vanity.

 

[Watcher]

I've been on forums in the past that did things like disabled animated gif signatures and rigorously enforced the pixel limit. It seems to work for the most part.

 

[TastyWoodenBadge]

I don't mind the removal of sigs, you can still view them on your profile so they are not totally lost forever.

 

[rad]

This is really nice. I disabled signatures and avatars the first day I started browsing the forum, but now I guess I'll turn them signatures on again if there's going to be a size limit. I'd also suggest making the avatars smaller... 250x250 is way too big in my opinion, 100x100 would be better.

Either way, it's a step in the right direction.

 

[Null]

This is really nice. I disabled signatures and avatars the first day I started browsing the forum, but now I guess I'll turn them signatures on again if there's going to be a size limit. I'd also suggest making the avatars smaller... 250x250 is way too big in my opinion, 100x100 would be better.

Either way, it's a step in the right direction.

I'd agree if not for the fact that the forums are fluid width. If the board ran on a fixed width of like 1280px I'd definitely have reduced the size, but since the typical monitor is going to be 1640 or greater I don't see a problem.

 

[The Hunter]

I'm really gonna miss my two lines of text.

 

[Male]

How will lurkers know that imdabes?

 

[rad]

This is really nice. I disabled signatures and avatars the first day I started browsing the forum, but now I guess I'll turn them signatures on again if there's going to be a size limit. I'd also suggest making the avatars smaller... 250x250 is way too big in my opinion, 100x100 would be better.

Either way, it's a step in the right direction.

I'd agree if not for the fact that the forums are fluid width. If the board ran on a fixed width of like 1280px I'd definitely have reduced the size, but since the typical monitor is going to be 1640 or greater I don't see a problem.

Width is fine, the problem is height. Big avatars make one-sentence posts be over twice as big (or rather, tall) as avatar-less posts.

Here's an example:

Surtur's post: 450 pixels tall

Surtur's post without avatar: 200 pixels tall

As you can see, the difference is quite noticeable...

And while we're talking about "cleaning" the forums, I'd also suggest removing post count and thank count, as those add nothing to the quality of the posts. Or alternatively, allow us to disable them (like signatures and avatars), although I don't think that's possible to code.

 

[The Hunter]

I'd also suggest removing post count

That's stupid. How am I supposed to know who the most autistic CWCki forums member is?

 

[CatParty]

I'd also suggest removing post count

That's stupid. How am I supposed to know who the most autistic CWCki forums member is?

 

[Pikonic]

I'd also suggest removing post count

That's stupid. How am I supposed to know who the most autistic CWCki forums member is?

Like you don't already know.
IMO the post count and thank count is fine, but if you wanna make another poll to see how others feel go nuts.

 

[Seahorses]

Somebody had a pig and a dog making love and I was disturbed by that picture. I'm all for this rule.

 

[LM 697]

I'd also suggest removing post count

That's stupid. How am I supposed to know who the most autistic CWCki forums member is?

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