Setting signature limits

[Sazar]

after a fair deal of scrolling through a couple of threads with just a handful of posts i decided to put this out there...

people who have vertical signatures should be forced to comply with a limit of a certain number of lines...

it is no fun scrolling through a thread with a couple of people both with signatures around 10-15 lines tall...

case in point...

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=31994

scroll down about 3 or 4 posts and you will see what I mean...

perhaps a limit of 5-6 lines of vertical text will suffice coz that should be enough to hold most pertinent data... or a horizontal scroller...

[saturnotaku]

Couldn't agree more, Saz.

[Son Goku]

Yeah, signiture lengths should be within reason, and other posters do need to scroll down through the page to read.

In the case of that post, if the user would kindly put the sig in a smaller font size, and put more then one item on a line...it would be less to scroll through...

[UDawg]

we have a thread like this once a year but I agree also. My sig rox and ed it a Commie.

[ChrisRay]

Is my sig too long? :|

[Sazar]

Is my sig too long? :|

well I am on my gf's laptop right now and she has lower res... your sig takes up about 1/3rd of the screen (under the logo) in the thread.. its still not as bad as some of the sigs in the link I provided.. the cam dude's sig takes up over half the screen on this display (she has a smaller screen on the laptop)

[saturnotaku]

Is my sig too long? :|

Since you use a smaller font for most of it, I would say not. But yours is pretty close to the maximum that most of us would like to see.

I'm still glad we don't allow pics here. :)

[vampireuk]

Yeah huge sigs like that are rediculous, oi JuiceZ wake up! :p

[SH64]

Good point Sazar ... sometimes sigs become longer than the original post !

[MUYA]

what about mine :D

[Sazar]

what about mine :D

:cool:

yer just compensating for something...

[Clay]

MUYA can have a 14' long sig for all I care. :D *shaddap Gib* :D

Oh and Chris, I think yours is fine but it might be nice to shore it up a bit by removing some of the line breaks.

[ricercar]

It's plain silly when the sig is longer than the post it's attached to. Shows more interest in advertizing the self than in responding to the thread.

Besides, does anyone bother to read a sig when it's simply a list of gear? I know I don't. Personally I'd rather read a dissenting political opinion than a shopping list.

[Clay]

Besides, does anyone bother to read a sig when it's simply a list of gear? I know I don't.Not every time, of course not. The purpose of listing gear is for the benefit of those that you may be responding to with technical/benchmarking/gaming/troubleshooting questions, etc.

[SH64]

what about mine :D

Your sig is a good story to read before bed time :D :p

[DaveW]

I was thinking about posting this myself.

I think an appropriate SIG would be 2 lines. One your system specs, and the other a favorite quote or something.

When I say system specs I mean the basic specs. Putting system specs in your sig is useful for diagnosis of problems. E.g. if game X runs really slow or crashes on my PC and you say "it works fine for me", then I look in your sig for what your specs are. Sig specs should be functional and not a space for bragging about your PC. For this purpose, sig specs should include....

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Your CPU model and speed and possible your overclocked speed, e.g. "P4 2.8 @ 3.2". I really don't care what stepping it is or what water cooler you have on it.

Your motherboard manufacturer and model number, this can be relevant to PC stability issues.

The amount of system ram and its type e.g. "1 Gig DDR 400". I don't care if you have dual channel enabled or not.

Your graphics card chipset, model, maybe amount of ram, possibly your _normal_ o/c speeds (not the o/c speeds you had it at once for 5 minutes) e.g. "9800 Pro 128 @ 330/315". Perhaps too the drivers you are running (aslong as you don't mind updating your sig all the time).

Your model sound card e.g. "Audigy 2", this is very relevant to troubleshooting stability issues, sound problems in games (particularly w/ 5.1 speakers), and performance problems.

Perhaps the make and wattage of your PSU. This can be relevant to system stability if you have one of the newer graphics cards.

Your O/S version and perhaps the service pack e.g. "WinXP SP2"

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What we DON'T need to read again and again in your sig are:

The type of airforce grade aluminum case you have.

The model of your L33T cordless optical mouse or your glow-in-the-dark cordless keyboard.

Your monitor... yes its cool that you have a 21 inch LCD with a 10 ms refresh rate, but the rest of us don't need to be constantly reminded of it.

The model number of your 1500 dollar speaker set.

Your CD and DVD drives.

The model, capacity and raid configuration of your harddrives. Other than the basic "my disk is full" problem, drive size is irrelevant to gaming.

The color of any component. I don't care if your monitor matches your case. Its not relevant to me.

The full complete specs of the secondary, tertiary and home office PCs you have, as well as the old 386 linux box you have in the corner.

[vampireuk]

:lol:

[Clay]

That was great DaveW :rofl

[UDawg]

:cool:

yer just compensating for something...

You should know cheeky monkeh :spank:

[DiscipleDOC]

You should know cheeky monkeh :spank:
:rofl

That's too funny!

[Sazar]

You should know cheeky monkeh :spank:

:angel2:

I know you know too numbnuts...

:bash:

[UDawg]

/blushes.

Well, MUYA get around. What can I say?

[ChrisRay]

MUYA can have a 14' long sig for all I care. :D *shaddap Gib* :D

Oh and Chris, I think yours is fine but it might be nice to shore it up a bit by removing some of the line breaks.


It was fine until I highlighted my threads, Guess I wont advertise them anymore :(

[Clay]

what do you mean "highlighted", I think it looks fine :)

[ChrisRay]

what do you mean "highlighted", I think it looks fine :)


Well I added them to my sig, I also have my secone PC in my sig which people dont seem to like. :|