[achtung]

how do you insert images in your sig here?  And how do you hyper link them?

[Swamp_Thing]

You don´t.
Avatars are only permitted to project members, and sig images are not allowed, to save bandwith.

[Solatar]

It also makes the forums look a bit cleaner too...I hate browsing game forums where somebody has an animated .gif that's twice the size of his post.

[Setekh]

We don't allow images in sigs. They really clutter up the place and it's very inconsiderate to those who aren't on broadband.

[Typhon_Paktu:SA]

I think we used to, a while back. Like way back when.

[Primus]

And I hate when some people have three banners in their sig. It makes the posts look really messy. That's why like HLP, this place looks clean. As Sol said.
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Can I have an avatar?

[Admiral LSD]

Way back when HLP first migrated to vB I think, users were allowed avatars. They were only gallery avatars, you couldn't upload your own. It got shut down pretty quick though because the project kiddies considered the idea of lowly groundlings getting free access to something they had to work oh-so-hard for an insult to their egos

Sig images though, even if you're on broadband, are a crime against humanity and must be destroyed at all costs.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Admiral LSD
Way back when HLP first migrated to vB I think, users were allowed avatars. They were only gallery avatars, you couldn't upload your own. It got shut down pretty quick though because the project kiddies considered the idea of lowly groundlings getting free access to something they had to work oh-so-hard for an insult to their egos

Sig images though, even if you're on broadband, are a crime against humanity and must be destroyed at all costs.

depends on the sig image

if it's actually related to, say, a private project of yours.. and isn't colossal and animated..
like thus:

it wouldn't be so much of a problem... but when something that's absolutely huge, an animated gif that's 300 k or more in size, that'd be irritating to no end..

same goes for avatars:


[/blatant plug]

[Setekh]

(Shameless!) As much as I like those graphics, I still think sig images aren't so great. Too often I feel that in forums that allow them, I have to mentally sift out the images everytime... it's like there's more sig than post.

[Admiral LSD]

Originally posted by Setekh
it's like there's more sig than post.

That's because there usually is...

As I said, they're a crime against humanity and any board admin that allows them should be shot.

[Taristin]

Sadly I must agree with the admiral. Sig images are usually an annoying attribute of those 1337 k1dd135 on haXX0r forums.

[Janos]

I just love huge, animated sigs with at least 20 lines of stupid stuff like

i wuv charlene

<3

~~~ ~~~

..g3r0D is my love don't insult him ok .....

laffo

SIERRA FOR FREESPACE 3

... And so on. Imagine that on epilepsy-causing colors and animated huge smilies and you have ~90% of BBs. Great. Awesome. Some places limit the sig sizes and it sometimes works well. Sometimes not.

Avatars would be nice though.

[pyro-manic]

I have one. Three, in fact

[Primus]

Originally posted by Janos
SIERRA FOR FREESPACE 3

I don't miss even the avatars.

[Unknown Target]

Images in sigs and avatars are annoying and consume bandwith, like those three minute animated clips people have in their avatars.

[General Freak]

Turnsky has already shown that you can bypass the ban on sig images by simply using the same images in your normal posts. Would those people get in trouble?

[Setekh]

Well, if someone was actually persistent enough to manually add it into every single one of their posts, and it was becoming obtrusive, we would probably have a word with them. It really just makes the whole place ugly when every thread is full of them.

[General Freak]

By the way, I can't find a rules thread for this forum. Usually, they're in the Sticky list, but it doesn't seem to be here. When I searched for 'rules', the thread on the top was this one.

[Dark RevenantX]

I say that if you don't have higher than 150 posts, you don't get a signature.  If you don't have higher than 500 posts, you shouldn't have an avatar.  I also say that if you don't have higher than 1000 posts, you can't have sig images.

And use the warning level system.

[Kie99]

But then certain spammers would be allowed sig images, while productive, yet quiet members wouldn't.