Forum settings change, input requested.

[Landshark]

Originally Posted by tiv0

so if we have pictures in our signatures, should we remove them?

yes. remove your avatar pic as well, per the admins.

[bwb3]

I guess I have to take a dissenting view. I am also a frequenter of the Turbo Bricks forum and they still allow elaborate signatures. It makes for some instant recognition of the frequent posters and their level of expertise. As time goes on, we are going to see membership drop because of the limited number of SVX's on the road. I actually like to check "It's Just Eric"'s hidden messages once in a while.
Gene

[RSVX]

He can still have his hidden messages, no oone is taking away text formatting.

Seeing the limited number of fonts available I would even be willing to bring back the difffernt fonts, but the text size is gonna have to go, as its too easy for someone to really abuse that functionality and undermine the idea here, which is content. And seeing the same huge signature across 500 posts in a long thread is not content.

There is also room for possible compromise on the images... I can drop the text lines to 5, and allow pictures.

My perfect solution would be to limit lines for those that add pictures only, but thats not possible with this software. I would also prefer to not make that a soft rule, as I dont want to spend my life policing signatures.

None of this is set in stone, but SOMETHING is going to happen, which is why I started this thread.

Thanks for all of the replies.

[Hocrest]

Not relating to signatures, but thanks for putting the "new posts" link back at the top of every post

[RSVX]

Originally Posted by Hocrest

Not relating to signatures, but thanks for putting the "new posts" link back at the top of every post

Yeah, I had been meanig to do that for a long time... I thought I was the only one who used it, LOL.

[Hocrest]

Now if we could only get a "quick reply" box, all of us *****'s would be happy

[RSVX]

That's a super simple setting... I have to run and do some errands, do me a favor, start a poll and if it looks good I will turn it on.

[mysvxrocks]

I vote to turn that on! I was on a focus forum that had that... and it is so much better!

[Hocrest]

Originally Posted by RSVX

That's a super simple setting... I have to run and do some errands, do me a favor, start a poll and if it looks good I will turn it on.

Originally Posted by mysvxrocks

I vote to turn that on! I was on a focus forum that had that... and it is so much better!

Link to poll

[Hondasucks]

I'm glad you are taking this route, over on the USMB they just said f*ck you all and turned signatures off completely, and any time someone tries to make a thread about getting them locked, one of the mods will usually just say "Not discussing this" and lock the thread. And it was all because a few people pissed and whined about large signatures... Same with the off-topic forum, new threads require approval, and attachments require approval, and political/religious discussions are never allowed, kinda sux... (although they did have some pretty hefty flame wars on there lol...)

[RSVX]

Originally Posted by RSVX

We are going to make some changes to the way signatures are handled, as they have gotten out of hand. We are here to read the content provided, not stare at signatures that take up 2/3rds of the viewable screen for a 3 word post...

Here are the changes:

• Can Upload Images for Signature: NO
• Maximum Lines in Signature: 10
• Allow Size BBCode: Yes
• Maximum Value of x for [SIZE=x] BBCode: 2 (2 is the default size, this setting would allow them to make the size smaller, but not larger)
• Allow Font BBCode: YES
• Allow List BBCode: NO
• Allow Code BBCode: NO
• Allow PHP BBCode: NO
• Allow HTML BBCode: NO
• Allow Quote BBCode: NO

Changing these settings would mean, no pictures, no extremely large text, no crazy fonts, no lists like what I did here with the bullets, no code, PHP, or HTML quote style boxes, and no message quote boxes.

Examples of HTML, PHP, Code, and Quote boxes:

<a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>

PHP Code:

PHP Tags 


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What I want from you guys is your thoughts and opinions on the changes.

I activated these settings today.

It appears that it will not affect previously set signatures, so I ask that if you are not in compliance, to please adjust your signature.

Anyone who's signature is not within the rules will be deleted. So if you like your current content, get to editing!

My drop dead date for you to change signatures will be Midnight Sunday. Monday morning if I see a signature outside the rules, I will remove them.

[green_eyed_lady]

Originally Posted by RSVX

Anyone who's signature is not within the rules will be deleted. So if you like your current content, get to editing!

My drop dead date for you to change signatures will be Midnight Sunday. Monday morning if I see a signature outside the rules, I will remove them.

So you're saying no HTML links in the sigs? Am I understanding that correctly?

I'm relatively computer savvy, but I have no idea whether I (and Tom) are compliant or not. An I have a feeling we are not the only ones. Could you PM people and let them know what is wrong so that they can correct it before you start deleting posts? Or at least post a list of allowed and not allowed items IN ENGLISH for those of us who don't understand what "Allow HTML BBCode" means?

Thanks.

[RSVX]

Originally Posted by green_eyed_lady

So you're saying no HTML links in the sigs? Am I understanding that correctly?

I'm relatively computer savvy, but I have no idea whether I (and Tom) are compliant or not. An I have a feeling we are not the only ones. Could you PM people and let them know what is wrong so that they can correct it before you start deleting posts? Or at least post a list of allowed and not allowed items IN ENGLISH for those of us who don't understand what "Allow HTML BBCode" means?

Thanks.

Great ideas!

I will PM people first.

As far as in english, sure.

HTML BBCode I gave an example of, it's the quote box that says "HTML Code".

Let me write something up more definitively.

Off the cuff here, your signature is 14 lines long, but you have 3 empty lines, so pruning it down to 10 lines shouldnt be too difficult.

More to come, in English.

[RSVX]

• Can Upload Images for Signature: NO --No pictures in your signature.
• Maximum Lines in Signature: 10 --10 total lines. My signature, for example is 9 lines, count vertically.
• Allow Size BBCode: Yes --You can size the text (1-7) in your signature, but the maximum size allowed is 2 (See below).
• Maximum Value of x for [SIZE=x] BBCode: 2 --(2 is the default size, this setting would allow them to make the size smaller, but not larger)
• Allow Font BBCode: YES --You CAN change the fonts used in your signature.
• Allow List BBCode: NO --No bulleted items (like this list).
• Allow Code BBCode: NO --No code box, see example below
• Allow PHP BBCode: NO --No PHP box, see example below
• Allow HTML BBCode: NO --No HTML box, see example below
• Allow Quote BBCode: NO --No Quote box, see example below

Examples of HTML, PHP, Code, and Quote boxes:

<a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>

PHP Code:

PHP Tags 


Code Tags

Originally Posted by RSVX

Signature Quotes suck

What IS allowable is:

• All text formatting like color, bold, italic, underlined, justification, etc...
• Hyper links to websites
• Smilies

The current character count limit is so high, that I doubt any of you will touch it, so no worries there.

[green_eyed_lady]

Thank you. That is MUCH easier to understand.

I suppose I have to start paring down my sig (make that OUR sigs ) over the weekend. I'll probably just combine the lines I already have.

Either that or get rid of some of our CARS!!!!!!