A tiny suggestion, perhaps?
- Thread starter Nemphtis
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Isn't this all getting JUST a little out of hand? If we could all just get back to the question to point, and the answer to that which was that Paul will look into it. I doubt if this is something that is worth starting feudes between members about who knows more about what than someone else or forum ethics.
For those who are used to having images in sigs, you must have to accept that not everywhere is the same, sure they may be a good way to promote yourself or anime/manga but, not having them is'nt really something worth getting upset about.
For those who are used to having images in sigs, you must have to accept that not everywhere is the same, sure they may be a good way to promote yourself or anime/manga but, not having them is'nt really something worth getting upset about.
Laughing Manji
School Idol
Ryo Chan said:
And how did that add to the discussion? What was the discussion even about? Do you remember? I have no problem with graphical content being added to forums where it is in context. Like adding in graphics of characters or screen caps into threads about:
-Favourite characters
-Favourite anime
-Pimp some obscure/underrated anime threads
Those are always cool. And I participate in image threads regularly (with image warnings in the thread titles) just there hasn't been one lately here that I recall.
Ryo Chan said:
Not really, just answer the question I originally asked and not the one you wanted to answer.
Ryo Chan said:
Yes, if the site hosts it. Or if the site actively downloads it from the external server and does it on the fly. These kind of policing activities consume server resources and bandwidth.
But externally hosted images, especially those hosted on say imageshack.us come straight from that site to your browser bypassing Anime UK News. At best Anime UK News could modify the image attributes so that an 800 x 600 image gets displayed as a 100 x 75 graphic, but the user is still downloading an 800x600 file.
Nobody is crazy enough to have their server download the external image and modify it on the fly. It would be cheaper to host the shrunken image directly.
Think about how mods are implemented.
Besides it looks like it is easier to block signatures on a per-profile basis than it is to just block image tags from signatures.
neptune2venus
Hunter
Chris said:
I agree. By being so caught up about the sigs, how will you ever hope to get them? Let the Power that be (Paul) decide on the age old question of 'to sig or not to sig!'
Please stop inciting each other - two wrongs doesn't make anything right.
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MARIJUANA NEWS
Haha, sorry but after reading all of that stuff everyone has posted, especially LAughing Manji's who provided a very informational reply to me; I just can't be arsed replying to anything right now. But I still hold my ground and claim that we should find a solution which allows those of us who choose to use images in our signatures to do so, without being burned on the stake or something. 
I have never really found the use of image signitures in my interest at all. To be honest a text signiture is enough for me and i think it could well be for most but who am i to judge? If Paul says no image sigs then i will back that up, he says yes to them i will back that to..i don't really mind.
Laughing Manji
School Idol
Paul said images in signatures were not allowed. His last post discussed some mechanisms he had discovered in later versions of the forum software to allow user control of displaying signatures and convenient admin methods to remove images.
None of these functions are in place as far as I can tell. And Paul never said anything about allowing images in signatures. He has made a case against image signatures for aesthetic reasons.
I would imagine that if Paul allows image signatures, he will tell us
I like the prosaic nature of Anime UK news, frankly its about the only anime forum that isn't overloaded with redundant vanity graphics from users. People talk and share information here, rather than post 1 line responses to pimp their graphics meme.
If you really want to exercise your graphics talent - theres a creative arena here, which is an appropriate place to put graphical content with a niche interest. Theres also plenty of other forums who shove it down peoples throats, and have no restrictions.
While you have loads of options for showcasing your signatures, this is about the only place I can find that has a proper anime discussion that doesn't require the page-down key to read the next sentence.
None of these functions are in place as far as I can tell. And Paul never said anything about allowing images in signatures. He has made a case against image signatures for aesthetic reasons.
I would imagine that if Paul allows image signatures, he will tell us
I like the prosaic nature of Anime UK news, frankly its about the only anime forum that isn't overloaded with redundant vanity graphics from users. People talk and share information here, rather than post 1 line responses to pimp their graphics meme.
If you really want to exercise your graphics talent - theres a creative arena here, which is an appropriate place to put graphical content with a niche interest. Theres also plenty of other forums who shove it down peoples throats, and have no restrictions.
While you have loads of options for showcasing your signatures, this is about the only place I can find that has a proper anime discussion that doesn't require the page-down key to read the next sentence.
Just make a thread in the off-topic zone shwoing all this "work" you produce, at least then you may show us this "eye candy" seriously, it better be eye candy as I'll be the judge to that. ;[
Oh and this is how the forum runs on one-line replies, it always has and will as long as Paul is the Admin person. Unless he suddenly decides to have graphics, which is unlikely.
Oh and this is how the forum runs on one-line replies, it always has and will as long as Paul is the Admin person. Unless he suddenly decides to have graphics, which is unlikely.
Laughing Manji
School Idol
Laughing Manji
School Idol
It was a succinct response to Nemphtis query. That forum has some gems of discussion, but it has a lot of filler. It sometimes feels like there are more posts than sentences (if thats possible), and its got some of the worst signature envy going around.
You basically can't follow a thread of discussion there.
Don't see how I am being hypocritical. I don't have an image signature. Though I might be tempted to make an obnoxious protest one on certain forums.
And as for fighting, Paul has made his position very clear in this thread:
-he doesn't like them based on aesthetic grounds. Same as me. I got a bunch of other reasons for disliking them (like makes the forum non-work-safe in some cases, not even family-safe on occasion, and disrupts the reading of the threads, they are also totally off topic in every thread except a 'pimp your signature' thread).
Yet Nemphtis keeps bleating on about getting them re-introduced. People can get a bit irritable about that, especially when there have been numerous alternative suggestions as to where Nemphtis can display his eye-candy. Some of us (admittedly I am probably the most vocal about it) like the fact that we can read anime UK news.
Its a very novel and refreshingly simple experience in anime fandom. Personally I would like to keep it that way.
You basically can't follow a thread of discussion there.
Don't see how I am being hypocritical. I don't have an image signature. Though I might be tempted to make an obnoxious protest one on certain forums.
And as for fighting, Paul has made his position very clear in this thread:
Paul said:
-he doesn't like them based on aesthetic grounds. Same as me. I got a bunch of other reasons for disliking them (like makes the forum non-work-safe in some cases, not even family-safe on occasion, and disrupts the reading of the threads, they are also totally off topic in every thread except a 'pimp your signature' thread).
Yet Nemphtis keeps bleating on about getting them re-introduced. People can get a bit irritable about that, especially when there have been numerous alternative suggestions as to where Nemphtis can display his eye-candy. Some of us (admittedly I am probably the most vocal about it) like the fact that we can read anime UK news.
Its a very novel and refreshingly simple experience in anime fandom. Personally I would like to keep it that way.
I'm siding with the majority of what Laughing Manji is saying here and until phpbb-v3 is released, the sig-image rule will likely remain in place. It's just always been this way at Anime UK News.
It's good to know peoples opinions though, that's why I haven't closed this thread.
It's good to know peoples opinions though, that's why I haven't closed this thread.