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Dark_5.0

You asked a specific question regarding photos in signatures and I responded. I'm against them, as the signature area was never intended for photos. You have an avatar and the User Rides section to post photos.

Sorry if I didn't suppy the answer you wanted to hear but I didn't kill your dawg either so don't be so sensitive about an opinion that doesn't happen to agree with what you want to do on a free website, owned by someone else, that is quite generous to it's members in terms of what's permitted in a signature.

jj_jonathon:

Your opinion regarding photos in signatures has been noted.

You're welcome, I think. hehe


Nice pics of your car!!! :)

Where is it?

hey Dark, yeah your signature area was never intended for photos, but they give you the option for putting it there!:confused: that doesnt make any damn sense to me. if you are allowed to put in what you want without a limit, then you should be able too. the site designer is responseable for that, not the member. if they didnt want it their, then they should have not gave us the option for putting it there. DUH!

Dark to answer your question, no. no its not to big. it should be bigger so all the people complaining about something so idiotic can complain more. everybody should just wait until Dan redoes the site and see what you can and cant do. then we can hear people complain more! yippie!

what is the big deal? is it Dial up users? 15' monitor users? what? i have been on dial up with a 15" monitor for years surfing the net. i didnt complain, i went out and got myself a good monitor. not everyone has that luxury, but working hard and saving for years paid off. if i can do it, i believe most here can. clue me in on what the big friggen deal is around here and maybe i will actually give a crap! thats maybe.....

I like it!
 

I dont think its that bad! I've seen some websites where the pic of thier car takes up half the damn screen! Alot of people dont go to users rides...I know myself, have never been able to figure out how to get my cars pic on there! DUH! :rolleyes: (blonde thing!?) I personally dont have a problem w/ it..but thats just me! :) So...whatever! I think it looks good! :) TNT

Yeah I was gonna comment on that without being flamey...

I actually feel that MW is the LEAST liberal with sig content...which I ALSO think is a good thing. Every single other Mustang forum I have seen has these HUGE pics of everyone's damn car in their sig...waaaaay too much :rolleyes: I love seeing other people's cars but not that much :D

IMO: It is ok to have photo's in your sig, but limit it. No body wants to scroll down 12 times just to read the next post. The sig part of your post is suppose to give other ppl an idea about yourself and your car. I have so many mods, it would make my sig long... :rolleyes: I'll stick with what I have.... :D

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Dont give yourself too much credit I am not sensitive, and your opinion has also been noted.

Every website I go to is owned by someone else so whats your point. Your right he is quite generous in terms of what is allowed in your sig.........and I am taking full advantage of it.

Signatures
 

Dark 5_0:

My point is that you are a guest here. Try to act like one.

A site redesign is underway and the signature issue will be addressed by the site owner, Dan McClain. All prior comments will be taken into account by Dan when determining the configuration of the signature area. That is what is meant by comments being noted.

Until then, it would be appreciated if you - and all members - would attempt to use a measure of restraint and good judgement when setting up your signatures.

Thanks.

OK, "Note to self please restrain yourself when creating your sig."

Thank you for setting me straight:confused:

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WTF? Dark has been here for a long time. He is just as much part of the family as you or me. If you are saying that just because he does not work for MW or operate the servers (that keep going down) doesn't mean he's a guest. If he's a guest then everybody is a guest.... and if that's true, what makes up MW? WE do!!!! The members of MW is what makes up MW's reputation, poise, and respect. If we are just "guests" and not members, then this isn't really a Mustang Club.

I second that. I think Dan sees us not as visitors but as MUSTANGWORKS (at least the forum side :))

Besides, Dark was just being snippy, not like he broke any rules... I wouldn't want to pry into your business Jim, but for the last few months you too have been excessively irritable when it comes to small stuff.

I know, I know, BELLE is trying to talk about being snippy :p but you just jump down member's throats over the silliest things...Nokia ringtones, not utilizing the "Search" option, etc. Of course we're all entitled to have "our days" but you could lay off a bit, especially when its not even a heated topic (politics, gender affairs, etc).

Please... Let's not get all worked up over something as simple as your message board signature. Mr 5.0 is simply trying to do his duty as the Administrator of the boards, and his stance regarding the topic is one brought on by the few. Yes - there are members who have, and do, abuse their signatures on the board. Either listing 20 lines of modifications to their car or sticking in large (either in visual size or file size, OR BOTH) photos within their signatures.

Now, on the old forums (UBB) I had modified the program code so that it would only allow five lines, or so many characters, in a persons signature. I ALSO had images within your signatures disabled. It is true that when I set up the new forums I left this capability available and have no code modifications in place to limit signature size. However, what has been discussed several times between Jim and I, is how doing so has led to frequent abuse.

We do have to remember that half the visitors to MW are still using a dialup connection. In fact, off site I access the site with my laptop (on trips, vacation, events, whatever) and a modem. I know exactly how annoying it can be to check the forums only to have a thread take five minutes to fully load because people have fricking photos in their signatures. And, to see the same twenty lines of modifications repeated after someone's posts thread after thread.

Just look at my signature, and how I use a minimal amount of text to "let ya know what I've got", but link it to my User's Rides list so that if you want to you are just one click away from ever spec (and photos, sound, and video) of my ride(s).

As a heads up, don't be surprised if images are turned off in signatures and a character limit is put into place on signatures... Jim is right. Everyone has both an avatar they can use to show an image of their car, AND the ability to post a User's Rides listing and a link to it from their signature. In fact, the cool thing about your rides listing is that you can do this same thing in your signature on ANY Web site. You could be posting on XXX.com, and still link your sig to your rides listing here too.

I think I might have to go on hiatis with UNIT 5302.

Cry me a river.:rolleyes:

You asked a question, didn't like the answer; get over it. No one is stopping you from having it right now. If the redesign takes that option away the world won't end, and it won't be personal.

Some people may think my sig is too long. They can limit the length, and I'll live. Isn't this supposed to be about the cars anyway?

Dark_5.0 - Ya know, honestly your signature is exceptable. Your pic is resonably sized and it's 6.4k in file size. Unfortunately, many people don't size their pics small or optimize the file size to under 10k.. And, that's the problem. We could say no images in signatures should be over X k and 200x200 pixels in dimension. But, who wants, or has, the time to police it or keep people following those guidelines... I don't... I know Jim doesn't... I know we don't want to either... We have enough of a job just keeping the board where we want it now. Some times it just comes down to either getting run over by it or locking it down.

Honestly, if something as silly as not being able to stick a photo in your signature makes someone not want to be part of a great community of fellow enthusiasts, I feel sad for them... Unfortunately, it all boils down to the same old problem. Some people just can't stand being told they can't do, or have, something. Whether it's truly important or not.

:rolleyes: Don't worry about it, the pic is fine.

I just noticed that Unit is hiatus again, this time PRESUMED ANNOYED :D Too funny!!!

Hiatus
 

I've been on "hiatus" before and guess what ? Nobody noticed or cared. LOL.

Rev

I dont cry newbie!!! You obviously struggle with comprehension. It isnt the sig. that has me annoyed.

A. I have been told I am a guest here act like it.
B. I cant believe this post has drawn all this negativity
c. My boss went to Russia and I have to do both his job and mine for two weeks. And its stressing the HELL out of me.

BTW: Thanks for caring.