C'jais Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 As most have probably noticed, the admins have installed this new feature in sigs, which reduces the sig size by making the sig in its own, individual "window". Now, I use a mouse wheel for scrolling these pages, and this means it stops at the sigs to scroll them too. Any tips on bypassing this problem? I propose a character limit for sigs. Yes, I know it's cruel, dirty and it means some sigs are going to suffer. But are sigs really that important? I mean, you look at a sig once, most are pathetically uncreative and some take up an entire screen space. Yay or nay to this idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedantic Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 Just don't put your mouse pointer where the sigs'll be. Not too hard. And I say yes to the character limit, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C'jais Posted January 1, 2003 Author Share Posted January 1, 2003 Originally posted by Pedantic Just don't put your mouse pointer where the sigs'll be. Not too hard. Ahhh.... thanks man! Jais - the mouse disabled poster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratmjedi Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 Well what I do is click on the mouse wheel and then I go all the way to the bottom. You can also have your mouse over the Avatar's and scrool down there and you will not feel the effect of the sig's. I also don't like what they did with the Sig's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedantic Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 Heheh, np, man. I still think the scrolling bars are annoying even though I don't get "scroll caught" by them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Knight Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 i say no with its own window now they can be as long as they want Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agen Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 Now you make me feel bad about my sig! Bad Jais! Bad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C'jais Posted January 1, 2003 Author Share Posted January 1, 2003 Originally posted by Agen_Terminator Now you make me feel bad about my sig! Bad Jais! Bad! Your sig was the one that actually inspired me to make this Well, I just think those scrollbars clutter the forums. And sigs that take up more space in a thread than posts themselves says a bit about the maturity level around these parts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 I guess your talking about my sig.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hekx Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 I just noticed that; I'm reading and scrolling down and topic.. and what the hell! Scrolling sigs! That's a first I thought there was a character limit on the sigs!? Just remember that vB code takes up characters; and mine uses quite a fair bit Maybe a size limit; all the sigs that currently need scrollbars should be chopped down by some nifty board add-on *Hopes his sig doesn't have a scrollbar * -Edit- Phew, no scrollbar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckcsaber Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 It was fine the way it was before. Not too many people had excruciatingly long sigs, and now most people wont even bother reading sigs anymore because of the scroll bars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 I fixed my sig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Skywalker Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 yeaH, i posted about this in the site feedback forum, i await a reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hekx Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 Originally posted by Bilbo Skywalker yeaH, i posted about this in the site feedback forum, i await a reply. Just a note that your link in your sig goes to: http://www.echonetowrk.net/ instead of http://www.echonetwork.net/ I personally like all of the sizes being like this; but I dislike the scrollbars. Hopefully there will be a size / character limit. But some people could have a whole sig in size 1 with formatting code which wouldn't take up a lot of space in height of the sig, but may use a lot of vB code. So maybe a clever character limit which only counts text; and not vB code. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clem Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 i think this is an effective and creative solution to a "problem" does mean that re-enabled sig pics are now useless unless banner sized maybe they could make the scroll bars less imposing make them a shade of blue or sumthing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunatic Jedi Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 I think the windows are pretty ugly. In my opinion, frames are the trademark of the unsophisicated coder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clem Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 how can u say theyre ugly when the only bit u can see is the scroll bar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C'jais Posted January 1, 2003 Author Share Posted January 1, 2003 Clem: You now buy your images with points, and there's a size limit on them too, I think. Personally, I'm for the idea of chopping off anyone's sigs where the window starts to appear, but surely that sounds a wee bit harsh to most people But this way, people can still have a bit of text in them, as long as the text is small size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leXX Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 ^^ What he said ^^ Those scrollbars are ugly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clem Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 im sure they can be tarted up i dont see what all the fuss about long sigs was neway fussy swampies pah <hides> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teutonicknight Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 Originally posted by leXX ^^ What he said ^^ Those scrollbars are ugly! I agree! Look at my sig, it exceeds the window by 2 pixels and I have a scroll bar.... and my sig isn't even that long.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackDove Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 I'm for the limitation thing actually since sigs are meant to be sigs and they are called that for a reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kstar__2 Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 i don't think they look that bad, i have no problem with them *looks at sig* what have they done to my sig!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datheus Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 I'm all for putting a limit on sig size... I can due to part with one of my quotes...I take up more then the single window because I CAN. I've always found a way to deal with a character limit... And people who can't... Just pick one and cycle through your cute little sayings... Change your sig once a week. *gasp* What a concept. Hell, I'd even be for just turning sigs off.. And yea, the little scroll window is both ugly and slightly annoying when I try to scroll... Seriously... do you REALLY need to have a sig that, even when you use the size=1 code, takes up ~2 inches? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clemme w/Stick Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 All hail the character limit! I've had to cut alot of my sig out, but its been cut down to half...! What do you guys think?? -Clemme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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