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Are there actual signature mods on here?

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    #32
    the_syco
    Registered Users Posts: 37,301 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Willstev wrote: »
    Surely would it not be more feasible to implement some sort of notice where you upload your sig. There is nothing there to say what size its meant to be at all, how are people meant to know this?
    Ehhh... cos it says "Note: The maximum size of your custom image is 500 by 100 pixels or 19.5 KB (whichever is smaller).", maybe?


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    #33
    Chong
    Registered Users Posts: 8,676 ✭✭✭Chong


    Where does it state this when uploading your sig?


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    #34
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Willstev wrote: »
    Where does it state this when uploading your sig?
    It states this in the place that you upload your sig.


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    #35
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Willstev wrote: »
    Where does it state this when uploading your sig?

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/profile.php?do=editsignature


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    #36
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Willstev wrote: »
    Where does it state this when uploading your sig?
    In the bit with the writing and such.


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    #37
    Chong
    Registered Users Posts: 8,676 ✭✭✭Chong


    Ah yes Aidan I think this where the confusion lies.

    There should also be something stating it here:

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    #38
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Thats where it is. :/

    You see the scrolbar over to the right? Try dragging it down and whola..


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    #39
    Chong
    Registered Users Posts: 8,676 ✭✭✭Chong


    In that case then , there should be some stating the size.

    95433287cr6.th.jpg


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    #40
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Willstev wrote: »
    In that case then , there should be some stating the size.

    95433287cr6.th.jpg

    It does. On the page we linked and on the page we gave a screenshot to you. The same bloody page you gave a screenshot to saying it should be on it. There IS something there STATING the sizes of the damn sigs!


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    #41
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Hmm, that's strange, it appears for me but not for registered users :/


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    #42
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Gordon wrote: »
    Hmm, that's strange, it appears for me but not for registered users :/

    I think he doesn't understand us.. they are there from what I can gather. He just doesn't realise he has to scroll down :)


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    #43
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    aidan_walsh wrote: »
    In the bit with the writing and such.
    Willstev wrote: »
    In that case then , there should be some stating the size.

    95433287cr6.th.jpg

    DIdi you check out aidan_walsh's link? It tells you size and has all the info you need


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    #44
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Iv checked with a friend who isnt a mod. I think the "Upload a signature pic" is a section only available to mods (and I assume, subscribers). This section is where it has the sig rules.

    Maybe the poster is listening afterall.


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    #45
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Sully wrote: »
    Iv checked with a friend who isnt a mod. I think the "Upload a signature pic" is a section only available to mods (and I assume, subscribers). This section is where it has the sig rules.

    Maybe the poster is listening afterall.
    Correct!


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    #46
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Gordon wrote: »
    Correct!

    and in that case, there should be a link / info on the rules. Its not in the easiest place to find as it is.


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    #47
    Paulw
    Registered Users Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    Sully wrote: »
    It does. On the page we linked and on the page we gave a screenshot to you. The same bloody page you gave a screenshot to saying it should be on it. There IS something there STATING the sizes of the damn sigs!

    I've looked at looked at the page where you edit your sig, and I can still see nothing stating size or rules.

    sig.jpg


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    #48
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Paulw wrote: »
    I've looked at looked at the page where you edit your sig, and I can still see nothing stating size or rules.

    <snip>

    We just figured that out, re-read page 3. :)


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    #49
    Chong
    Registered Users Posts: 8,676 ✭✭✭Chong


    Yes Sully I was listening :)


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    #50
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Willstev wrote: »
    Yes Sully I was listening :)

    I was wondering what you were on about, but it all makes sense now! Must get that addressed.


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    #51
    white_falcon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭white_falcon


    well my main point was just that it was signed Boards.ie SIGPO

    are people appointed SIGPO, or can anyone say that they are

    because by that token I could PM someone and say

    "hi I have noticed a few of your post lately are offensive to some members. Please stop posting innapropriate subjects. Thanks, boards.ie Appropriate Posting Team"

    My main point is - can anyone say they are boards.ie SIGPO?


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    #52
    smashey
    Registered Users Posts: 21,676 ✭✭✭✭smashey


    white_falcon wrote: »
    well my main point was just that it was signed Boards.ie SIGPO

    are people appointed SIGPO, or can anyone say that they are

    because by that token I could PM someone and say

    "hi I have noticed a few of your post lately are offensive to some members. Please stop posting innapropriate subjects. Thanks, boards.ie Appropriate Posting Team"

    My main point is - can anyone say they are boards.ie SIGPO?
    If a post offends, report it.

    The SigPo guys are providing a service voluntarily and as they haven't been pulled up on this by an Admin, it has to be assumed that their services are appreciated. Not everybody knows the signature rules.


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    #53
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    white_falcon wrote: »
    My main point is - can anyone say they are boards.ie SIGPO?
    Anyone willing to take it upon themselves to get abuse from people that like big flashing AW sigs.
    That said most users I PM aren't aware of the rules and just change their sig to something smaller. I maybe report 1 out of 20 users in the sigpo thread.

    Being a sigpo is giving something back to the community, a bit like helping out. SMods don't have the time to PM all users they see that break the rules so that why sigpo was set up.

    As Raphael says "As is traditional for Internet bulletin boards, boards.ie provides the facility to users of adding a short signature after each of their posts. Like most facilitys however, this is periodically abused. And so rules were created to control these signatures.

    Please make sure that your signature DOES NOT contain profanity, bigotry, racism, or any other content that might be considered offensive by others. These rules however, are not a perfect solution, as some feel the need to break them. And that is where the SIGPO come in    "

    Raphael actually broke the rules himself once and had his sig removed :D


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    #54
    Jumpy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    My one is a good idea too, but noone really got into it.

    Plus, its more of a joke.


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    #55
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    The official position on sigs is "Don't act the tosser". I think the Sigpo work to this as well. Instead of scanning every sig and making sure it complies, when one catches their eye which blatantly upsets the flow of threads, they PM the user. It works, the guys seem to give a fair chunk of their time for this and it keeps the place tidy.

    There are three reasons why my head hurts when someone else links to another forum (usually American):

    1. 100x100 avatars, usually flashing or dancing and often NSFW
    2. Signatures containing needlessly large animations of dancing cats, or a listing of their last 100 Halo battles. No-one gives a ****.
    3. Every second post saying, "LOL" or "Burn" or "WTF".

    Mods and non-mods alike do a fair amount of work keeping boards free of this ****, which ultimately makes it readable and usable.


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    #56
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    biko wrote: »
    Raphael actually broke the rules himself once and had his sig removed :D
    Yeah, that was funny. =D


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    #57
    ethernet
    Registered Users Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    white_falcon wrote: »
    well my main point was just that it was signed Boards.ie SIGPO

    are people appointed SIGPO, or can anyone say that they are

    because by that token I could PM someone and say

    "hi I have noticed a few of your post lately are offensive to some members. Please stop posting innapropriate subjects. Thanks, boards.ie Appropriate Posting Team"

    My main point is - can anyone say they are boards.ie SIGPO?
    I copied the message verbatim for the PM from the first page of this thread (editing the URL tags, as instructed).


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    #58
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    seamus wrote: »
    The official position on sigs is "Don't act the tosser". I think the Sigpo work to this as well. Instead of scanning every sig and making sure it complies, when one catches their eye which blatantly upsets the flow of threads, they PM the user. It works, the guys seem to give a fair chunk of their time for this and it keeps the place tidy.

    There are three reasons why my head hurts when someone else links to another forum (usually American):

    1. 100x100 avatars, usually flashing or dancing and often NSFW
    2. Signatures containing needlessly large animations of dancing cats, or a listing of their last 100 Halo battles. No-one gives a ****.
    3. Every second post saying, "LOL" or "Burn" or "WTF".

    Mods and non-mods alike do a fair amount of work keeping boards free of this ****, which ultimately makes it readable and usable.
    Seamus, I've recently noticed a disturbing trend of you making sense. I trust you will correct this forthwith.

    DeV.


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    #59
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    My apologies, correction impending.

    ur-noze-i-haz-it.jpg


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    #60
    Sparky
    Registered Users Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    I remember getting a PM about my picture being 2px over the limit.

    I lol'd


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    #61
    King John V
    Registered Users Posts: 379 ✭✭King John V


    Hey guys. Just wondering. Why is there a limit on sig size when picture postings can be generally any size (within reason of course!). In any case, is there no way to lock the upper limit on the editing options so people can't go over the limit to begin with. I mean if it were possible it would save work for mods and make sigpo redundent (not that they aren't appreciated;)).

    Yes I got my first reporting (and without warning!!!!). Thanks for that Zaph :D:p.


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