Signatures...

[Vex Xiang 0]

First off, thanks for limiting signatures! I think signatures are great, but sometimes they can get way too long...and when they include huge images, they can take up more space than the post itself :P

 

Some boards have the ability to show the signature only on the first post of the shown page, so it isn't repeated as the poster makes new posts down the page. Would that be possible here?

[Dumbass 0]

What some forums do is they allow the signature for the first post by a person in that topic but then the sig is removed for all subsequent posts by that person in that topic.

[Vex Xiang 0]

Or that :P

 

What about putting a character limit? I know some boards do that also...literally limit the characters.

 

And...maybe not allow images?

Edited September 17, 2004 by Vex Xiang

[Dumbass 0]

Or you could do something like this.

 

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Lieutenant Senior Grade Van Roy

Chief Engineer

IKC QoB~Lakota

Tuesday, 9 PM Pacific

Character Bio

 

"I am one of those people, Oh my God!" - Walter Koenig

 

It's Van Roy! V-A-N-(SPACE)-R-O-Y! Get it right, will you?

 

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Lieutenant Senior Grade Van Roy

Chief Engineer

IKC QoB~Lakota

Tuesday, 9 PM Pacific

Character Bio

 

"I am one of those people, Oh my God!" - Walter Koenig

 

It's Van Roy! V-A-N-(SPACE)-R-O-Y! Get it right, will you?

 

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Lieutenant Senior Grade Van Roy

Chief Engineer

IKC QoB~Lakota

Tuesday, 9 PM Pacific

Character Bio

 

"I am one of those people, Oh my God!" - Walter Koenig

 

It's Van Roy! V-A-N-(SPACE)-R-O-Y! Get it right, will you?

Edited September 17, 2004 by Dumbass

[Webmaster 20]

Guys.... we're not really wanting to police signatures. If I really wanted to, I could spend several hours coding changes to the board to limit the number of times a signature appears in a thread or limit the number of characters allowed in a signature, but I think it's a waste of my time honestly.

 

Right now, I'm in the process of cleaning up the main STSF.net website template (same general look... just a major cleanup of the code, optimized graphics, introduction of CSS, general bug fixes in some of the web based features, a new management area for the schedule, etc). I would rather continue working on that rather than trying to limit signatures

 

We're asking that YOU monitor yourself. We brought the issue up so that hopefully members would take it up on themselves to check they're signature occasionally to see if they think it might be getting a bit long. You'll notice we did not lay out any strict guidelines regarding this. Nothing along the lines of "you can't use more than 3 lines or 60px images" or the like.

 

Think of it as a reminder and a request to be respectful of those that have to scroll past your signature to keep it reasonable.

 

For those that get a little over zealous, we'll generally try to send you a reminder note to please shorten it... but we do reserve the right to change it ourselves if needed.

 

I hope this helps clarify things a bit. :P

[Cougar 0]

Kroells has a big signature.

[Dumbass 0]

Kroells has a big signature.

And since a signature comes at the end Kroells also has a big end. :P

 

(Sorry, just couldn't help myself)

[Cougar 0]

I think he shortened his now.

[Tovan 0]

NOOOOO! WE need a crazy engineer per ship!