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Should signatures be allowed to be longer? Currently there is a 100 character limit.

Keep the limit at 100.
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45%
Allow up to 200.
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30%
Allow up to 300.
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25%
 
Total votes : 40

Should signatures be longer?

Postby Jikanta » Tue Apr 22, 2003 12:22 pm

What do you think?
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Postby Salsa con Queso » Tue Apr 22, 2003 3:28 pm

I think all of Owens posts look nekkid with the short sigs. PLEASE, let him put some clothes on!
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Postby Ivan Rockbreaker » Tue Apr 22, 2003 11:44 pm

LONG SIGS!!! WHOOO!!! WHOOO!!! WHOOO!!!
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Postby Thorondor » Tue Apr 22, 2003 11:45 pm

I would think either leave it at 100 or boost it up to 200 for people w/ lots of titles...I think 300 would be too much though.

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Postby Enoch » Thu Apr 24, 2003 8:07 pm

I went for 100 just to keep Shatterhaze from putting his name and title in there. Of course then, you could probably do that with only 200 or 300 too
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Postby Owen » Thu Apr 24, 2003 10:25 pm

I think 200 would be really nice..... :devil:
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Postby Ralimar » Fri Apr 25, 2003 2:20 am

I voted for 300, because I don't really care if people want to babble in their sig lines... but can you make it so they can't have big fonts in their signature?
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Postby Raban » Fri Apr 25, 2003 8:32 am

I just thought that I would point out that in the character count it will count spaces as well.

In addition, depending on when the code does it's counting a carrigage return or a new line can be from two to four characters sometimes five, depending on how the code is written.

So if you have many cariage returns and spaces or tabs in your sig it will severely mess up the character count.
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Postby BigBadger » Fri Apr 25, 2003 3:52 pm

100 is more than enough

Most people's sigs are longer then their freakin posts.
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Postby Ohtar i' Astald » Fri Apr 25, 2003 6:20 pm

They should be 200. I couldn't fit my name and one quote.
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Postby Jikanta » Sun Apr 27, 2003 2:36 pm

Ok, since over half the people voted they want more than 100 characters, but less than a quarter voted they want more than 200 characters, I am gonna allow up to 200 characters in a signature file. Not enough people voted for 300, so I think this is a good compromise between people who want short sigs and people who want long ones.

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Postby Poeir » Sun Apr 27, 2003 4:20 pm

I don't suppose there's already a way, or a way to arrange for there to be a way, to allow people to set their sig length max, or just squelch sigs?
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Postby Jikanta » Sun Apr 27, 2003 5:45 pm

what?
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Postby Poeir » Sun Apr 27, 2003 6:35 pm

Wow, was that phrased terribly.

What I meant to ask is:
1) Is there a way to allow individual users to set the maximum viewed length of people's signatures, similar to the way that the Search can be set to have a maximum return length?
2) If not, is there a way that that can be implemented?

The answer to the first question is no, as far as I can tell.
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Postby Jikanta » Sun Apr 27, 2003 6:51 pm

Nope.
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Postby Ora » Sun Apr 27, 2003 8:25 pm

I agree with Badger. A sig line shouldn't be longer than a post. It's annoying, to say the least.
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Postby V-Hil » Mon Apr 28, 2003 5:47 pm

I agree... If people really want to see titles, they can click on a link like Ohtar has for his sig line. I frequently read this board, but rarely post. The long titles are very annoying and a lot of scrolling (so I'm lazy). I mean, who really cares if I have a **** of titles and what do I care of everyone elses. 100 should be sufficient for a name and a title. Be witty with 100 characters...

Or type it out everytime you finish a post. Then, you can put all of your titles on there.
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Postby Sir Cairbre » Mon Apr 28, 2003 5:53 pm

Ora wrote:I agree with Badger. A sig line shouldn't be longer than a post. It's annoying, to say the least.


Should we make min. number of characters in a post?
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Postby Ora » Mon Apr 28, 2003 8:29 pm

Nah. I don't think it's necessary to set minimum characters for posts. Sometimes posts only require one word answers, such as "Nay" or "Yay".
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Postby Jikanta » Tue Apr 29, 2003 6:23 am

Man you guys * a lot.
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Postby Ora » Tue Apr 29, 2003 8:59 pm

We've succeeded! It is our job to * and drive you to the brink, Sir J! We can all sleep more soundly knowing that we've made Jikanta * about our *! LOL
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Postby Poeir » Tue Apr 29, 2003 9:08 pm

That's some fine work, Ora.
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