DO NOT POST IN HERE SAYING YOU WILL FOLLOW THESE RULES.
You are only allowed to post questions pertaining to the rules.
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I decided that with all of the members we have now, that setting some specific signature rules would be a good idea. Below will have all of the information you need, like signature height, images, etc. If your signature does not comply with the signature rules, you will be asked to change it. Refusal to do so will result in your signature being removed and an official warning. If your signature is constantly caught breaking the rules, you will receive an official warning for that too.
If you are unsure if your signature complies with the signature rules, please make a post for a check http://forums.gtsplus.net/index.php?showtopic=55.
Signatures are bound to global forum rules
Maximum signature height
If your signature is longer than 450 pixels, anything after it is instantly cut-off when you post. For your reference, here is an image that is 450 pixels high:
Images in signatures
You cannot have an image any bigger than 500 by 300 pixels exactly in your signature. You should not have more than one image like this in your signature. Here is an example if you do not know how big that is:
Medium-sized images are considered to be about 400 by 100 pixels. Here is an example:
There should be no more than 2-3 images like this in your signature.
Small images are considered to be 80 by 80 pixels. Here is an example:
You are allowed to have several of these images in your signature.
Images must not exceed 300kb in memory size.
Links and text in signatures
You may not put links trying to sell people things in your signature. Links to things such as your own forums or sites are perfectly fine.
Avoid using any text bigger than this (size 5)
Spoiler tags
You are not allowed to hide big images or text that exceed the limits in spoiler tags, and you should have no more than three (3) spoiler tags in your signature.
Added August 25th, 2010: You are only allowed up to 12 GPXPlus Pokémon/eggs in your signature. If you use the party image code, it automatically counts as 6. This means you can have 12 single images -or- 6 single images + 1 party image -or- 2 party images.
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If there are any questions you have, please post them here.
So, we can't hide excessive image sizes in Spoiler tags. What size is considered excessive?
Can an image be 600 pixels by 200 pixels. So it's longer but thinner?
this may be a stupid question, it's kind of a rephrasing of his but it'd clear it up alot for me, 300x500=1500 so it has to be under 1500 or so, like 400x400=160,000 total pixels, is it a specific pixel number like that or is it perimeter? 300+300+500+500=1600 is distance around and 400+400+400+400=1600, so how is that going to be measured exactly?
I think knowing this'll help me and probably other people know how legal their signature pic is without going in paint and counting the pixels =)
EDIT: I just measured the 450 pixels on the screen with my fingers and it was under, woohoo! =)
Hi person, sorry for spamming, even though I wasn't... If anyone likes buizel, he's MINE! *evil laughter*
Stop spamming nao plz kthnx.
Oh fudge, mine is too big, isn't it? Do I have to take off the 'Suzy phails at life' sig? It's quite therapeutic for angry people.
Yeah, you could have to take it out. Sorry.
did you see my question up there? or is it wrong completely
Quick question: is there a rule regarding content? Like, I just added some eggs from another egg site, a dragon one, to my signature. Is that alright?
o.o um ok
so my siggy is fine, right??
i just find the siggy limits confusing at times ehhe
So... I guess posting a Neopets referral link in a sig isn't allowed? ._.'
I made a small edit to the signature length limit, just so nobody freaks out when they see it whilst posting.
Edit: Ohh.. I see why.. .0. Sorry for posting without seein gthe first post
Bleh... i liked it better before... there's really no point to spoilers in my signature anymore since no matter what i do, something gets cut off now
Please tell me this isn't permanent
Yeah, man. Now know one will know that I am Bronzong on three different personality tests, and that I am caring person who feels the need to make his own path.
How will the world go on
No but seriously, people hide a LOT of junk in their spoiler tags, and it messes with people who have crappy connections. Please, think of the little guy.
This is stink Wymsy . Your gonna have to deal with a lot from people now
What exactly is the cap for images? I occasionally get a message that I have too many images in my signature. The rules say I'm allowed have several small images. How many exactly is several?
I can't see much point in the cut off. Spoilers were made so that you can have large amounts of text and coding without stretching all the sigs. I do think people can have some useless spoilers, mainly those who just cram pictures into them. I can't see an easy way out though, some people can use a number of pictures without it being worthless...
I put most of my stuff in one spoiler so that it doesn't take up much space first look and so that I can have a medium image at the top without exceeding the limit.
Now, because of this cut off, my technique is pointless...I do not have excessive images, excessive amounts of images, large chunks of text or content which goes against forum rules...
Yet I find that my signature is cut off about 2cm after the beginning of the spoiler, rendering my signature useless.
I am now changing my signature so that it will work, but I am saving the old code to a word file so that if this is reversed, I have my signature saved.
@Frey ; I myself is in the Savior Project and I Do The Same . And Now Its Gonna Be Ruined If I Cant Store My Stats In It Like You . Wymsey and the mods have gone to far.
WHO AGREES ?!
@I Am Dexter ; You are right . Signatures that were once amazing are now gonna be slight crap
I'm still laughing at how people didn't notice you can go to somebody's profile and click the Signature tab and be able to see their entire signature without the cut-off. I did say the cut-off only comes into affect when posting.
By the way, I've seen many forums do this. And some of them weren't as generous as to allow you an entire 450 pixels before it gets cut-off.
It is generous I mean look at deviant art for instance, thanks for letting us know.
there, now you get a scrollbar for viewing the excess
now everyone can be happy!!!
Nice idea. Keeps the posts the same size and let's people put whatever the heck they want. Wins all round, by the looks of it.
I don't like the way all the people bitching about the changes to the signature format is distracting the admins from answering actual relevant questions.
this way is much better...i mean, who will go to profile page just to look a signature...everybody loves to see them at posts....
I think a hard size limit is a little unfair to people who hide a lot of text behind spoiler tags, but if there's gonna be a scroll bar, I guess it'll be less of an issue.
What I think would be more useful would be more defined restrictions (and better enforced) restrictions on the number of large images. *glares at the previous post* But that would entail more work for the real mods, so I understand if that idea gets shot down.
OK, I was wondering why it wouldn't let me update my eggs.
Thank you Car=Bidoof!
And thank you Wymsy for listening, but I have a comment on what you said...
When I went to my signature on my forum page...it did cut off, that's when I first noticed it because I rarely open my signature up in posts for space saving reasons.
Thank You Wymsy + Car=Bidoof
Scroll Bar - Great Idea
I wonder if My signature has an acceptable size...
I should try to diminish it a liiiiiittle bit.
Okay, this is getting seriously frustrating for me, but I've tried to update my signature five times now, and each time, no matter how much of my signature I edit out, it keeps saying it's too long.
It's never had a problem with this before, is there a new character limit for signatures or something?
Because I won't be able to update it unless I chop out a bunch of stuff I REALLY don't want to remove. >_>(such as the bios I worked EVER so hard to write up and make sure they fit)
lol i like the idea of swearing in the things damn noobs allways reporting ya rule
Aqua, please stop posting useless spam...
Question;
Since Im Slightly Confused . Does the text in the spoilers count as if it wasnt in a spoiler ?
I'm fairly certain it's a character limit, which counts everything, including the characters used to make those spoiler tags, the characters used to insert the images... Every single letter, punctuation mark, and funny little symbol of the raw text used to generate your signature.
Got my signature fixed.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Thx wysym for the jirachi egg
Is there a url limit to signatures?
Can i use my signature to advertise something of my ownership?
like, the ones who send me a private message about, let's say, a movie advertised in my signature, I answer them with the download links (of Megaupload.com) of that movie...
Of course, the Megaupload files would be mine.
Sorry forgot that there were rules for this...
can we put 3 images in 3 spoiler tags that are 500x300 px or less? (every image 500x300, 1 image in 1 spoiler)
There should be fixed to be just right now.
Just a comment, the images showing the max width of a sig does not show up for me.
Is this what I use allowed?
Just curious, but why is there, size requirements?
So we don't see massive signatures that lag the slower connections (such as the 3G hotspot I have to use right now).
is 400 x 150 alowed? or it must be 450?
i don't quite understand these. but, is this just talking about the maximum size of images that can be in your signature and how big of text size?
I gotchuuuu
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