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03-27-2003, 07:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Cleveland Ohio | | | images in signatures?
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How come you cant use the img tags in a sig? Can a admin turn that on? please? i got a really cool sig that is bass related....  |
03-27-2003, 07:38 PM
|  | Holy Ghost filled Bass Player Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Heber Springs, Arkansas | | | The reason that img tags and html is disabled in signatures is because it eats up a tremendous amount of bandwidth, if you have a graphic in your signature on every one of your posts. |
03-27-2003, 08:48 PM
| | | | That and they are annoying as hell. Little things I don't mind so much, but big blocky pictures like that one bug the hell outta me.
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03-27-2003, 09:08 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Decatur, GA | | | Besides....
All you have to do is become a supporting member, and you can use a smaller version as your avatar... |
03-28-2003, 05:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Cleveland Ohio | | | Ok, kinda weird. I like sigs. And if its on a diffrent site i dont see how it takes up bandwith. Guess Ill just have to wait till i get some money to become a member. |
03-28-2003, 06:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: London, UK | | It doesn't take up bandwidth on the TB site but it does take up the bandwidth required to view on an individual machine.
If I look at a thread, my web browser has to open a connection to download the HTML and then open a further connection for every resource referred to. That is time-consuming enough when all the connections are with the same server and the resources are kept small in size... once you start drawing in resources from external sites you've also got to add time to establish the connection with those servers - more data to download and also the chance that anyone of those servers will be unavailable at the time of the request.
And what does that accomplish? Just that the end user can be subjected to whatever graphical signature someone else has chosen to use.
The effect may not be very noticeable if you're privileged to be on a fast, reliable connection, but for someone with less wonderful resources, it adds to the hassle of using the site and you're more likely to lose their potential contributions than to gain anything by allowing images in the signatures.
That's my tuppence worth, anyway 
Wulf |
03-29-2003, 03:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Adelaide, South Australia | | | Not only that, have you seen TC lately? Last time i was there they had the images in Sigs and for say a thread with 3 replies it takes ages to load and the images themselves are like a page wide.. *shakes head*
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03-29-2003, 08:36 AM
|  | Supporting Curmudgeon Moderator | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Suburban Chicago, IL | | | I *despise* images in sigs because I'm on a dialup.
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03-29-2003, 12:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: San Francisco, CA | | Quote: Originally posted by HeavyDuty
I *despise* images in sigs because I'm on a dialup. | Took the words out of my mouth.
And they're pointless. |
03-30-2003, 10:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: WPB, Florida | | | Images in signatures??!? We don't need to STEEENKIN images in signatures!!
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04-01-2003, 12:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | Better idea... allow us to have full length DivX videos.
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04-01-2003, 12:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: London, UK | | And what would you plan to do with full length DivX videos? My imagination started to take a look and then turned and fled, shrieking! 
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04-01-2003, 01:42 AM
| | | Quote: Originally posted by StupidMatt
Better idea... allow us to have full length DivX videos. | yeah!
how about allowing full length DivX movies but they have to be 2x2 resolution
j/k
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04-05-2003, 05:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland | | Quote: Originally posted by HeavyDuty
I *despise* images in sigs because I'm on a dialup. | For want of a better word, "word" |
04-06-2003, 09:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Decatur, GA | | Quote: Originally posted by StupidMatt
Better idea... allow us to have full length DivX videos. | |
04-06-2003, 10:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: London, UK | | If you want an expansive signature, then put in a link to your web page. It's not quite as 'in your face' as images (or streaming video  ) in your sig, but you've then got a technicolour palette for nailing your colours to the mast for anyone who follows it up.
That's why I put links in my signature, and I'm sure some of you will now not be able to resist clicking on them (just like if I told you it was impossible to lick your own elbow, half the people who read this thread would probably try it... )
Wulf |
04-11-2003, 02:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | What's with the people who attach images to every single post they make? Are they trying to do this "images in signature" thing? Wouldn't they eventually realize it doesn't work. 
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04-13-2003, 01:59 AM
| | | Quote: Originally posted by wulf
That's why I put links in my signature, and I'm sure some of you will now not be able to resist clicking on them (just like if I told you it was impossible to lick your own elbow, half the people who read this thread would probably try it... )
Wulf | That's absurd!
*licks elbow* 
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04-16-2003, 04:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: England, N.Yorks. | | Quote: Originally posted by merlin
Not only that, have you seen TC lately? Last time i was there they had the images in Sigs and for say a thread with 3 replies it takes ages to load and the images themselves are like a page wide.. *shakes head*
Merls | Yeah I know what you mean, the T*bcr*wler signitures are almost as stupid and halfwitted as most of members.
I totally aggree with the admins' choice on no signitures (if I could use paintshop I'd make a no signiture picture, but I cant so it's text only). |
04-16-2003, 04:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: England, N.Yorks. | | Quote: Originally posted by Wrong Robot
That's absurd!
*licks elbow*
| It's not! I saw a photo of a guy in a freinds FHM (male magasine) where the chosen one was photoed licking his own elbow, with his normal sized tongue, both intact/ | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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