Ugly Sigs

inactionman

This is not a complaint about the content of people's sigs. I really couldn't care less. But it seems that in lieu of garish avitars people have opted for long, brightly coloured sigs. Everything about AI is nice and grey and sedate until you come across this sigs. Is this necessary? Is your sig so important that it has to stand out that much?



Ack, whatever, this is just a request for people to use more sedate colours for their sigs.





Now I'm all flustered. I need some chips and dip.

ghost_user_name

Actually, we do have guidelines about this.

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Members are allowed to have custom signatures appended to the end of their posts. Posing images in signatures is not permitted. This privilege is allowed to give a bit of personality to the community of the forums. Members who choose to use this feature must do so in a respectful and mature manner. vB tags are allowed in signatures to add a bit of style. However, members should limit signatures to three lines of text or less. Members should not use the vB size tag to make the signature text larger. If abused, this privilege will also be revoked from offending members. If it is abused or used for posting lewd, abusive, or obnoxious messages, an administrator may change it and disable the offending member's ability to modify it.

If you find signatures bothersome that break this guideline where you would like it to be enforced, just list the member names here and I'll take care of it.

ghost_user_name

Ah, I just realized that it might create a hostile environment for you if you post the names here.



So, just PM me and I'll handle these matters privately. There have been 46 views to this thread so far; so, InactionMan is clearly not the only person interested.

paul

drewprops

I think it was a great suggestion. When we signed up for these forums (before and after the Great Blackout) we agreed to the posting guidelines as part of our FREE membership. I believe that we are all ladies and gentlemen here and can live up to our word.

ast3r3x

I agree sometimes it's too eye catching to the nice clean greys. Then again I'd rather rid the pages of the banners before the sigs, but gotta pay the bills somehow I guess

akumulator

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Originally posted by ast3r3x

I agree sometimes it's too eye catching to the nice clean greys. Then again I'd rather rid the pages of the banners before the sigs, but gotta pay the bills somehow I guess

But it's Shatner!!!













I haven't noticed anyone's signature that bothered me.... \

merovingian

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Originally posted by ast3r3x

Then again I'd rather rid the pages of the banners before the sigs, but gotta pay the bills somehow I guess

Yes, agreed. I don't remember them always being there, but I could be wrong.



They ruin the cleanliness of the site, especially when the Google ones up the top show:



Error 502 - Connection to remote site failed



And when the banners just dn't quit flashing colours at me. I mean, how many people really click these ads? m. \

luca

I changed my sig to three lines and black text instead of blue because of this thread. However, I don't like the light grey sigs - they are too difficult to read on a slightly lighter grey background. That's why I chose black for mine.

ghost_user_name

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Originally posted by Luca Rescigno

However, I don't like the light grey sigs - they are too difficult to read on a slightly lighter grey background.

That's the whole point, though!



We have such heavy restrictions of signatures because they're not supposed to stand out. Signatures should always take a back seat to the posts themselves. Reducing the size, muting the color, and denying the IMG tag are all excellent ways of accomplishing this.



I remember that I received many compliments and thanks for doing so when I first implemented the smaller, grey signatures as default. The new settings made it much easier to read post after post because it was a far lesser distraction between them.



You really have to ask yourself one question when forming your signature: Am I posting so people will read the content of my posts or the content of my signature?

bauman

What signatures? What Ads?

luca

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Originally posted by Brad

You really have to ask yourself one question when forming your signature: Am I posting so people will read the content of my posts or the content of my signature?

I see your point, still, I don't care if people read my sig or not. It's just nice if they're at least ABLE to read it if they want to.



Plus, with that big ol' line there, I don't think it would be exactly easy for someone to get confused And my sig isn't just a penis-measuring contest by showing off my hardware (which isn't all that impressive anyway). So I don't care to call attention to it. I just don't call attention away from it either.