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Signatures Enabled for Everyone

Discussion in 'Sorcerous Sundries' started by Taluntain, Dec 17, 2007.

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  1. Barmy Army

    Barmy Army Simple mind, simple pleasures... Adored Veteran

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    Remove all ads!
    So first you're saying that sigs aren't good, and are a bad idea, then you're saying they're a perk? Make your mind up mate!
     
    Barmy Army, Dec 18, 2007
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  2. Takara

    Takara My goodness! I see turnips everywhere

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    Read my first post again. I said other than a SPS perk it was a bad idea. And Splunge... you only are trying to get more members so they can visit that thread where you link to you stripping. I'm sure their psyche's can't take it. ;)
     
    Takara, Dec 18, 2007
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  3. Barmy Army

    Barmy Army Simple mind, simple pleasures... Adored Veteran

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    Which is exactly what I said. You've just shot yourself in the foot.

    All I want to know is when I can post some disgusting and scandalous porn at the bottom of my posts! :D
     
    Barmy Army, Dec 18, 2007
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  4. Dalveen

    Dalveen Rimmer gone Bald Veteran

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    BA, no, you're reading it wrong. He says sigs for normal members, like yourself, are a bad idea, but a good idea for SPS members. I suggest you take that smarmy "im right" attitude and invest in some reading lessons.
     
    Dalveen, Dec 19, 2007
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  5. Kitrax

    Kitrax Pantaloons are supposed to go where!?!?

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    That could be....but could it also be that you're acient mind just can't handle the complexities of making your own image for a sig? :p Old people these days.... :rolling:
     
    Kitrax, Dec 19, 2007
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  6. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    [​IMG] Ooook folks, enough with the sniping, please. This is supposed to be an addition that everyone is happy with, not something to argue over. Part of the SPS perks is also being able to test new things at SP first, and this was one such case. As far as signatures go, SPS account holders still have much more freedom in their creation, and considering how tame their usage has been thus far, the allowances for SPS account holders will likely be raised in the near future.

    Also, no worries on the SPS front. There's plenty more in store than just expanded signatures.
     
    Taluntain, Dec 19, 2007
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  7. Splunge

    Splunge Bhaal’s financial advisor Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Well, I'm sure I could figure it out, withered grey matter notwithstanding. I am accountant, after all. Saviours of the world, and all that there stuff.

    So no, it's something other than that.

    (And Tal, don't worry. It's all just in fun. :) )
     
    Splunge, Dec 19, 2007
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  8. Barmy Army

    Barmy Army Simple mind, simple pleasures... Adored Veteran

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    Which is what I said! Forget it. It's like banging my head against a brick wall, lol.
     
    Barmy Army, Dec 19, 2007
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  9. Aikanaro Gems: 31/31
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    Eww, signatures.

    Always liked the lack of signatures here - sigs are messy. I mean, I realise that we're not moving into the 200x300 banner kind of signatures, but I don't think it adds anything and just makes threads look messy.

    There are some sites where they work (well, honestly I can think of only one - usually they're just annoying), but I don't think this is one of them.
     
    Aikanaro, Dec 19, 2007
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  10. Harbourboy

    Harbourboy Take thy form from off my door! Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    I agree with those comments. The lack of silly signatures that are just the same message repeated endlessly throughout a forum was one of the things I really liked about BoM. I think signatures just take up space for no benefit. It appears I am in the minority but please don't ever let them get any bigger.

    Is there any way I turn off seeing everyone's signatures?
     
    Harbourboy, Dec 19, 2007
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  11. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    [​IMG]
    I've posted this in the original signature thread linked in the first post. As you can see, it takes about 2 seconds to remove all the signatures from your view, so there's really no need to lament their appearance here. If you don't like them, just turn them off. It doesn't get any easier than that.

    I'm not a big fan of signatures myself either, but when everyone has the option to turn them off completely if they like, I can't see any reason not to allow them.
     
    Taluntain, Dec 19, 2007
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  12. Takara

    Takara My goodness! I see turnips everywhere

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    It is great we can disable them. I must admit i'm tempted to, IF they get overly annoying. Thankfully you have put lots of restrictions on them to prevent it getting that bad. So far the sigs have just remained, mostly, small and just allow a bit of personality to show.
     
    Takara, Dec 19, 2007
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  13. Harbourboy

    Harbourboy Take thy form from off my door! Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    I still think signatures are silly, but I accept that I have the power to turn them off, so I have nothing really to complain about.
     
    Harbourboy, Dec 21, 2007
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  14. Morgoroth

    Morgoroth Just because I happen to have tentacles, it doesn'

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    As I said in the SPS forum I really don't see the point with signatures when we have the avatar descriptions which might as well be used as signatures and take much less space. However many seem to think otherwise and have taken them to use and as they don't overly disturb me (unless we get animated signatures or some banner types that disturb reading of the board or overly colorful stuff that make my eyes explode).
     
    Morgoroth, Dec 22, 2007
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  15. Dragon's Jewel Gems: 14/31
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    Even overly long text-based sigs can make my head hurt, proving that there's always too much of a good thing. However if they're kept at a minimum--as they are now--I think they're *great*.
     
    Dragon's Jewel, Dec 22, 2007
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  16. chevalier

    chevalier Knight of Everfull Chalice ★ SPS Account Holder Veteran

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    I don't get the thing with signatures anyway. :p
     
    chevalier, Dec 24, 2007
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    Ok, I'll say it.

    Thank you for allowing all users the choice to have/view signatures.

    I like my little plug on every post I make. ;)

    I also really like chevalier's signature, but it should be this instead:

    "Half of all people on the intardnet are lawyers."
     
    MajorTomSawyer, Dec 25, 2007
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  18. Splunge

    Splunge Bhaal’s financial advisor Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Well, I'll say it again. Generally, I don't like images in signatures.

    But I have to say that I like Elfen Lied's sig. :thumb:
     
    Splunge, Dec 28, 2007
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  19. Elfen Lied

    Elfen Lied The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to

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    Thanks, yours is pretty good too. I don't mind sigs with pics, so long as they aren't huge ones.

    I figured that image was rather fitting considering what I use this site for primarily. Baldur's Gate II.

    Also that phrase is what comes up in the header for the Index page of the forums, well the last part of the phrase anyway.

    And Minsc is probably my favourite character from that game, so yeh it worked out quite nicely.


    I did have to shrink the image a little, it was slightly too big.
     
    Elfen Lied, Dec 29, 2007
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  20. Enagonios Gems: 31/31
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    I like my signature just fine thanks ;)

    Those huuuge banners in the Final Fantasy sites I used to go for help for were horrible though :eek:
     
    Enagonios, Dec 30, 2007
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