Moderator suggestion on signatures.

[Sazerac]

Hi, all!

First of all, I wanted to commend everyone on having resized the graphic portions of your signatures. Pretty much everything is in order there, and for newbies who come in with larger ones, the other members have done their part to alerting them as to the size restrictions. Thanks a bundle! [img]smile.gif[/img]

Now, to the next part. It has come to my attention (and I name no names here) that quite a few of you have signature lines that are WAAAAY too long. Although we have no hard and fast rule here at IW, based on the rules of Netiquette, the signature file should never overpower the message.

The maximum number of lines in any non-graphic signature should be no more than 7, and that's for a professional one. An example of that would be:

John Doe, Consultant
ABC Information Systems
123 Tile Forest Way
Anywhere, US 12345-6789
Phone: (111) 222-3333
Fax: (444) 555-666
E-mail: jdoe@abcinfo.com

Since there's no practical reason why anyone here would need a professional signature, and most of you have graphic signature files, I'd recommend keeping the total lines of text of the signature to 4 or less, including "smilies", blank lines, and what-have-you.

Here is an example of how 90% of the posts out there look with these mega-long signatures. This is what it looks like from my end:

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Hi, buddy! How'ya doin?

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Who's da bomb? I'M da bomb!!! [img]graemlins/shooter19.gif[/img]

[img]graemlins/1djsmile.gif[/img] Official party-animal of Ironworks [img]graemlins/superdude.gif[/img]
Lord High Master of the Known Metaverse [img]graemlins/cool.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/showoff.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/thewave.gif[/img]
Beloved of Cuddlybunkins [img]graemlins/bunny.gif[/img]
Deadly Ninja of the High Muckamuck Clan [img]graemlins/1deadly.gif[/img]
[img]graemlins/jawdrop.gif[/img] "Omigawsh, Maynard, I jest dropped mah pants!"

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OK, that was probably a bit much, but you get the idea. Can we all please try to curb our exuberance for adding more and more text and smilies to the sigs? I think most of what can be said can be done in no more than 4 lines. Try to design your sig to where it doesn't overpower your message, especially if you're fond of one-line posts.

Thanks! Once again, this is just a suggestion...but do give it some consideration. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Cheers,
-Sazerac

[ 07-10-2002, 02:43 PM: Message edited by: Sazerac ]

[Mouse]

I'm totally in agreement with my fellow mod on this. Let's all just exercise a bit of restraint.

[img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

[ 07-10-2002, 02:54 PM: Message edited by: Mouse ]

[adam warlock]

I'm in the agreement there... there were.... posts with too looooong sig that I really want to read the next post in the thread.

to edit: it figures that Saz swings his axe to cut the sigs LOL [img]graemlins/laugh3.gif[/img]

[ 07-10-2002, 03:05 PM: Message edited by: adam warlock ]

[Megabot]

Yeah i can agree there! many BIIIIG sigs here on the forum!

[RudeDawg]

Heard and obeyed !

Cut three lines off. [img]graemlins/cool.gif[/img] Bet no-one notices, either. [img]graemlins/awesomework.gif[/img]

[Dundee Slaytern]

Er... is my signature considered too long? I only use it either when I need to refer to it, or when my actual post exceeds the signature's length. By default, I do not use my signature.

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[ 07-10-2002, 03:20 PM: Message edited by: Dundee Slaytern ]

[dizzy]

shortened! Is this more or less ok?

[Sazerac]

Those look great, guys! [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] Dundee, you're fine as is. Thanks a lot!

Cheers,
-Saz

[SomeGuy]

Is mine to big?

[dizzy]

might be....