ONGOING: Obnoxious signatures (split from Disable Quotes)

[CooLDoG]

I really don't care where the line is drawn. I just want there to be an actual line that is clearly and explicitly stated.

I don't want to say never but; HIGHLY unlikely to ever happen.

yeah, I figured that out.

Happy about the option. Would it be fair to say that next time that when a new feature is released like this that it should be optional on release? Well, there really was no way to tell the public reaction to it...

[chamber]

Option space with the system as it is is limited, so its not safe to say that all new features will be optional.

[Nobody Special]

So, I'd like some clarification.

Can we still bitch about (and petition against) obnoxious sigs here?

[Mr. Flay]

Sure. Some situations may no longer qualify for editing with the new formatting, of course.

[Haze]

Uhm, is this the reason why some sigs now have "Show" in front of them?

Is there a line limit or something?

[Mr. Flay]

Line Limit, exactly right (I believe it's 4, including blanks).

[animorpherv1]

Check out the UCP. If you want to see the longer sigs (including bold & colour) again.

[Kublai Khan]

Venrob

[IceGuy]

Venrob

Also, why you're at it nuking his signature, siteban him.

[Mr. Flay]

Signature simplified. Not sure why sigs are letting banned tags in again, but I have my suspicions.

[shaft.ed]

quasirelated
do you guys do avi's too?

http://forum.mafiascum.net/download/fil ... 141460.gif

[Mr. Flay]

In extreme cases, yes. I'm not convinced Umbrage's is that bad, but I've only had to look at it for about 9 minutes so far.

[Porochaz]

Initially I thought it was just shaft.ed being his usual "I hate everything unique self", it is now annoying and distracting and distracts me from any post Im reading which is near a Umbrage avi.

Edit: This may be a case of the witches in Macbeth though.

[zoraster]

I don't find Umbrage's avatar bothersome.

[Lupo]

I don't find Umbrage's avatar bothersome.

If it was someone elses other than umbrage I don't think it would've been a problem

[RichardGHP]

I found it pretty annoying when I was using Quick Reply to make a post in a thread he just posted in.

/2cents

Edit: And I don't consider myself averse to him either.

[animorpherv1]

I don't find Umbrage's avatar bothersome.

If it was someone elses other than umbrage I don't think it would've been a problem

+1

[shaft.ed]

I hate animated avatars
I get headaches reading threads populated by his posts now
try reading discussion forums without him in them

[IceGuy]

I think there should be a blanket ban on animated avatars.

In general, animated avatars and images in sigs rank a forum high on the shittiness scale.

[Porochaz]

I think you can safely say that with shaft.ed its almost certainly to do with the fact the avi is obnoxious and not because Umbrage is.

[UberNinja]

As a defense of animation being allowed, I bring Ser Arthur Dayne's avatar into the discussion:
It's cool, tasteful, and not obnoxious at all.



Umbrage's is kind of annoying though.

[shaft.ed]

it's flashing like a neon sign
one user is already using adblocker in order to avoid it
I have to scroll past posts containing it and adjacent posts

[Mr. Flay]

If it wasn't Umbrage, I doubt anybody would have said boo. I'm not convinced.

That said, Umbrage could slow down the animation a bit and I bet it would go over better.

[shaft.ed]

If it wasn't Umbrage, I doubt anybody would have said boo. I'm not convinced.

That said, Umbrage could slow down the animation a bit and I bet it would go over better.

anyone else is welcome to get an obnoxious flashing avatar to test this out. I'll happily complain about it like the crotchety old man I am

[Kublai Khan]

If it wasn't Umbrage, I doubt anybody would have said boo. I'm not convinced.

That said, Umbrage could slow down the animation a bit and I bet it would go over better.

anyone else is welcome to get an obnoxious flashing avatar to test this out. I'll happily complain about it like the crotchety old man I am

realgodfather?