NEW FORUM QUESTION: How large should signatures be?

[Chojin]

This is the first in a series of POLLS about how you think we should change the forums in the BIG HUGE REDESIGN COMING SOMETIME!

Today's question is: How large should signatures be? Should we even allow images?

Here are some reference pictures of how large these size options are:

Option 1: Text only, 2-3 lines maximum.
Text text text text text text text text text text
Text text text text text text text text text text
Text text text text text text text text text text

Option 2: Images allowed, 220 x 75 maximum. (Or, 4 lines of text)


Option 3: Images allowed, 450 x 80 maximum. (Or, 5 lines of text)


Option 4: Images allowed, 550 x 160 maximum. (Or, 10 lines of text)


Option 5: Images allowed, 650 x 200 maximum. (Or, 15 lines of text)

[Sacks]

Anything after 3 is horrendous.

[Chojin]

4 and 5 were based off of Rankeri and Darkvare, respectively.

[Sacks]

Looks more like DISRESPECT to viewers with low resolution to me!

[Chojin]

Oh, don't get me wrong, those people are retarded.

[Sacks]

Meeting adjourned.

[Mockery]

Originally Posted by Sacks

Anything after 3 is horrendous.

Yep, I gotta agree with you there. Anything beyond choice 3 is just overkill and will almost always take up way more space than what's actually being posted by the user. Personally, I think choice #2 is just right... not too big, not too small.

[Rongi]

I think it should be the first option.

A majority of picture sigs are obnoxiously gay.

[darkvare]

yea i say 3 would be ok i mean i have 1440X900 pixels resolution i can't complain

[GADZOOKS]

text only. Willie is the only person who put pride in his picture signature and he's in heaven now. Everyone else looks like something they would dream of having a bumper sticker of on their high school year book (metal militia, MarioRPG)

I wouldn't mind picture signatures if those kind of PERSONAL FAG BANNERS were dismissed (like MLE's Wax Roker).

[Sacks]

GADZOOKS HAVE YOU GOT BEEF WITH MY SIGNATURE?

[Atari Dragon]

from another forum

Q: Why can't I post with a signature?

A: I have disabled signatures on this forum because, honestly, I think they're annoying. They're an eyesore, they're pointless... Don't even get me started on signatures with pictures. Seriously, go search around for some random forum that allows huge signatures and just try and even read the thing. Woof. Trust me, you'll get used to not having them.

[RaNkeri]

Chojin, I'm flattered :o

Option 3 is ok for me though, resizing an image isn't that hard after all.

[Jixby Phillips]

I like option 5 and I think it should be the MINIMUM

hey guys, I'm new to the boards, thanks

[GADZOOKS]

Hey who is this Maverick? You some kind of message board comedian?

I don't like it

i love it

[Chojin]

Originally Posted by GADZOOKS

I wouldn't mind picture signatures if those kind of PERSONAL FAG BANNERS were dismissed (like MLE's Wax Roker).

I don't understand what you're saying here.

[GADZOOKS]

I mispoke. I meant to say MLE's signature was something I did NOT mind. I apologize for accidently besmirching your sister.

What I meant by PERSONAL FAG BANNERS are these very crude 1 minute examples:




Banners of fags proclaiming their love for the internet, videogames, or Family Guy

OR





Dorks who have banners that look like they have come from a SAW III promo.

These provide no worth. We already know your name. That's what usernames are for.

[Chojin]

To be fair, those are both totally awesome signatures.

Also, I wasn't defending MLE's honor, I just honestly didn't understand what you were trying to say.

[noob3]

I think a signature longer than mine is unacceptable!!!

[Sam]

I think Gadzooks should make signatures for everyone.

[Guitar Woman]

3, because that's pretty much what we've always done, and change is scary and makes me cry.

[Chojin]

I think turning off images would be great for us admins, cause there's no way for people to get around that. All of our various forum softwares are notoriously retarded about auto-rejecting signatures and typically when we remove peoples' sigs for being too big they just put it back up.

[MattJack]

I picked option 4 because I don't really care.

Option 3 should be the standard, but I suppose if you have something really special in mind then go for the gold.

[Atari Dragon]

i guess that text only because it would make the forum a little bit dialup friendly

[Fathom Zero]

It's not the size that irritates me, it's what the signature is.