"Sorry, you are not permitted to have a signature." I saw this when clicking on the 'Edit Signature' link in the FAQ. Could any one tell me why? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Signatures were removed from this website many years ago to save on page clutter and bandwidth. Signatures were found to be distracting and broke the flow of a thread by getting in the way. To be honest though they could be brought back, as in the User CP there is the option to Turn off Signatures (which initially there wasn't back when this forum removed them)
sigs Does that 20 posts or greater thing apply to being allowed a sig cause I can't find the option to make one
Wrong question. Why do you want them? Why would you want to sign each of your posts, posts which are already signed just by the simple fact that your avatar, and username are right next to them? Marking territory? Like a dog who needs to piss at every corner just to mark his territory?
Signatures are obnoxious, repetitive, and take up enourmous amounts of space. They make sense for a hobbyist forum, not here.
^ most forums allow users to disable signatures. Nobody would care about signatures if one could tweak around with one's CP, and disable them. The real issue I see with signatures is, that they need to be moderated as well - basically it means a lot of work for something we don't even need.
This topic comes up from time to time. I think that PTP is right: links to certain websites are forbidden here, for example...www.**************.com. What purpose would the signature serve? Is it such a huge thing to have or not have?
^ the purpose of signatures is to mark one's presence in black and white, and maybe even in multicolours, and/or .gif (yeah I hate those moving pictures), but yeah..certainly it's not something that's needed for the survival of a forum board. :m:
No they don't. Forum software that stores signatures and generates them dynamically when the posts are rendered take up very little space. Even those that are not generated dynamically, if they are limited to text only and that text is limited to X number of characters take up a realtively small amount of space. On top of all that, with the small cost of storage these days, most reputable hosting sites offer unlimited space packages. Space is not a valid consideration when the signatures are properly administrated.
^ but who wants to moderate every kid's signature? You? Or an other forum junkie? Well, good luck with that.
I mean just set up the automated rule so that they can only use plain text are are limited to a certain number of characters - usually it is 255.
Why? If they're so eager to piss their name into the snow then they can do it manually and type it out, no?
I didn't know that you feel concerned about the forum junkie as it only applies to those who are willing to invest more effort into the forums than necessarily.:m:
Who does the pissing in the snow hurt? That, too, can be controlled by the use of automatic rules. I agree that loud, large, colorful signatures can be distracting, to say the least. But if people want to have a line or two of simple black text under all their posts, what's the harm? Why should anyone care? More effort than nessecarily what? I don't understand what you mean.
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I don't think it was ever to do with the space it took up on the server, or the load it put on the resources at the server end. It was actually more to do with "BANDWIDTH". In the early years of this forum when it become extremely trafficked, the bandwidth was so intense that occasionally the site would suffer downtimes because it would go over it's limit. So knocking back the signatures and making smaller avatars was to lessen how much bandwidth was required. Like I mentioned in yet another Sig thread, it is possible to diable sigs (not just your own by everyones) via the UserCP (Control Panel), however it's up to the administrations if they want to re-use the sig function and perhaps setting the default for sigs as being off, which you can turn on if you so wish.
