I used to use this quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as my signature...
“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that”
I would like to use it again as it clearly defines my attitude... Yet for some reason on this version of the forum it is 83 or some odd amount of characters over the limit...
Can the limit be increased to say 200 characters or is it a bandwidth issue?
~T~
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I smacked my keyboard when I found out my signature was too long and I had to delete it. (I have anger issues.) I didn't want to shorten it because all the words were important to the entire quote, so I had to settle for the measly quote I currently have.
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I would have to agree, 200 seems to be a reasonable limit. I also had the issue of deleting and re-typing my signature several times before getting one that fit.
~Snow~.
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I am bringing this back to everyone's attention. I myself think that there should be a very limited size available for what I can only describe as "gaming forum" signatures.
I mean seriously I'm an artist as well and in all the years here have not felt the need to put up a signature that is roughly 3"x4" on a 1024x768 monitor. I prefer to measure my online phallus here with my wit and words. Most forums that I have been on that allow the use of picture signatures usually have a 128 pixel height limitation or less. This is normally done to limit bandwidth use as well as keep the forum tidy looking.
I politely asked over a year ago if the character limit could be upped back to something a little larger like the old forum, as I did want to use my old quote. I am only again asking if there is a serious bandwidth issue with a few more characters allowed and now asking if this differs with large picture signatures?
~T~
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Honestly. I'm with ta2zz here but I'd like to go a step further. I frequently access the forum from my PSP and I'm sure others use PDA's or phones to access the forum as well. This forum is about making sure we can have reasonably intelligent conversations.
I'd rather have an extra line of text in signatures and completely do away with images in signatures. It's slow enough for people on mobile devices without them, loading anything other than a GIF file will take a good 20 seconds plus, per image.
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