Should a limited size picture be allowed in your sig?

[thephenom]

Alrite, some ppl wanted a pic on their signature, no names mentioned. So perhaps we cast our votes and see if a lot of people are interested.

In my opinion, the signature picture should be hosted through your own webserver/ftp server to save storage space on the 3GM server.

Yes, it would probably mean a lil more stress on the dial-up users, but I think most of the threads here have avatars to load, picture size up to 800X600 anyway. So having to load perhaps a few 100X100 megapixel pic worth about 5kb isn't THAT much more, is it?

So please, cast your vote and express your opinion.

[ch0g0nda]

Squaregamer.com's forums have a rule.

You may only post your sig once per page. I liked it as it allows you to use a sig but also keeps the thread from being choked with large pictures. As for bandwidth. The forums will load as fast as always. It's just the pictures that will lag behind.

[Weejamer]

Originally posted by thephenom
Alrite, some ppl wanted a pic on their signature, no names mentioned. So perhaps we cast our votes and see if a lot of people are interested.

In my opinion, the signature picture should be hosted through your own webserver/ftp server to save storage space on the 3GM server.

Yes, it would probably mean a lil more stress on the dial-up users, but I think most of the threads here have avatars to load, picture size up to 800X600 anyway. So having to load perhaps a few 100X100 megapixel pic worth about 5kb isn't THAT much more, is it?

So please, cast your vote and express your opinion.

i agree yet i don't care if i get it or not...

[thephenom]

Originally posted by ch0g0nda
Squaregamer.com's forums have a rule.

You may only post your sig once per page. I liked it as it allows you to use a sig but also keeps the thread from being choked with large pictures. As for bandwidth. The forums will load as fast as always. It's just the pictures that will lag behind.
How do you limit 1 signature per page? Right now, ur sig shows up in every post.

[SavesNFGDay]

I voted yeah, 'cause I dunno, I don't mind it really, although poor Egarrad, It'll kill his poor 233 Mhz machine...

[SNAFU]

I said yes, I wanna have a pic as a sig... looks cool... my sig is typical and boring...

[JCYC5]

Huh? You're not allowed?!

:Blah

[thephenom]

Originally posted by JCYC5
Huh? You're not allowed?!

:Blah
I think ur tiny icons are fine, we are talking about maybe a bigger picture than an icon, more like an avatar size.

[shortys31]

i would love to have pics in siggy ... it would make the pages look so much better it would jus be cool :)

[wazman]

Not something I'm interested in... Most of the forums that allow this, it's so hard to tell where the post stops and the sig begins. I don't come here to look at people's sigs - I come to discuss things, learn things, and have fun.

So I vote no.

[t00lb0x]

I would like to show my new sig I created, but i'm no good at photoshop so maybe I'll get someone to help me make mine :D

[KaNaDiAnIcEmAn]

it will add color like the madonion group


i suggest this


option to have picture option to have just text, you enter both in your profile and have option to see pictures and text, , pictures, or just text

[egarrard]

I agree with wazman. It trashes the place up too much. If you need it to feel like somebody, go get a life instead. :Mad

No.

[marko3xl3]

I voted no just because of the 56k users. I myself am using DSL and I sometimes have problems to load the babes thread.

I click on it, the text loads, I start reading and I keep losing the text because the picture pop in and push the whole text down which makes it almost impossible to read, which means I have to let it load all the way before reading.

If 56kers want to go to the babes thread I won't stop them from waiting but since I think that a 100x100 sig loading time for 56k is just about the same as 800x600 for DSL people (like me :Blah) then their text wouldn't be unreadable either till everything loads which is a pain in the ass.

One thing to avoid that is to set you posts per page lower which is another pain in the ass.

I think most of us want to have a lot of people they can talk/chat hang out with fun. I mean having longer load times just frustrates people after a while, trust me I had AOL 56k before (:lmao)

I think the little icons are fine as I wouldn't mind mine having them either (like <1k) and I even oppose the one-time per page sig thing...sucks!

Just my $1!

[ch0g0nda]

Originally posted by thephenom
How do you limit 1 signature per page? Right now, ur sig shows up in every post. There's a button on the reply page saying "Post my signature with this post."

Check it off and your pic shows up. Don't and it won't.

[t00lb0x]

So it takes manual work to do it? Can't be automated?

[marko3xl3]

Originally posted by t00lb0x
So it takes manual work to do it? Can't be automated?

Could be but it would have to be like ALWAYS the first post on a thread or something like that...I find it stupid :Blah

[ch0g0nda]

I dunno. How about an option that makes pics in sigs the option of the person who creates the thread?

If I made on I'd say "yes. I like to see what people can do with PS."

Someone else may say "I like a faster loading thread. I'll disable the option."

Either way these boards are a great place to be. However I've made countless dozen sigs since I've signed up here. I've never used a single one here for more than a minute or two. Anyone up late enough last night saw my Queen sig.

[Xilant]

It doesn't really bother me. But i'd prefer no sig. I was in another forum before and everyone had a 640x480 sig and it really took a lot of scrolling and most of them just had a few sentences written down. Sometimes it would take a few moments to load up.

I'm fine with my avatar. So i guess i'm voting no.

[ch0g0nda]

In the end I could really care less. Here or not I still post on forums that allow pics.

[thephenom]

I see we have some concerns for the 56k-ers......ya, it would probably load longer than before, but what about the avatar, that shows up in every single post, same with the 10 lines text-based sigs. As ch0g0nda suggested, the picture sig could be made so it only post once in every thread, which certainly is a hell lot less bandwidth than an avatar takes up, right?

[ch0g0nda]

The image (lol) in my sig is really no larger than my avatar.

Generally it should be the first image to finish loading... Right along with all the avatars.

Let's see what happens shall we?

[thephenom]

Originally posted by ch0g0nda
The image (lol) in my sig is really no larger than my avatar.

Generally it should be the first image to finish loading... Right along with all the avatars.

Let's see what happens shall we?
Don't push too hard now, it'll be disappointing to see you gettign restricted or banned from here.

I'm sure Rodney is paying some attention to this thread and hear how everybody feels. Just give it a lil more time. :thumb

[ch0g0nda]

Meh. If I get banned that just means the other forums I post in get more of my attention.

Doesn't really effect me too much.

[thephenom]

Originally posted by ch0g0nda
Meh. If I get banned that just means the other forums I post in get more of my attention.

Doesn't really effect me too much.
You'll certainly be missed around here, have you tried e-mailing Rodney to see what his take on it?

[ch0g0nda]

Originally posted by thephenom
You'll certainly be missed around here, have you tried e-mailing Rodney to see what his take on it? No point really.

Plus I already know his views on it.

[egarrard]

Originally posted by ch0g0nda
Meh. If I get banned that just means the other forums I post in get more of my attention.

Doesn't really effect me too much. So basically, you don't give a damn about us or these forums. So why are you here? :What the

[ch0g0nda]

Originally posted by egarrard
So basically, you don't give a damn about us or these forums. So why are you here? :What the When did I give the impression that I don't give a damn about these forums?

I post here more than I post anywhere else. The only message boards I've ever posted on this much was pojo's. It's long since gone from a proud place of intelligent discussion to a spam-a-thon race circuit.

I'm just saying. If I happen to get banned here then I'll just have to find somewhere else to post.

[JCYC5]

This is my only forums :D

[Maniacmous]

This is currently my main forum, though I moonlight giving memory assistance at Corsair's forums when the mood strikes me...used to blast through the messages there like I do here now. :Holy Crap

[JCYC5]

Well, I got Procooling for reading...

[Maniacmous]

Procooling is interesting sometimes, I'll admit that.

[JCYC5]

Great place to learn from...

[thephenom]

I gotta post while I can, school starting next week. :Nope

[ch0g0nda]

lol.. School tommorow for me.

9800 after school tommorow for me :devil

[thephenom]

Originally posted by ch0g0nda
lol.. School tommorow for me.

9800 after school tommorow for me :devil
:Sigh
I can't afford one, damn school tuition TOO expensive.....:Nope

[ch0g0nda]

I love only being in highschool.

[thephenom]

Originally posted by ch0g0nda
I love only being in highschool.
But university is a whole different life than high school. Despite the high cost, it's still FUN, except for the studying part.

[SNAFU]

I like the part where you get to choose your class times! I have a class every day from 11-12, and tues and thurs from 2-3... and that's it!

[thephenom]

Originally posted by SNAFU
I like the part where you get to choose your class times! I have a class every day from 11-12, and tues and thurs from 2-3... and that's it!
Yep, it could be an hassle too, for us, we have to choose all the courses and time for it. It's annoying trying to make your timetable so you don't have morning classes and not to have course conflicts.

But when they's settled, it's one hell of a schedule, I get Fridays off this semester.:thumb

[SNAFU]

Originally posted by thephenom
Yep, it could be an hassle too, for us, we have to choose all the courses and time for it. It's annoying trying to make your timetable so you don't have morning classes and not to have course conflicts.

But when they's settled, it's one hell of a schedule, I get Fridays off this semester.:thumb

Especially when one class you are trying to take is full and you already have the perfect schedule and you end up with a 3 hr gap between classes.

[thephenom]

Originally posted by SNAFU
Especially when one class you are trying to take is full and you already have the perfect schedule and you end up with a 3 hr gap between classes.
Yep, I sometimes don't mind that, 3 hrs is great for a workout, some b-ball, or go home for some vintage 3GM, even a nice lil nap works too. And if you have a gf, 3 hrs is PLENTY of time, but sadly I don't, so I'll stick with the options I have.

[SNAFU]

I have my own little office at school where I can post and chill! Unfortunately, it's a crappy dell.

[thephenom]

Originally posted by SNAFU
I have my own little office at school where I can post and chill! Unfortunately, it's a crappy dell.
I used to have that in High school.... haven't met the Computer staff in my university yet to be having such previllage.

[wazman]

I have an office...

Well, actually, I have a whole damn computer store all to myself...