A note about general size of signatures - Please read

[queenofthehivemomof5]

As many of you have noticed we recently got a whole boat load of new smileys uploaded to the site (Thank you youpdwhat for taking that on for me!) Mind you, these smileys are lots of fun, and since we do not allow users to use thier own images in signatures only smileys I wanted to take this opportunity to remind all member to keep thier signatures on the small size. There is a limit to how many characters you can use, but I am requesting that all users refrain from using some of our bigger smileys and bigger font sizes. Remember that there are member that are on dial up and these images take longer for thier page to load.

There is an option in your user control panel to disable signatures but since many members have their have/wish lists in them that is not always convenient to disable signatures.

That being said... if you find a member that's signature is getting out of hand size wise please PM me and LMK.

If your signature is reported as being too big expect a PM from me asking to knock it down in size. This is nothing personal, we just wish to make HCW a pleasant place for all.

And remember! No off site links are allowed in signatures unless your link is approved! To request approval of your off site link, please send a PM to sbp.

[groovewoman]

Haa, haa - I LOVE your quote! :BigHand:

[purplefdu]

I'm not sure whats considered excessive but some of the mods with 5+ lines and smileys tend to often be longer than their posts...which is annoying and simply not fair when the average member can't have more than three which can be extremely hard if you want to format the colors or fonts....

[mrsjschultz]

I'm not sure whats considered excessive but some of the mods with 5+ lines and smileys tend to often be longer than their posts...which is annoying and simply not fair when the average member can't have more than three which can be extremely hard if you want to format the colors or fonts....


I wanted to say that I TOTALLY agree with Purple on this one. I can think of several mods right off the top of my head that have the 5+ lines and the 5-6" font :rolleyes24:

[XUfan]

There is an option in your user control panel to disable signatures but since many members have their have/wish lists in them that is not always convenient to disable signatures.



I use this option, and it's really not that inconvenient. I just click on their user name, to bring up their profile. I've done it this way since I joined, so it's what I'm used to.

[bugface711]

I'm not sure whats considered excessive but some of the mods with 5+ lines and smileys tend to often be longer than their posts...which is annoying and simply not fair when the average member can't have more than three which can be extremely hard if you want to format the colors or fonts....

One of the benefits of being a mod is that we do get longer siggy's so we can include our personal things like all members have and board things as well.
The mods are trying to help the members get to know them and the forums they moderate to keep a personal touch to such a HUGE and growing board. The more forums they oversee, the more links you will see.

Many of our mods have faq's and helpful tips in their sigs as well.
So, it may seem unfair but Im pretty sure our sigs help many many members every day.

And, as said above, you do have the ability to disable sigs.

[purplefdu]

I'm not saying its not a benefit, but when I can't even fit three lines of text because of the character limit for formatting text its a bit uneven don''t you think? I had to take out everything else just to barely fit what I have now while mods can have rainbows of formatting, tons of links and smilies and row after row of text, with spaces between as they see fit. So maybe what I'm saying is the gap between grunt and mod is too large which makes it unfair?

[hotcouponmama]

Purplefdu, I think you have to look at what's in the signature, not just the size of it. Many of our mods, they have very limited personal stuff in their signature lines. Kristen's has 3 lines whereas the rest of the information is informational to the site. The links are redirects to other parts of the site that many new people find helpful.

I can understand your frustration, and I can see where some of them are a little large even for me to look at, most all the information correlates to what they do on the site or how they can get help. And because it's distinctive from general member's signatures, people do look at them and utilize them as resources. In a forum this large pushing nearly 1 million posts, having that information be easily accessible through people's signature line is not only a benefit to the mods who volunteer and literally put in hours for free to help others (a big sig line is a nomimal thanks when compared to what they do), but to a non-registered user who is reading through posts and they see the redirects, they can begin to better understand what we do, how the site operates, the "rules" if you will, and where the important information can be found.

It's not intended as a slight to general members at all.

[lensperson]

Sometimes the client computers are the cause of complaints.
Learning how to use Hypertext Markup Language is easy.
If one can drive a stick-shift, one can make it work.
Knitting and Crochet require the same set of skills that the best computer programmers use.
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"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making him hate me"
Booker T. Washington

[aclowers]

Sometimes the client computers are the cause of complaints.
Learning how to use Hypertext Markup Language is easy.
If one can drive a stick-shift, one can make it work.
Knitting and Crochet require the same set of skills that the best computer programmers use.
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"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making him hate me"
Booker T. Washington

Huh?:shrug7:
Are you offering lessons? :giggle2:

[queenofthehivemomof5]

That being said... if you find a member that's signature is getting out of hand size wise please PM me and LMK.


This applies to mods as well....if you think someones signature is really out there LMK and I will ask them to knock it down a bit. We have spoken to mods about signature sizes before.

BUT I will say that part of the benifits of being a mod is a larger signature size limit.

Mods are not paid...so we try to give them some perks above the other members for thier time and efforts that they do to help HCW and keep it running smoothly. So if you want a bigger signature...consider applying to be a mod!

[SchwoomsMom]

I don't think there is anything wrong with the mod's having a larger siggy, they have other things they have to put in their posts regarding their forum, rules and other info, plus, they should have the same lines available for their own personal use as everyone else. That said, if a mod was using all their lines for their hl and wl, tons of huge smilies and the like, it get's a little unfair.

I am one of the members that uses dial-up. It can take a LONG time for pages to load, but it'll take longer to open up yet another page to get to the profile and then the hl/wl, so I choose not to disable the siggys.

Looking at some of the siggys, Bugface's (gonna use you as an example, since you've posted here...) siggy is well proportioned, and contains mostly text, thus not taking any more time to load. For me, it's the smilies that take the long time. I'm very appreciative that the members are limited to a certain size, and number of smilies.

Quite honestly, one of the icons that really slows things down is the "hcw approved" thingie. It is the last thing that pops up when my page finally loads... Is there any possible way to make that thing smaller??? :shrug7:

This is just my 3 pennies.

(Thanks Kristen, I really appreciate, as a dial-upper, that your siggy doesn't "take advantage" of the greater mod limits in such a way that it makes it difficult to get things done in a timely fashion.:BigHand:)

:smile:BTW, I pointed out Kristen because of the general size of her siggy. The other admin/mod siggys in this thread are relatively small in size and can't be used as an example for my purpose.

[manders13]

not that it matters,

But even on OPening up a thread that the page of posts has alot of smilies... :-/ it takes a bit longer.. no clue why

[sbp]

Just a reminder that when you're changing out your signature, sometimes it's best to just erase everything and start from scratch.

When you make a simple change like for a font size or a color, it often will keep the previous color information as well so you might have something that looks like this, and it uses up valuable space in your character limit.

[color= navy ][color = red][size =2] your text [/color ] [/size ] [/color ]


when this is all you really need (in this instance) [color = red][size =2] your text [/color ] [/size ]

[hotcouponmama]

not that it matters,

But even on OPening up a thread that the page of posts has alot of smilies... :-/ it takes a bit longer.. no clue why

When people's smilies and pictures and things aren't hosted here on the site, they take longer because our server has to make a request to their server, and if their server is slow, it slows the whole process down. So all the photobucket images and things.....we're waiting on photobucket to send over the image.

[goodncheap]

I guess I'm a moron. I don't even know HOW to put that cute stuff in at the bottom! Anyway, I enjoy all you guys' stuff, especially the Beavis & Butthead.

[bugface711]

I guess I'm a moron. I don't even know HOW to put that cute stuff in at the bottom! Anyway, I enjoy all you guys' stuff, especially the Beavis & Butthead.


Go to your user CP link... its in the top left corner. then click edit siggy. A text box will pop up... once you join the trader user group.. see my sigyy.:whistle: you can put your WL link in there...

and you can put your name etc.

[Lindseyjarenjayden]

well Im late but I will say this when I was a new and still to this day I have clicked on a mods siggy learning new things about HCW but I have dsl so I don't see a difference.

Ok thats my 2 cents. LOL ;)

[Saving_spree]

Not used to that...

[shelleyf]

This applies to mods as well....if you think someones signature is really out there LMK and I will ask them to knock it down a bit. We have spoken to mods about signature sizes before.

BUT I will say that part of the benifits of being a mod is a larger signature size limit.

Mods are not paid...so we try to give them some perks above the other members for thier time and efforts that they do to help HCW and keep it running smoothly. So if you want a bigger signature...consider applying to be a mod!

You are so right.:smile: I think it is very fair for Mods to have this little perk. Mods spend alot of time making sure things are running properly on here and I appreciate all the hard work and dedication to the members and HCW. I LOL when you said for someone to consider being a Mod...now that's a good idea for a comeback.