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I would think that 300 is a bit narrow - you could stand to allow a "full-width" sigs 750 px wide.

Anung Un Rama wrote:My vote goes to 5; I think 6 goes too far.
If I would have a picture in my sig, I would prefer using a low, but longer pic, something like Le Grognard has. It's a nice pic, which clearly shows which army he plays, I can see a lot, but it's not too big.

QFT.
#6 wouldn't bother me if it was larger (about 4x), but it's a bit restrictive, IMO. Might as well set it to "none."

Eric

I just dont want to loose my deamon army.

And I thought having the choice to block them out if you wanted to would have been optimal.

Well, now that I've discovered you can just block images with Firefox, I officially do not care. I think I voted for 5, but I'm fine with whatever get's picked.

I went for five, but six would be preferable if it was wider, because surely the width doesn't matter?

Well right now I don't know what matters. There are, as far as I can see, no guidelines on signature content. The only restriction given to us by the staff is that they are no taller than 150 pixels total. And yet in this absence of clarification there is apparently a problem with people having unsuitable signatures.

I ask anyone who can provide me with an official answer: what does dakka consider suitable and unsuitable? Until we know, it seems somewhat unfair to remove them for breaking rules that don't exist.

The Dreadnote wrote:I ask anyone who can provide me with an official answer: what does dakka consider suitable and unsuitable? Until we know, it seems somewhat unfair to remove them for breaking rules that don't exist.

Right now it is anything that doesnt break the forum rules which includes being polite, spamming about other sites, etc. Often times we'll let things slide until there are complaints unless it is a very clear violation of the rules. This discussion topic is merely dealing with the level of distraction in a thread that large graphical signatures cause.

Righto, thanks for that.

Banners for me are a plus to any forum, they take you to nice hobby places... Personally I like the "standart" size for web banners ( about same size as buglands banner in my sig).

I have been to forums with huuuugeimages on sigs and avatars but I dont understand whats the fuss about this on dakka... since everything looks just fine here!

Voted 7.

I like Dreadnote's new banner. Would be shame if he couldn't use it anymore because it's too long. The height is just fine imo.


Same goes for NAVARRO's sig.

5 - I quite enjoy looking at them. If you have to 'opt in' then I would think many people would not bother. As for op 6 - if it automatically crops images wouldn't that mean that if someone added something too big part would get chopped off? That could get anoying for those looking, and yes it is the posters fault but it's not them looking at the image.

Had to change it due to an unrelated issue. Now, nerdrage aside...

Regarding option six, I think the proposed width is needlessly limiting. I would propose a width restriction of 500 pixels, as this (in my experience) is about the sort of size you'll find for banners across the internet.

Look at it this way - if I wanted to advertise one of the websites dakka itself advertises in the top right of every page, the proposed width restriction wouldn't allow it.

500x100 is small enough to be unobtrusive, and big enough to give people space to work with.
It'd let people like me have their mindless fun without impacting too much on other users, and it'd let people like Navarro show us all the hobby-related websites they want.

EDIT: As an example, mine is now 500x100.