Signatures

Is there an option to disable signatures?  If not, there should be an option to do so.  Frankly, I'm tired of seeing signatures that take up 1/3 of the page; it disrupts my train of thought when I'm reading a post.  Plus I don't really care what your favorite albums/artists are, if I did I would ask.

Edited by tanis573 - December 08 2007 at 03:56

tanis573 wrote: Is there an option to disable signatures?  If not, there should be an option to do so.  Frankly, I'm tired of seeing signatures that take up 1/3 of the page; it disrupts my train of thought when I'm reading a post.  Plus I don't really care what your favorite albums/artists are, if I did I would ask.

There's an option for a poster to not show his signature, when posting. So the choice belongs to the poster, not to the viewer.

(as exemplified, I chose not to "show signature")

Your last sentence has a bit hard tone, if you ask me.

I agree with Rico. There is no need to take that tone when asking for something. Though I can understand big signatures are a nuisance for those with a slow connection (I had one for years, so I know about the problem quite well), I also think the same concept could've been expressed a tad more politely.

tanis573 wrote: Is there an option to disable signatures?  If not, there should be an option to do so.  Frankly, I'm tired of seeing signatures that take up 1/3 of the page; it disrupts my train of thought when I'm reading a post.  Plus I don't really care what your favorite albums/artists are, if I did I would ask.

Abstrakt wrote: Might be seen as off-topic, but how did you get the weekly album charts in form of album covers?

http://lastfm.obsessive-media.de/weekly/12x1/MikeEnRegalia.jpg

Just replace my last.fm user name with yours ...

I'm showing my age, but I remember a day when e-mail and netnews etiquette suggested not having a signature more than three lines of ASCII characters. With larger bandwidth these days, those old etiquette rules have disappeared. Back in those days, they could cause a mainframe to crash.

Well nevertheless, I completely agree with the author of this thread. I hate having to scroll down and upp. Especially with all the needless spamming threads we have ad "just for fun" where people post 1 word and a signature that covers 300 pixels worth. I know I have a permission to not go there, which I take advantage of.

But while not trying to be a police, it would all in my opinion be more good to the viewing experience of the people here, those people who are here to discuss something :P And personally, I'm really wary of joining a forum that has nothing to offer in a coherent sense, if you know what I mean. I'd rather see discussion that is interesting, but having to minesweep through a jungle of huge images, well... at least I might ask people who have huge lists, do you really need to show the 20 last albums played? Perhaps only 10? And then, all the images are resizable and still understandable if smaller, so why keep them so huge? So that people would notice them? I don't think that ever was the general point of signatures. At least if you look at the very meaning of the word. Just my 2 cents here.

Erm, I'm really surprised that there is no option to disable signatures the for those who don't like them. This is like a mandatory feature in every forum software since it actually saves bandwidth and the implementation is very simple. It's really no fun if you have to scroll past several huge images just to read a few one-liners. Often enough , you have trouble separating the actual post from the signature. So, if there's any chance you can add this feature please do so.

I'm angry about something and I'm posting in a hateful manner!!!!!!!! /OP

Jeez, it's just an internet forum, it's not like its real life. Calm down tiger.


Edited by Deathrabbit - May 15 2008 at 03:33

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