"some limits on graphics in signatures"

Combat Wombat · #1 October 11th, 2006, 01:24 PM

If all of you while reading this will look at the top of the page you will see a line of text that reads:

"We will be instituting some limits on graphics in signatures. More info soon."

As someone who very much enjoys having the images in my siggy I am starting a thread to ask that these limitations be lax enough to allow my epic signature to continue as is. I have made a great effort to limit the file size of the images and I also make an effort to not have my signature show up twice on one page in a topic.

Also since I might have the largest ammount of images in my signature compared to anyone in the forums it kinda feels like this is aimed at me

Azselendor · #2 October 11th, 2006, 01:39 PM

As well as me, I only use a single graphic image in my signature, I don't know if anyone has put a 500K image in their signature, but I don't think mine is obtuse and I only recently added mine.

Suicide Junkie · #3 October 11th, 2006, 02:00 PM

I hope we don't get dragged down to the lowest common denominator.

Mephisto · #4 October 11th, 2006, 02:11 PM

Combat Wombat, it's not aimed at you and I guess it has little to do with the SE-Community. It's a matter of download size, but I don't think your Sig will be of any problem.

Azselendor · #5 October 11th, 2006, 02:14 PM

Why is my signature gone now?

Edit-- Never mind, it was hiding.

Edit-- Bah! Git out from under there!

Baron Munchausen · #6 October 11th, 2006, 02:40 PM

A good "limit" would be a simple option that users can set for themselves on whether to see graphics in signatures. We already have the option to see avatars or not. It shouldn't be too hard to limit sigs as well.

Combat Wombat · #7 October 11th, 2006, 03:41 PM

Quote:

Baron Munchausen said:
A good "limit" would be a simple option that users can set for themselves on whether to see graphics in signatures. We already have the option to see avatars or not. It shouldn't be too hard to limit sigs as well.

An excellent solution Baron, but I wouldn't mind there being like a 200-250k size limit to the siggys too because even with a high speed connection if everyone had a 500k siggy it would add up fast.

Fyron · #8 October 11th, 2006, 03:49 PM

200k??? That's very excessive for a signature image... something more like 10-20k would be good.

Mindi · #9 October 13th, 2006, 03:06 PM

Quote:

Baron Munchausen said:
A good "limit" would be a simple option that users can set for themselves on whether to see graphics in signatures. We already have the option to see avatars or not. It shouldn't be too hard to limit sigs as well.

While you can't specifically remove from your site signature pictures, you can remove signatures from your view altogether. It's an option in your settings area.

Mindi · #10 October 13th, 2006, 03:13 PM

As for what the statement at the top of the forum is about, I'm going to be announcing a policy on signature graphics. This won't affect most people, but I have gotten some complaints about some specific signatures that are a little over the top both in dimension and file size. I'll be putting up an individual graphic limit and a combined graphics limit. So that people don't have sig graphics that go across the whole screen on an average resolution size and that one page doesn't take forever to load because there are many high file size sig graphics on the page.