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A request to all members, please read!
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:12 pm
by Myaj
Hi everybody.
I'd like to ask a favor, could everyone please take a look at your signature lines and make sure they are not very large? Both the text and photos?
We like to keep them around 6 lines or so, and some of the signatures we are seeing lately are starting to be 2-3 times the size of a standard post!
It just helps keep threads condensed and neat looking, instead of having someone's signature line filling up all the space.
Thank you in advance!
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:02 pm
by strike2
Is my sig, to large, I can resize if needed?
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:29 pm
by Pufferpunk
1/2 that size would be nice, thanks.
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:33 pm
by strike2
will do.
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:07 pm
by Steelgeek
I wish to point out mine was perfectly legal... when I wrote the rules
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:38 pm
by Myaj
Wasn't yours okay Steel Geek?
I'm more concerned about ones like this...
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10 gallon goldfish
20 gallon figure 8
30 gallon GSP
55 gallon reef
120 gallon fahaka
blah, blah
Blah blah, blah..
And so on and so forth.
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:50 pm
by GekkoGeck0
Hmm. Was mine acceptable? I edited it to remove the non-fishie family members after seeing this thread.
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:45 pm
by Phaedrus
I think we're basically just trying to avoid excessively long lists and extremely large images.
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 5:23 pm
by strike2
Thats as small as I am getting.
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:17 pm
by Phaedrus
That's much better! I may be able to help you shave some file size off as well without effecting image quality at all. I'll see what I can do when I get home.
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:55 pm
by Phaedrus
8k vs 28k
If you have an uncompressed original to start with it might be a bit better as well.
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:03 pm
by GekkoGeck0
Phaedrus wrote:I think we're basically just trying to avoid excessively long lists and extremely large images.
So I'm cool to add back my three scaley critters?
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:45 pm
by Myaj
It would be nice if they each didn't have a line for themselves? Maybe just put a comma in between? That's kind of where it gets obnoxious...
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:43 pm
by Myaj
Bumping this up and making it a sticky.
Please try to keep signature line images under 450x100 pixels or thereabouts, and avoid extremely large file sizes. This greatly helps our dial up users! Thank you!
Re: A request to all members, please read!
Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 12:32 pm
by Myaj
Hello again TPF members!
There have been a lot of people posting very large signature images lately.. so we have enabled a feature of the board that prevents signature images larger than 600x150px (which is still a bit larger than we'd really like to see). We were hoping to not have to do this, but its a heck of a lot easier than the staff trying to email or PM every member who posts too large of a signature line.
This is mainly to help our dial up users, but it also helps keep our pages looking neat and focused on the puffer discussion, not people's signatures.
For those of you who have existing larger signature images, please take a few minutes to scale down your image to be a bit more reasonable..