Ridiculously large signature images

by **kyle** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:24 pm

Some of you have ridiculously large signature images. Our recommended size limit for signatures is 200x600 pixels (see example below). Anything that requires you to scroll to the right or down a lot to read the thread is annoying to your forum pals. Please remove or resize any large signature images.

Also, please be reasonable with the file size of the image. Keep it under 100 KB. If you have trouble resizing it, I'm sure some of your friends around here with photoshop/paint/gimp skillz will be able to help you out.

We reserve the right to remove anyone's signature if we feel it's disruptive to the forum. We'll be nice and send you a PM to let you know if we remove your signature.

Thanks!

by **L1Z4RD** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:49 pm

Done....

by **Raven927** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:50 pm

Is mine to big?

by **L1Z4RD** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:55 pm

Raven927 wrote:Is mine to big?

Umm....nah...too easy

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by **crypto** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:54 pm

It's not the giant-sized sigs that kill me, it's the giant-sized sig FILES.

I think the current ZS record was some guy with a 600KB animated gif.

by **Grace** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 12:54 am

Yeah, fuck you, Jeriah and molotov cocktail guy! We're mad as hell and we're not gonna take it any more!

...actually, molotov cocktail guy is the only annoying one. I'm madder when a dozen people quote someone who posted a picture just to say "ROFL."

by **Squirrley** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:24 am

It really gets me when someone posts a URL that's 3 pages long.

by **LittleLebowski** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 12:55 pm

The big sigs are hard on people with low bandwidth too.

by **Raven927** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:21 pm

L1Z4RD wrote:
Raven927 wrote:Is mine to big?

Umm....nah...too easy .

HAHAHA, I almost spit water on my screen when I read that.

by **Impus** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 12:48 am

we dialup dinosaurs thank you

by **AwPhuch** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 12:17 pm

Impus wrote:we dialup dinosaurs thank you

SUX to be U!

If you set your cache correctly it will download it only 1 time....after that it will not keep trying to download it so next time it will open the images much much faster

by **kyle** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:53 pm

Reminder about our sig image guidelines.

Thanks, guys.

by **TheFreakinBear** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:15 pm

BUMP!

by **Murph** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:20 pm

Good to know about the sig image size... I'm thinking about making one.

by **kyle** » Mon May 19, 2008 11:31 am

I modified the sigs so that images that are over 600px wide or over 200px tall will not show up. Problem solved.

Just FYI.

by **crypto** » Mon May 19, 2008 11:44 am

PWNT.

Haha I love this upgrade already. Can you put a byte cap on it so the 2 meg animated GIF nightmares get trashed too?

by **Ovationman** » Sat May 24, 2008 2:40 pm

I like Gifs

by **mpi** » Sat May 24, 2008 2:43 pm

seems reasonable

by **gothamalleyviper** » Sat May 24, 2008 3:28 pm

I think mine is wider, but a hell of a lot shorter and it is only one quote.

by **Murph** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 8:43 am

Stuff bigger than 400x100 makes me sad.

by **JTNieman** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 8:46 am

Murph wrote:Stuff bigger than 400x100 makes me sad.

word.

I think kyle's image above is even stupid big for a sig :\

Of course, I think sig images are just silly in the first place, but whatever

by **crypto** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 2:07 pm

This might be a good time to talk about freakishly large signature files again, because one forum member's sig file was so large from a file size standpoint that he burned up his monthly hosting allotment.

Please get your sig files down under 100K.

While 1.2MB for an animated gif of a man riding a pig while drinking beer is plenty awesome, requiring a meg to be downloaded every page load isnt awesome.

Obligatory picture of a man riding a pig while drinking beer: