something to solve long sig headaches

the new feature is on.. wow now my posts seem too empty without sigs
 
I think that this is the wrong way to go about doing it. Limiting sigs somehow wither in imagesizes, text allotment, etc might be a good idea, but this takes alot of our personalities away...
 
I disagree. I identify the people who are posting by their sig. Right away I can tell who it is. Now I have to look at the name, and try and remember what their sig was.....
 
I love it. I like to see people's signatures, but when somebody makes more than one post on a page, it's a PITA to scroll through it again, when you've already seen it once.

Browsing the forums is much cleaner now...I don't see why everybody is getting all worked up over this.

People who are sponsored, your signature is still on the first post on every page. Somebody reading the thread WILL see it just as easily as before.
 
Gen1GT said:
I disagree. I identify the people who are posting by their sig. Right away I can tell who it is. Now I have to look at the name, and try and remember what their sig was.....
(werd)

i think its overwhelming vote that it should at least be a user option.
 
Signatures were supposed to be just that, signatures...not photo galleries of your car, not advertisements for vendors, not photos of naked women. People abused them.

When I started coming here the majority of the sigs were text and a few were images no larger than say 600x150 pixels. Now people have full size images of their rides, lists of mods that span my entire browser window, and all sorts of other crap. Then they make a one line comment on a thread and force you to scroll through all of that. I've made a few signatures for people also, so I'm not completely against them. But all of my sigs have had size restrictions to keep the flow of the forum thread uninterrupted.

Perhaps what users want is a personalized user-homepage on this site (kind of like car/sound domain pages) where other users can quickly access their mods, photos, and other information. This stuff doesn't belong at the bottom of every post but I agree that it should be accessable by users.
 
I disagree. People will ALWAYS put humoungous sigs even if I provide them all the means of the world to store that information otherwise.
 
Anyways, the option is there, in Control Panel -> Edit Options or CLICK HERE, the option is called "ALWAYS SHOW SIGNATURES" and by all means feel free to re-enable it if you like seeing sigs several times over.
 
enry said:
Anyways, the option is there, in Control Panel -> Edit Options or CLICK HERE, the option is called "ALWAYS SHOW SIGNATURES" and by all means feel free to re-enable it if you like seeing sigs several times over.
I don't even think it SHOULD be an option for users. The people with the humongous sigs are OF COURSE going to enable that option if it is available, cancelling out everything.

Most message boards, even car ones where some members rely on sponsorships, utilize this feature to make it cleaner, and easier to read. People are only looking at the short term....by having a cleaner site, more people will be attracted to it....making your advertising more effective! It looks SO much more professional without having people's signatures take up 2/3 of every screen.
 
Just a thought here, but it is easy as hell to view a person's sig. Click on his/her avatar and there it is.
 
+ friction said:
Just a thought here, but it is easy as hell to view a person's sig. Click on his/her avatar and there it is.
Exactly! And the user's sig is on EVERY page that the user posts on. I really don't see what the problem is.
 
It is a per user option. So if YOU enable it.. you see everyone's sigs, all the time. But everyone else still sees the sig only once, unless of course they enabled it too.
 
The light light gray is a bit hard to read.. can you maybe make it a bit darker and easier to see? Otherwise.. this is a great idea. :)
 
enry said:
It is a per user option. So if YOU enable it.. you see everyone's sigs, all the time. But everyone else still sees the sig only once, unless of course they enabled it too.
OHHHHHHH OK then.

I thought each user could choose whether or not to have their OWN signature always displayed.(hand)
 
I love the idea of one sig per user per page. User option or not. I'm glad you did this, enry, thank you!

If companies want so much attention as to be listed again and again in people's sigs, let them get a banner. I could care less who sponsors who, and the fact that xxx is sponsored by XXX is NOT going to make me want to buy their s***. If they have a quality product, and I want/need it, I'll buy it.
 
Again.. I love this new change.. but can you make the font size a bit bigger and maybe I bit of a darker color so it is easier to read..
just my 2 cents worth..
thanks. :)
 
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