Limiting Sigs: Now in effect! Read me!

[Hugo 59]

Added material:

See the rules on sigs here (http://forum.oc-forums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=58341)

Thanks,
Thelemac

I would like to see sigs limited to ten lines or less, if it is posible. Sigs are getting out of hand I have to scroll through pages just to get through some people's.

Anyone agree with me?

[William]

yes, please! I don't need to know the chipset of your southbridge and its temp!

[Thelemac]

I agree. Some specs are fine...like cpu/mobo/hsf, maybe some voltage or something. It's going to be in *every* post, though, so unless you're having such major problems with your computer that you have to post every component every single time you post, it's just an annoyance.

[Ridenow]

Lets see....

1 Forum Moderator
2
3 The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be 4blood: the person who is not willing to die for his liberty has 5already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to 6violate that person's liberty. Are you free?
7
8Andrew Ford
9
10 Folding@Home
11 Do Your Part and Help Science
12 http://www.overclockers.ws/folding
13
14 Intel Celeron 667@1ghz 1.8V
15 GoldenGate
16 AMD Duron 700@933 Fop-38


I don't care, I was just taking the oportunity to pick on William.

[asmodean]

I have to say that I agree with the topic... It's very annoying to have to scroll a full screen just get past someones signature!

[r0ckstarbob]

definately agree

*chuckles*

:D

[RedDeathDrinker]

I believe, that if asked nicely, Skip could put in another field (or replace a less-used one) in the user profile, to put your PC details in. A short line (like mine) I don't mind,or interesting quotes, but 15 lines (*cough*william) or massive letters (*cough* Jig-pu and Rockstarbob) are a teeny bit excessive.

Show some respect guys and gals. Select the smallest font, and give us back some forum space!

[r0ckstarbob]

ya know, if there was any way to do it, i'd certainly like to be able to use a pic for my sig instead of my LONG sig like i've got. although i certainly like my sig and all and believe i understand the reasoning behind it - at least for myself i know i could reduce my sig to less then 15 lines and be happy with it.

i mean, i guess my thoughts are, we're overclockers, we're proud of our accomplishments. it has a very steep (and sometimes $$ pricey) learning curve and every day we're OC'ing, we're pushing the technology curve a little bit, every time. we're also beating the economic curve a little bit (in theory). and yet there is nowhere except our sigs to show a little bit of that pride. if the original intention was to limit the size of the sigs by removing pics, well i think enough of us, (myself included unfortunately) already probably negated that. i don't think it's a matter of page-load-render times, due to the fact that we're using avatars, but that would be the only reason i could think of to eliminate pics from the sigs.

basically this is the long winded version of my saying

i want my old sig from my old forum. i miss it. it was nice and clean and small (ish) :(
http://www.speakeasy.org/~language/pictures/other2.jpg

at any rate, i will go through my own sig as soon as i post this and endeavor to make it smaller.

too bad there wasn't a way to let your sig be 2 columns side by side instead of just one.

ah well. maybe oneday.

[r0ckstarbob]

Originally posted by reddeathdrinker
I believe, that if asked nicely, Skip could put in another field (or replace a less-used one) in the user profile, to put your PC details in.[/SIZE]

wow, wouldn't that be slick? hey skip! any way we can put a field under our post count with some sort of way to display our stats in a uniform manner? you could even do it like club overclocker - to become a member you have to put all that information into their database when you register and then it shows up under your name so folks know what you have. it could be all uniform like

CPU= X(type)
OC'd @= X.XX
MOBO= X
RAM= X
CPU Temp= X / X
MOBO Temp = X / X
I/O Voltage= X
Vcore Volage= X
Multiplier= X
Vid Card= X
OC'd @ = X


i dunno. just a thought.

[JaY_III]

i also think it would be a good idea to limit them......
i think my sig may even be a little long.

[Thelemac]

The way I look at it, the sigs are good for showing who you are, just like the avatars. Something that you want to say all the time. Something that personifies you.

The fact that you're here shows that you love to overclock...but something like my sig has the pride of the overclocked system in it, and it doesn't really take up that much room. And I have plenty of space for all of my personalization. :)

Pride of overclock really only requires a cpu type, stock speed, oced speed, and maybe vcore, cooler or mobo (if it's particularly difficult or easy). That's enough to tell what kind of boundaries you overcame (volt mods and cooling limitations). Maybe some reference to anything extraordinary that you did (all in a tornado of a case...)

Things like sound cards, monitors and even temps (which are really far too variable to be good to list) are really not needed to show off. At least, not as far as I'm concerned.

[el]

I like reading what other have so that is why my sig is so long. I guess I should post more without my sig that way for non tech stuff you don't have to scroll thru the crap.

ps is it too long?

[William]

Originally posted by Ridenow
Lets see....

1 Forum Moderator
2
3 The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be 4blood: the person who is not willing to die for his liberty has 5already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to 6violate that person's liberty. Are you free?
7
8Andrew Ford
9
10 Folding@Home
11 Do Your Part and Help Science
12 http://www.overclockers.ws/folding
13
14 Intel Celeron 667@1ghz 1.8V
15 GoldenGate
16 AMD Duron 700@933 Fop-38


I don't care, I was just taking the oportunity to pick on William.


better? :D

[Amedeo602]

I like the idea of having stats under a picture, with small font. But what about people with multiple machines? Just pick one?

On the idea of limitation, I think 15 lines is plenty...I have a 21" monitor @ home in 1280*1024 and I can see most posts in 3 screens or less, but where I work they have 17" monitors with 1024*768 as max res and big fonts...certain sigs *cough*sky*cough* take up a screen or more and it's annoying as hell

[RedDeathDrinker]

I've no problems with peoples specs in their sig.....

just follow this guide, and use SMALL FONTS!

[size=1] Insert your sig here [/size ] <----remove the space after "size" works wonders!

[!-=sky=-!]

Originally posted by Amedeo602
certain sigs *cough*sky*cough* take up a screen or more and it's annoying as hell

lol
my sig isnt that bad....right?
oh well, it should be better now?

[Amedeo602]

Originally posted by !-=sky=-!


lol
my sig isnt that bad....right?
oh well, it should be better now?

heh, actually it's much better...but still kind of LONG

(but at least you aren't anal about changing the size, which is what i'm gonna go do right now as mine is a bit large as well)

[foxmulder]

Originally posted by reddeathdrinker
I believe, that if asked nicely, Skip could put in another field (or replace a less-used one) in the user profile, to put your PC details in. A short line (like mine) I don't mind,or interesting quotes, but 15 lines (*cough*william) or massive letters (*cough* Jig-pu and Rockstarbob) are a teeny bit excessive.

Show some respect guys and gals. Select the smallest font, and give us back some forum space!

I agree wholeheartedly

[Shadow ÒÓ]

ROFL William agreed but had a 16 line sig!

*falls over laughing*

[el]

I think skip already took care of this one!

user cp->edit options->show sigs-> turn it off!

[Crash893]

Originally posted by el
I think skip already took care of this one!

user cp->edit options->show sigs-> turn it off!


amen

if you dont like it turn it off


the only other thing is to allow people a link to a webpage with there stats

[William]

Originally posted by Shadow ÒÓ
ROFL William agreed but had a 16 line sig!

*falls over laughing*

it was shorter than some I was thinking of, but I cut a lot off. There.

[r0ckstarbob]

Originally posted by el
I think skip already took care of this one!

user cp->edit options->show sigs-> turn it off!

i believe sir you have hit "it" on the head

[dugans]

I agree with limiting sig length, although I understand why people like to list their successful overclocks: me too! I also like to list all my systems; but I have kept the details down- most of the time I think that it's superfluos data. I don't even LOOK at anything besides clockspeed!

I do understand that turning sigs off is an option, but I don't want to do that BECAUSE: Some sigs crack me up, some make me think, and others tell me specs: all info I do want.

But, if we can't limit length or get a second column, I guess I'll just deal with it!

NOTE: I am reducing the [size ] of mine now! (12 lines! Now if taht isn't the pot calling the kettle black!)

[nihili]

Hmmm, well I just went to try and set my sig to the smallest font size, but it's not obvious how to do it. I could probably poke around for a while and figure it out, but frankly I have other things to do.

Is there anyway to make the default font size for signatures smaller? THen people who want them bigger would have to intentionally increase them and we could all harangue them. :)

nihili

[Thelemac]

It's the same way you do it for messages...

[size=1]Your sig here[/size ] (Ignore space after /size...)

[eobard]

I'm in with this! Shorten away people! You don't need to hit the enter key after every single component listed in your system(s).

[Crash893]

why doesnt overclockers just get a angelfire page and give everyone onepage plain text no pictures to post there stats then let them put the url in there sig.

it would save a lot of space

people can still put whity remarks in there


bob:yack yack yack
MY STATS<----URL

[Ebola]

yes limit the sigs please. do you really need to write more than two lines. be creative and change things up every once inawhile too.

[skip]

Wish I could easily.

I will see what I can do.

[dugans]

Skip=Da Man!

All bow to Skip!

[oc jason]

I guess i am retared to the max 0 but how an where is the palce to chante font size and color. I have obviously looked over it

[Thelemac]

Originally posted by [OC] Jason
I guess i am retared to the max 0 but how an where is the palce to chante font size and color. I have obviously looked over it

You do it the same way that you do the size and color in regular messages:

<size=*>Type some stuff to be small here</size>
<color="colorname">Type some stuff to be colored here</color>

where the "<" is "[" and the ">" is "]"

[Über~PhLuBB]

I hope you guys don't think mine is too long. I already took 4 lines out... =\

[Crash893]

is there way to allocate a sertian amount of space on skips server for a sig url?

it would take up some space but probably less than all the sigs now.

[David]

Yes, I think that a sig should be to the point (is mine too long?). Perhaps a quote from somewhere and a BRIEF spec of your main rig.

[eobard]

Originally posted by penguinfreak
Yes, I think that a sig should be to the point (is mine too long?). Perhaps a quote from somewhere and a BRIEF spec of your main rig.

A little bit, I suggest removing a few line feeds in your setup description, like I've got in mine.

[r0ckstarbob]

aw to heck with it. yanked my system specs all together.

in my entire time here, nobodys cared or even asked about my system specs and it's never even come up in conversation. no biggie. i seem to do alot more theory running and talking about thermodynamic engineering more then anything anyhow.

ah well. so much for being interested in sig length now!

:)

see ya!

[RedDeathDrinker]

Originally posted by PhLuBB
I hope you guys don't think mine is too long. I already took 4 lines out... =\

That's cool. It's how they all should be.........

[Hugo 59]

Originally posted by skip
Wish I could easily.

I will see what I can do.

Hey thanks Skip. If its something that's to much trouble don't bother.

Maybe we could just point everyone with a long sig to this thread. Everyone has been really good about changing there sig or the font size.

Thanks guys.

[Gravity Man]

just shrunmk my sig, even though it wasn't too long to begin with, just because I hate long sigs.

[chaosdriven]

Perhaps this is not to bad... I have only tried to include information that I see many people posting queries about....

[dugans]

Just edited my sig again: the Sig editor is excellent!

Thanks Skip; don't know what you had to do to come up with it, but its a job well done!

[OnDborder]

I shrunk my sig, with the kind help from Reddeathdrinker.

In my opinion, I think it looks better.

[tbirdkiri]

but i cant edit my sig and its GONE!

[JigPu]

Originally posted by reddeathdrinker
I believe, that if asked nicely, Skip could put in another field (or replace a less-used one) in the user profile, to put your PC details in. A short line (like mine) I don't mind,or interesting quotes, but 15 lines (*cough*william) or massive letters (*cough* Jig-pu and Rockstarbob) are a teeny bit excessive.

Show some respect guys and gals. Select the smallest font, and give us back some forum space!
You know Red..... You should really get that cough looked at.....
It's changed now... Didn't go to size 1... It's just too small for my SETI advertising.....

JigPu (the shorter signitured) :D

[Sir-Epix]

Originally posted by Thelemac
The way I look at it, the sigs are good for showing who you are, just like the avatars. Something that you want to say all the time. Something that personifies you.

The fact that you're here shows that you love to overclock...but something like my sig has the pride of the overclocked system in it, and it doesn't really take up that much room. And I have plenty of space for all of my personalization. :)

Pride of overclock really only requires a cpu type, stock speed, oced speed, and maybe vcore, cooler or mobo (if it's particularly difficult or easy). That's enough to tell what kind of boundaries you overcame (volt mods and cooling limitations). Maybe some reference to anything extraordinary that you did (all in a tornado of a case...)

Things like sound cards, monitors and even temps (which are really far too variable to be good to list) are really not needed to show off. At least, not as far as I'm concerned.

Does this mean if you have a long sig. You have a big mouth. Just a thought. Personally I am split on this. I like some sigs that are long, but others are pointless. I really don't want to take either sides, therefore i abstain!

[r0ckstarbob]

Originally posted by JigPu

You know Red..... You should really get that cough looked at.....
It's changed now... Didn't go to size 1... It's just too small for my SETI advertising.....

JigPu (the shorter signitured) :D

hey JigPu - have i run into you over on the AMDmB forums? you look incredibly familiar and i know we've cross posted on each others threads here i think - i dunno. was just curious and was too lazy to PM this. :)

[jbell]

Originally posted by William
yes, please! I don't need to know the chipset of your southbridge and its temp!

LMAO!!!!

[LutaWicasa]

Originally posted by reddeathdrinker
I've no problems with peoples specs in their sig.....

just follow this guide, and use SMALL FONTS!

[size=1] Insert your sig here [/size ] <----remove the space after "size" works wonders!

Done and done :D
Actually......never thought about it:p

[rogerdugans]

<BUMP>

I have been noticing a lot of sigs getting verrrrrrrrrrrrrrry long again, so I found this old thread and thought I'd get it back up!

[eobard]

Originally posted by rogerdugans
<BUMP>

I have been noticing a lot of sigs getting verrrrrrrrrrrrrrry long again, so I found this old thread and thought I'd get it back up!

Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU!!!!

***edit: Skip is it possible to put a line limit on sigs???

***double edit: Ok, just back read the whole thread and realized it's been asked 1,000 times. I'm a dumbass. :rolleyes:

[RainMaQer]

Cool... glad this post was brought up... I was wondering how to resize my sig the other day... couldn't figure it out so I gave up... all better now:D

[It_The_Cow]

Everybody thank JigPu for this. You can use "& n b s p ;" (without quatiation marks and spaces) to add spaces in your signature. This can give you the two column effect. It'll look weird in the box, but it will work like it did in mine

[Über~PhLuBB]

*AHEM* Mr B, Tebore, adamatekh, CeltyMcBagpipes, Dissolved, Spike Spiegel, VashTheStampede, RangerJoe, GaDaLf, and ESPECIALLY hunter00! :rolleyes:

Remember people, there is no problem with putting 2 or more pieces of hardware on the SAME LINE. We don't need to see six different temperatures, each with their own line.

[Yodums]

I reduced my siggy..

Yodums

[Yodums]

Although I can't get it so the bullets go right under the first line and after the bullets there's 2 lines I want to reduce those 2 lines..

Yodums

[_Will_]

Just got rid of all my system specs. :)

[Yodums]

Originally posted by _Will_
Just got rid of all my system specs. :)

That is one bigass quote! :D

[DAGO]

A couple of dashes seperating each feature of your rigs will cut down considerably on the amount of space taken up by your sigs...:D

[Über~PhLuBB]

Alright. This has gotten way out of hand. Mods, we must act. I just saw a guy named -EternitY-. Do yourselves a favor, look at his sig, then pound your fists into a wall with anger, and post here below me.

Limit signatures to 15 lines. That's reasonable, and unless someone uses size 5 text, it won't annoy people. At the VERY LEAST, put it up to a vote, and advertise in every forum about the poll.

[rogerdugans]

I agree, except I'd prefer a limit of 10 lines.
[RANT MODE/on
Some sigs get way out of hand in my book, and I am almost ready to add every spec from all of my pcs and my network to my sig in protest. Afterwards of course, I would try hard to post after everyone with a long sig.

My sig would end up quite long by the way: 6 pcs, a handheld, router, hub, camera, scanner, 3 printers and two print servers.

I don't think I'll actually do this, but I am getting tempted! And I could make each post one or two words.
RANT MODE/off]

[Über~PhLuBB]

Originally posted by rogerdugans
I agree, except I'd prefer a limit of 10 lines.
[RANT MODE/on
Some sigs get way out of hand in my book, and I am almost ready to add every spec from all of my pcs and my network to my sig in protest. Afterwards of course, I would try hard to post after everyone with a long sig.

My sig would end up quite long by the way: 6 pcs, a handheld, router, hub, camera, scanner, 3 printers and two print servers.

I don't think I'll actually do this, but I am getting tempted! And I could make each post one or two words.
RANT MODE/off]

Well mine's 11, and I didn't want to change it again. =)

[Thelemac]

Originally posted by Über~PhLuBB
Alright. This has gotten way out of hand. Mods, we must act. I just saw a guy named -EternitY-. Do yourselves a favor, look at his sig, then pound your fists into a wall with anger, and post here below me.

Limit signatures to 15 lines. That's reasonable, and unless someone uses size 5 text, it won't annoy people. At the VERY LEAST, put it up to a vote, and advertise in every forum about the poll.

I had already PMed him, as I am others with gratutious siggage.

If they don't respond I'll probably end up taking it off and making them redo it.

[rogerdugans]

Thank you.:cool:

[Yodums]

PhLubb I came across that guy... I mentioned his signature was as long as a long thread but I didn't mention anything about changing since they never listen.

[stymee]

Just worked on the siggy for a while. If y'all think its too long I'll just have to burn one of the rigs.

I do kinda like seeing some specs in the sigs, it's nice to see what people are up to. :cool:

<--- But how 'bout the avatar? That's one of my dogs, Schroeder. Don't be fooled, he's a total spaz!

[rogerdugans]

Thats exactly the idea, man! Thank you.

I like seeing a few specs and/or quotes too.

I just don't care how hot somebodies floppy drive is or where the got the power cable for their pc!

Seriously though, it is much easier to follow threads when you don't have to scroll through 3 screens to get to the next post.

[eobard]

Originally posted by stymee
Just worked on the siggy for a while. If y'all think its too long I'll just have to burn one of the rigs.

I do kinda like seeing some specs in the sigs, it's nice to see what people are up to. :cool:

<--- But how 'bout the avatar? That's one of my dogs, Schroeder. Don't be fooled, he's a total spaz!

Not bad but there's two things you got wrong. Where it says "foldin" is sould say "SETI" (:D) and where the picture shows a dog it should show a cat (double :D)

[Yodums]

Just limited my signature alot.

Sized it down and cut out the bullets.

Really funny comment, and I agree you should switch to Seti :D

Yodums

[Jeff Bolton]

Originally posted by Über~PhLuBB
*AHEM* Mr B, Tebore, adamatekh, CeltyMcBagpipes, Dissolved, Spike Spiegel, VashTheStampede, RangerJoe, GaDaLf, and ESPECIALLY hunter00! :rolleyes:

Remember people, there is no problem with putting 2 or more pieces of hardware on the SAME LINE. We don't need to see six different temperatures, each with their own line.

i never realized my siggy was a hindrance/annoyance for some people so i'll cut it down. i'll try to find a funny quote and just cut down to mobo/cpu/temps or something like that.

thanks for alerting me. :)

jeff

[David]

I think its time I edited mine again - a quick one line pc spec and a mention of linux.

[Yodums]

Whoa check out :

SeigeAkicksass

His sig is as long as one big page of threads haha!

[RainMaQer]

Well I condensed mine a little...

[o770]

i dont agree with the idea.
i am one who would like to see shorter signatures and i dont use to pay attention to them when theres no need for this. i still dont think there should be a space limit for them.
there r ppl that have each component listed plus his pet's name and when asking something still re-post one or two components in the message but since letters take no time to load what is the problem?
that more space cant be that annoying to be limited imo.

[eobard]

Originally posted by oTTO
but since letters take no time to load what is the problem?
that more space cant be that annoying to be limited imo.

The problem is when you have to page through 3 pages of a thread that has only 5 posts in it total. Half the stuff that goes on in GD or Debates has nothing to do with computers and so its a good deal easier to just go quickly from reply to reply without having to scroll down a whole bunch of info that isn't relavent to the subject.

[Dissolved]

Originally posted by oTTO
i dont agree with the idea.
i am one who would like to see shorter signatures and i dont use to pay attention to them when theres no need for this. i still dont think there should be a space limit for them.
there r ppl that have each component listed plus his pet's name and when asking something still re-post one or two components in the message but since letters take no time to load what is the problem?
that more space cant be that annoying to be limited imo.

well mines a lil long too, but im always benching and asking questions, and i hate always having to tell ppl what hardware i have, so this is a faster way for me to get my threads answered..
and a lil showing off :p
but also, i do think if ppl have a prob they should just turn off the sigs, but i dont think listing 5 systems in ur sig is right nor over 20lines...
and whats with ppl having sigs with 5 lines of spacing between every line? errrr i hate that the most

[Athlonman]

hows mine?

[rogerdugans]

Originally posted by ClaytonComp
hows mine?

If all the sigs were like yours I never would have started whining! Even though I think it is a tad longer than I'd like, personally. You could drop the font size down to make it a bit smaller without losing any info, but thats up to you: I don't expect everything my way!

:cool:

[Über~PhLuBB]

Originally posted by rogerdugans


If all the sigs were like yours I never would have started whining! Even though I think it is a tad longer than I'd like, personally. You could drop the font size down to make it a bit smaller without losing any info, but thats up to you: I don't expect everything my way!

:cool:

Yes, an excellent strategy. *ahem*

[1Time]

I'd appreciate a 10 line limit on sigs. Longer sigs could simply be typed across the page instead of listed vertically. :)

[Thelemac]

Personally, I'm a big fan of size=1 for all sigs, simply because it helps separate it from the rest of the post. Overall more appealing to me.

Though if it's less that three lines it doesn't really affect the aesthetics of it. :)

[eobard]

Originally posted by Thelemac
Personally, I'm a big fan of size=1 for all sigs, simply because it helps separate it from the rest of the post. Overall more appealing to me.

Though if it's less that three lines it doesn't really affect the aesthetics of it. :)

I like that. That's a dahnm good idea. Beautiful. It'll kill all the arguements about whose sig is larger than whose with one person's has more lines but the other uses bigger text, bla bla bla...

Size=1 for all sigs with the possible exception of one line of regular size for a SETI link and one line regular size for a FOLD link.

[o770]

i also think that is a good idea. actually id prefer to see all the sig in size 1.

[LutaWicasa]

It's actually getting worse. Just ran across an animated sig :eh?:

[Thelemac]

Aha...yeah. I'll take care of that.

[FerrariF50]

Originally posted by asmodean
I have to say that I agree with the topic... It's very annoying to have to scroll a full screen just get past someones signature!

I agree..I need to work on mines a little as well

my sig is 14 lines long...

[Yodums]

Originally posted by FerrariF50


I agree..I need to work on mines a little as well

my sig is 14 lines long...

Mind if I help? ;)

If I were you I'd shorten it to the basics like this or something like this:

Soyo SY-K7VTA PRO
P2 450 <--- AMD XP Soon
128MB Ram
ATI Radeon 32MB
Hercules Game Surround Fortissimo II

That all I'd put basically mine all the main computers are on one line and the heatsink and temps on another and thats it and a Seti Ad.

The majority here don't really need to know your HDD or monitor or PSU or something just your main cpu components and overclock specs if there is any and maybe a quote...

[FerrariF50]

Originally posted by Yodums


Mind if I help? ;)

If I were you I'd shorten it to the basics like this or something like this:

Soyo SY-K7VTA PRO
P2 450 <--- AMD XP Soon
128MB Ram
ATI Radeon 32MB
Hercules Game Surround Fortissimo II

That all I'd put basically mine all the main computers are on one line and the heatsink and temps on another and thats it and a Seti Ad.

The majority here don't really need to know your HDD or monitor or PSU or something just your main cpu components and overclock specs if there is any and maybe a quote...

I will get around to it later today

[lee]

well, thelemac pm'd me and asked me to limit my sig, something i don't have a prob w/.........just as long as all other individuals are asked to do the same - as i find sigs that i think are longer than my original, i will point them out to thelemac and ask that the sigs are reduced - only fair.............i guess my recommendation for sigs would be that they only include 'puter hardware - so no one has to ask you what you are running..........guess now i'll have to figure out how to do an avatar so i can personalize my comments......... ;C )

[nihili]

Originally posted by lee
well, thelemac pm'd me and asked me to limit my sig, something i don't have a prob w/.........just as long as all other individuals are asked to do the same - as i find sigs that i think are longer than my original, i will point them out to thelemac and ask that the sigs are reduced - only fair.............i guess my recommendation for sigs would be that they only include 'puter hardware - so no one has to ask you what you are running..........guess now i'll have to figure out how to do an avatar so i can personalize my comments......... ;C )

One way to shorten your sig is to combine multiple lines into one. That way your sig won't take up as much space but will still contain a lot of information.

nihili

[lee]

hehe, have been working on that this morning - trying to reduce my sig so lets see if it worked right.............

[lee]

nope, didn't work right and i don't know why.........

[rogerdugans]

Another way to keep lots of info and be small is to reduce the font size- just don't go too small or it may be unreadable

[lee]

ok, looks right now - surprised that it changed in my previous posts also............thats amazing.........and i sorta hate small type cuz i have ambliopia - i only have one good eye and have been instructed not to use glasses cuz they might ruin my good eye which isn't perfect 20/20...........

[ButcherUK]

How about a 5 line limit on sigs? Mine contains more than enough info and it's a single line! :D

[eobard]

Five's not enough for a lot of people. Many people SETI, many fold, some do both and want a link for them in their sig. Also a good number of people have multiple machines. Even if you just put in what cpu and motherboard you have for each you can easily exceed 5 lines. The current rule is 20, that's not too much.

[matti2]

Originally posted by Hugo 59
I would like to see sigs limited to ten lines or less, if it is posible. Sigs are getting out of hand I have to scroll through pages just to get through some people's.

Anyone agree with me?

I agree 100%. I would really like people to keep all their sig in one color! It is impossible to read and it fights to much for attention to have every other letter in a different color. Please restrict this Skip.

[ButcherUK]

20 lines?! What on earth would you need 20 lines for?! Ok seti, and such, say 3 lines of links, plus 3 comps - 6 lines. that's nothing like 20. I think 5-10 is more than adequate. If you have a farm summarise, likewise you don't need 10 lines per comp, 1-2 is more than enough.

[matti2]

Originally posted by ButcherUK
How about a 5 line limit on sigs? Mine contains more than enough info and it's a single line! :D

Personally I could carless about every single piece of hardware people have in their system. Keep it short.

[takiwa]

WHY ARE WE HAVING THIS DISCUSSION???
If you don't want to look at someone's sig, then go into your personal options and cut it off! If I want to see them, or have one of my own, that's my business, and my choice! Turn off the feature and don't look!

[eobard]

Originally posted by takiwa
WHY ARE WE HAVING THIS DISCUSSION???
If you don't want to look at someone's sig, then go into your personal options and cut it off! If I want to see them, or have one of my own, that's my business, and my choice! Turn off the feature and don't look!

Were having this discussion for several reasons.

1) It's your business and choice but it's Skip's bandwidth and forum. It's a private organization and as such he has the right to set terms as to how it's run. The terms he has set have, among other things, a 20 line sig limit to make sure people come here to post questions and answers, not to just list their hardware and favorite poem.

2) If you turn off the ability to see sigs you'll find you spend a lot of time turning them back on and then back off again. I turned off sigs a while back because it was becoming too much. Within the first day I had turned them on again then off again 5 times because people kept posting "I've got a problem with my ********, it's the one in my sig. Does anyone know what I should do?"

[killem1x1]

I have done loads of work to attempt to shorten my sig, and that was before I read this thread :)
The one thing that I feel may make a difference as well as size is font. If you use the size 1 then it may not be readable. I have looked for a list of available fonts (are they all available;)), but can't find them. Any suggestions on my sig are more than welcome.

[Sonny]

One of the problems with sigs right now is that people have links that are not allowed like email addys & links to articles or threads. Some of the members even have links to their sites. Just because the mods are busy doesnt mean we can ignore the rules.

[Crash893]

Originally posted by takiwa
WHY ARE WE HAVING THIS DISCUSSION???
If you don't want to look at someone's sig, then go into your personal options and cut it off! If I want to see them, or have one of my own, that's my business, and my choice! Turn off the feature and don't look!

here is why

overclocker550's avatar

__________________
Im an overclocking addict! Here's my overclocks and cpus I own.
so far there are 12 victims of my overclocking. dont worry, no
cpus were killed in my sport of overclocking

1. 300(cachless)@450 makes quite abit of heat
2. slot1 300a@472
3. 333@450 2.0v loads windows @500 but crashes. Heatsink is too hot to touch. Wonder why this cpu makes more heat than my others?
4. 366(slot1)@458 2.0v bought it off ebay, seller claimed it does 550. will do 495 max at 2.2v if I still had the abit be6-2 update: not stable at 495!
5. 366(PPGA)@550 2.0v whats unusual it wont do turbo setting(103fsb) even at 2.3v! loads to windows then locks. 95% stable at 550, sometimes fails to complete 3dmark2000
6. 400(PPGA)@500 2.0v posts at 600 if I use 2.3v but locks 2 seconds after it posts
7. PPGA 300a@525 2 volts! increasing instability at higher speeds. no post at 600
burn in for 10 hours helped nothing!
8. PPGA 366@575, nice overclock! unstable at 605
My search for the holy grail, 600MHz countinues!

9. pentium2(soft locked) 300@338 2.8v will do 350 at 3.0v and post at 374. not bad for a klamath
10. pentium2 350@525 2.0v! amazing OC! locks up in quake3 at 543MHz using 2.2v could be agp limitation? wish I still had my be6-2(died)
11. pentium2 266@400 2 volts! unstable at 420. newer deschuttes core rare! most
12. 266's used the older klamath core!
pentium2 266@420 2 volts! even nicer overclock! unstable at 440, post 448

here's the summary if you are confused reading the above:

300@450, 300a@472, 300a@525, 333@450, 366@458, 366@550
366@575, 400@500, 266@400, 266@420, 300@350, 350@525


i dont mean to be a whinner or anything im just saying the above is a bittttttttttt excessive

38 lines

i think we should have links in are sigs to keep them down
i know everyone is going to explode but its not really that hard an idea

just write a small html ( no pictures ) sig and upload it as a file to a oc.com designated free webserver ( like tripod or angelfire) and then your sig would be like www.angelfire.com/va3/overclocers/crash893.html

i dont think that puts anystrain on skips sever does it and it pretty much makes every one happy

[Thelemac]

Originally posted by crash893


just write a small html ( no pictures ) sig and upload it as a file to a oc.com designated free webserver ( like tripod or angelfire) and then your sig would be like www.angelfire.com/va3/overclocers/crash893.html


'cept we don't allow links in sigs.

It really isn't difficult to keep your sig at a decent size.

[Matthew1001]

I must agree and add to what Thelemac said. I agree there are no links in sigs. That is a rule that has been here a long time. It really is not that hard to limit your signature. Forget every detail about your computer. Something needs to be done to limit the. Mine is a decent size.

Also, nobody wants to follow a link to see your signature.

[eobard]

Originally posted by Thelemac
It really isn't difficult to keep your sig at a decent size.


Really? From what I've seen I have to disagree.

[Ploaf]

Originally posted by Matthew1001
I must agree and add to what Thelemac said. I agree there are no links in sigs. That is a rule that has been here a long time. It really is not that hard to limit your signature. Forget every detail about your computer. Something needs to be done to limit the. Mine is a decent size.

Also, nobody wants to follow a link to see your signature.

I don't know. I agree that there shouldn't be any links in sigs aside from the ones that we're already allowed to use, but I do enjoy checking out the sites that are listed in peoples profiles. On to that.....

I know you already know this Matthew since I saw the www button there(this is just a general statement), but again but...(how's that for incoherent)..for anyone who doesn't know this... You can put your web site in your profile. A little button shows up at the bottom of all of your posts that says WWW. Make a website with your interests. Put your computer up on the site and try make it interesting and try to use a host that doesn't force you to use POPUPS so that people will actually want to visit your site. ;) Some of us do check that out.

Oh and here's another vote for chopping away at the 30-40 line sigs.

[Matthew1001]

Yeah I agree that some people like visiting the sites listed in profiles. I am just saying I do not think most people don't want to go to a page just to read all the details that are listen in peoples computers.

If Skip or somebody who has acess start a poll about limiting sigs.....

[Thelemac]

Originally posted by eobard


Really? From what I've seen I have to disagree.

That statement was made assuming that the person cares, my overly specific minded friend. :D

[Crash893]

Originally posted by Thelemac


'cept we don't allow links in sigs.

It really isn't difficult to keep your sig at a decent size.

well that was kinda my point

they should be allowed if there for sig use only

but i didnt know about the www. button that could work just as well

i dont know some people just have a lot more than others in terms of sig information

is there any reason why a strictly sig link wouldnt be allowed
would it be harmfull or take up server space or something

[Thelemac]

We keep the list of links allowed by regular members small so for a few reasons.

Simplicity in our jobs, for one. I don't want to have to load every link that I see in a sig to make sure that it's a sig and not advertisement. With what we currently have, I know with a mere mouseover whether or not the link is allowed.

Another is that allowing more variation in links is going to lead to others seeing that as permission to link whatever they want, which will require more policing by us.

Some others, but those are really the main points.

[Trap]

i love my sig;)

[Matthew1001]

"I hate" my signature. :cool:

[stompah]

Before:


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System#2: 1.53g XP @ 1.7g or 1g tbird @ 1.267MHz or 1.2g tbird going higher and higher everyday; Lapped OCZ Gladiator w/black label Delta; MSI KT266; Radeon 32mb DDR VE; 30g 5.4k WD HD; Sony 52x CD; open case


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[eobard]

Originally posted by stompah
Before:


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System#2: 1.53g XP @ 1.7g or 1g tbird @ 1.267MHz or 1.2g tbird going higher and higher everyday; Lapped OCZ Gladiator w/black label Delta; MSI KT266; Radeon 32mb DDR VE; 30g 5.4k WD HD; Sony 52x CD; open case


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Do me a favor, set your resolution to 640 by 480 and see how much real estate that sig chews. It's a huge offender in my opinion. I'd like it a lot if you reigned it in.

[stompah]

Originally posted by eobard


Do me a favor, set your resolution to 640 by 480 and see how much real estate that sig chews. It's a huge offender in my opinion. I'd like it a lot if you reigned it in.

If you are at 640x480 then you have problems... lol

Happy?

I would have had it changed earlier but forums wouldnt let it upload.

[eobard]

Thank you. I'm not at 640X480 now, but I was for a month after my 17" monitor died and had to use my old 14", then for 2 weeks while I waited for my replacement for my new 19" which we all know was effed right out of the box.

[Matthew1001]

Atleast it is down to a better size.

[wishy]

Is this too long then? (I will be cutting out the spare machine soon once this new baby is up and running properly).

It used to loads longer until I discovered how to use the font size settings!

[Matthew1001]

Much better length than originally, but is all the information in there neccesary?

[FerrariF50]

I resized my sig

[Thelemac]

Originally posted by wishy
Is this too long then? (I will be cutting out the spare machine soon once this new baby is up and running properly).

It used to loads longer until I discovered how to use the font size settings!

Still too long. Check the "Sig Nazi" link in my sig. :)

[eobard]

Everyone's over the new limit. Probably 75%+ are over the 10 points.

[wishy]

Ok I'm not exactly clear of my major hardware nightmare that I've had so I was going to keep all the details for the moment but have no problems cutting it down once all nightmares are gone

[Thelemac]

Originally posted by wishy
Ok I'm not exactly clear of my major hardware nightmare that I've had so I was going to keep all the details for the moment but have no problems cutting it down once all nightmares are gone

Try combining some lines, with | as a separater.

[Crash893]

i dont understand why people want to put there 5 year old comptuer in there with there brand new one

i think you should only put your flagship comptuer in your sig

[wishy]

If ur referring to me to me it's because I've had major hardware probs setting up my current rig and its mainly there to stop people suggesting "try different RAM, try different CPU" etc as I have no compatible parts to swap except VGA, PSU and case. It will go soon when I'm confident this new rig is OK. It seems OK at the mo (touch wood).

P.S. It ain't 5 years old, read ya history books ;-)

[Crash893]

i wasnt refering to you spesicficly but

there are a couple people out there that have all the systems they own on there

[eobard]

Originally posted by wishy
If ur referring to me to me it's because I've had major hardware probs setting up my current rig and its mainly there to stop people suggesting "try different RAM, try different CPU" etc as I have no compatible parts to swap except VGA, PSU and case. It will go soon when I'm confident this new rig is OK. It seems OK at the mo (touch wood).

P.S. It ain't 5 years old, read ya history books ;-)

Using the validation that you are willingly breaking the rules but only plan on doing it temporarily won't hold up in court here. If you need to list everything put as much of it as can fit on one line, that way the number of lines will decrease. Also you could compress the size of the text with the size option.

[wishy]

I that better? damn I cant read it now

mmmm you have a court here?

k thats a bit better

[Thelemac]

Originally posted by wishy
mmmm you have a court here?


Yep.

Wanna shoot some hoops?

:D

[wishy]

Wanna shoot some hoops?

What are hoops? And what's all this chicken stuff hehe? But seriously WHAT ARE HOOPS?Wanna shoot some hoops?

[RainMaQer]

Originally posted by wishy


What are hoops? And what's all this chicken stuff hehe? But seriously WHAT ARE HOOPS?

He was jokin around... court as in Basketball "court" :D... shoot some hoops is a reference to playing basketball..

OMG I sound like such a geek when I say that :D

[wishy]

Basketball, that's like netball isn't it?

[Bobby_Mac]

Just seeing how my sig turned out :)

[Robbiem01]

supermoderatior ... G.O.D. ... Overclocking God ... new member ... registered ... member ... senior member ... these are all forum member status' i've seen but I dont know what determines status. Where is the page that shows how to move up in rank. I want to becomre a senior member so I can put a link in my signiture (I got yelled at when I tried linking to my tripod page which is incase anyone cares.) Heh I'm allowed to link here but not in my sig. Maybe I'll just past that at the end of every post. Yea I think I'll start doing that from now on unless someone has good reason why I cant link to my NON-porno, NON-affending, NON-anything bad webpage.


This Post Edited By Forum Moderator

William, see reply below.

[Thelemac]

The forum guide (http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/announcement.php?s=&forumid=15) answers all of your questions.

Putting your link in every post is the same as having it in your sig...that is strictly frowned upon. We do that because we don't feel the need to allow others to advertise with our bandwidth...even Tripod.

[William]

No, you can't link to your site like that. That is advertising and is not tolerated on the forum. you can link to a site in a reply as a place to go for further help/advice on the problem they are having, not just thrown in there. The forums bandwidth will not be used to increase the traffic of other sites that don't pay to advertisize.

[Athlonman]

I like how you guys are helping out with people's sigs and all but what you can do is just send the a pm before changing the sig for them to "My sig is too long, I have not read the rules" I found that to be very rude. I know you guys have all the power but please, it doesn't hurt to ask!

[William]

We are swamped right now with stuff to do and we don't always have time for a PM. We are looking into somethings to help out, but for now its sord of all or nothing, and we need to weed the stuff out.

[Thelemac]

Originally posted by ClaytonComp
I like how you guys are helping out with people's sigs and all but what you can do is just send the a pm before changing the sig for them to "My sig is too long, I have not read the rules" I found that to be very rude. I know you guys have all the power but please, it doesn't hurt to ask!

Do you have any idea how much *more* effort that would take?

I spent at least three hours tonight editing them...and managed to get through all of three forums. PMing people would multiply the time taken, and the effort used to track people to make sure that they complied, and who I'd sent PMs to...

The message is there to let you know that it was too long, there are now rules on it, and where to find them. Best way I could think of to do it. Sorry if it seemed rude to you.

[nihili]

Hmmm

"I am now in compliance with the sig rules". Linked to the rules of course. Might *seem* less harsh without being any harder.

Just a thought

nihili

[Thelemac]

Originally posted by nihili
Hmmm

"I am now in compliance with the sig rules". Linked to the rules of course. Might *seem* less harsh without being any harder.

Just a thought

nihili

Good idea. :)

[muddocktor]

This is a test of my new sig for a little while, just to voice my protest of my sig being deleted while I was at work! I go to work for 1 to 2 weeks at a time in remote locations, with no net access and I came in today to find my sig had been butchered while I was at work. I found that this ticked me off just a little bit that my sig had been modified without a chance to correct it before the butcher job.

On another note: why am I being shown as a new member now? I have been a member of this forum since Nov. 2001 with over 600 posts and now I'm being shown as a new member in the rankings under my avatar. Could someone please explain this to me?

EDIT: Since I posted this message, my ranking has changed back to "member", from "new member". What the heck is going on? If you are putting some kind of time limit on posting, please extend it to around 15 days so that I don't show up as a new member while I'm at work. I enjoy posting here; there are a lot of fine folks here but that is getting a little severe if you go changing someones member standing just because he hasn't had a chance to post in 10 days, which is how long I was gone.

[drunkmonkey]

Testing 123

[Athlonman]

Originally posted by muddocktor
This is a test of my new sig for a little while, just to voice my protest of my sig being deleted while I was at work! I go to work for 1 to 2 weeks at a time in remote locations, with no net access and I came in today to find my sig had been butchered while I was at work. I found that this ticked me off just a little bit that my sig had been modified without a chance to correct it before the butcher job.

On another note: why am I being shown as a new member now? I have been a member of this forum since Nov. 2001 with over 600 posts and now I'm being shown as a new member in the rankings under my avatar. Could someone please explain this to me?

EDIT: Since I posted this message, my ranking has changed back to "member", from "new member". What the heck is going on? If you are putting some kind of time limit on posting, please extend it to around 15 days so that I don't show up as a new member while I'm at work. I enjoy posting here; there are a lot of fine folks here but that is getting a little severe if you go changing someones member standing just because he hasn't had a chance to post in 10 days, which is how long I was gone.

I agree with you on your sig being butcherd up. I found it to be rude and it doesn't hurt to send a pm even if your bizy at least I know about it so I can change it.

[eobard]

It's not a question of the ease of sending "a" PM, it's wether or not it's easy to send 10,000 seperate PMs.

[Athlonman]

Originally posted by eobard
It's not a question of the ease of sending "a" PM, it's wether or not it's easy to send 10,000 seperate PMs.

Well I got a Idea. Since theres like 10,000 How about I do my part by sending pms to people who's sig are too long?

[eobard]

If everyone does that things will go a lot smoother, I've sent a few out myself already.

[el]

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[Acko]

Well looking at the replies on this topic I can see that the big majority of answers are from experienced/dedicated users to the forums.
I also agree that the sigs. should be kept shorter but when you first start off as a newbee or a beginner to the forums & perhaps not very experienced in the pc department the information supplied in the sigs. can help a solution both ways.
I have learnt a lot through these forums & the sigs. tell a big part to some of the story.

Acko

[wishy]

Yep, I think fall into that category. Just built a new system and had a nightmare getting it to post so I keep all details in sig so ppl can make suggestions.
Now working OK but gonna keep the details in while I see how far this thing can go. Posts on how to do a Vdimm mod on a Dragon + should go directly to me;) I know its possible, I just don't know how.

[Athlonman]

How's my sig?

[Thelemac]

Looks good. :)

[The Overclocker]

i dont think there is a need to show your system specs in your sig, you can already see them in the user profile (under your system) and for most posts you don't need to enclose system specs.

the best idea is to use that space to add a personal touch or guidlines for other people.

[M@€$†®Ö™]

Simple yet effective sig overall. Been awhile since I had one.

Maestro

[lubetek]

well im new here but see yer point. ive just cut 3 lines out of my sig.

[lubetek]

Originally posted by the overclocker
i dont think there is a need to show your system specs in your sig, you can already see them in the user profile (under your system) and for most posts you don't need to enclose system specs.

the best idea is to use that space to add a personal touch or guidlines for other people.

good point, but ive been putting system specs in that "sig" space for far too long to stop now.ill try not to post it as often tho.

[DaddyB]

Limiting the number of lines a sig can be is good but i think they should be allowed to be the full width of a post. In my sig for example I would rather have my 2 systems side by side as opposed to one on top of the other. In the rules for sigs there is something about the sig being the size of the box on a 800x600 screen. some people's sigs go all the way from one side of the post to the other, I don't know how they did it ( leave no spaces?) but the width of a sig doesnt affect the height and if it was easier to make your sig as wide as a post the more people would have short sigs, just my 2 cents

[Thelemac]

The problem is for those running at 800x600...since it's word wrap, the sig get's monstrously large if somebody has their res at 1200x1600 and has 10 lines spanning the width of their posts.

That would be at leat 20 lines in 800x600.

[Mothra]

Point taken, size = 1

[Kryten]

How about putting a bit of code in that make you type more words than your sig, otherwise the post wont go up, will do one of 2 things either maker shorter sigs or longer posts :)

[nipster]

i just got a PM from someone telling me to remove the email from my sig, what is the point of that?

having to put in that manually every time i sell something or post in the for sale is a drag...

[eobard]

All someone has to do is click the "profile" button and then they can email you from there. Putting it in your sig is at least redundant.

[nipster]

may be redundant but it sure as hell is alot easier...

i got told again, i guess by a mod that links are not allowed in sigs, but i see links in alot of peoples sigs... whatever

i guess i will get around to changing it

[NASsoccer]

Originally posted by nipster
may be redundant but it sure as hell is alot easier...

i got told again, i guess by a mod that links are not allowed in sigs, but i see links in alot of peoples sigs... whatever

i guess i will get around to changing it

admins, mods, and senior members can have links to anywhere in their sigs. the rest of us can only have links in our sigs pertaining to the forums (ie FOLDING, 3dmark team, heatware) In your sig your email link is not allowed.

[eobard]

Originally posted by Kryten
How about putting a bit of code in that make you type more words than your sig, otherwise the post wont go up, will do one of 2 things either maker shorter sigs or longer posts :)

Actually I could see that backfiring. If someone asks for a link to a site that has specific information the replyer couldn't just post

Here.

as an answer.

[LutaWicasa]

Originally posted by nipster
may be redundant but it sure as hell is alot easier...

i got told again, i guess by a mod that links are not allowed in sigs, but i see links in alot of peoples sigs... whatever

i guess i will get around to changing it

I've sent you a PM that should explain my feelings on this matter.

[Thelemac]

Originally posted by nipster
i guess i will get around to changing it

I hope you don't mean "I'm gonna make the mods change it for me" by that.

[nipster]

Originally posted by LutaWicasa


I've sent you a PM that should explain my feelings on this matter.

i sent you a PM back too explaining MY feelings on this nitpicky matter...

And to all others

i see the INTENT of this limiting sigs to an acceptable size. I mean i dont want to see 20 lines of someone's system specs either, but something helpful like an email address, give me a break.And arbitrarily deciding for others what does and does not belong, while at the same time allowing moderators to break the rules seems to make no sense...

[Thelemac]

It's a perk of being a member of the forums that is dedicated and valued enough to merit the Senior Member title. Aside from the blue stars, that's about it for perks with it.

[eobard]

Originally posted by nipster

And arbitrarily deciding for others what does and does not belong, while at the same time allowing moderators to break the rules seems to make no sense...

You seem to have mistaken this benevolent dictatorship for a democracy. And Mods aren't allowed to break the rules, the same rules apply to each member, some just aren't activated until one becomes a senior or mod.

Try to relax. :beer:

[Stoanhart]

When i first made my sig, it was 21 full lines. Now it's 6.5 points. Funny thing is, i even had room to put that information into my sig. Dual colums helps a lot

what i'm trying to do now is use <marquee> code, but HTML is off. Is there any way to turn it on? If i can't do it personally, i think it would be a good idea for the moderators to enable it. I saw marquee sigs on enjoyincubus.com and i think their board use the same "engine" as these

[Thelemac]

Well, we *could* enable it, BUT it would be WAY to open for abuse. There are advantages to it, sure, but they don't even come CLOSE to the disadvantages that come with it.

So we aren't going to.

[Stoanhart]

how about a marqee vb code? is the vb code made by each forum, or do they simply come with the vBulletin engine? I really think it looked cool. you could add so much info without wasting space.

[Thelemac]

I think that kind of code would KILL our bandwidth. I could be wrong, though, but one thing we don't need is something that will increase our bandwidth usage. We use TONS as it is.

[Matthew1001]

Originally posted by Thelemac
I think that kind of code would KILL our bandwidth. I could be wrong, though, but one thing we don't need is something that will increase our bandwidth usage. We use TONS as it is.

Thelemac, I just ran a little test. I started with a blank page in Microsoft Front Page and inserted you signature (not the links just the text below it) and saved it. I did the same thing on a new blank page but put it in a marquee.

Without Marquee - 623 bytes
With Marquee - 607 bytes

I think I would rather keep what we have now. I don't like the idea of a marquee.

[Thelemac]

Ok, so what are marquees? I think I was thinking of something different...

[DaddyB]

I think they mean having your sig scroll across the screen from right to left, that way even a single line could contain all the specs you want.

[wishy]

they are big tents used for parties and festivals aren't they? Forgive my ignorance
Aha I think my question has been answered above^^^^^

[MEMex]

I'm glad someone caught me on time, i thought people would just be jelous of my computer (NOT) lol...

I'm kinda new and i was woundering, is this shortened enough? or is it enoying? I know how it feels to scroll and scroll, id like to make the words smaller but i dont know what the command is for it yet. If it is to long or to big plz tell me and i'll change it ASAP. Theres nothing i hate more then people hating me :cry:

If i do something wrong, smak me in the face heh, i'll go by any rules cause i luv this forum and will do what it takes to stay :beer:

-=edited=-
Man i hate it when i post the question and find the answer above, i feel stupied now srry to waste space...

[craigiz1]

You fit the requirments now.

Do this for smaller letters...



in front of all your stuff, no spaces. and then...

at the end of your stuff, no spaces.

[craigiz1]

Oop's. :D


This in front.... [size=1]

[craigiz1]

This at end..... [/size]


You can see in the other post what it does to the size. This helps to save the bandwith.

[MEMex]

Like this (da sig)

[craigiz1]

Originally posted by Memex
Like this (da sig)

Yep.

Same thing for color. After the size marker, go color=xxxx, x being the name of the color, ending with [/color][/size].

Put it in the boxes...[]. It messed up before.


Know what I mean?

[MEMex]

Doesn't the size|color have to be in order /color|/size?

[craigiz1]

You got it right. It goes in reverse order of the begining.

[Thelemac]

Originally posted by Memex
Doesn't the size|color have to be in order /color|/size?

Nope, that doesn't make a difference.

[MEMex]

Originally posted by Thelemac


Nope, that doesn't make a difference.

Oh well... :rolleyes: I guess its "somewhat" like html... I just notice how much i thrown this subject off... srry about that guys heh...

[Bigsexy]

Originally posted by Hugo 59
[b]Added material:

See the rules on sigs here (http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=58341)




errrrr - so - is my sig incorrect??? I´ve recognized there´s no word of it is being allowed to link to the 3d Mark compare site!

Please tell me if I should remove it - or if you can (I don´t know how much rights you have) remove it by yourself!

But I think it would be reasonable to allow to place that link in the sig!!!!

:eh?:

[Thelemac]

Just to make it easy, these are the only URLs allowd in your sig:
http://www.pickleloaf.com/exp/
http://www.overclockers.ws
http://www.ocsetiteam.com
http://www.geocities.com/oc3dmark/
http://www.heatware.com/<user profile linking>

And that's all of them.


Madonion, bad.

3DMark team, good.

Yours is only half bad. ;)

[eobard]

What about this (http://www.livenudecats.com/)? :D

[Thelemac]

Originally posted by eobard
What about this (http://www.livenudecats.com/)? :D

Whoa, deja vu. (Not the club...sicko).

And we don't support kitty porn here!

[Rio71]

Originally posted by Thelemac
YOur sig
Please read the guidelines on sigs (Sig Nazi in my sig) and shorten yours to fit the rules.

Thelemac


hi all,
wat's wrong with my sig ? :(
you can see only 7 lines and small size font ! see here (http://rio71.de/forum/sig/piclist.htm)

according with the 10 point basis (http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=58341) i have 6.75 points. (1024x768)
12.0 points with emoticon (800x600)
10.5 points without emoticon (800x600)
i must remove one line and both emoticons, correctly? (for 9.75 points@800x600)

how can i use the size of "Member since:/Location:" and "Last edited by..." (see link). [size0.5 ]?
this is a nice size.

[Bigsexy]

Originally posted by Rio71

how can i use the size of "Member since:/Location:" and "Last edited by..." (see link). [size0.5 ]?
this is a nice size.

Größe 1.5 :D

[eobard]

Originally posted by Rio71

hi all,
wat's wrong with my sig ? :(

At 800X600 I'm counting 14 lines of normal characters, the limit is 10 points. Each line of normal characters is worth 1 point.

[Rio71]

Originally posted by eobard
At 800X600 I'm counting 14 lines of normal characters, the limit is 10 points. Each line of normal characters is worth 1 point.
no.
normal size = size 2 = 1 point.
size in sig is smaller as size 1. (= 0.75 points or less ?)

12 lines x 0.75 = 9 points
+ 2 lines w/ emoticons x 1.5 =3 points
----------------------------
12 points

- cel-t 1100@1562 (box Malay:(... this line is written in size 1


this line is written in size 2 = 1 point edit: sorry is size 3
this line is written in size 1 = 0.75 point

[Rio71]

we need this size :)

[eobard]

Originally posted by Rio71

no.
normal size = size 2 = 1 point.
my size in sig is smaller.
my sig is size1 = 0.75 points

12 lines x 0.75 = 9 points
+ 2 lines w/ emoticons x 1.5 =3 points


Yes. You have a total of 14 lines at 800X600 resolution. each line is the standard size which has a value of 1 point. 1X14=14

To quote the sig size thread: Size is going to be determined on a point basis, with 10 being the maximum number of points. Note that blank lines count.

Points system as follows:
size 1 = .75 points per line See size 1 footnote
size 2 = 1 (normal size) points per line
size 3 = 1.5 points per line
Lines with emoticons = 1.5

You have 14 lines each this size. This size is worth 1 point.
This size is worth .75 per line.
And this size is worth 1.5 per line.

[eobard]

This is what I see at 800X600. You can count 14 lines of standard (1 point) size.

[Rio71]

yes 14, i have count :beer:

12 lines x 0.75 = 9 points
+ 2 lines w/ emoticons x 1.5 =3 points
----------------------------
12 points

i see no standart. i see size in sig is smaller than 0.75.
:confused:
i have IE 5.5 and win98SE.
this is what i see @800x600:

[eobard]

You seem to be confusing the default size, which is not listed in the index of sizes, with the size known as "large". The size that you use by default is worth 1 point per line. The size listed as "small" in the size box is worth .75 per line. The size listed as "large" in the size box is worth 1.5 per line. The size listed as "Huge" in the size box is not allowed.

[Rio71]

Points system as follows:
size 1 = .75 points per line See size 1 footnote
size 2 = 1 (normal size) points per line
size 3 = 1.5 points per line
Lines with emoticons = 1.5
:( please look at my pic (800x600) (http://forums.overclockers.ws/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=880389) and compare the line "this line is written in size 1 = 0.75 point" and the line in sig.
thanks for the reply.

[eobard]

The line that looks like this: this line is written in size 1 = .75 point is using the "Large" size, which is worth 1.5 points. The line above it is the "Huge" size and is above the maximum size rules. Typing normally, without using the "size box" to alter the text is worth 1 point. Using the "size box" to set the size to "Small" would make lines worth .75 points per line.

[Rio71]

i don't use the size box to write.

i can see you written the reply in Large size.
1 = Large size (size3 ; 1.5 point)
2 = normal size (size2 ; 1 point)
3 = small size (size1 ; 0.75 point)

or is this correctly:

1 = normal size (size2 ; 1 point)
2 = small size (size1 ; 0.75 point)
3 = what is this (size? ; ? point)

my signature shows as 3
:eh?:

[Rio71]

when quote your text, i see the second list is correctly.
but what is 3

[eobard]

Here's a visual explanation:

Using this setting is .75 per line {SIZE=1] [/SIZE}

Typing normal without using the {SIZE=X] [/SIZE} is worth 1 per line

Using this setting is worth 1.5 per line {SIZE=3] [/SIZE}

[eobard]

I don't know how or why but what I see on the screen and what you post as screen shots on your end do not match up properly at all. I'm going to pass this off to the Sig Nazi, hopefully when he gets online he can figure it out.

[eobard]

Here's a joined pic of what I see on my and along with part of what you just posted you see on your end. Clearly they are not the same thing. Why you're seeing something so dramatically different I don't know. Hopefully the Siz Nazi will know.

[Rio71]

eobard wrote on 07-19-2002 07:36 AM:
Your location says Germany, are you using some kind of third party translating web page to convert this forum from English to German? That's the only thing that I can think of that would mess up what you see on your end. I'm not even sure if that's possible but its the only guess I can make for now. If you are using someone's translating setup maybe you should go directly to the forums to see if that fixes the problem.

thanks for the pm and thanks for all that reply.
i do not use online translating for reading the forum.
i read this forum directly.
(online translating is bad, only for single words is good... i learn)
in your pic i can see the big differences.
2 and 3 is contrarily.

[Thelemac]

This phenomenon has to do with the font size of IE. Since Rio71 has it at largest, it is making everything large..except default sized text in sigs (I have a theory on that, but it's not really very interesting) so that's where the confusion is coming in.

If you were to put your browser to size medium (View -> Text Size or Ctrl+mouse wheel) you would see the size that we are seeing. Or largest to see what Rio71 is seeing. ;)

[Rio71]

hi
ok. i add [size=1 ] to my sig now.
the result is bad for my favourite view (IE font size), much bigger as before.
hopefully better for yours.
i will also shorten my sig.


when i change the font size of IE, the line "Last edited by..." shows ever as small size.
independence of favourite IE font size.
how can i add this "command".

[Rio71]

i have shorten my sig.
8 lines / [size=1 ] / 800x600 / 1 emoticon / IE font size medium /
together = 6.45 points
correctly :)

[Thelemac]

That's in the code of the vbulletin software...not a code that we could add.

You sig looks much better now, thanks. :)

[Rio71]

Originally posted by Thelemac
You sig looks much better now, thanks. :)
not for me. :(
thanks again.
http://www.taktsucht.de/YaBBImages/lipsrsealed.gif

[Banetahtoh]

This question isn't exactly about sigs (p.s. - going to edit and shorten mine asap) but what are the stars for? I looked in the FAQ but didn't see it. I can tell they are rank, but are they number of posts, like one yellow star is 10 post, and one some other color is 100? thanks

[jazztrumpet216]

Originally posted by Onikatana
This question isn't exactly about sigs (p.s. - going to edit and shorten mine asap) but what are the stars for? I looked in the FAQ but didn't see it. I can tell they are rank, but are they number of posts, like one yellow star is 10 post, and one some other color is 100? thanks

As quoted by William in the Forum Comments and Suggestions sticky-

Stars and Member Titles:

Member Titles:-
New Member 0 - 11 posts
Registered 12 - 99 posts
Member 100 posts
Contributing Member 3000 posts
Dedicated Member 5000 posts

Stars:-

posts
0 - 10 - No Stars
11 - 50 - 1 Star
51 - 100 - 2 Stars
101 - 250 - 3 Stars
251 - 500 - 4 Stars
501 - 750 - 5 Stars
751 - 1000 - 6 Stars
1001 - 2000 - 7 Stars
2001 - 4000 - 8 Stars
4001 or more - 9 Stars

New Member - Registered - Yellow Stars – The newest additions to the forums. Either future overclockers to be or experienced already. Welcome to the Forums!!!

Member, Contributing Member, Dedicated member - Orange Stars – The lifeblood of the forum are the members and these are the guys here day in day out asking and answering questions.

Senior Member - Blue Stars – Senior Members have been recognized for a multitude of trates. All are extremely intelligent in the methods of overclocking, civil, kind, and active in the life of the forums. Senior Members are appointed by the Moderators and Staff in recognition of their service to the forums.

Moderator(all titles) - Green Stars - Mr. B, Hoot, SpeeDJ, Thelemac, William, Unseen Menance, Jon, SilverSinkSam, cw823, Maddman, and LutaWicasa. The moderators read every post and ensure the posts are in the right topic, follow the forum rules, and keep things in good order.

Admin - Red Stars – Skip, Joe, Shadow, and Newbie_Doo. The admins are responsible for overseeing forum policy and designing methods for the moderators to enforce them. They also keep the servers up and running in great shape.

Want to become a Senior Member? Here is what the moderators and staff look for when appointing Senior Members: (In order of importance)

1. A willingness to help others, particularly when an individual has little personal interest in the topic or problem. As when a Senior helps a beginner with a problem which has been discussed many times in the past.
2. A demonstrated patience and reserve in dealing with disagreeable people.
3. The ability to discuss or disagree in a topic on the basis of REASON rather than personal attacks, which never further knowledge, but can only wound hearts.
4. A reasonable to good back ground in overclocking and cooling combined with a general knowledge of hardware as a whole.
5. Approximately three - four months in our forum. Time to demonstrate a continuing interest in our forum and allow us to determine the presence of the afore mentioned qualities.

That's info on stars, post counts, and seniorship. Everything you could ever want to know about stars, why they are different colors for different people, and more.

[Banetahtoh]

Thank you!

[Army_Of_1]

10 lines sounds good to me, i don't need that many.

[Army_Of_1]

well what about bigger pictures? are they banned in your sig?

[jazztrumpet216]

Originally posted by Army_Of_1
well what about bigger pictures? are they banned in your sig?

We don't allow images in the sig either... it's quite a load on bandwidth.

[Sl1m1thy]

awww crap

i come back after 6 months and im not allowed to use my sig :( :( :( :( :(

then i posted and couldnt see it lol
its only a 2cm by 2cm flash game and i know u will all luv it and play it lol

any exeptions on all the hard work i put in for it ?
or shall i count my losses lol

[jazztrumpet216]

Originally posted by Sl1m1thy
awww crap

i come back after 6 months and im not allowed to use my sig :( :( :( :( :(

then i posted and couldnt see it lol
its only a 2cm by 2cm flash game and i know u will all luv it and play it lol

any exeptions on all the hard work i put in for it ?
or shall i count my losses lol

You can PM a mod but I wouldn't hold my breath... sorry. Thelemac is the sig man to talk to though.

[eobard]

Isn't going to happen. That's not a decision, just an obsevation. If no one gets, all is even. If one person gets, every one else'll want. Then the flood gates are open.

[JCLW]

Q: Is there anyway to reduce the large empty gap between the end of your text and the start of your sig?

- JW

[Maxvla]

Originally posted by JCLW
Q: Is there anyway to reduce the large empty gap between the end of your text and the start of your sig?

- JW
i too would like to see the gap diminish by a couple lines or so. makes the posts look kind awkward.

[james.miller]

i think mine is dead on 10 points.
edit: actually its 8.5

do you think mines too big, guys?

[CrashOveride]

why is it that people cant link to a site in their sig again?

[whooping_a_panda]

its to hard to police what people could be linking to, and it helps keep advertisments down

[Bahamet]

Personally I liked reading other peoples sigs, they gave me ideas for my own system. But when I logged on today I had a meaasge explaning that my sig was "to long, change it before admin does" so I yanked it entirely. hope its short enough now

[amazon10x]

i did the font thing to mine. do you think its too long?

[diggingforgold]

Is my sig within reason? Links ok? Or should I take em down?

[jobauer]

err.... sorry, i still don't understand how you choose smaller font.
anyone ?

[Cjwinnit]

Quote this in your sig :)

[jobauer]

Originally posted by Cjwinnit
Quote this in your sig :)

thanks a lot, helpful and quick, as always :)

now that my sig is smaller, i can add some nice citations, showing who i really am, what's my life phylosophy, etc. And that's not gonna be easy :D

[Buhammot]

I was thinkin... like where the user is displayed, that you can have a "User Specs" or something like that, Maybe even where the profile button is. For all practical purpose.. a link to the persons specs. Then again that might get a lil outta hand. Maybe just have basic info in 3 lines or less..

[jazztrumpet216]

Originally posted by Buhammot
I was thinkin... like where the user is displayed, that you can have a "User Specs" or something like that, Maybe even where the profile button is. For all practical purpose.. a link to the persons specs. Then again that might get a lil outta hand. Maybe just have basic info in 3 lines or less..

There is a place for system specs in the user profile.

[poMONKey]

so eobard, i guess the PMing before you wipe a sig is over, huh? i got NO pm about my sig being too long, nor has anyone complained about it. i understand the need to shorten sigs, obviously, but at least delete the whole sig WITHOUT leaving the stupid little message, as if ive been asked time and time again to shorten my sig and refuse.

my only crime is not reading the forum faqs and guidelines... ( take a poll to see how many members have ) if forums have a limit on the sig length, they usually put a cap on that particular text box in the code, so you cant go past the limit. if this puts you out of a "job", im sorry. but it sure would make more sense...

[Thelemac]

Just because nobody does it doesn't mean it's right.

It's your responsibility to know the rules. It's ours to enforce them.

As was the case when this policy was initially introduced, the problem has become rampant, and too much fixing has been needed for a PM to everybody involved to be practicle. Aside from the fact that many of them go unread, the number of PMs to be sent would be astronomical. As to the note, what would you prefer? Just removing the sig could be attributed to some kind of software glitch, which would mean you would just put your old sig back. When I just removed sigs without a note that occured more than a couple times.

We have rules. It's your resposibility to read them, it's our responsibility to enforce them. We don't get our jollies from doing so, it's just something that needs to be done, and those of us that do it are happy to find another way to contribute to the forums that we love.

Any software limitation on sigs that we have available to us isn't flexible or effective enough for our purposes, which is why we don't have one in place.

[Nebulous]

Ok, i dunno what happend to my sig. I followed the rules and even made my sig's font smaller so it would not exceed it's size, yet it gets deleted? What kind of BS is that?

First it was the Av's size, fine. Now it's the sig's size. How small must they be now? :rolleyes:

Next it's gonna be how many words will go in a post right?

This is getting way outta hand :mad:

[Thelemac]

We limit the extras, posts will never be limited.

I don't know what your sig was before, you can find the rules on them by following the "Sig Nazi" link in my sig.

Other than that, everything is answered either in this thread or the rules thread.

[Audioaficionado]

:confused: How hard can it be?

I sized my sig on a 800x600 screen with Mozilla Firebird so the lines wouldn't wrap and make extra lines. I think I have four lines to go if I wanted to add more. That would put me at 9.75 points.

[DeepSky]

I dunno if anyone even looks @ this thread any more and I sure as hell didnt read most of these pages but I just wanted to say that I was kind of disapointed that we couldnt use images as sigs, especially something like this:

My Simple Text Sig (http://www.surgi0.homestead.com/files/sig1.jpg)

[timzak]

I think we need to post a link on the Profile page with instructions on how to make small letters, etc in your sig. I just spent about 15 minutes hunting down a FAQ on how to do that because my sig is annoyingly long (in my own opinion!). If there was a FAQ or a link to a faq RIGHT AT THE PROFILE PAGE WHERE YOU INPUT YOUR SIG it would make life easier for everyone (especially dorks like me who don't know jack about changing font sizes, etc).

[Mr.Guvernment]

has this forum considered the hack that only allows someone signature to appear once per page? (not sure if i had mentioned that before in here)

[Mr.Guvernment]

Originally posted by DeepSky
I dunno if anyone even looks @ this thread any more and I sure as hell didnt read most of these pages but I just wanted to say that I was kind of disapointed that we couldnt use images as sigs, especially something like this:

My Simple Text Sig (http://www.surgi0.homestead.com/files/sig1.jpg)

the problem with images is bandwidth used = $$$ more money to run the server as every person who views your post has to download your image and it add's up! trust me! - i was going to run a sig hosting site and the numbers for a simple 100 people to use a 20k sig added up!

[Thelemac]

Actually, the problem with images is how badly they can be abused, and how much more distracting than text they can be.