Signatures.
Healing Y O U
Why cant we have signatures on these forums?
Corwin_Andros
The admins decided against them due to bandwidth considerations I believe.
Dreamsmith
Actually, it wasn't the bandwidth, it was the load on the servers, due to vBulletin's fairly brain-damaged implementation of sigs.
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Healing Y O U
grr but many forums have signatures...
Dreamsmith
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Most users ever online was 1271, 04-29-2005 at 03:38 PM.
Other fora have signatures because other fora don't have to deal with the volume of traffic we do.
Healing Y O U
yes they do.... ive seen many...
Inde
And?
The forums load faster and are cleaner without sigs. That is all that matters.
Ramus
And Inde added the profile fields on the left for us, Character Name, etc. There is really no reason to have a signature, if you want a quote you can put it in your profile. If you want a picture, you can put it in your avatar or personal picture in your profile.
Principa Discordia
I think that text-only signatures wouldn't hurt. Who's with me?
Ramus
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Originally Posted by Principa Discordia
I think that text-only signatures wouldn't hurt. Who's with me?
Read what I said above.
 I don't think it would hurt, but i've kind of gotten used to not having to scroll through the endless signatures of quotes and lyrics and character information to get to the actual posts.
Dreamsmith
Actually, text only signatures would be every bit as bad. The problem is the additional queries to the SQL database, not additional URLs (which are loaded from other locations anyhow and thus put no stress on the server at all).
Healing Y O U
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Originally Posted by Dreamsmith
Actually, text only signatures would be every bit as bad. The problem is the additional queries to the SQL database, not additional URLs (which are loaded from other locations anyhow and thus put no stress on the server at all).
hey howcome you have a signature and we cant
 
EnDinG
Uh? He doesn't have any signature...
Dreamsmith
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Originally Posted by Healing Y O U
hey howcome you have a signature and we cant
Looking at my profile? I had a signature before they were disabled. Now, just like everyone else, I can't use the "Edit Signature" link on the User CP, so I can't remove my signature even if I wanted to.
EnDinG
Oh, that picture. Yea, we are trapped in the system. No wonder we are mods now...! =P
Healing Y O U
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Originally Posted by Dreamsmith
Looking at my profile? I had a signature before they were disabled. Now, just like everyone else, I can't use the "Edit Signature" link on the User CP, so I can't remove my signature even if I wanted to.
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Old Dood
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Originally Posted by Principa Discordia
I think that text-only signatures wouldn't hurt. Who's with me?
I am with ya. Thats all I wanted was a text only sig. What I find important about a signature is what is in the context of the words being used. Not some graphic. This is where you can leave something Funny, Witty, ect.
EnDinG
And the reason posted as to why followed her post...
Scaper-X
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Originally Posted by EnDinG
Oh, that picture. Yea, we are trapped in the system. No wonder we are mods now...!
*checks his own profile*
Huh. So mine's stuck in there as well. -- Scaper-X
Omega_2005
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From another forum I go onYou can only have a max of 4 lines or a 400x150pixel image with 2 lines of text. Otherwise it will be a violation on the forums Try doing that, but also implement sigs without Flash
Dreamsmith
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Try doing that, but also implement sigs without Flash
We already had rules on sig size, and didn't allow flash. Like the person who suggested the text-only sigs, you're missing the point. The problem with sigs is, they double the number of database lookups required to load a message. They were disabled when the traffic on our fora was threatening to choke the SQL server. They've been off ever since. Possibly they can come back on when we have more server capacity than we can imagine using, but considering the number of times I've seen "database error" white pages in the last month, I don't suspect that will be anytime soon.
Kuku Monk
Keep 'em off, they're an eyesore (just like my avatar
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