Do you like the signatures?

robinb said:
There are a couple of posters I have put on "ignore" because of the their signatures. I don't care to be slapped in the face by their political & religious messages everytime I read one of their posts.
I see where you're coming from...but the same could be said about the tags as well. For example, yours says "every child is a wanted child"...which is your personal message on what you stand for. I'm sure someone can take that as a slap in the face as well (and for the record, I actually love your tag). Anyway, just saying that it's not just limited to sigs...but that anything you put can be potentially offensive to anyone.
 
robinb said:
I like most signatures unless they are too big and/or long. I like photos of real people and I don't mind sharing a picture of my daughter.

There are a couple of posters I have put on "ignore" because of the their signatures. I don't care to be slapped in the face by their political & religious messages everytime I read one of their posts.


I haven't seen one of those, yet. Either I'm not paying attention (I love looking at the pictures) or I'm on the wrong threads...
 
I always look at the sigs. I find it especially helpful if they list the kids ages. That way if they are looking for some sort of advice on rides or dining, you can help them a little more.

I like to know what part of the country people are from. For instance if someone from Alaska wants to know what to wear to Disney in August, I would probably give different advice than to someone from Arizona.

It also seems fun to me to see how long until their next Disney trip and how many times they have been.
 


mking624 said:
I see where you're coming from...but the same could be said about the tags as well. For example, yours says "every child is a wanted child"...which is your personal message on what you stand for. I'm sure someone can take that as a slap in the face as well (and for the record, I actually love your tag). Anyway, just saying that it's not just limited to sigs...but that anything you put can be potentially offensive to anyone.

:confused3 So what's your point? If someone is offended by my tag then they can put me on ignore too. The tag doesn't show when someone is on ignore.

Signatures are very personal. I would never tell the person with the giant animated cross, bible quote and stuff about "he died for you" that they can't say that in their signature. If they want to wear their religion on their sleeve and in their signature or in their tag (and in this poster's case both, LOL!), I'm OK with that. I just don't need to see it every time they post, so they are on ignore.
 
mking624 said:
If the image isn't stored on the Dis itself, the only bandwidth it's going to affect is that of the host site of the images. For example, my images are stored on photobucket.com....so any views of my images effect my bandwidth there, not on Dis. A view of a thread or a post on a thread will affect bandwidth here because that's actually being "stored" here. But an image hosted on another site will only affect the bandwidth of that particular site. So expense no longer really becomes an issue since typically the only Dis hoted images in a sig are usually only the smilies...which isn't going to affect much bandwidth if people didn't use them in their sigs.

So if I had an image (I don't) it would cost the other website the bandwidth and not the Dis board? I thought it was any amount of bytes being used by a site affected their width no matter where the picture was stored. It has to be uploaded or at least put into some sort of cache to be viewed. Some sites I have been on don't really like avatars because they took up space.
 
And something else, is it 12 lines of text or is 12 lines total?

So when you make up a signature does it have a line countdown? Or does it wrap? I only needed one.
 


I look at most of them as long as they aren't too long. I get board easy and can't take more than a few lines, personally.
 
I am going to copy the post that is "stuck" at the top of this board which gives very clear details on what is and is not permitted in your DIS signature.

And if am reading it correctly Marie, you cannot have more than 12 LINES. It is discussed under #4 below. :)


Is your DISboard Signature Legal?

In order to keep the DISboards both friendly and efficient, there are guidelines users are to follow when developing their signatures. Many users are unaware of the guidelines and unknowingly create signatures that in many cases exceed the guidelines.

NOW is the time to check your signature and make certain you're legal.

While we send out notices to those users who have signatures that do not meet guidelines, this is time consuming for the moderators and Tech Support volunteers on these boards. In some cases when a user does not correct a signature, it is necessary for us to delete their signature entirely. This can be unfortunate if someone has put a lot of effort into creating their signature.

The MAIN violations we commonly find are listed below:

1. No more than three images are allowed. All of the following each count as an image: (1) A photo, (2) A Clipart, (3) A Countdown, (4) A 'sparkly' signature, (5) Any non DISboard smilie, (6) Eggs. Note also that WISH images each count toward the maximum of three images allowed.

Thus if you have a sparkly signature line, 2 photos, 3 countdowns, 2 eggs, and 1 WISH, your total image count is 9, or triple the allowed number.

Remember, if you add any type of Holiday decorations to your signature, it all counts toward 3-image maximum.
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2. No single image may exceed 550 pixels in width nor 200 pixels in height. The old standard was that all images combined must fit within a single 400x400 square. This was changed earlier this year to the current requirement. If you have a signature developed to the old requirements, you need to fix it to meet the current requirements.

The most common item we find are users with an image that is greater than the allowed 200 pixel maximum height requirement. Be sure you check ALL your images in your signature to be sure none of them exceeds 200 pixels tall.
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3. The TOTAL filespace of all your images combined must not exceed 50KB. (That's 51,200 bytes).

One item we commonly find are uses of animated gifs which can have very large filesizes. If you have an animated gif such as a sparkly signature, or other 'moving' image, be sure you add up all the filesizes for all images. If you have highly detailed photos, it's also easy to exceed the 50KB combined filespace limit.
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4. The TOTAL number of lines in your signature may not exceed 12. All of the following count as a line: (1) a line of text, (2) a blank line, (3) an image of any kind on it's own line (such as photo, countdown, smilie, egg, etc), (4) any type of spacer such as a dashed line.

The most common item we find here are users with a long vertical list of their WDW trips. Instead of putting all these on separate lines, one on top of the other, it's suggested you put them on one horizontal line going across the page. Many users do this and differentiate the trips by using different colors, etc.
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Note: The above items are not all inclusive. There are other signature requirements. You can see the full Signataure Guidelines with samples by clicking HERE . This also gives you an explanation on why the guidelines are important.

If you don't know if your photo, countdown, etc meets guidelines, you can look at your signature in one of your posts, and right-click directly on the image, and from the drop-down menu, select PROPERTIES. The image's properties will show. There you can get both it's filesize and it's dimensions ( Width x Height). If the height dimension is greater than 200 your image does not meet guidelines.

If you add up the filesizes of all your images, and the total exceeds 51,200 bytes, then you do not meet guidelines.

You can see a typical Properties screen in the example below.

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Thank you for your cooperation. If anyone needs technical help, feel free to visit the Technical Support Forum .
 
I love Signitures, i think it adds to the possiability that there are actually "real people" out there, and we are all not just talking to a computer.
 
Tinkerbell_Tiffany said:
we had it done right in fron of the living seas at epcot in february.. :cheer2:
I'll have to keep my eyes open for it in Oct...THANKS! :thanks:
 
babiesX2 said:
I'm saying Bye Bye to my old sig cause I found a nurse! I have to post this because it made me laugh!
deadhorse.gif
I crack myself up! I don't understand why the tag fairy hasn't visited me yet. :sad2:

:crazy: Me ~*~ :laundy: DH ~*~ :beach: DD13 ~*~ :hyper2: twin DD's 16 months
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OMG! babiesX2 that picture has GOT to be THEEEEEE most funniest thing i have ever seen! i wanna steal it......can i?:yay:......please?......:hyper:

i am one "those" animal rights people (but a nice one ;) ).... but i havta say......i am cracking up with you! :lmao:

and i see its titled -deadhorse! :lmao:
 

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