Well, see, here's the thing. While I do agree with you about repeating a sig over and over and over and over again in the same thread, I guess it would be up to that individual poster to uncheck the "Show your signature" box before hitting the "Post Reply" button.

As for those who might not like sigs, avatars, etc..if you don't want to be annoyed by them, go to your User CP and then click Edit Options. Scroll down to Thread Display Options. Once there, in the Visible Post Elements subsection, uncheck the Show Signatures, Show Avatars & [if you want to go for the trifecta] Show Images.

That way those who want the sigs/avatars can have 'em and those who don't, won't be annoyed by 'em. But to sit there and complain about them because you either don't know how to do the above, didn't know you could do that or are too lazy to do it, is ridiculous.

Of course, Geoff has the final say..

eh whatever, I have had them turned off for quite some time and I have never complained about them. (not sure how you got that from my post if you are referencing me).

I just posted to try and see why people actually want them? I don't see the point.

Hi Mojo.

Okay . . . breaking out the shovel to dig this thread back up.

I just went to change my sig and ran into the enigmatic "no more than 300 characters" rule again. Remembering this thread, I decided that I'd check it out to see what the eventual explaination and/or resolution was, only to find that, after 7 months, there still wasn't one of either.

Any updates?

until the forum is working properly, it won't be changed...and even when the forum is fixed...I dunno..it's up to Geoff..

Okay . . . thanks. :up: Didn't realize that it wasn't working properly.

I really don't see how bumping the sig limit up to 500 characters would do anything to the server load. After all, we don't have a limit on post length... and many of our posters (myself included) are quite verbose.

I would imagine that the major issue in our forum slowdown is either database access (which really is more a function of bringing up a thread or doing a search -- once a record is tagged, the load difference between 300 characters and 3000 characters in a field is pretty minimal) or web server access (which again has no corrolation to this issue.)

Frankly, I do not understand why we cannot get a definitive answer on this. Pilot, you've been great, and I appreciate your honesty, but the gist of your answers all seem to be, "well, I don't really know why it's set at that limit." In theory, Geoff and the admins should at least be able to justify this rule... or amend it or abolish it completely.

The limit has been raised to 450 characters. If server performance gets any worse due to the adjustment it'll be put back down to 300.

Thanks a bunch, pilot. :up:

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