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Topic: Signatures
Posted By: Passionist
Subject: Signatures
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 07:13
| So, I was thinking, usually 90% of the length of a page is filled with huge picture in signatures... and I find it annoying. |
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Posted By: andu
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 07:42
Gotta love them 
------------- "PA's own GI Joe!" 
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 07:45
| Never used huge pics as a signature - the biggest I had were those made with LaserMyWords, which I decided to ditch in favour of a short piece of text that has some sort of meaning for me at present. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 08:37
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useless and annoying when too big. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 08:40
Yep  |
andu wrote:Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 12:04
 ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: kazansky
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 12:05
i think i keep mine in a moderate size  ------------- The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 12:05
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Love em
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 12:15
| As for Last.fm signatures, I like them. It's interesting to see what people listen to. As for most other types of signatures, I don't really care about them, unless they are very large and/or filled with irritating pictures. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 12:47
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There are some that are annoyingly big.... ------------- 
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 13:37
I'm all for signature images! BTW: The images created by my service are adjustable in width and height ... ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aoty-2024/vote" rel="nofollow - 2024 Release Poll Listened to: 
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Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 13:38
Is mine annoyingly big?
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 13:39
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I tried to keep my signature moderately tasteful. (unless you find bubble bobble or last.fm intolerably offensive) I don't like sigs that are just album covers ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 13:41
Mine is, as always, just the right size.  ------------- sig |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 13:46
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I think as soon as sig images get beyond what I have or something similar in size, it's pushing it. I don't care, but others might.
------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 13:59
| I reckon my sig is reasonably sized. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 14:02
I think the guys with big signature pics are overcompensating for something...
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Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 14:02
Little substance within the post itself? Riiight!  ------------- sig |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 14:03
Little substance within the pants more like...
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 14:04
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Hey I changed sig and avatar but received PM's from people who said my posyts didn't looked the same. Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 14:07
 I knew you'd be digging in that direction. ------------- sig |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 14:08
I Don't Use One 
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 14:12
Hmmm...that sounds interesting Mike....do tell us more.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 14:16
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^ you can set a maximum width (pixels), and you can change the number of lines from 10 to 5, for example.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 14:24
How about Fonts? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 20:38
I hate those huge-ass ones, even if they're good. I always keep mine average-sized ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 23:00
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I had a Progtology sig, but I just deleted it when I realized I'd gone 2 weeks without updating it. Lazyness prevails, I guess. -------------   |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 02:28
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^ any thoughts on how I could improve the album playlist signature to make it more convenient?
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 02:36
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Well, I answered honestly. Just about time to overhaul and change the thing too... ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 04:47
 Oh, c'mon man, that makes me want to take a shower.
I used to have a huge sig. Till OpethGuitarist complained about it. ------------- 
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 04:52
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Mine is always perfect size
It's a bit too small now, thought
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 05:59
What is this show? And who is the babe!  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 06:03
She's Kari Byron of The Mythbusters. It's on Discovery Channel.
Cool huh? -------------
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 06:06
I can get Mythbusters.
I'lll check her...uh ..it out. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 08:40
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Gotta love 'em, but some are just a bit too big.
------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 14:12
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I find them interesting. They often tell something about the person to whom the signature belongs, and I find it interesting to see what kind of music the progheads around here listen to
------------- The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie 
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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 14:30
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I love sigs. You can express yourself with them and people take notice.
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Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 14:31
| ^Your sig is awesome! |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 14:42
Thanks Dale.  I like you Avatar. Do you have it in a bigger size?
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Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 14:57
Yep. You can find it here: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27066&PN=27 - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27066&PN=27
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 15:13
OG complained about something??
 Shocker...... -------------  |
Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 15:32
| hm, I guess I knida failed stating my big point here. The thing was to awake people to realise I'm really annoyed when it takes 4 times as much to open a thread than otherwise. Then when the images open, the page keeps jumping, so one has to wait for the whole page to open to be able to read properly. And the text is hard to find in there between too. If I was to decide, I'd make a limit to what Bj-1 has at max! There :) |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 15:38
No, it's not you, it's me. I'm just too lazy to click on the stuff. You're site is fantastic. ------------- |
Posted By: andu
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 16:02
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If you have constant problems loading the pictures from a page, then it's a technical issue of your computer or your internet connection. Normally, browsers save all the files they load from the web into their cache memory and the second time they encounter the same files, they just load it from the cache memory instead of taking it again via internet, so it works a lot faster. For example, once you've seen my sig pic the first time, your browser won't need to download it again, it will always take it from the cache memory (unless you empty it at some point). (Footnote: in this matter the actual size in kbytes is more important; a photo can be very large and "weighs" just around 40 kilo, while a smaller photo might go up to 200k... This also depends on the encoding - .jpg, .gif, .bmp, .png, .tiff, etc.) My cache memory is set at 5 Mega and it works just fine; it doesn't take me more than 2 or 3 seconds to fully load a Rogues Gallery page stuffed with pics if I've been there before. I suggest you take a look at the size of your cache memory and try some changes - maybe it's too small and the browser can't keep too many data for too long, or maybe it's too big and the browser is slowed by dragging tens of Mb of cache for each operation. ------------- "PA's own GI Joe!"
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Posted By: Jeams Pfirp
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 21:45
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I voted for gotta love them. -------------  
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Posted By: richeym
Date Posted: April 13 2007 at 17:15
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I really think there should be a limit on sig sizes on this forum. It's probably the main reason I don't read the forum very often: it's simply too messy. Each thread is a succession of ridiculously massive pictures that sit below each small post. Most forums I use have a limit on the height, and IMO, anything taller than 200-250 pixels is really excessive.
------------- www.myspace.com/songsofexile"> 
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Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: April 13 2007 at 17:23
| Exactly. I've stopped visiting certain forums just because people would post 2-3 words and one would really have to consentrate on finding the text between the huge pictures and long long texts under them. Imagine a long page with 3 posts, 6 huge images and nobody that has anything to say. It's just useless scrolling, no-one really looks at the signatures for that long anyway, they spot them and remember them, but that's all. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 15 2007 at 22:20
| I jut make sure not to make fun of them or their "quotes". In some instances the private messages I've gotten explaining the person's irritation with my mockery made me question the person's sanity. |
Posted By: Proletariat
Date Posted: April 15 2007 at 22:22
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really, its the first thing i noticed in the forums on this site ------------- who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob |
Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: April 15 2007 at 22:26
Thanks, you're too kind.
------------- http://hangingsounds.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - Hanging Sounds http://www.progarchives.com/ProgRockShopping.asp" rel="nofollow - PA Index of prog music vendors |
Posted By: Chus
Date Posted: April 15 2007 at 22:31
Mine too?  ------------- Jesus Gabriel |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: April 15 2007 at 23:45
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I like them, but I dont like the once with the Last.fm thing... its boring
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: April 17 2007 at 21:36
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I like the signatures but I try to keep mine in a moderate size... ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |