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Should non-icon images be disabled from forum signatures?
Yes - I just want to read conversations, not get a load of annoying images breaking up the flow.
No - I want to express myself and need images to do it.
Dont care - I dont have an opinion one way or the other.

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stonefox wrote:I'm so tempted to bring back my ~AWESOME~ faces in addition to the year of the dog but that might just be too much awesome for people to handle.


People just wouldn't know what to do with themselves after seeing it.

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The dogs and awesome faces would be too much for me, I know that much.



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ShumaGorath wrote:
stonefox wrote:I'm so tempted to bring back my ~AWESOME~ faces in addition to the year of the dog but that might just be too much awesome for people to handle.


People just wouldn't know what to do with themselves after seeing it.


Well, in an ideal world they would go then take it as a sign to go outside instead of visiting a warhams forum, but then I'd be lacking people to reply to.

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if you take away people sigs then thell just find other ways to full your screen.....



















like this, as pointless as it seems it suits the purpose,

ok, now to stop being an asshat....

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There should be a greater restriction on sig image size. I voted yes to remove sig images, but there should be an option to turn them off, or small images should be able to stay.
I use adblock plus to block peoples sig images, such as shum, luna, basically anything that I think takes too much space. I don't want to look at them, so I don't. I also use this to block avatars that I don't care to look at (giant :awesome: smiley faces, gifs, etc)

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All interesting stuff. As mentioned in the OP, I dont have any plans to change things just yet, but seeing the large number of people against sig images makes me more tempted to do stuff. I think I'll let this poll run for a while, then start another based on options. I lean away from anything that requires mods to patrol sigs as that takes away from mod time elsewhere, so I prefer a purely technical solution and will give it some thought.

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I think if you could implement something that blocked images but not text that would be the perfect solution. It might be really difficult to implement though, I dunno.
(Dakka is one of the best sites I've seen for implementing this stuff quickly and without fuss. )

   
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@lego: given that visible sigs are already technically enforced, and the option exists to turn off sigs and avatars, perhaps the real issue is education.

As in: Go to Profile and check "NO" for "Show Signatures".

   
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One of the main problems with being able to turn off sigs is that anonymous users have to put up with them as they dont get that option. What to do about guest users (who make up about 80% of dakka's readership) is a key thing as happy guest users = good new posting users. Like I say, the next poll will be to see what the dakka community thinks is palatable, I'm not planning to do anything in particular as of right now, just seeing how the general dakka userbase feels about things.

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BrookM wrote:I seem to get a LOT of flak and comments on my current signature for some odd reason. .
You think? I know you know why too..


It's not a popular opinion but even signatures can be annoying and stupid and I'd rather not have to be reminded of my stupid comments later on just because someone happened to copy them and sig it.. lol


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two_heads_talking wrote:It's not a popular opinion but even signatures can be annoying and stupid and I'd rather not have to be reminded of my stupid comments later on just because someone happened to copy them and sig it.. lol


Are you kidding? That's the best part!

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I just want to mention that JHDD has a signature thats just as large as mine, and he uses no images at all.

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I've never had a problem with images when they're reasonable in any forum I've been on and gods know I've been on plenty. It strikes me that if there's a basic rule of 'no ridiculously' oversized signatures then anyone that still can't manage to just scroll a little more can take a tiny amount of effort to register and disable then. I mean really, it takes like 2 minutes.

'Sides I like my little daemon thingie.




 
   
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Maybe an emote for sarcasm might be in order, bunch of fricking idiots.



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legoburner wrote:One of the main problems with being able to turn off sigs is that anonymous users have to put up with them as they dont get that option. What to do about guest users (who make up about 80% of dakka's readership)

If they can't be bothered to fill in 3 fields to register, I'm not sure it matters.
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ShumaGorath wrote:I just want to mention that JHDD has a signature thats just as large as mine, and he uses no images at all.

That is actually untrue - on my screen, the last "AWESOME!" icon starts a second line, and is truncated, whereas mine is shown in toto, including the Dakka Code.

Also untrue in that I have at least 5 images in there - look little bit more closely and you might see them...

(FWIW, I like to think that I helped encourage more posters to list their armies in their sigs)

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I'm capable of ignoring humungous sigs all by myself, thanks.

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legoburner wrote:One of the main problems with being able to turn off sigs is that anonymous users have to put up with them as they dont get that option. What to do about guest users (who make up about 80% of dakka's readership) is a key thing as happy guest users = good new posting users. Like I say, the next poll will be to see what the dakka community thinks is palatable, I'm not planning to do anything in particular as of right now, just seeing how the general dakka userbase feels about things.


To be completely honest the reason I first joined these forums was so I could turn off the signatures. Few places have the level of annoyance found in many of the signatures here. That being said I find very few forums as interesting as this one when it comes to 40K content and geek-based soap operas. I don't mind the concept of signatures, but many people fill them not only with way too much, such that it dwarfs the content of their actual post, but moreso than not totally irrelevant/frivolous material. I think an ideal solution would be to implement the same sigblock feature found over at the WotC forums. [sblock][/sblock] You can make that forced on actual signatures and it would add another option for actual comments so spoilers could be conveniently boxed, as well as large images, etc. I'd find that preferable for other reasons too, like with BrookM. I disable signatures here as a rule, but everyone started commenting on his sig without ever saying what it was, so I finally had to go turn it off and then find a post he made, read it, then go turn and it back on. If I could've just clicked a button to see what everyone was making a big deal over I would've been far happier. This also conveniently helps all of the lurkers as it's a function they can use without joining, or even signing in for any user at a computer that isn't their home one.

I hope that idea helps, and so everyone knows what I'm talking about...

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Individuals can already control whether or not they see them, so I do not think banning them outright is necessary. On the other hand, some degree of regulation may be in order. I am sure no one wants to see a half-screen picture of Mr T that has `I WISH I WERE HALF AS AWESOME AS ELRIC!' scrolling across it at the bottom of all my posts. Then again, my assumption could be wrong!

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BrookM wrote:
karmaiko wrote:
BrookM wrote:I seem to get a LOT of flak and comments on my current signature for some odd reason. Well, the option to disable signatures is always nice, but not that needed in my opinion. The boards already prevent people from posting page stretching anus gapers in their sig-lines, so no real harm is done.


Really? You don't know?
It's just a sig? I don't hear people rag on about the guy who has n*gger, sp*c and that other bad word in his avatar picture.


First off, you don't need to bring me into this conversation.

If you have a problem with my avatar, you should do 1 of 3 things...
1) Contact a Mod and let THEM decide if it's inappropriate.
2) Contact me and possibly get educated
3) Follow the link in my sig and possibly get educated.

I find it horrible, yet suitable, that you failed to mention the word that the avatar is all about.
I guess you don't MIND that one.

You see, the statement is about how SOME words are considered bad (thus, the asterisks), yet others -which are just as hurtful- aren't and how th "R" word should be considered AS BAD as those others.

Now, to stay ON TOPIC...

I think that the ability to post images in a sig line is at least as important as the ability to post quotes. I enjoy seeing people's avatars, sig lines and sig images. They have been, both, enlightening and amusing.

If some people don't like them, they already have the ability to turn them off. Why stifle those who DO want them?

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Since you brought it up, what I don't get: why "slow"?

Why not "idiot", "simpleton", "imbecile", or getting to the heart of things: "stupid"?

Is it just because "slow" has become the favored (i.e. Politically Correct) euphemism for all of the above?

But if "slow" really is that offensive (and I don't think it is, as, IMO, one would have to go "FULL slow" (ref. _Tropic Thunder_) to draw that conclusion), then, I think I'm going to favor "short bus" as the new descriptor going forward, as an euphemism for the euphemism.

Although, for sheer economy of prose, perhaps "idiot" and/or "dumb" are the way to go.

Or maybe dress it up with the classic tags of "mentally deficient" or "intellectually subnormal". As excessively polysyllabic descriptors, they do have the further advantage of conveying additional haughtiness on the part of the user.



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I think the phrase you are looking for here is Neuroatypical thinking patterns.

At this point to continue talking about people being annoyed with pictures in sigs would be beating the dead horsey more deader.

You have a few options.

1. Enjoy them
2. Turn Them off

If in the case you have the half page long signature if you are a frequent enough poster someone will eventually chastise your expressionism and either you will be guilted into removing it or a mod will do that for you.

Thats my take on it at least.
   
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I guess I'd like to pipe up and say that I don't want to turn sigs off, because many people do post what armies they play, their dakka code, all that stuff that can actually be useful in providing context for a post (which, IMO is the whole point of a sig).

What I could do without are images that repetitive and similar in many ways to banner ads. You can write whatever you want in a sig, and I can ignore text. I can't ignore a large image, at least not completely.

This is purely personal preference, but I can say that if I could shut down sig pics, while keeping sig text I would do that in a hurry. I'm sympathetic to the argument of things being fun and expressive, but there's a flip side where after seeing the same picture 300 times it's not really fun nor is it telling me anything new about the person. At that point it's just more stuff to ignore.
   
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Wow i just saw something i said been quoted into a sig o_o

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BrookM wrote:Maybe an emote for sarcasm might be in order, bunch of fricking idiots.


Personal attacks, BrookM. They're not allowed here. Please refrain from doing so.

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Iorek wrote:
BrookM wrote:Maybe an emote for sarcasm might be in order, bunch of fricking idiots.


Personal attacks, BrookM. They're not allowed here. Please refrain from doing so.


Why the hell are you modding? Arent you supposed to be playing games or something?

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Iorek wrote:
BrookM wrote:Maybe an emote for sarcasm might be in order, bunch of fricking idiots.


Personal attacks, BrookM. They're not allowed here. Please refrain from doing so.


You mod that and not the guy with 3 racial slurs in his avatar who just indirectly threatened someone? God damn this forum has some awful mods. I mean this is just kind of mind blowing. Do you only act when someone PMs a complaint?


First off, you don't need to bring me into this conversation.


You were a part of the topic even if you weren't a part of the thread, being insulting to make a stand just makes you insulting. People won't understand the irony when you present it that way, you just end up being insulting. Its also pretty debatable wether those words even contain the same level of insult. slowed means something, it was repurposed to be an insult. No other word in bold present in your avatar had an original meaning. Well except F*g though to be honest I'm not sure how the original meaning has any relation to it's repurposed one.

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ShumaGorath wrote:I just want to mention that JHDD has a signature thats just as large as mine, and he uses no images at all.

Well, I'd like to just add that JHDD is not a problem for me since all his posts are ignored, thus his signature plus his text equal one line that lets me know that he's (thankfully) blocked.

I really actually like signatures. I think that it gives a good measure about where someone is coming from. Considering that I may be a newer member, and I haven't really figured out which members to accept at face value and which to take with a grain of salt (or which ones to ignore completely) I take a quick look at signatures to gauge what their online "professionalism." I just have a strong dislike for posts that are simple one liners and have the equivalent of 20 lines worth of GIANT PICTURE SIGNATURE.

I think a size cap would be a nice balance for both parties involved.

   
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Chrispy wrote:
ShumaGorath wrote:I just want to mention that JHDD has a signature thats just as large as mine, and he uses no images at all.
I just have a strong dislike for posts that are simple one liners and have the equivalent of 20 lines worth of GIANT PICTURE SIGNATURE.



None of that here!

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