Can we get that turned on? With some guidelines of course.
So you can bang your head in the signature too???
I’ve never been a fan of sig files in forums; really a short text one isn’t a problem, but it always turns into large images being included. The forum software doesn’t really support enforcing any guidelines and I don’t know that we want to start policing the situation as this forum becomes more and more popular.
Ditto - especially the part about images. If people could keep it down to 1 or 2 lines of text then it would be okay. But you know that some will put in a picture the size of Texas in their signatures.
. . . or the big screen pop-up image showing the current position of their plane!
I don’t like either one and turn them off when at all possible.
Is that possible? Thanks, Jan in Iowa
I think some consideration should be given to images in postings especially as the number increase.
D Bakers pic (yay Hobbes) represents a reasonable size and I think MooneyGuy(?) runs a pic of his plane but look at JetPhotos discussions (as one example) and see the number of overbold, garish images, banners, self publicity that I think detract from the text - perhaps there is nothing important in the text in the first place?
Is it worth putting some control/moderation on this?
Bah humbug I hear you cry! IN (UK)
You could change your forum software and not loose any members or posts to a much more stable one that has restrictions that you can limit signatures to just a few lines of text. simplemachines.org
By far the best forum software there is.
or you could just type your signature each time you post, not too hard
thanks,
Rich
see, easy to do
I’m sure we’re open to switching forum software if there is a compelling reason (this is probably not one), but switching to MySQL is not up for debate
Daniel Baker wrote:
I’ve never been a fan of sig files in forums; really a short text one isn’t a problem, but it always turns into large images being included. The forum software doesn’t really support enforcing any guidelines and I don’t know that we want to start policing the situation as this forum becomes more and more popular.
I have to add my 2 cents also. Some other discussion boards I have visited are just filled with pages of sigs. It gets annoying after a while. It’s the old give an inch and they’ll take a mile syndrome. Some people (read “most”) will abuse it. Please keep ours short and sweet. Thanks!
Ok…thanks for the opinions guys!