Is sig. too big with pic yes/no

[StangFlyer]

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.