Sunday, May 10, 2009

HUGE Siggys

Ok, ok, I know, we like to show of our gifs and other images we've created/had made for us.

But when is it enough?

With 3 or 4 images in one signature and after adding some text it creates a huge block of space on the screen.

Creating a rule saying that siggys can only be this big is kinda hard. There is a 3 image/text limit but theres no actual size limit.

So people!

Please judge for yourselves, don't make your siggys so big.

-Esplin
Posted by Esplin 9466 at Sunday, May 10, 2009

3 comments:

WildWeathel said...

I'm glad to have someone else broach the subject. Last time I brought it up, Richard decided to impose the character limit, and that's where we are now.

Personally, I think the character limit doesn't help, and don't really like the image-count limit. The problem isn't lots of text or lots of images. The problem is *tall* signatures, and even one image can make a sig too tall.

In text-only media, the standard is no more than six lines. I'd recommend the standard "no taller than six lines of standard forum text, when displayed on a decently wide screen," as a starting point for defining a signature policy.

Now, consider a signature that looks like this.

++++++++
++++++++ Couple of Lines
++++++++ of Text Here
++++++++

Creating one of these would require table tags, which are currently disabled, and which require *lots* of characters that count against the limit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes

A couple of userboxes will quickly exceed the 3-image limit many times over, even if the resulting signature is thin.

Or to sum things up, let's allow content-dense signatures as long as they're compact, and discourage content-light signatures that happen to be extensive. RAFians should have a reasonable amount of screen space and the tools to fill it as sparsely or densely as they can.

May 10, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Estelore said...

*raises hand with suggestion*
If RAFians have several siggy images that they can't bear to give up, why not make rotating signatures like Taiyoh?

Mind you, I still haven't figured it out myself, but I intend to do exactly that once I know how to make it work.

May 10, 2009 at 1:58 PM
goom said...

thank you, esplin.
use common sense. if your sig takes up way too much space, shrink it.

May 10, 2009 at 11:05 PM

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