Sig's getting out of hand?

[zanthor]

I know we are all proud of our teams, but could we possible make a community standard to not put 5 or 6 full banner add sized signature graphics in our sig's?

I mean seriously, if we all did that the site would be nothing but sigs... especially when Xzin posted.

[Wilbur]

I vote text only.

/me pats his own sig.

[Eteocles]

Plus those of us at work that aren't technically supposed to be trolling forums don't have to worry about hiding the banners from view ;)

[zanthor]

Plus those of us at work that aren't technically supposed to be trolling forums don't have to worry about hiding the banners from view ;)

It's not about hiding things, my excuse for trolling here is that I've found several applicable solutions to problems we have at work in these forums... Believe it or not LOTS of my gaming solutions transition directly to real world situations ;). (Manage a guild, manage a help desk...)

It's about signal to noise ratio... http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums2/viewtopic.php?t=3129 - that thread has 15 signatures in it... by two posters...

Anyhow, it's a moot point for me, right click-block images from... :). But to keep the community attractive to others it may be a good policy.

[Morganti]

I'd have to say.....get over it. But that's just me. I find it quite informative to see who plays what with what spec and level by glancing at their sigs (which mine supposedly auto-update by the way). If you dont want to use it then don't, but I don't see why it needs to be a rule that you can't.

We're a community of non-conformists....we don't do things the way everyone wants us to ;)

[Remote]

It doesn't bother me at all, but I prefer text for my own sig. Carry on.

[Slats]

I dont care for the '5x sig' sigs.

More so because the ones people choose are unattractive and look horrible.

I've been looking for a way to have a 'main' sig with 4 smaller or cut down ones that still show the same stats.

The fonts/colors poeple have chosen for there sigs clearly show the entire multiboxing community appears to be colourblind

[doc]

hey, It does't bother me either , however i do feel a little protective towards this forum and the people who usually post here.

I've been trolling and posting here for a while now and i do enjoy the fact that it is a mature (ish) space for like minded people to exchange information and to further this hobby we call Multi-Boxing..

I particularly appreciate the fact that it is nothing like the churlish WoW forums full of immature kids with their over the top colourful signatures..

So, on ballance i would say please leave the Graphic Sig out..

thx

[aetherg]

I don't mind small banners (like Slats), but please keep in mind that not everyone is running at 1920x1200. A fair number of laptops are still at 1024x768, which makes that sig take up literally the entire screen. There's no way for me to disable other peoples' sigs, so it's polite to keep it a bit smaller.

I'd suggest a one-line text list with links in it for each character, so those who want to know more about your characters can, and those who don't won't need to see it.

[Eteocles]

I wouldn't say no to graphic sigs but 5 is too many/too big(my window isn't maximized) and 5 takes up half the window...and yea they aren't that hot looking lol; maybe combine 'em or just put the Main/Lead char then put "x5" after the banner ;p

[sorrowharvester]

*sigh*

How about an option to turn them off for your own viewing?

But, I'll trim mine down or get rid of it.

*conforms to the masses* ;)

Edit: BTW Zanthor, something weird happened when I clicked on your sig the other day. It spam opened about bajillion tabs in IE and locked it up. I'm no longer able to use IE to visit this site. Firefox FTW ... lol

[Boylston]

WTB Maximizer for 5xSigs...

I think graphical sigs are fine as long as they are shrunk down to fit 5 into a single standard-sized pane, just like I do with my Shamans!

[Xzin]

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x45/Xzin-WoW/wastedspace.jpg

[pomo]

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x45/Xzin-WoW/wastedspace.jpg

not completely waste we learned that from 1-70 on 5 toons morgan could only muster up 50 tailoring points .

[marvein]

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x45/Xzin-WoW/wastedspace.jpg

not completely waste we learned that from 1-70 on 5 toons morgan could only muster up 50 tailoring points .

lol. In my defense I only did it to see how it would look. (ie started today and it will be ending today) As much as I like to have them even I dont like how freaking huge they are. I will be trying a few things personaly to make them less absurd in size because they take up too much room.

*edit* how about this?

*edit* ok i dont know why the url tag doesnt work...wtf

[kllrwlf]

How about an option to turn them off for your own viewing?

I also vote for this option.

[Vyndree]

Someone needs to make a sig-updater with 1 image and up to 5 sets of stats rather than 5 pictures and 5 seperate stats in 5 seperate images...


But don't look at me. I'm too busy ;)

[Monkofdoom]

marvein thats soooo much better :D

[marvein]

marvein thats soooo much better :D

Ya I like it a lot better too. unfortunately since I dont think you can put HTML into a sig I have to do it manually (otherwise I could force code image sizes/positions into it) :D

Thus it wont autoupdate as Armory stats change and I will have to remake the sig when I want it to be up to date. If HTML does work in sigs then I will fix it (and show others how to).

[Ellay]

Take this post as more constructive criticism, I don't want anyone to get upset :) but smaller sig's is always a good thing :P

[marvein]

Take this post as more constructive criticism, I don't want anyone to get upset :) but smaller sig's is always a good thing :P

does HTML code work in sigs?

[sorrowharvester]

Yeah, I agree, they ARE freakin' huge, lol

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Generally, I love graphical sigs as they add an element of flavor that can't be expressed in HTML. I do, however, agree that some of these "sig site" sigs are almost pointless, especially considering 80% of them don't even properly track the stats they display.

[Morganti]

Sigs removed. Have a nice day.

[marvein]

Sigs removed. Have a nice day.

when they said they didnt like big sigs they didnt mean to take it off the forum and stick it up yer butt so relax dude. If you want to use them you can, ellay just said that two posts up.

If HTML code works in sigs I will create another solution for this.

[torelorm]

General rule of thumb:

if
length(post) < height(sig)
then
your sig is too large
else
keep up the good posting
end if


I really am for the ability to remove sigs in the control panel. That solves a lot of problems because over 90% of the time sigs are useless when it comes to providing value.

[Remote]

Sigs removed. Have a nice day.
Your new sig amuses me ^_^

[marvein]

General rule of thumb:

if
length(post) < height(sig)
then
your sig is too large
else
keep up the good posting
end if


I really am for the ability to remove sigs in the control panel. That solves a lot of problems because over 90% of the time sigs are useless when it comes to providing value.
if
sigQuality < 0
then
write better sig
else
ignore complaints
end if

[Remote]

if
sigQuality < 0
then
write better sig
else
ignore complaints
end if
We are all *SUCH* nerds.

[marvein]

if
sigQuality < 0
then
write better sig
else
ignore complaints
end if
We are all *SUCH* nerds.

lol yes we are.

[opt]

i win pants down.
small sig with lots of info:)
and 10mins of gametime

[Pulphero]

I dont even know how to post a sig with a pic... but you can try an animated gif? low quality - but you can make it better if you had something more than 5 min and MS paint like I did...

http://pics.livejournal.com/pulphero/pic/00001edd

[sorrowharvester]

I dont even know how to post a sig with a pic... but you can try an animated gif? low quality - but you can make it better if you had something more than 5 min and MS paint like I did...

http://pics.livejournal.com/pulphero/pic/00001edd

I think it needs like .gif on the end to be imbedded?

What gif creation tool are you using, btw?

[Pulphero]

I just did a search for gif animator...

it was called unfreeze

http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/

simple program, make gifs drag and drop, press button and done

[Eteocles]

Livejournal deletes the extension of it's user pics so people don't use them as an image storing service like, well, forum sigs lol; gotta find some hosting elsewhere then try again

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Livejournal deletes the extension of it's user pics so people don't use them as an image storing service like, well, forum sigs lol; gotta find some hosting elsewhere then try againI can host it for you if you'd like.

[binkiebink]

big sig = eetz up meh bandwidth! i r run slow computator! weet slow connection

[Sam DeathWalker]

Humm wonder if I should show all 24 of my guys? Na ... I looks a lot better myself lol ...

[Remote]

Humm wonder if I should show all 24 of my guys? Na ... I looks a lot better myself lol ...
24...in what, EQ?

[keyclone]

how about all 98 of my toons from shadowbane... nah

5 is enough

:)

[Simulacra]

I'm not fond of bigsigs and have this amazing solution:

Firefox

1 - goto /tools/options/
2 - uncheck the "Load images automatically"
3 - Click OK

and you shall be free

Haven't looked at a solution for IE because it's lame.

[d0z3rr]

*Pets my sig*

[Eteocles]

*makes note to find & gank Milk for his sig* :twisted: