Why were Signatures "disabled"?

Ariana Of Damia

Ariana Of Damia

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2006

♥ Aurelio Furor ♥

Why were Signatures "disabled"? Just curious


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Caleb

Caleb

Nil nisi malis terrori.

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/Me

Because this forum has a heck of a hard time keeping up with just the typical user load, without stressing it out even further by adding in 25000 unique signatures being loaded with every post read.

That's my best guess, based on my personal experience with 2 minute post load times, white screen of DataBase errors, etc

Tryll

Tryll

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

Scotland

[DS]

A thread was closed yesterday with this exact same question:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s....php?t=3067144

Mod's response (removed the parts relating to that thread):

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lasareth
Signatures were disabled a little over a year ago for a number of reasons, most significantly so that the forums themselves would be able to run more efficiently. Certainly, that's not to say that if there's a significant portion of the board interested in their enabling, we would not dismiss the idea of enabling them, but when given the choice between a faster load and signatures, most users would prefer the faster load.

Ariana Of Damia

Ariana Of Damia

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2006

♥ Aurelio Furor ♥

Thanks Tryll, I did a search and nothing came up... so I asked.

Oh well


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Ariana Of Damia (Mo/Rt) ♥ Electra Of Damia (W/Mo) ♥ Lexa Of Damia (E/Mo)
Lily Of Damia (R/Mo) ♥ Mia Of Damia (Me/Mo) ♥ Zarina Of Damia (N/Mo)

quanzong

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Somewhere cold

The Followers of the Messiah

W/Me

Well I tried adding site feedback, giving them rating 7/10, because search is normally down, but google normally works, and sigs never on. But it never came through for some reason. And I told em a way to improve, you buy a new server motherboard, that has 6+ DIMM slots, and 6+ processor slots, and can have 360GB storage. With those DIMM slots you add 2GB to each, so you get 12GB RAM+, and processor you add 3GHz to each so you get 18GHz+, and with 360GB storage, that should last you for a long time, there are a couple of ones like this and better on www.newegg.com. But would cost them over 2K US dollars, but would drastically help.

I think if they bought that kind of motherboard, they would then allow signatures, unless they dont allow them, because people find some offensive.

Liu

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2006

Mainly, because no one wants to see you 1337 specs. and no one wants to see some by the book photoshopped image with your name glazed across it.
Nor links to seven pictures of every character you have.

Zephyr Jackson

Zephyr Jackson

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

Kansas

E/Mo

abuse ftl people making ginormous sigs, ugly sigs, offensive sigs etc...