Please keep your forum signatures toned down

[Xeevis]

I'm sure many of you have noticed we have here this nice feature Firefall and many other forums have disabled > Signatures. Content appended to your every post. They have no rules as of now, you can place there text, links, images whatever you want.

However and I'd like to stress this out, If all members here know how to utilize this feature properly without being disruptive, maybe we can keep this feature enabled. But if it's abused, used for marketing purposes and inappropriate large content that is distracting and disrupting to conversation, you can be sure it will be eventually disabled, permanently.

For example: If you have information about yourself, please weight if it's worth having it appended to every single post of yours.
What you can do instead: Post info about yourself in the about box, you can then put just a link inside signature to your about page, like > about me

I don't want to write down rules or anything (and I'm not in the position to do so), just appeal to your common sense when making your signature. Ask yourself, if I have 5 posts on a single page, isn't my repeating signature getting in the way of important content?

Thank you o/

 

[DARKB1KE]

Test.

 

[Earth_Soldier]

Common sense FTW!

 

[Anrothan]

I approve!

 

[PlzBanMe]

I kept mine simple. Don't worry.

 

[ObsoleteVodka]

I don't mind signatures but i agree that, if unregulated they can get out of control. They should allow just a few pixels or characters, keep it minimalist.

 

[DarkCisum]

I generally like when people can provide some info in signatures, but blinking gifs, unappropriate or humongous images are just too much for me. Anyone else who gets bothered can disable signatures as well.

 

[0V3RKILL]

I don't have a signature cause I aint as sexy as you people are

 

[phoenix]

But how else will people know that I'm a shitposter?

 

[Rocket]

This should be the default setting.

EDIT: Though removing sigs entirely would be better.

 

[NitroMidgets]

I don't need no stinking avatar or signature.
That request won't be a problem.

 

[Ammara]

Signatures in fact make forums more attractive. It is kinda addicting to see which sorts of art people apply every now and then; promoting the will to read each and every post in my opinion.

As long as forum users have the option to enable/disable signatures, they are not a problem. Although having them disabled by default may reduce discomfort to some.

 

[taiiat]

just instill rules to force people to have ones that are not ridiculous. maximum number of lines, maximum number of pictures, maximum number of URL's, Et Cetera.

do Spoilers work in Signatures? probably, right? people that are competent enough to moderate themselves could put their giant spam stuff inside a Spoiler.


i like my Signature on every Forum, and i'll be pretty disappointed if people that have no self control because they grew up under a rock will ruin a pretty useful feature because well, they have no self control.

 

[Kouyioue]

Yeah it gets tiring seeing signatures take up like six times the absurd standard. But I still like sigs. The other thing I hate is when the separator bar between the post and the sig isn't visible enough so you end up reading the sig accidentally if you're just skimming things :/

 

[Silv3r Shadow]

Forum signatures annoy me the most when it's a large image or a gif.
They take up way too much space.

Also +1 OP

 

[Torgue_Joey]

Is min ok? Someone on discord pointed me out that mine was a tad to big, so I reduced the vertical size by half.

And yes, i planned to change it after a while (i don't approve every *bleep* xD )

Ps: this thread should be a sticky

 

[NitroMidgets]

Torgue_Joey now has a midget Mr Torgue. I approve of the midgetizing of Mr Torgue.

 

[TankHunter678]

Torgue_Joey now has a midget Mr Torgue. I approve of the midgetizing of Mr Torgue.

That is because everyone knows the midgetizing of Mr Torgue only results in larger explosions due to the compression of the explosive Torgue Element.

 

[Sandsnake]

Look, I don't have a sig....

 

[Grummz]

I've updated signatures to limit how much can be written, linked and posted.