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
addict
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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"OK, so what's the speed of dark?"S.W.
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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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