a 300 character limits on sigs?
 

:( talk about pain when trying to put links in sigs, I can understand a limit say 500 but 300 is too small, IMO :down:

The forum rule is five lines. I suppose that's based on a browser width of 800 pixels. Not sure how that jives with the new character count limit.

"There's also a five line limit on signatures. That includes empty lines. It's also based on a maximized browser window at 1024x768 screen resolution, with no child windows (like search or bookmarks) open."

Is there any way this can be increased? Just linking to a couple of URLs (especially DVD Talk threads) is a real pain in the ass with only 300 characters.

das

I asked the DVD Talk tech god if he could open a socket to fix this glitch [and another one limiting poll options to 100 characters], but it might not be possible?

He gave me a tip for shortening the urls [http://tinyurl.com/], but I haven't gotten around to trying it..

I was going to suggest www.tinyurl.com myself. Perfect for long links.

Example: http://tinyurl.com/54c9b

no!

However that signature looks like it's over 5 lines.

300 is to small I had to remove the names of my tests and put in the numbers. Oh well there are worse things that can happen to me in life.

It's interesting that some sigs are well over this imagined 300 limit. Does this limit actually exist, or is it a number someone conjured up because their sig wouldn't work?

I recently tried to post a quote and was told (in two different ways) I need at least 3 characters.

Let's count, shall we: [ (1) Q (2) U (3) O (4) T (5) E (6)...

I'm guessing the sigs longer than 300 characters were grandfathered in before the software upgrade.

Yeah, that's really annoying too. When I want to quote someone else's response from one thread as a response to something else in another thread, I have to type some nonsense to get over the 3-character minimum.

And the 300 limit has to do with updating sigs, not retrieving them. Also, the limit is on the web scripts not the database, so old sigs are still stored and displayed.

das

Yeah, I thought of the concept of old vs new (post v3) sigs. But it seems to me that El’s sig has changed since v3? Of course, I could be wrong, and frequently am.

But the quote problem is obviously a bug, yes?

It shouldn't bet too hard to filter out url's when tabulating a proposed sig's character length. That way you can still have your five line max while being able to include links. Don't believe me? Then wh

I've had it since around Thanksgiving. :)

Any news on this? I got no complaints about the 5 line rule, but, like people said, with links, it's very easy to go over 300 chars. and still be less than 5 lines.

Yeah, i've been wantin' to change mine for a while now, even get rid of one or two of my links..

And that 100 character poll limit thing is annoying once a week..

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http://www.mindspring.com/~boycekb/i...es/Whistle.gif

This blows goats.

I just checked my little sig, and it's 297 characters (including spaces). If I take out the formatting, it's 70 fewer.

talemyn's comes in 7 short of the limit, not counting formatting.

Rogue588 is over by at least 2 just with the quote, never mind all the links.

We'll be reading about Dragon*Con 2004 well into the next decade.

And the question will be "Who the hell is Shaq?"

Goats never had it so good.

The way vBulletin determines length says your signature is 225 characters. (That's also why data in the QUOTE tag isn't taken into account when tabulating length.)

Dear Canadian Bacon,

NO ONE HEARS YOUR CRIES

Can't you use tinyurl for the links?

Even with the tinyurl links, my sig would go over 300 chars. if I tried to add in a link to just one of my online DVD collections (I used to have 3 links, plus another quote, in my sig . . . still under 5 lines . . . but couldn't fit them in any more when I updated my sig a little ways back).

I'm pretty sure my signature says it all regarding my thoughts on this...

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I don't understand the 300 character limit on signatures. Five lines, sure, I can see that... even if some of our more, ahem, august members seem to use more lines than that...

But 300 characters? The other day I had a great quote I wanted to use... it was more than 300 characters. I took out 2 sentences and completely bastardized the humor of the thing...still longer than 300 characters.

I mean, this isn't about server space... this entire forum is stored in a database, and virtually every comment here is more than 300 characters. I cannot believe that adding in an extra 200-700 characters to the limit would really affect bandwith or server response time.

And there's gotta be a single switch setting in vBulletin to bump this limit up. Or a very simple patch. Can someone explain why the sig limit is so low?

we keep them small so they don't take up alot of space (on screen)..I think that's the reason..just so it takes up less space..I don't think server space even comes into play..

Well, that seems riddiculous... by the current standards, I could easily have this be my signature:

THIS SIGNATURE FITS THE 300 CHARACTER SIGNATURE LIMIT AND TAKES UP MORE THAN 5 LINES. IT IS APPALLINGLY UGLY. AS YOU CAN SEE, A LIMITED NUMBER OF CHARACTERS DOES NOT MEAN A LIMITED AMOUNT OF SPACE.


Meanwhile, the following quote should be fine and take up considerably less space, even if it does take up more than 300 characters:

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious: if it were so, it was a grievous fault. And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.


Not asking much... maybe 500 characters? What do you think?

if it's huge we'll remove it and tell them to use a smaller font ..if we see a huge signature, or someone reports one, we fix it. personally I don't care, I don't have one ;) I think they're pointless, but everyone is not the same. I have changed your signature so you should be happy now. Maybe Geoff can increase it but it's really not my call.

your previous signature was

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REALaly?! S om any people donut like to hear about other people's dreams? I loe ve ot to. because it is so frackin' insane usually and doesnt mke any sense! -- muggins

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I think because I changed it manually, you'll need to have an admin change it for you if you are to ever want it changed because it's over the character limit..

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Pilot, thank you. I did not actually want the quote from Julius Caesar as my sig line... I was just providing that as an example.

(I was actually looking to add in a quote from The Sports Guy on ESPN.com... but thank you for thinking I am far more cultured and intelligent than I am.)

Since you quoted my original sig... I'll change it back after a while. Right now, I'd like to leave the Julius Caesar quote up, just to give this thread some context.

And pilot... all of this begs the original question. It is obviously impractical to write an admin every time you want a longer sig line. In the old system, we were allowed more than 300 characters, and we just set and enforced a 5-line policy. Why can't we do that here?

lol..I figured that was what you wanted since you had used that ..sorry ...as far as why, I can't tell you. It's what Geoff set. I'll ask him why, but I don't know why. It may have just reverted to 300 when he upgraded and he never put it back to 500 but I honestly have no real answer.

Count me in for an increase in the sig length. Several times I have wanted to use a long quote in my sig, but it exceeded the 300 limit, even though it would have been less than five lines.

It's ridiculous to have BOTH a five line limit and a max character limit. The five line limit will determine the character length on its own.

With 300 character and 5 line limit, that means each line can have maximum of 60 characters only. That doesn't seem to be a lot of characters to play with once we start adding in URLs.

To clarify... no one seems to know why we have a 300 character limit on sigs... and everyone seems to want more...

So... can we have more? Please? -pray-

The 300 character limit is technical...I mean, code exists to determine if you've hit the 300 character mark. The five line limit is not. It's an eyeball, probably-won't-be-a-problem-unless-someone-complains sorta thing.

Once again, I found a signature that I want to use... but damned if it's not more than 300 characters! Please, please, please, can we at least get this bumped up to at least 500 characters, if not 1000?

With a five line limit.

I ran into this the other day. The quote would have taken up maybe three lines of regular text, less as size=1 like I had it. But I couldn't use it because it was well beyond the 300 character limit and there was no way to shorten it without losing the meaning.

And yet again... come on, could we at least get a simple explanation for why we have a 300 character limit on sigs? Please?

I tried to quote art's missive and had to hack it into one fourth of it's valuable insight. :(

... I'm wondering why people are obsessed (maybe too strong, but I'll go with it) over sigs... Why have them at all?

Never understood the point/reason. You can add anything you want to your posts and make it look like a sig. Why bother repeating it over and over (for frequent posters)?