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xitel

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The mods have already said quite concretely they will never EVER support signatures. They tend to clutter up the page and we get a bunch of aggravating pictures.
 

Galletea

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A wha? I'm so clueless when it comes to these things. I have to keep looking stuff up. :S
 

sirdanrhodes

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I think it might be time for Mr Mod to make a visit here, but if you look, there is a option in your profile for future signature possibility.
 

xitel

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galletea said:
A wha? I'm so clueless when it comes to these things. I have to keep looking stuff up. :S
It's a small thing that goes below every post you make. Unfortunately most people put huge pictures in them that make every post the size of two or three normal posts.
 

Galletea

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xitel said:
galletea said:
A wha? I'm so clueless when it comes to these things. I have to keep looking stuff up. :S
It's a small thing that goes below every post you make. Unfortunately most people put huge pictures in them that make every post the size of two or three normal posts.
Oh, well then I'm glad they're not here. I'd get pissed off with that pretty damn quickly.
 

xxcloud417xx

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yeah some people are asses about their sigs... its a shame really cuz it really is a great way to express yourself and show your Photoshop prowess...
 

xitel

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galletea said:
xitel said:
galletea said:
A wha? I'm so clueless when it comes to these things. I have to keep looking stuff up. :S
It's a small thing that goes below every post you make. Unfortunately most people put huge pictures in them that make every post the size of two or three normal posts.
Oh, well then I'm glad they're not here. I'd get pissed off with that pretty damn quickly.
Check out Warcry and you'll see why we don't want them.
 

xxcloud417xx

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You can find the signature ruling, and many others, <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.64125>here.
 

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paulgruberman said:
You can find the signature ruling, and many others, <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.64125>here.
God damn it, I still can't look at one of your posts without laughing, I love Mentok.
 

NewClassic_v1legacy

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galletea said:
A wha? I'm so clueless when it comes to these things. I have to keep looking stuff up. :S
It's a system that allows a picture, few lines of text, or link at the bottom of every post. It's pretty commonplace on many forums (this being one of the two I've never seen it on), and usually has size/character restrictions. Otherwise, completely customizable to the individual, and usually says something about themselves. When I have them, I usually fill them with weird quotes people have said about me.

For example, a post with a signature may look like this:
BizarroBananaBread on NonExistentForum7QA said:
ha ha lol

i tink dat u shuld try halo 3 cuz it r bst fps on teh xbawks

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Something like that, anyway. It's messy, cluttered, and generally the images get a lot larger than that.
 

Galletea

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Ah thanks for clearing that one up for me. The only other forums I visited were the nintendo ones, and they're a bit lame.
 

Blind0bserver

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I'm actually kinda glad that there aren't signatures here. They often get out of hand. On my clan's forums, for example, I had one guy that would have the lyrics to entire rap songs as his signature, making it be as long as a good four or five posts. Every so often this would lead to either myself or one of my admins asking him to change it (and he often would to a different song) or even going into his profile settings and deleting it altogether.

Page clutter aside, I think that is the main reason why The Escapist will never allow signatures. With their presence comes the duty of extra moderation.
 

black lincon

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fluffylandmine said:
black lincon said:
No but a few people put little signatures manually at the end of their post like this;

--Black
Like Alex P. Nym?
There's another person who does it so I didn't want to single Mr. Alex out as the only person to do it, however it was him I was thinking of when I said that.
 

qbert4ever

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Mmm. Picture sigs do tend to make me want to rip my eyeballs out and stomp on them. Although I've seen a site or two which only allows words to be in your sig, and it seems to work out fine.

Of course, those sites are a LOT more strict about stupid people, plus they don't get a lot of traffic drawn from, say, funny web videos, which limits the whole "l33t sp33k" sigs.

At any rate, them be the rules of the land.