I was wondering, are we allowed to have sig images? Like banners and whatnot? I was trying to put one in mine and all it showed was the url.
I was wondering, are we allowed to have sig images? Like banners and whatnot? I was trying to put one in mine and all it showed was the url.
"I thought you would have learned by now. I'll burn this whole world down."
No, sig images are not allowed here. You can put an additional image in your profile, though.
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
William Butler Yeats - The Second Coming
lol, yeah, but that additional photo's what I made the sig from. I really like it too. Well, I guess I could immortalize here.
...Sweet.
"I thought you would have learned by now. I'll burn this whole world down."
Well yea - but that doesn't explain why. =/
I mean no disrespect, but BB code can't do any harm to the site, its why its BB code =D
Plus, you allow pictures in posts - so it can't be an anti-image sorta thing.
If its the matter of people having absolutely huge things, although I'm not familiar with this format of forum, surely its possible just to give them a kick from behind, remove their sig and tell them not to do such in the future?
It's actually been the status quo for a while.
A lot of veterans of Althanas think signature images are ugly as hell to look at and generally distracting from Althanas' main purpose of writing. That's why we allow signature text, we'd much rather you write out your personality than put up a colorful photoshopped picture.
EDIT:
I also deleted your other thread, because you seemed to have moved onto this one and edited that.
Last edited by Arsène; 12-08-08 at 10:21 AM.
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Generally speaking, we seek to avoid having threads filled with countless bright and potentially flashy, and typically distracting, pictures. Besides, given that everyone here seems to use a different forum skin (we have a few, try them all out), a picture that seems to look cool on one backgroudn could be horrifically ugly on another.
Besides, everyone one this site has their own photo album to stock with whatever pictures they want (within the forum guidelines, of course).
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As the guy who created this rule, allow me to give a little bit of a historical perspective.
Althanas used to allow sig images a long time ago. The hideousness problem has already been discussed, but as I'm sure you know, not all images are ugly. But even a gorgeous image gets tired after seeing it over and over and over and over again. And when everyone has a signature image, every thread is filled with pictures, making the text seem secondary. Part of our "look" is to be texty.
We're not anti-image so much as anti-the-same-image-over-and-over. If you would like to express your creativity, the Creative Endeavors forum is a great place to go. There was a thread awhile back about "Signature images you would have" and people posted all sorts of artsy things they had done. Maybe we should get one going again and, like Shisui said, immortalize them forever.
(Yes sorry about the duplicate thread.)
To be honest, that all sounds a little silly considering you allow Avatars. :P
However, I wont argue - I can see where you're coming from, although I've never experienced that irritation from repetition AND the majority of signatures are boarder-intensive and as such look similar on a variety of colours.
But your site, your rules. :P
Its also for the poor judges who go through threads all the time. It may seem to you to be just an inch high picture, but with 20 posts per page, that's almost 2 feet you have to scroll extra when going through a thread.Originally Posted by Darky
Hint: Disable sigs after the first, it might just boost your score
How something is said, is just as important as what is said. -Anonymous
Avatars are useful for identification purposes. You'll notice there's also a prohibition of obnoxiously animated avatars.
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