Poll: Do you want forum singatures?

[Socius]

Didn't find anything about this in either rules or the search bar so...

are you aware that this forum has a signature option? you just can't show it to other people.
makes sense, don't it? no. We can make signatures, but cannot show them off in the forums.
do you miss this option from other forums? do you want to enable it on the escapist? God knows I do. let the (hopefully awesome) discussion begin!

 

[flaming_squirrel]

No, they're completely unnecessary and add nothing of real value to a forum.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

The reason for them not being shown is something about them wasting bandwidth.
If it is enabled, there will just be pictures/writing at the bottom of everyone's posts, and it'll just slow everything down.
I like it that they are disabled. Makes for a nice, uncluttered feel.
Unlike a lot of other forums.

 

[wooty]

I agree with Furburt, they just clog things up with unnecessary lines of drivel and pictures, these pages are already loading sort of slow for me recently, so from a personal point of view its a no.

 

[BillyShakes]

Signatures almost always end up poorly spelled, with massive font sizes and ugly colours.
I believe that they are unnecessary and only serve to drag a forum down.

 

[7moreDead_v1legacy]

I would vote hamsters given a choice...Mainly cause of mixed feelings about them.

 

[USSR]

I don't mind them.

As long as they aren't pictures that woud lag the page, it's a nice little addtion to posting on forums.

 

[Sassafrass]

Signatures aren't needed.
I lurk on a few other forums and I have to say, the ones with signatures just look down right cluttered. It would ruin the tidiness of this site.
Plus I have an issue with people who post big pics without spoiler tags. It kills my internet dead. And all we'd get is big pictures.
Anyway, no, we don't need them.

And if we did, mine would just be my motto on my profile page anyway.

 

[AvsJoe]

That's a big no there Bob. Sure there are sigs that are hilarious and on the rare occasion inspiring but most of them are just plain annoying.

 

[Slash Dementia]

Forum signatures are unnecessary. Most other websites that I've seen which have forum signatures usually have people with huge pictures that make loading times take longer.

 

[oppp7]

I don't think they really add much and the same thing over and over would get old fast.
Nevertheless, I'll say yes because some people would want them.

 

[axle 19]

They just clog the pipes so to speak. It is very rare that a signature is actually something of value.

 

[TheGreatDirectorWatanbe]

Maybe if the Signatures didn't allow pictures or links on it.

 

[BonsaiK]

are you aware that this forum has a signature option? do you want to enable it on the escapist?

HELL NO.

Imagine the clutter, imagine having to wade through all the useless crap and unfunny, tired old memes begging to be put down, imagine the extra loading times, imagine the extra moderator issues, imagine people passive-agressively putting messages in their signatures to other users and moderators, imagine the crimes against Photoshop that will be committed, imagine the extra attention-whoring and circle-jerking... I can think of no clear positives but oh so many negatives...

 

[Hippobatman]

Sorry, but they'll just mess up the general "clean" layout of these forums which I endear most sincerely.

So, a no from me. Nothing bothers me more than a guy who has ten pictures and flying coloured text in his signature.

EDIT: This post contains my 1666th post. Off to the basement you go, OP. Off to the basement...

/Hysterical laugh!

 

[DarkSaber]

I really have no desire to see people waving their e-willies around by embedding gamer cards in their signatures.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

I wouldn't mind either way, i have nothing against forum signatures especially if they are witty ones but as Furbert said they can easily lag up the page if you get idiots putting massive pictures for their signatures.

Although surely theres ways round that, like restrict making a signature a certain amount of characters maybe enough to make a one line pun or something. Either way i wouldn't hate to see forum signatures on the escapist to be honest this is probably one of the few forum sites that people wouldn't mistreat it by making massive immature laggy ones like a huge picture of a condom (yes i have seen that as someones forum signature before) but im not exactly raging that the forums don't have signatures either.

 

[Nikajo]

Some signatures are kinda ok but I think the escapist is better off without them to be honest. We've got avatars I think that's enough

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

TEXT ONLY.

Yes.

TEXT ONLY.

 

[fix-the-spade]

We can make signatures, but cannot show them off in the forums.

The signatures are shown in other forums run by Themis, such as Warcry. As your account carries between the sites so do your settings, which is why your Escapist account has a signatures option.

As for signatures on the Escapist, hell no! Why do I want the bandwidth per page doubled so people can put some half arsed platitude at the end of every single comment they make?

What information can they possibly add that isn't covered in your profile? Besides making you sound pretentious obviously.