sig images

[jdbnsn]

Hi everyone,

With the new dimensions of the forums I was considering changing the sig size requirements to 100*450 or 100*500. However, the last time I changed the dimensions I was nearly lynched. So I will leave it up to you, if you think it would look better with shorter and longer sigs we can change them, or if you would prefer they stay the way they are that's fine too. I'll make this a poll and let the members decide.

-Jon

[noopypoop]

i say stay the same... just because i dont want to have to resize my sig

[calumc]

I really like the look of long, thin sigs

[D1337]

smaller is better. *cough* XXX X 300ish *cough*

[Zephik]

Thin and long is my preference. It goes with the new websites style as well, imo.

[noopypoop]

ugh i guess your right. my sig does look too fat. can i change my vote?

[Greco101]

Thin and long is my preference. It goes with the new websites style as well, imo.

exactly why I chose 100x500 haha. Although it may seem a little thin, it will definitely be a lot more eye friendly than stretched out posts with a big block at the bottom left of each one.

[slytherock]

100*500
no problem for more: I'm already under those specs

[Xperiment]

100x500 for me - wont alter the page size and gives you a little more room for your sig.

[Drum Thumper]

I voted for 100 * 500, but also feel that the current size should be allowed as well for a grace period, so everyone who's got sigs can resize/redo them.

[Crazy Buddhist]

Well with a sig at 400 x 53 px It must be pretty obvious where my vote went. I'm glad the staff have decided to revive this issue and seek opinions of forum members.

:)

EDIT: My new temporary "campaign sig" is a mere 400 x 50. Thin is beautiful. My next sig might involve a tastefully dressed leggy blonde. Laying down of course. Or she'd be really really tiny. Tiny leggy blonde is definitely an oxymoron too far.

;)

[Needsleep]

skinneh and long...... floats my boat and gets my vote 8)

mostly coz my mouse wheel will be greatful for not scrolling quite as much but the longer one would give those arty types a whole nother 50000 pixels to play with! :D

[Crazy Buddhist]

Bump. Should this be pinned?

:)

[Dilphat]

I'm going with the 100*500 vote.

[Helix666]

I vote 100x500. Mainly because taller sig images make me have to scroll more. And I'm lazy...

[Computer-Geek]

100*500

[Ironcat]

I don't know why this issue is even coming up again except that J must want a bigger sig.

It's getting more and more obvious that some people are no longer actively inputting and others are more than making up for it.
I say leave things the way they are. It's a modding site, and modding should be the main idea behind it. If you have somethin that's so important you need a bigger space to show it off... start a work log.

[Crazy Buddhist]

I don't know why this issue is even coming up again except that J must want a bigger sig.

It's getting more and more obvious that some people are no longer actively inputting and others are more than making up for it.
I say leave things the way they are. It's a modding site, and modding should be the main idea behind it. If you have somethin that's so important you need a bigger space to show it off... start a work log.

I'm not really sure what the rest of your post is about however 100 x 500 pixels is smaller than 400 x 150 pixels.

[slytherock]

I don't know why this issue is even coming up again except that J must want a bigger sig.

It's getting more and more obvious that some people are no longer actively inputting and others are more than making up for it.
I say leave things the way they are. It's a modding site, and modding should be the main idea behind it. If you have somethin that's so important you need a bigger space to show it off... start a work log.
Can you find me some time? And there's much more in life than computing (did I just said that?)
If we stck around is cause we want more, but need time/money/ideas...

[jdbnsn]

I don't know why this issue is even coming up again except that J must want a bigger sig.

Are you talking about me? "J"? Don't be an ass, read the first post. I'm considering in because of the new dimensions and I'm leaving up to the community. If I wanted a bigger sig than the one I have I'd make one. If you see a thread that you don't want to talk about, then don't comment on it.

[xRyokenx]

I think wider, shorter sigs would look nicer. I don't want to have to make a new one, but hey, who does? lol Time to install dem tablet drivers...

[Omega]

Yeah Ironcat, bear in mind that staff are allowed to have sigs larger than the rest of the forum (however they have to pretain to some tbcs event or something, like when I had my 500px wide sig that was actually two images, and the second one looked like it was part of the first, but it linked to the modcast and said "modcast" on it).

I think the real idea behind this is as it appears: The staff want our opinion on what the new sig dimensions should be. They don't need a reason to change something like this. And obviously they care what we think, otherwise they'd just change it without asking us.

oh, and I voted for 100*500

[Fuganater]

I know there is more than 29 people on this forum.....

[xRyokenx]

Hahaha. Everyone else mustn't care.

I've got a new sig myself. What do you guys think?

[noopypoop]

I know there is more than 29 people on this forum.....
Yep.... theres 47. The other 700 people are just watchers :D

[Omega]

haha, my sig fits all of those guidelines. Ownage.

[jdbnsn]

Okay,
I think there is a happy medium here. I am really liking the slim sigs now, especially with the new dimensions, they look so much nicer. So I am asking everyone who is willing, to change your size to 500*100. But it's not mandatory. You can keep your old sigs if you prefer and I'll update the rules soon to reflect this so new members will be slightly less confused. lol

[Crazy Buddhist]

woot!

[Drum Thumper]

Okay,
I think there is a happy medium here. I am really liking the slim sigs now, especially with the new dimensions, they look so much nicer. So I am asking everyone who is willing, to change your size to 500*100. But it's not mandatory. You can keep your old sigs if you prefer and I'll update the rules soon to reflect this so new members will be slightly less confused. lol

Sweet. I'll get GIMP reinstalled on my machine sometime this weekend and bust out some new DrumThumper sigs--I really like this current one, but I've got a few ideas floating around in my head...

[Crazy Buddhist]

Jon.

Thanks for doing this - and this way

:)

xRyokenx


Hahaha. Everyone else mustn't care.

I've got a new sig myself. What do you guys think?

It's like the old one, but different.

:)

[xRyokenx]

It's like the old one, but different.

:)

Durr, lol. Yeah, I used the airbrush tool and layered some text instead of just writing it out by hand. I should mess around some more and see what else I come up with.

[Omega]

you could put in the rules that sig dimensions can be either 400*150 OR 500*100, or anything smaller, but no like 500*150 malarkey.

[jdbnsn]

you could put in the rules that sig dimensions can be either 400*150 OR 500*100, or anything smaller, but no like 500*150 malarkey.

I already did.

[xRyokenx]

I don't get why it's such a big deal. I understand the whole deal where the sigs don't need to take up the whole page... then again, guidelines/rules are helpful... /shrug

[jdbnsn]

I just had an interesting thought. Since the pic area stretches across the screen anyway on linked pics (the ones not uploaded to the profile), I wonder how it would look for sig images to be even shorter like maybe 50-60px and run across the whole post (which is max 799px). Anyone want to try this and see how it looks? And for the ones who get upset at me when I mention sig, don't worry, I'm not going to force anyone's hand here, I'm just curious.

[crenn]

Why does the linked pics stretch across the screen?

[Crazy Buddhist]

I just had an interesting thought. Since the pic area stretches across the screen anyway on linked pics (the ones not uploaded to the profile), I wonder how it would look for sig images to be even shorter like maybe 50-60px and run across the whole post (which is max 799px). Anyone want to try this and see how it looks? And for the ones who get upset at me when I mention sig, don't worry, I'm not going to force anyone's hand here, I'm just curious.

This is 70 x 700:

http://www.vipassanaforum.net/mypics/Bigsig.jpg


That give you an idea?

[jdbnsn]

Why does the linked pics stretch across the screen?

To be honest I don't know. I've checked every system I can think of and I am still without an explanation.


That give you an idea?

hmmm...doesn't look very good does it? I doubt this would look too great unless most people used them and if they were even shorter than that.

[Reyer]

Im not used to this whole small sig with no .gif thing. On other forums my sig is:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/albinogary/Mongoospngfinal.png

[Mitternacht]

I think its fine now. And the fact that most of us use widescreen monitors, 100*500 is not such a bad idea. Some people may need the room.

[Greco101]

Since this is the only forum I've ever been apart of, the small sigs don't bother me. But to be honest, if sigs shot up to that big Reyer. I'd leave. lol.

[silverdemon]

maybe leave people the choice to either have a normal sized sig (400x150px I believe) or make a slimmer wide one (750x75 or something)

I think A sig will look good when it is wide and slim, but there are some sigs on the board that look very nice as they are (smaller but higher)

[Indybird]

Im not used to this whole small sig with no .gif thing. On other forums my sig is:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/albinogary/Mongoospngfinal.png

yeah, but then 70% of the page is peoples sigs and then other 30% is actual content. I kinda like the restrictions on here, it makes for a forum that is very easy on the eyes.

The gifs I'm kinda neutral about; I don't think they'd annoy me if they were allowed, but a) I don't really care and b) they could increase page loading times so there yeah go. However, this site is still made to be dial-up friendly...

-Indybird

[Drew]

I like restrictions, makes you work harder to get an effective sig.

70 x 700 could look good, but only if it's strictly enforced - 70 x 700 or nothing - that way we get a uniform look that takes up little screen space. Would even work if the rule stated that sigs MUST be 700 pixels wide (no more, no less), and up to 70 high - and all justified the same (left/ centre/ whatever).

That way the sigs all line up nice and neat like.

I really hate forums where some people have a nice little wide sig and someone else has a 500 x 500 monster.

Classy is what TBCS is about (kinda), and I reckon the sig rules should reflect that.

[Omega]

100x700px sigs, center align only, no extraneous text

that'd look pretty freakin' sweet.

[Drew]

^^^^^ yup.

Kinda better with words than me apparently...

[xRyokenx]

I like the current sig format...

[Indybird]

The current Sig rules are OK, but I definitely do like the 700x70 idea.

Everything is going "Wide" these days, why not TBCS sigs?

-Indybird

[chaksq]

I like the short and wide sigs. The sig I currently use for some other forums is 100x600 though so I can't use it here.
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p67/chaksq/sigs%20and%20avatars/Bottom-Banner.gif
I've been planning on a new sig soon anyways but I typically make my sigs 600 wide for some reason. I need to change the sig I pictured anyways, my newer sigs (made for other people) are much better.

[jdbnsn]

The current Sig rules are OK, but I definitely do like the 700x70 idea.

Everything is going "Wide" these days, why not TBCS sigs?

-Indybird

I think the shorter, wider sigs look good too. But more than that I prefer as much uniformity in size as possible and we are currently are allowing 2 sizes. I've seen how other forums with a wide variety of sig sizes look and I think it's tacky looking. It's too much of a pain to get everyone to redo their sigs and it also pisses everybody off so it's just not worth messing with. Let's stick with the two we have.

[Indybird]

I think the shorter, wider sigs look good too. But more than that I prefer as much uniformity in size as possible and we are currently are allowing 2 sizes. I've seen how other forums with a wide variety of sig sizes look and I think it's tacky looking. It's too much of a pain to get everyone to redo their sigs and it also pisses everybody off so it's just not worth messing with. Let's stick with the two we have.

You know what would work? Having the option of 500x100 or 700x70, and both are centered. That would make for a very uniform look...

-Indybird

[jdbnsn]

I like the centered idea, but the two size options available at the moment are 100*500 and 150*450. I would have preferred all 100*500 but most of the members had already redesigned their sigs prior to the reformatting of the forums and it was too many people to ask to do it again. If most of the people want to center their sigs then I can nudge the rest to do the same though.

[Drew]

Don't nudge.

Be the law, Judge Dredd stlyee.

Or am I the only one who likes the rules to be the rules, end of?

[jdbnsn]

yeah, if it's important I don't mind laying down the law. I get plenty of hate mail every time I do but that's fine, I'm getting used to it. This just doesn't strike me as something pressing.

[Crimson Sky]

The next hate mail you get, forward itto me. I'll be sure to permaban without question or hesitation. ;)

How about a bigger sig for folks who put our logo in the artwork? ;)

[xRyokenx]

Ooh! The 11th Commandment (of TBCS)! :D

...and a bigger sig, eh? How much bigger?

[jdbnsn]

The next hate mail you get, forward itto me. I'll be sure to permaban without question or hesitation. ;)

How about a bigger sig for folks who put our logo in the artwork? ;)

No need, I have no reservations about it anymore. I tried to be diplomatic in the beginning and it got me nowhere but that era is over, permaban is my pleasure now. Thanks for the backup though.

The larger sig for logo idea is interesting, I'm okay with it but we still need some restrictions. Lets say, (and this is only a trial) 100*700 max and centered for TBCS projects, logos, love letters to me, etc..

Jon

[Drew]

I like that plan.

But you will need to be all Judge Dredd about it, because you know people will take the mickey.....

[slytherock]

No need, I have no reservations about it anymore. I tried to be diplomatic in the beginning and it got me nowhere but that era is over, permaban is my pleasure now. Thanks for the backup though.

The larger sig for logo idea is interesting, I'm okay with it but we still need some restrictions. Lets say, (and this is only a trial) 100*700 max and centered for TBCS projects, logos, love letters to me, etc..

Jon

Cool, so it mean I can have something like this? :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/slytherock/funny/LOL.jpg

[jdbnsn]

LMAO!!! Perfect! Good Lord I'm handsome...:rolleyes:

[jdbnsn]

I like that plan.

But you will need to be all Judge Dredd about it, because you know people will take the mickey.....

well like I said, we'll try it out. If it seems okay and gets added to the rules I and the moderators will enforce it like any other. With absolute lack of compassion and the use of lethal force has been approved.

[Drew]

That's what we like to hear.

So I can go 100 x 700 now then?

Centred of course...... and with a TBCS logo....

[jdbnsn]

yup

[Indybird]

That's what we like to hear.

So I can go 100 x 700 now then?

Centred of course...... and with a TBCS logo....

100 x 700!? Thats a little tall don't you think?

AND Jon approves of this?

OH GOD!

:rolleyes: jk

neeways, I'll get right on my new 700 x 100 sig.

-Indybird

[jdbnsn]

heehee, well you can certainly make them shorter. I think they would look better at 70*700 myself.

[slytherock]

I tried with the previous Sig (just for you JON) but it keep reducing it to 400 wide

[jdbnsn]

hahahaa, are you seriously going to use a sig with my picture??? lol what will people think?:grouphug - not mine

[slytherock]

It's just cause: You're the man Jon :D
still cant have the 700 wide...

I'll remove it if you dont want me to spread the good word

[Drew]

It's giving me an error Jon... need to sort it out Jon.....

:edit: Now I'm getting nothing :(

I think I broke TBCS Jon.

Sorry Jon.

Now it's kinda working, but smaller, Jon.

I'm going to bed now Jon.

[xRyokenx]

I don't think so Tim.

[jdbnsn]

hmmm...there must be a restriction set in the control panel. I'll have a look.

[jdbnsn]

try that

It's showing up in your other posts, just not that last one.

[Drew]

That's weird.

Now it's set for 700x70 not 100.... oh well, resize I shall....

:edit: Resized from 700x100 to 700x70 and it's now being auto-resized.

Thats poo :(

Oh, and that last post where it wasn't showing... somehow the 'show signature' box got unchecked....

[jdbnsn]

I don't know, everything I see in the way of size restrictions for the sig images allows up to 700*150 but if it's going to be this much trouble I say we scrap it.

[Drew]

Seconded.

Now where's my original sig gone.....

Crap. I can't find it. This'll have to do :( :(