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animated sig

rondeco · 2006-05-29 11:45:55

I jsut realised that my signature was in breach of regulations as it was animated. I am just wondering why animated sigs are not allowed. Can you please explain?

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29-05-2006 12:45pm

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rondeco

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I jsut realised that my signature was in breach of regulations as it was animated. I am just wondering why animated sigs are not allowed. Can you please explain?

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#2 29-05-2006 12:51pm
Beruthiel

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because the Admins who own this site said so

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#3 29-05-2006 12:56pm
rondeco

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I can see that as I read the forum rules after you pointed out my error. I now wish to know why. Can u give me more than a 'said so' answer?

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#4 29-05-2006 1:00pm
Beruthiel

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How about - cos the Admins said so and as it's their site, they can do as they please?
also
I never asked, but I'm sure it helps with speed of the site on some level

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#5 29-05-2006 1:03pm
rondeco

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Beruthiel wrote:

I never asked, but I'm sure it helps with speed of the site on some level

Ok, thanks for that. Hope I wasn't too much of a pain. Til next time..

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#6 29-05-2006 1:37pm
Gordon

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Animated sigs are basically annoying, like animated avatars. They do take up slightly more bandwidth for each user to download but I think that the main reason is due to tacky, annoyingness that disrupts the flow of threads. And they're annoying.

Animated sigs are annoying basically. And tacky. But mostly annoying.

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#7 30-05-2006 8:59pm
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#8 31-05-2006 10:15am
Talliesin

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One day, back when I used to work for DeVore, we were talking about the concept of animated sigs. Then we came across a forum which, in DeVore's words "twitched like a junkie in need of a fix". Hence it was decided that no matter how much improvements in bandwidth removed the download-size reasons for not allowing such animations, animations would never be allowed in signatures or avatars.

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