Skate
newbie
Reged: 05/23/04
Posts: 39
Loc: Ohio, U.S.
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Just out of curiosity, why are signatures so small and why can we not post images?
Also, why is the avatar size so small. I have a tiny avatar, but it's something like 13000 bites, so I can't use it. How low are you guys on space and bandwidth? 
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AAnnAArchy
Gifted Procrastinator
Reged: 10/20/03
Posts: 643
Loc: Las Vegas
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You can't post images because spammers would cover this board with porn...and because no one wants to see the same banner sig over and over again with each post. We have 1200 gigs of bandwidth, but we don't want to see huge sigs or avatars. It makes the board look messy.
No offense to Christina Aguilera, but I don't want the board to look like this - http://www.xtinaxposed.com/Xtinaforum/viewtopic.php?t=17382
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Mudpuppy
member
Reged: 10/17/03
Posts: 102
Loc: Las Vegas, NV
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Yes, as AAnn said, we have a lot of bandwidth & space, but there's no need to use it all up. This board is about discussion, not about images and graphics and avatars and banners. There's a photo gallery for relevant images, and that should suffice. I can't think of any image remotely interesting enough to want to keep seeing it over and over and over again.
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Skate
newbie
Reged: 05/23/04
Posts: 39
Loc: Ohio, U.S.
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....There IS a reason that that is incorperated into boards. I've admined countless boards and have posted at many more, and not once did I find any complaints about the sigs. We have admins and mods here for a reason, if someone has something that doesn't need to be there it can be removed. Sigs are a matter of self expression, thats why they are called Signatures, it's people leaveing their personalized mark on posts.
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Mudpuppy
member
Reged: 10/17/03
Posts: 102
Loc: Las Vegas, NV
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You're welcome to have a text sig -- you can set it up in your profile -- but you can't have an image in your sig. It's our board (we bought the license for the board, we bought the license for the gallery, we pay for the hosting, etc.), so we've set it up to reflect our preferences. If you post often enough, you can express yourself through words. Images in sigs detract from the content of posts, and can make the board load slowly, which is why we made the decision to remove the image tags.
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Skate
newbie
Reged: 05/23/04
Posts: 39
Loc: Ohio, U.S.
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::shrug:: Your choice, but at least up the characters from 100, I have a nice little sig that reads:
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the knowledge that there is something more important than fear.
Because I thought it a cool quote to share with everyone without haveing to post it, but I can't put it in a sig because it's to long.
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Dazzle
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Reged: 04/02/04
Posts: 484
Loc: UK
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Quote:
AAnnAArchy said:
No offense to Christina Aguilera, but I don't want the board to look like this - http://www.xtinaxposed.com/Xtinaforum/viewtopic.php?t=17382
Urgh! I would go crazy if my forum ended up like that. 
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Skate
newbie
Reged: 05/23/04
Posts: 39
Loc: Ohio, U.S.
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::shrug:: I wouldn't I've been to plenty forums that looked like that. Trust me, you get used to it. If there is a pic there that you see a lot, you look over it.
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poia
The Modeleter
Reged: 01/25/04
Posts: 168
Loc: NJ
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I rather read the text...
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Skate
newbie
Reged: 05/23/04
Posts: 39
Loc: Ohio, U.S.
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You can have text in graphical sigs, it just has a picture to support it ^_^
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Trake
stranger
Reged: 01/30/05
Posts: 12
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Yeah, I'm an Administrator on two of my own boards, and a mod on 3 others, and I've never had a problem with somebody posting porngographic images. I think you guys are just being a little to paranoid.
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AAnnAArchy
Gifted Procrastinator
Reged: 10/20/03
Posts: 643
Loc: Las Vegas
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Porn isn't the only reason. I hate looking at huge banner sigs over and over again. The links to the Christina Aguilera board no longer work because they've gone to a membership only forum, but you can look at a variety of other boards to see examples. Besides, isn't it enough to allow urls in sigs so members can attempt to lure people away to their own boards on the exact same subject? 
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Trake
stranger
Reged: 01/30/05
Posts: 12
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I still think you people are just to behind when it comes to forums. Get away from Phbb and you'll feel differently about sigs and avatars.
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AAnnAArchy
Gifted Procrastinator
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Loc: Las Vegas
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Quote:
Trake said:
I still think you people are just to behind when it comes to forums. Get away from Phbb and you'll feel differently about sigs and avatars.
LOL. We're running UBBThreads...and I'll never feel differently about banner sigs.
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Sephia
Supreme Goddess
Reged: 11/28/03
Posts: 876
Loc: MA, USA
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I agree that endless sigs and pics get annoying after a while. Esecially when there's an interesting thread, I don't like having to look for the actual post, which is sometimes a lot smaller than a huge (but irrelevant) picture.
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Michelangelo
journeyman
Reged: 08/22/05
Posts: 66
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Yea.
I think you should let ppl put images in their sigs and see what comes up.
If you dont like it then stop it.
Plus,I expect most ppl like me would have sigs of things like the last supper and with something like the v shape highlighted in it.
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Dazzle
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Reged: 04/02/04
Posts: 484
Loc: UK
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I think more are interested in the text content and the dicussion than seeing someone's absolutely pointless artistic efforts at a cliched Grail. The core membership here is so small that I think they all agree on this.
Everyone else usually pops by, says something along the lines of i just red de venci coad n i fink it wiz grate!!! kewl!!!!!! and disappears.
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AAnnAArchy
Gifted Procrastinator
Reged: 10/20/03
Posts: 643
Loc: Las Vegas
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<<Plus,I expect most ppl like me would have sigs of things like the last supper and with something like the v shape highlighted in it. >>
But why would we want to see that over and over and over again? If we want to see that, we can look at the picture in the gallery.
And oh, I know what comes up when you let people have pictures in their sigs...and it's not pretty.
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Sephia
Supreme Goddess
Reged: 11/28/03
Posts: 876
Loc: MA, USA
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Quote:
Dazzle said:
i just red de venci coad n i fink it wiz grate!!! kewl!!!!!!
LOL.
it took me a bit to decipher that, though. Spelling seems to me to be a lost art.
As for sigs, I think they are fine. A short quote or phrase is enough.
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MsVetra
enthusiast
Reged: 09/29/05
Posts: 300
Loc: UK
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Quote:
Dazzle said:
I think more are interested in the text content and the dicussion than seeing someone's absolutely pointless artistic efforts at a cliched Grail. The core membership here is so small that I think they all agree on this.
Everyone else usually pops by, says something along the lines of i just red de venci coad n i fink it wiz grate!!! kewl!!!!!! and disappears.
Lol Dazzle, I know someone who talks EXACTLY like that! Too funny!!
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Remarkable
enthusiast
Reged: 09/30/05
Posts: 326
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Quote:
Everyone else usually pops by, says something along the lines of i just red de venci coad n i fink it wiz grate!!! kewl!!!!!! and disappears.
Strickly speakin, it shud bee "I fink it wuz gr8!!! kwl!!!!"
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MsVetra
enthusiast
Reged: 09/29/05
Posts: 300
Loc: UK
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And you should know, right? ;-)
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Remarkable
enthusiast
Reged: 09/30/05
Posts: 326
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I fink ya min - "u shud no, r8" innit?
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MsVetra
enthusiast
Reged: 09/29/05
Posts: 300
Loc: UK
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LOL! Exactly! I knew you wouldn't be able to resist that one ;-)
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Remarkable
enthusiast
Reged: 09/30/05
Posts: 326
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Fnxx!!
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Sephia
Supreme Goddess
Reged: 11/28/03
Posts: 876
Loc: MA, USA
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augh! is 13375p34K an authorized language on this board?
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MsVetra
enthusiast
Reged: 09/29/05
Posts: 300
Loc: UK
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I don't know Sephia, you tell us - you're the boss!
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Remarkable
enthusiast
Reged: 09/30/05
Posts: 326
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OK! OK! I can see people here aren't hip to the new ways language is being used. Remember, languages are living things...
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MsVetra
enthusiast
Reged: 09/29/05
Posts: 300
Loc: UK
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Oh yes, a living thing and it can be hurt so let's treat it with a bit of TLC...
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Dazzle
addict
Reged: 04/02/04
Posts: 484
Loc: UK
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Quote:
Remarkable said:
Remember, languages are living things...
Parlez vous Linear A?
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Remarkable
enthusiast
Reged: 09/30/05
Posts: 326
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Errr.... I don't think anyone *speaks* Linear A...
I write in Linear A only exceptionally rarely.
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MsVetra
enthusiast
Reged: 09/29/05
Posts: 300
Loc: UK
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Linear A is a very interesting topic:
Crete was the cradle of the Minoan Civilization, which spanned roughly from 2000 BCE to 1200 BCE. In addition to incredible frescoes, indoor plumbing (!), the Minoans also developed the first written system of Europe.
The oldest example of writing in Crete is a kind of "hieroglyphic" (which means that the signs are picture-like) script. The media where the hieroglyphic inscriptions appeared are mostly clay sealstones.
The origin of the Cretan writing system lies in the extensive use of engraved sealstones, which depict physical objects, to (possibly) record quantities of these objects in soft clay. This forms a natural progression to a systematic writing system.
As time progresses hieroglyphic system became more stylized and more linear. Instead of impressing sealstones in soft clay, the glyphs are incised on the soft clay with a stylus. In addition, quantities are represented by numerals (not multiple impressions of the same sign). As time goes on, it appears that the linear hieroglyphic system evolved into Linear A.
Linear A has roughly 90 symbols, thus most likely a syllabary much like Linear B. However, Linear A has resisted all attempts at decipherment because its underlying language is still unknown and probably will remain obscure since it doesn't seem to relate to any other surviving language in Europe or Western Asia.
Linear B and Cypriot both exhibit considerable similarity to Linear A. Because of its time depth, Linear A appears to be the immediate ancestor to both of these writing systems.
http://www.ancientscripts.com/lineara.html
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Remarkable
enthusiast
Reged: 09/30/05
Posts: 326
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Quote:
MsVetra said:
Linear A is a very interesting topic:
I agree. It's a pity we don't have Linear A symbols on our keyboards, 'cos then we could type in it. But that's only a dream.
Of course, if they would only make this keyboard:
http://www.artlebedev.ru/portfolio/optimus/
then that dream could become a reality!
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Sephia
Supreme Goddess
Reged: 11/28/03
Posts: 876
Loc: MA, USA
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non, mais je parle français, un peu.
Actually, I am not the boss, Aanaarchy is.
(wow... anarchy as boss... now that is worth considering!)
Personally I vote no on 1337
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MsVetra
enthusiast
Reged: 09/29/05
Posts: 300
Loc: UK
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Excellent! If Aanaarchy is the boss, then maybe he can drop a line to Dan about the Louvre premiere...;-)
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AAnnAArchy
Gifted Procrastinator
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