Well, it's come to this:

The signture images of many of the members here has gotten out of hand and we need to set some sort of dimensional size restriction on the images...

Preliminarily, I was thinking 500x200 pixels maximum.

Any suggestions/recommendations?

bmwracer wrote:

Well, it's come to this: The signture images of many of the members here has gotten out of hand and we need to set some sort of dimensional size restriction on the images... Preliminarily, I was thinking 500x200 pixels maximum. Any suggestions/recommendations?

Animation is the real killer, not so much the absolute size of the pic - I think...

thtl wrote:

Animation is the real killer, not so much the absolute size of the pic - I think...

Well, we have put in a 200KB size restriction... Which some have ignored and required wrist-slapping.

But if you've seen some of the sig pics, you'd understand: a number of them were like 300x600 pixels, so they were like popup ads or something... Really obnoxious.

That and the fact that nearly no one reads the posting guidelines makes for more mod work.

OMG..yesh, please ppl can you read when you upload your signature? There's a rule and no one care to read. They srsly like to use almost wallpaper sized sig?

Basically, I'm pretty tired of warning ppl to stop using oversize signature and tell them to change it.

oh yeah..I'm back again..hehehee..

thtl wrote:

Animation is the real killer, not so much the absolute size of the pic - I think...

Is a little bit of animation OK? I don't want to annoy people with my avatar. Should there be a frame number limit or something?

bmwracer wrote:

Well, we have put in a 200KB size restriction... Which some have ignored and required wrist-slapping. But if you've seen some of the sig pics, you'd understand: a number of them were like 300x600 pixels, so they were like popup ads or something... Really obnoxious. That and the fact that nearly no one reads the posting guidelines makes for more mod work.

Believe me I am p'ed off by a lot more than oversized signatures. I never could understand why some forum members don't bother to read, or follow, simple guidelines. With some of the newcomers not fluent in English, they are least have an excuse. Sometimes old timers stepped out of line too and that agitates me a lot more.

Enough with the ranting. Otsukaresamadeshita and keep up the good work.

Akakage wrote:

OMG..yesh, please ppl can you read when you upload your signature? There's a rule and no one care to read. They srsly like to use almost wallpaper sized sig? Basically, I'm pretty tired of warning ppl to stop using oversize signature and tell them to change it. oh yeah..I'm back again..hehehee..

Welcome back, b-chan...!

�� wrote:

Is a little bit of animation OK? I don't want to annoy people with my avatar.

It's fine by my book.

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Should there be a frame number limit or something?

Is that possible?

We do have that 200KB restriction, but its not implemented in the software or anything... It's just posted on the profile page.

Which apparently no one reads.

thtl wrote:

Sometimes old timers stepped out of line too and that agitates me a lot more.

PM me about this... I'm curious.

bmwracer wrote:

Is that possible?

Sure. When you create an animated GIF, the number of frames (or layers) is one of the things you have control over. I use the GIMP, which lets you easily add/delete layers. My pirate flag has 7 frames, timed to change every 150 milliseconds. Frame rate might also be a problem for some people, it can actually burn a fair amount of CPU if the frame rate is high (not to mention causing seizures )

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Which apparently no one reads.

That's got to be the single-most frequent complaint on this site ... I think I see it every day Perhaps something should be done to minimize this annoyance?

�� wrote:

That's got to be the single-most frequent complaint on this site ... I think I see it every day Perhaps something should be done to minimize this annoyance?

Well we did talk about deleting members the other day.

I know on ipb and vb they have options to disable avatars and signature areas, each user can specify if they want to see that stuff or not.

Anyone know if phpbb can do that?

SnowBlower wrote:

Anyone know if phpbb can do that?

I think the version of phpbb that runs at d-addicts allows you to turn off display of avatar/sigs. (Under "Profile Settings - Reading")

Uh, back to the original question:

Any suggestions on what max dimensions the signature image should be?

bmwracer wrote:

Uh, back to the original question: Any suggestions on what max dimensions the signature image should be?

as wide as your signature, and as tall as my current one, or taller...

within reason.

You're a lot of help.

bmwracer wrote:

Well, it's come to this: The signture images of many of the members here has gotten out of hand and we need to set some sort of dimensional size restriction on the images... Preliminarily, I was thinking 500x200 pixels maximum. Any suggestions/recommendations?

I've seen forums that implement a 500x150 pixels limit for sig pics, so I think that is the ideal size for sig pics. But 500x200 is also good.
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Saito_Hajime wrote:

I've seen forums that implement a 500x150 pixels limit for sig pics, so I think that is the ideal size for sig pics. But 500x200 is also good.

i can live with the width size, but you gotta make it as tall....
but not too tall....
maybe as tall as my Konkon sig...i can deal with that.

qilver wrote:

i can live with the width size, but you gotta make it as tall.... but not too tall.... maybe as tall as my Konkon sig...i can deal with that.

Gotta have a clear view of your j-girls, ne?
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Saito_Hajime wrote:

Gotta have a clear view of your j-girls, ne?

right on...