The official TAO forums signature boycotting thread

[plusminus]

Signatures suck. They're full of stupid quotes, endless lines of text, really large pictures you get sick of seeing over and over again, and that take forever to load thanks to slow free image hosts. They disrupt the flow of threads that somehow manage to stay on-topic. They're ugly as sin.

I've had signatures turned off here a week after joining; due to the increasing insanity found in people's sigs, others are starting to follow.

This thread will be dedicated to people who are sick of all the signature crap.

As a sidenote, there are a select few times I actually want to see people's signatures. This is quite easy to do (for me at least, in Mozilla Firefox. If someone could confirm that it works in IE it would be appreciated.) Normally my URL looks like http://www.tacticsarena.com/forum/ and a cookie is stored for that domain with my user profile. When I want to see a thread with sigs in it, I just change the url to http://tacticsarena.com/forum/ which is treated as another domain entirely, with another set of cookies. I end up looking through the thread as a guest user, and by default, guests are set to view sigs.

WHAT TO DO:
1) Click the user cp button
2) Edit Profile
3) change your signature to something VERY SMALL, that points to this thread. See mine for an example. Click Sumbit Modifications.
4) Edit options
5) About midway down, you find Show user's signatures in their posts? Set this to no. Click Sumbit Modifications.
6) Post here.

Whether it be because you hate sigs in general, or you just think there are too many out of hand... join. You know you want to.

EDIT: Oddly enough, I can't get my tiny signature to show up. Fitting. Perhaps it would be better without it, though harder to get people to sign up...
EDIT 2: OK, it's in post #2. I guess they're just not as dynamic as I thought.

[plusminus]

People Against Signatures That Annoy: (mm, pasta..)

plusminus
thrdflrmshr
T3km4n
ChingyDTP
cs_zero
nads
SHADOW619
K~A~M
Duffman

DivineRight, maybe? :)

Where's your name?

[ChingyDTP]

w00t i'm gonna join you :D

[Serge]

I took out my sig for awhile, I felt like I was mimicking DR, so I got this new beautiful Mega Man banner! Long live sigs!

[DivineRight]

NO SIGNATURE 4-LIFE! :D

[siva1979]

Originally posted by plusminus
They're ugly as sin.

hahaha you said ugly as sin

[Hugh Junit]

I don't see anything wrong with signatures. They're just a way for members to have a little fun in the forums. Jesus, people, lighten up!:cool:

[thrdflrmshr]

Excellent thread, plusminus. I have edited my signature accordingly. Also, that neat trick with the different domains works well in Safari (not that anyone cares, but it is an excellent web browser).

Hugh, the sigs are meant for fun, but when they start hindering the actual content of the threads, it gets a little annoying. No one has to turn them off, but this thread is for those of us enlightened enough to realize that signatures and banners are horrendously ugly and serve no other purpose than to be a hugely gaudy reminder of the bad graphics editing skills of most of the members here.

What we need is a sort of manifesto; some kind of tenet that demands the implementation of signature size limits; not through mere suggestion, but a heavily enforced law.

Viva la sig resistance!

[DeadFishGuy]

My sig is my way of expressing creativity. I'm keeping it.

However, I do partially agree. Siggies can get in the way. Thus, I used [size=1] tags to reduce my sig size. I also took away some of the spaces between the lines.

See?
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[Dark*Demon]

so your saying take out sigs? well im going to do anti anti sigs

[xyxaxyz2]

Without sigs, it is too easy to miss small posts.

[DeadFishGuy]

Originally posted by xyxaxyz2
Without sigs, it is too easy to miss small posts.

DivineRight is the most important man here, and you can barely see where he posted.

That's not right.

[Tama Drummer]

Not really because every post has a different color background.

I joined the resitance yesterday. But I still keep my sig up.

[thrdflrmshr]

See?
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No, I don't.

Without sigs, it is too easy to miss small posts.
If avatars are turned on, all posts become the same size, unless they are more than a few lines long. Of course, those without avatars are slightly smaller, but they are no smaller than they would be if sigs were turned on. In fact, I'd say that smaller posts by those with no signature are swallowed up more easily with signatures turned on.

[DeadFishGuy]

Originally posted by thrdflrmshr
No, I don't.

So you assumed it was always like that?

W00t! I'm being ignored again!

[thrdflrmshr]

Originally posted by DeadFishGuy
So you assumed it was always like that?

W00t! I'm being ignored again!
No, I just have signatures turned off, so I can't see what you're talking about. However, I looked again, and I still think it's too big. Too much text. Maybe if you shortened the line about the units to:

A collection of genuine, 100% real, absolutely honest-to-god screenshots of the new units!!
*Note: units may not be real.

[Hugh Junit]

I'm much more concerned with mindless posts, useless threads and spamming, than I am with what someone has in their signature. In all honesty, what does it matter? Big, small, one quote, 2 quotes, it doesn't affect the frequency or quality of my posts. Oh well, to each their own.

[theburning]

Originally posted by xyxaxyz2
Without sigs, it is too easy to miss small posts.

It's only currently easy to miss small posts due to most people having signatures that are 10 times larger than their actual post.

[xyxaxyz2]

If everyone has moderate sized sigs, every post becomes more distinct and therefore easier to read.

[DeadFishGuy]

Originally posted by thrdflrmshr
No, I just have signatures turned off, so I can't see what you're talking about. However, I looked again, and I still think it's too big. Too much text. Maybe if you shortened the line about the units to:

A collection of genuine, 100% real, absolutely honest-to-god screenshots of the new units!!
*Note: units may not be real.

Oh, sorry.

I went one step further and got rid of the text alltogether. No-one reads it anyway.


I kept the banner because I use it to to help me find where I posted on a thread. I just look for something that's bright green with a picture of a pilot on it. (Specifically, Eagle from Advance Wars.)

It's not just for show, it has practical use too.

[thrdflrmshr]

Originally posted by xyxaxyz2
If everyone has moderate sized sigs, every post becomes more distinct and therefore easier to read.
And that's exactly what this thread is about.

[T3km4n]

Originally posted by Hugh Junit
I'm much more concerned with mindless posts, useless threads and spamming, than I am with what someone has in their signature. In all honesty, what does it matter? Big, small, one quote, 2 quotes, it doesn't affect the frequency or quality of my posts. Oh well, to each their own.
Hugh, check out the us marins and us army are leaving thread. That's what got me angry and then I was just angry at everything...including sigs. Well, anyways, plus did not mean for you to take out your own sig, I think he meant for you to just turn off sigs from your user cp...seeing as how I'm on that list and I still have my sig...

[the hitman]

why wouldnt u want to have sigs there a way to express yourself and have some fun. im all 4 signatures.

[xyxaxyz2]

Originally posted by thrdflrmshr
And that's exactly what this thread is about.

No, this thread is about no sigs at all.

[Eagle]

I think what he ment was, thats this threads purpose. It's aiming to get peoples sigs down to a moderate size...

[Dark*Demon]

Originally posted by the hitman
why wouldnt u want to have sigs there a way to express yourself and have some fun. im all 4 signatures.
u stole the game spy icon to put on your banner stealing icons o u were busted

[Itzphill]

but i have no siggy how will pepes kno i am the new shrub/furgon master???

[plusminus]

Originally posted by xyxaxyz2
Without sigs, it is too easy to miss small posts.

Originally posted by DeadFishGuy
DivineRight is the most important man here, and you can barely see where he posted.

That's not right.

Actually it's only hard to miss small posts from people with no sigs, when everyone else has giant signatures. It drowns them out. Disabling sigs, the only big posts are the ones with a lot to say. And it's easy to focus on every small post because they just come one after the other, with no glaring banners interrupting the flow.

Originally posted by Hugh Junit
I'm much more concerned with mindless posts, useless threads and spamming, than I am with what someone has in their signature. In all honesty, what does it matter? Big, small, one quote, 2 quotes, it doesn't affect the frequency or quality of my posts. Oh well, to each their own.

It does not affect the quality of posts, no. It does affect the quality of the thread overall though. And yes, mindless posts and useless threads are a pain too, hence the ignore list...

Originally posted by the hitman
why wouldnt u want to have sigs there a way to express yourself and have some fun. im all 4 signatures.

Yes they are, however it's quite easy to express yourself with the content in your actual posts. And I'm actually more concerned with reading discussions that take place in threads than with absorbing all this free creative expression.

Originally posted by xyxaxyz2
No, this thread is about no sigs at all.

A boycott is generally a way of protesting something. If you boycott a company, it's often because you don't like their business practices. If that gets them to change then you often stop the boycott.

Originally posted by Itzphill
but i have no siggy how will pepes kno i am the new shrub/furgon master???

You'll just have to start pwning them in games. Easy enough, right?

EDIT: I just browsed the thread with signatures on. If everyone had a sig like xyxaxyz2 there would be no problem whatsoever. Those of DeadFishGuy and Tama Drummer, while having images are slightly big for my tastes, are certainly acceptable as well.

Join.

[xyxaxyz2]

I don't care. Boycott sigs all you want. I don't think anyone with a sig needs your viewing. :cool:

I don't. If you don't want to read my sig, don't. :)

[siva1979]

Even if you don't like sigs, you've gotta like mine! John Frusciante! One of the greatest guitarists ever! gah.... sorry... well if you don't like sigs, don't read them.... I usually just skip over reading someone's signature and just go on reading the next post... although some of these banners you guys make are pretty cool.

[Hugh Junit]

Originally posted by xyxaxyz2

If you don't want to read my sig, don't. :)

This pretty much sums it up, for me. I have no problem with people " boycotting " whatever they want. If you don't like sigs, don't use one. That's well within your rights. However, I like my banner and my quote. I've had the banner a long time and my quote has been there since my register date. I don't want to have to give them up just because people have decided to start a new fad. Honestly, I find this whole thing ricidulous.

[Tama Drummer]

Meh, you can take me off the "list" since I turned them on again.

What I normally do is look to signature to see who is posting. If there is some signature of a noob that I see, I usually will just scroll right past it. Also I just like to see MOST of the banners that are out there.

[Elentari]

Originally posted by thrdflrmshr
signatures and banners are horrendously ugly and serve no other purpose than to be a hugely gaudy reminder of the bad graphics editing skills of most of the members here.

Excuse me? I like a lot of the banners here, mine included. I don't think the majority of them are as bad as you make them out to be. I'm not going to turn off banners, because that's often how I recognize someone. I admit, there is the avatar, but if I'm scrolling fast, say looking for where I left off in a thread, then I need banners to help me differentiate. I think it's a shame not to be able to see some of the very cool banners that show up on occasion, because I find it fun to look at them, and I think the person deserves at least that it gets looked at. I mean, what's the point if everyone is just going to turn banners off?

Now, there are several large an obnoxious banners, but not that many! Sheesh. The good outweighs the bad, at least for me.

[T3km4n]

Ah, whatever, I'm probably going to turn banners back on, because, you know, Ele is right, isn't she always? So, I guess the good outweighs the bad and we could just tell people with banners to big to make them smaller, but my thread about that is uber-flamed!

[Swartzstrom]

I guess what Elentari means by large obnoxious banners is the time when I got my FF7 banner and had to ask 3rd to shrink it. Remember 3rd?

By the way, how can you not like my banner? It's cool! I like looking at Elentari's banner too, it's cool too! And my quote makes perfect sense!

[thrdflrmshr]

This thread is just about people who don't feel like scrolling through humongous banners to read threads.

Admittedly, there are some great banners on this forum. I just don't care enough for them to scroll through the crap. To each his own.

[ck1]

Is this better?

[ck1]

Ill make it smaller if i knew how to make the text smaller, and if someone would photoshop my banner smaller.

[T3km4n]

You could take out the [QUOTE] tags...

[blazedaces]

I'm sorry. But you have to admit my sig rocks... it screams hotness!

[T3km4n]

I could size that up for you if you want...

[Tama Drummer]

Originally posted by blazedaces
I'm sorry. But you have to admit my sig rocks... it screams hotness!

No it definately does not.

I can't even understand the background thing (sword?) and the text is even harder to read. To me it's just a huge black box with a bunch of annoying colors on it.

[ck1]

Originally posted by T3km4n
I could size that up for you if you want...

Me? If me, then yes.

[Tama Drummer]

Why do you want your banner smaller ck1? It seems fine to me, your sig is good size. But if you want... I believe I still have it saved as in the program I made it in, so I could re-size it better than anyone else probably could.

But what do you want it to be? Shorter length-wise or width-wise? Or both?


And I believe t3k was talking to blazedaces.

[Serge]

Yeah, blazed, you're avatar is cool, but your banner is horrendus.

[Duffman]

I agree (about blazed's huge banner). I would also like to pay homage to third's banner. It was one of the best and i'm sad to see it go.

[T3km4n]

Duff, I've noticed that sometimes your banner he is actually writing it, but sometimes it is just always there...

[thrdflrmshr]

If anyone wants to carry on the C&H banner, I will be glad to give you the URL for it. If people want me to have it back, I'll put it back. I just won't see it.

[Duffman]

yes please put it back third.

T3k - Yeah i've been going through the frames and deleteing the writing... it's hard long work so i'm not done and it's tough to get motivated to do it... It's getting there though.

[Elentari]

Oh please put it back! I love the C & H banner!!!

[thrdflrmshr]

Done. By the way, Duffman, that's a lovely vow. You're a ladykiller! That happened on my birthday, too!!

Keep at it with the banner; it looks really good.

[Duffman]

Why thank you third. I'm sure any girl would fall for your C&H comics too :p.

EDIT - How did you see it without signatures turned on?

[thrdflrmshr]

Originally posted by Duffman
EDIT - How did you see it without signatures turned on?
My little secret. Actually, it's plusminus's secret. I used "www.tacticsarena.com" as my domain, which meant I was not logged in as thrdflrmshr. I was checking my own signature to make sure it was displaying properly for those of you who have not joined.

[MokoToko]

i use signatures as a way to recognize people, i dont really read names most of the time

my siggy is big-boned i cant do anyhting about it:D

[DeadFishGuy]

Originally posted by MokoToko
i use signatures as a way to recognize people, i dont really read names most of the time

my siggy is big-boned i cant do anyhting about it:D

Yes you can.

Put it on a strict diet of [size=1] tags.

And no chocolate for a month.

[Walrus]

sigs rock, especially ones which broadcast my unit archive in them.


teh walrus haz zpokken

[ck1]

Tama, I just want it small like Duffmans.

thanks!

[ArcPaladinZero]

You can obviously tell which side I'm in favor of. The problem is not sigs in general it's the under-moderation of them and the overuse of them. Limits that have been set need to be enforced. If a few examples are made of people, everyone else will surely fall in line accordingly. Those are my thoughts. I'm APZ and I approve this post.

[Jeffery]

I have seen ones (and had some) siggy's that were to big.

And the staff has warned some people about some and had them downsize it. I have also seen polite reminders to have banners and siggy's shrinked by the owner.

But in the end, i don't think it truly affects the game play, so while a mod taking some time to do ask people to limit it, having staff do it is unresonable expectation.

[ArcPaladinZero]

Well the forum for myself has become independent of the game. I'm not asking the game mods, maybe there should be just forum mods that have nothing to do with the actual game. Those that dedicate full time to the forum. I know that might sound a bit strange but some people, such as myself, just come to the forum and not play the game.

[ck1]

I think that people like APZ, Jeffery, and me:D should be JUST forum mods. Being a mod in the game would be crazy.

[Serge]

Man, I must of had some bad gyoza, I thought I just saw ck1 nominate himself as forum mod. *Shakes head* Nah, couldn't uh bin.

[ck1]

Notice the :D. I was kidding. But APZ and Jeffery really should be forum mods.

[MANSLAUGHTER1]

nothings wrong with signatures maybe accept mine tho its a bit screwed up

[ck1]

2 words MANSLAUGHTER: Punctuation and Capitalization.

[thrdflrmshr]

Or one word: Grammar.

[DeadFishGuy]

And spelling, don't forget spelling.

[S_K_O_F]

blazed...you definately need a new sig.

i can barely read your letters and it takes up like 5 inches of space

get a new pic man

[K~A~M]

I LIKE signatures! I think they are quite fun!
I'm not really flaming your organisation, but.......okay, so maybe I kind of am..... If you're against siggies, um.......
uh.....
well.......
ah, whatever, I'm joining too.
besides, my banners suck.

[thrdflrmshr]

Originally posted by DeadFishGuy
And spelling, don't forget spelling.
Is spelling not part of grammar?

[cs_zero]

Indeed it is.

Long Live The Sig Resistance!!!

[Serge]

*Points at sig*

[cs_zero]

whose mine or yours, and i can see them so tell me what ur pointing at too:D

[Serge]

Mine, if you look at it, you'd know what I'm talking about.

[cs_zero]

u will be crushed by the resistance, the same way megamanX gets crushed my Zero.
( if u dont like Megaman X then it would be protoman doing the crushing to the old school megaman.)

[DeadFishGuy]

Originally posted by thrdflrmshr
Is spelling not part of grammar?

No. I think grammar is the use of the right words at the right time. Or something.

Why is you not for to liking me?

There's an example. The spelling is perfect, but the grammar is crap.

[thrdflrmshr]

Well, spelling could be one aspect of grammar. Likewise, this example has horrific spelling but correct "grammar" (in the sense you define it as.)

Wy doo u not lik me?

From this rather extensive definition on dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=grammar), it seems as though spelling can technically be part of grammar. See the definitions that refer to structural correctness. Spelling seems to be an integral part of the structure of language, no?

[Bottle]

If someone has a signature three times as long as his average post size, that is stupid. But a reasonably sized siggy is no problem. Doing away with siggies altogether would remove a lot of the personality of the forums.

[roamingstorm]

i think my signature is too large, but i see no reason to shorten it either, if you have a problem with it make yours bigger because for about the next week it wil stay hte same size

[MokoToko]

roaming, u should get rid of the space between stuff, waaay too much

cs_zero, you know u r promoting the sig resistance in your sig....thats redundant and hypocritical....

[nads]

Originally posted by plusminus
People Against Signatures That Annoy: (mm, pasta..)

plusminus
thrdflrmshr
T3km4n
ChingyDTP
cs_zero

DivineRight, maybe? :)

Where's your name?

Where am I on this list? Turn your signatures on for a minute and read my stupid banner. If that's not antisignature, I don't know what is.

[Bottle]

Banners can be overrated; signatures are not.

[Walrus]

my banner cannot be overrated. it is simply too good. even if u rated it 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 999999 that wouldnt be enough

[Bottle]

I'd rate it 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 999999, certainly.

99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 999999 out of 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000.

[plusminus]

Originally posted by nads
Where am I on this list? Turn your signatures on for a minute and read my stupid banner. If that's not antisignature, I don't know what is.

The reason you weren't on before is because I didn't see you banner, and you hadn't posted in here. Fixed!

[nads]

Ahhh, thank ya very much :)

[cs_zero]

Originally posted by MokoToko
cs_zero, you know u r promoting the sig resistance in your sig....thats redundant and hypocritical....
if ur talking about the quote from third, it gone now, if ur talking about the link, that is supposed to be there, read the very first post of this thread.

[cs_zero]

*bump* the resistance is fadeing people, plz come and fight with us.
VIVA LA SIG RESITANCE

[Bottle]

This thread is pointless. Let it die.

[Twelve]

Originally posted by Bottle
This thread is pointless. Let it die.

Bottle, I thought you were smarter than this. Now because of you, this thread will never die.

12

[Bottle]

Why not?

[Twelve]

Because threads NEVER die once you say they should. I mean, look at me keeping it alive.

12

[DKR]

Yes...

You never replied to my pm Twelve :(

[Twelve]

Er....didn't get a uh...*cough*...chance. Get right on it. After I beat Wack-Head.

12

[thrdflrmshr]

Originally posted by Bottle
If someone has a signature three times as long as his average post size, that is stupid. But a reasonably sized siggy is no problem. Doing away with siggies altogether would remove a lot of the personality of the forums.
Why not let personality show through posts, instead of mundane groups of words underneath posts? An avatar can identify, but I would much rather someone judge me on the content of my posts than on the relevance of a quote or the quality of an image.

Originally posted by cs_zero
if ur talking about the quote from third, it gone now, if ur talking about the link, that is supposed to be there, read the very first post of this thread.
A quote of mine? Which one?

[plusminus]

For those of you that didn't see this in the announcements forum:

http://www.tacticsarena.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9458

[cs_zero]

Originally posted by thrdflrmshr

A quote of mine? Which one?
VIVA LA SIG RESISTANCE!

[thrdflrmshr]

:) That was posted on one of the signature rating threads.

[Cavour]

Sigs are for winners.

[Lord Achilles]

I believe mine is fine. It's simple, to the point, and most importantly, it's small.

[Cavour]

Yeah, mines kinda too big, but I think SeventhSeal may be making me a new banner, so that should clear up soon. :)

[plusminus]

Originally posted by Lord Achilles
I believe mine is fine. It's simple, to the point, and most importantly, it's small.

Absolutely. Also it looks good unlike some of the other ones around here. But I guess hoping to teach style is a bit too much, so I'll settle for space considerations.

[Shaman]

Originally posted by plusminus
Signatures suck.

Original Sig Reduction Request (http://www.tacticsarena.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5126)


I enjoy a witty, coherent, and/or imaginative sig
Other successful boards set regulations in graphic size and # of lines. Their Mods then pass out warnings and then suspensions. People very quickly come in line.

Stratics Guidelines (http://boards.stratics.com/rules/uo_roc.php)

Please adhere to the following restriction for images that are not directly related to the topic of the thread under discussion:
- Maximum size of image file(s): 35k
- Maximum height of image(s): 125 pixels
- Maximum width of image(s): 600 pixels

Not responding to or ignoring moderator warnings can lead to suspension.

[thrdflrmshr]

I have slightly reduced my signature image. You might have to clear your cache to see the effect, because it shares the same name as the older version.

[ArcPaladinZero]

Free banner! Here it is! (http://www.uploadyourimages.com/img/405181yournamebyapz.gif) This is just fighting your little resistance. :cool:

If anyone wants it just pm me and I'll set up the colors you want and put your name in. Bwa ha ha.

[thrdflrmshr]

Well, at least it's small.

[ArcPaladinZero]

I follow guidelines. ;)

[Shaman]

*bump*
people read mega-threads more often than they read announcements.

[DeadFishGuy]

Ok we really need to get a punishment for oversized banners.

Look what I found:
http://www.tacticsarena.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=172079#post172079

I suggest, get the siggy content deleted, and no siggy editing for 2 weeks. Or something.

[cs_zero]

wow, that thing was huge....the resistance should definatly jump him, delete his banner, then throw oranges at him.

[Bottle]

I think we're getting too carried away here. Oranges?!?!? That's just evil. Throw cheese at him.

[T3km4n]

Bottle has a very valid point here... (http://img35.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img35&image=own.jpg)

[thrdflrmshr]

Originally posted by Bottle
I think we're getting too carried away here. Oranges?!?!? That's just evil. Throw cheese at him.
I don't think you ever explained your fascination with cheese. Please, share with us.

[ck1]

I had a HUGE banner once, but I only had it for like 2 minutes.

[cs_zero]

are u just gonna put that link everywhere tek?? (http://img43.exs.cx/img43/9075/owntek.jpg) :rolleyes:

[K~A~M]

Okay, I joined your thing.
See? I dont have a dumb sig with bad banners anymore...
Oh wait you couldn't see them :( lol

[Omega_Paladin]

I am all in favor of banning everyones banner but mine.



Because mines cool.

[SlipknotiCX]

Don't make me bring back my big floppy donkey dick banner to eat yours >_<!

And to the whole boycotting thing. Stupid. Respectable....but jus stupid.

[Dark*Demon]

this is a bunch of anti sig people who want to take away our freedom well i will get away from you guys I WILL!!!!

[Omega_Paladin]

*shoots dark in the buttock*

[thrdflrmshr]

I don't think "stupid" is the right word. Maybe "less cluttered and easier to read" would be more fitting.

[Dark*Demon]

well lets go with this Anti resitence anti-resitence anti resitence!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SlipknotiCX]

I personally would rather sigs and banner and yadda yadda...huge, small it doesn't matter to me. I like seeing peoples work and their likes and dislikes without having to do a profile on em.

[Serge]

"Jesus!...Sephiroth666 you have a huge banner!"

When I saw that I seriously laughed until I cryed. In my defense, the fact that it's really hot and my AC is broken, my have made me delirous...

[Duffman]

Third... Incase you didn't know i got my banner fixeded so it's proper now... I'm not sure if you knew because of the 'resistance'.

[plusminus]

*takes look*

Yep, that's pretty good. Thanks Duff.

[Jeffery]

I went a different route. I just set my options to never show banners, just the links to them.

Loads much faster.

[plusminus]

Essentially the same idea, Jeffrey. Though I guess it's easier to view images, at the expense of having text-heavy sigs still take up a lot of space.

[Jeffery]

Yeah. But i can load the text a hell of a lot easier then images.

[Duffman]

I'm rather embarressed to say this... But... I've joined the resistance.

I'm sorry... I just felt it was time...

and i gotta admit. I like not seeing them.

*wanders off to the dark side*

[cs_zero]

Congradtulations!!

[Jeffery]

I find it silly that people listed in your resistance have retarded signatured themselves.
What good is it to say siggy's are stupid, and have one yourself. If you were smart , you would start by removing your own siggy.

But i guess.............

[cs_zero]

i did take mine out.

[Jeffery]

No. You still have a siggy/

[cs_zero]

i have a very little siggy, and it is an awsome one at that.

[Kalamady]

SIGGYS 4 LIFE!!!1111!!1!11oneone!!11!!!!!

[plusminus]

I realize the irony Jeffrey. However there is reasoning behind it.

a) some of the people on the list actually like signatures. They are just overwhelmed by the hugeness of some, and find it easier to read the forums without them.

b) I, as well as others, have a link to this thread in order to avoid perpetually bumping it. It's a small a sig as one could hope for.

c) some people really do have cool signatures or banners, such as thrdflrmshr, that follow all trimmed-down guidelines.

[-=Demontamer=-]

SIGGYS SIGGYS SIGGYS SIGGYS SIGGYS !!!!!!!111!!1111TWO TWO TWO!!!!!@222222

[Jeffery]

plusminus, I was refering to people you have listed that have both banners, and large text file. Take a better look at those who supposedly folow your cause.

[plusminus]

Point taken Jeffrey.

To all anti-signature people: please pay attention! Just because you're shutting off signatures is no excuse to not trim yours down. If anything, it's a reason to keep it small.

more developments coming soon...

[imagination]

i have to admit that mine is somewhat large but its just things i like ... a sig tells you about someone

[Kalamady]

Siggy's are awesome man. Why would anyone want to boycott them? They make these forums much more interesting than just the plain old "topics."

[Jeffery]

Originally posted by imagination
i have to admit that mine is somewhat large but its just things i like ... a sig tells you about someone

Yes, but telling people a whole lot of nothing can be accomplished much easier by not telling them to begin with. Your siggy has 2 banners, and an overly large text portion. One or the other would be better than both.

[imagination]

yes my siggy has 2 banners ... one a clan banner and 2 the floating woot. both of them i love my siggy also has something im proud of, it says in my very first 4 days of playing i was over the 1000 mark. some players boast that they can do it in a day but my question to them was how long did it take them the first time. my siggy also has an ingame quote by knowledge, you can read it, and see that it is pretty funny. i have a pole vault website because that is one of the few things in this world that i truely love with all my heart, if pole vault didnt exist then i would be extremely bored in life. last i have a pointless comment that i aggree i could take out, but by reading it you can also tell a little more about my personality, if you hadnt read some of my 600 some posts you would still know something about how i think and what those posts whatever they were would have been like.

[nads]

Originally posted by plusminus
Point taken Jeffrey.

To all anti-signature people: please pay attention! Just because you're shutting off signatures is no excuse to not trim yours down. If anything, it's a reason to keep it small.

more developments coming soon...

Was this in reference to me? I could tone mine down some, that's not a problem. I kind of like mine big to better simulate those with overdone banners. And in recent developments, has anyone seen T3km4n 's new banner? I could be wrong guys, but I think he's targeting that one at me. We need to get him in here to post, but you couldn't see them anyways. Here's the banner I currently have up:

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/7798/resist.jpg

And here's tek's banner:

http://img37.exs.cx/img37/4341/bana.gif

notice any similarities?

[T3km4n]

Moo.

[Serge]

I turned off sigs yesterday because the animated banners take forever too load. The worst is Walrus's, not only is it the largest frame-wise he didn't even make it himself. Anyway, where do I sign up for the signature resistance.

>.>
<.<

[jman_248]

Signatures rock. Long live signatures!

Resist the resistance!

[Bottle]

No, just resist ridiculous necroposting.

[MokoToko]

ya....as the loserific comic book guy would say

"worst necropost EVER"

[xerent]

Actually, I visited this one forum which looked REALLY sharp. Everyone there had the |EXACT| same size signature... and it was pretty tiny too... no more than 200 px long. I thought about imposing the same rule here... then I thought it would be to hard, and never work anyways.

However... now with the ability to change signatures...

:evil:

[MokoToko]

OH GOD NO

*cowers in fear*

[Tama Drummer]

Actually, I visited this one forum which looked REALLY sharp. Everyone there had the |EXACT| same size signature... and it was pretty tiny too... no more than 200 px long. I thought about imposing the same rule here... then I thought it would be to hard, and never work anyways.

However... now with the ability to change signatures...

:evil:

I saw on some forum, that it automatically resized your banner to the specifications set. Is that what you mean Xerent? I guess I'd be cool with that, assuming the banner sizes aren't set TOO small, or too big that images would need to stretch. Yea... that WOULD'NT work, have images forced to be a certain width and height. What if you have a little button, and it has to expand to 500 x 100 or something like that.