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It all started with a few folks objecting when they were told they couldn't have commercial advertisement in their sigs - then mushroomed into a great case of no I won't and you can't make me, followed by a rule to answer the question nobody answered.
I know I'm supposed to walk away on this...but...my sig line is not giant but neither is it compliant.
How many characters is the signature you wanted to use?
Here's what I wanted:
Gene Merritt - Ames, IA - BMWMOA#111610 - IBA#21886 - Webmeister, Bahnsturmers
"Hey you, with the helmet on. Go put gas in my bike." SRAB, June 25, 2005, West Salem, OH.
This is 244 characters, but it displays as 170 characters and it's only 3 lines long. So, I don't think it's obnoxious, or overly intrusive. And, users can toggle them off completely, although I've never found myself distracted by them...I know it's a .sig, so I mentally skip them anyway.
Actually, my original .sig was 5 lines long, and was nearly 400 characters, but that was probably a little excessive.
In summary, I don't have an issue with the 200 character limit, or the 3 line maximum, but I wish that the HTML code was excluded from the the character count, since the users never see it anyway.
it was never intended to be something that you were compliant with or not. it was a *guideline* that gave a general sense of an approach that would suit the interests of most members. three lines, four lines, 200 characters, 250... it really doesn't matter as long as it's not one big "hey look at me" that takes up a lot of page space and makes it difficult to scan the content.
it really is an issue of how much one wants to attract attention to themselves vs. be respectful of other members and accepted practices of legibility.
unfortunately, it got blown up into this big "orwellian" subversion of fundamental individual liberties.
this has, unfortunately, turned a non-issue into just one more example why our forum just ain't quite there. yet.
ian
Here's what I wanted:
Gene Merritt - Ames, IA - BMWMOA#111610 - IBA#21886 - Webmeister, Bahnsturmers
"Hey you, with the helmet on. Go put gas in my bike." SRAB, June 25, 2005, West Salem, OH.
This is 244 characters, but it displays as 170 characters and it's only 3 lines long. So, I don't think it's obnoxious, or overly intrusive. And, users can toggle them off completely, although I've never found myself distracted by them...I know it's a .sig, so I mentally skip them anyway.
Actually, my original .sig was 5 lines long, and was nearly 400 characters, but that was probably a little excessive.
In summary, I don't have an issue with the 200 character limit, or the 3 line maximum, but I wish that the HTML code was excluded from the the character count, since the users never see it anyway.
but I wish that the HTML code was excluded from the the character count, since the users never see it anyway.
What happened to the Signature guidelines? I had a nice four-line signature, and all I wanted to do was update an embedded URL and I was forced to reduce it to one line to meet the 200 character maximum.
Are the storage requirements so steep that we need a 200 character maximum, especially if that count must include the embedded URL code?
I should have just kept my grandfathered signature, instead of updating it. Phooey.
Good synopsis Paul. The "you can't make me" part is still true.
Actually that is not true.
Just pointing out that your statement that "they can't make me", is untrue. They can and in my case did.
Wow this is it, this is where we have come to, talking about Sig lines on a forum???
Personally, I think giant sigs are just plain tacky. MHO. YMMV.
Personally...I like em, gives me some indication what the person is like before i ever meet em.
Mostly boils down to a power play. IMO
I don't believe we did. No one, that I know of, directly edited your signature. You may, however, have attempted to edit it yourself and then run into the new restrictions.