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Signature rules.

Discussion in 'Forum, wiki and other THD pages' started by Furai, Sep 10, 2011.

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  1. Furai

    Furai THD Team THD Team Administrator

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    We need rules for signatures. (I rhyme. :D)
    I'll give an example of awful signatures in forums (in terms of my personal feeling what should be against rules):
    Rainbow's signature - it's too wide and animated which distracts people.
    Valkyries custom HA signature - too wide.
    Loki's - too much text.

    I'm not doing anything against it yet - but the greatest sin is "eating" precious forums' space + making distracting signatures.

    I have to think of something to prevent this - maybe forcing people to use smaller text in signatures? I don't know. Posting it in public to discuss.
     
    Furai, Sep 10, 2011
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  2. Neat

    Neat King of the Dead Donator Tester

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    Is my signature ok? I tried to make the banner smaller, so that it wouldn't take up as much space. I can push the text together too if you like.
     
    Neat, Sep 10, 2011
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  3. Furai

    Furai THD Team THD Team Administrator

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    If you could be so kind.
     
    Furai, Sep 10, 2011
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  4. Contrary

    Contrary The Audacious Paramount of Explosive Flight Donator Tester

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    I think something discrete like a line of text or two is the best. If banners become common I will probably just disable signatures, like I do on other forums.
     
    Contrary, Sep 11, 2011
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  5. Im_a_Turtle

    Im_a_Turtle Haxor

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    Is mine okay? its not offending you people ees eet!
     
    Im_a_Turtle, Sep 11, 2011
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  6. t0rchic

    t0rchic Drill Rusher

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    Is mine ok? I can shrink the picture or text or remove the text if I need to.
     
    t0rchic, Sep 11, 2011
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  7. Furai

    Furai THD Team THD Team Administrator

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    You know what - I'll talk with citricsquid about enabling
    tags - then everyone who is concerned if his sig is too big could just put it in spolier tags (and have there like whole page high singature...).

    Also in earlier posts - saying "wide" I didn't mean width, it was meant to be height, so proper word would be "high", right?
     
    Furai, Sep 11, 2011
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  8. Neat

    Neat King of the Dead Donator Tester

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    Yeah I knew you meant high too, which is why I asked if mine was ok.
     
    Neat, Sep 11, 2011
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  9. Rainbows

    Rainbows KAG Guard Forum Moderator Tester
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    You WOULD put it in the only part of the forum I never check wouldn't you?
    After seeing t0rchics I assumed big banners were allowed... :(

    I will now go and invent a machine to repeatedly poke citric about getting spoiler tags
     
    Rainbows, Sep 11, 2011
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  10. Furai

    Furai THD Team THD Team Administrator

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    There weren't so far any rules specifying how to handle sigs. But lately seeing that people's signatures take more place than post itself made me kind of irritated. That's why I came up with this discussion here. I don't want to dictate rules again so I decided to ask you what rules would you like to see here (of course final decision will be up to me/Shadlington). I know I can just turn off displaying of signatures altogether in my profile options but I prefer to see them. You know what's my general idea of signature rules - read what I wrote here and there in thread. I want to hear your opinions, too.

    EDIT: t0rchic you could make it tinier.
     
    Furai, Sep 11, 2011
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  11. Rainbows

    Rainbows KAG Guard Forum Moderator Tester
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    hide signatures over *insert amount here* pixels as a profile option?
    or scroling signatures
    Or spoilers *pokes citric*
     
    Rainbows, Sep 11, 2011
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  12. Furai

    Furai THD Team THD Team Administrator

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    I like spoilers idea most. That's why I suggested it.
     
    Furai, Sep 11, 2011
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  13. trelawney

    trelawney KAG Guard Tester

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    No mate, you don't.

    Anyway, I've been secretly working on the new HA signature for the past 36 hours, hope it is to your liking:
    [​IMG] . Seriously, disable signatures altogether :p
     
    trelawney, Sep 11, 2011
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  14. Chosen

    Chosen Shopkeep Stealer

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    Or perhaps, modifying/deleting signatures if the amount of space they take with their signature is almost as large as the amount of text they post, in addition of utilizing the rule of 'no spamming' to its fullest extent? This forces people with large signatures to provide constructive feedback, make lengthy and detailed explanations of things, and other good things :)
     
    Chosen, Sep 16, 2011
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  15. illu

    illu En Garde! Donator Tester

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    Some signatures which I think are too large (click on "Information"):
    - soullcath
    - HA1TER
    - Aoki
     
    illu, Sep 16, 2011
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  16. Furai

    Furai THD Team THD Team Administrator

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    Aoki's definitely is too big. As to rest they could be shorter.
     
    Furai, Sep 16, 2011
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  17. illu

    illu En Garde! Donator Tester

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    illu, Sep 16, 2011
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  18. Aoki

    Aoki Shopkeep Stealer

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    is my signature fine now ?
     
    Aoki, Sep 16, 2011
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  19. illu

    illu En Garde! Donator Tester

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    Yep, I guess so. But it seems like you've failed with your ascii-art:
    fail.png
     
    illu, Sep 16, 2011
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  20. Aoki

    Aoki Shopkeep Stealer

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    yeah hit F5, it always that removing space script (´・ｪ・｀) had to fill it with blank using character map
     
    Aoki, Sep 16, 2011
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