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Sig edited, no PM, not in SIGPO. ¿Que?

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  • 24-02-2008 6:15pm
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    DMC
    Registered Users Posts: 10,726 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I had an image of my radio showing Phantom on DAB, and now its edited with....

    "(snip: sorry, dab image doesn't play nice)"

    I'd just like to know who and why.

    Ta muchly.

    D.
    Post edited by Shield on


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


    What was the image?


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    DMC
    Registered Users Posts: 10,726 ✭✭✭✭DMC


    Here ye go, Gordon.

    phantomdab.JPG

    Its been there in my sig almost a year, so I cannot see why it "doesn't play nice"


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    togster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭togster


    I've seen it before and thought it was kinda cool. But then again i know sfa about sig rules so....
    Couldn't you have pm'd an admin or biko?


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    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    Odd, doesn't seem to break any rules.


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    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Sig or text, not both perhaps? There is quite a lot of text even thought the font is small.


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    DMC
    Registered Users Posts: 10,726 ✭✭✭✭DMC


    Quite true, Hagar, I left my text small for that reason, its exactly the same as Boston's above. Yet two things spring to mind.

    It wasn't a problem before (its there a year now) and is it a problem with the content of the image, hence the remover's comment?


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    witnessmenow
    Registered Users Posts: 7,152 ✭✭✭witnessmenow


    the rule is a pic and 4 lines of small text.... which means i'm breaking it too, better change that!:)


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    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    I always thought it was ok since the image was so small only 5.6k.


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    #10
    DMC
    Registered Users Posts: 10,726 ✭✭✭✭DMC


    8 lines small size, so the SIGPO rules state. And people have text and images together.

    When drafting my sigs, they are always with SIGPO in mind, so why, and why now.


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    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    I've seen the sig before and thought it was ok. I do encourage (but can't force) users who report signatures to let users know via PM beforehand. I know this might cause some tension between the person with the large signature and the person reporting but I would rather users be notified. It saves a lot of hassle.


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    popebenny16
    Registered Users Posts: 2,461 ✭✭✭popebenny16


    i assume only the admins can snip sigs or can s-mods do it too?


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    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    S-mods can change sigs as well.


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


    Perhaps there was an outage of homepage.eircom.net that was causing all threads where DMC had posted to stall?

    It's happened from time to time.


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    DMC
    Registered Users Posts: 10,726 ✭✭✭✭DMC


    Then its very strange text that replaced it!

    Anyhoo, no responses or objections posted, so it returns.


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    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    DMC wrote: »
    Then its very strange text that replaced it!

    Anyhoo, no responses or objections posted, so it returns.

    I think what seamus meant (correct me if I'm wrong here, seamus) was that your sig was causing threads to stall because of the outage so it was removed to stop this.


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    DMC
    Registered Users Posts: 10,726 ✭✭✭✭DMC


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    I think what seamus meant (correct me if I'm wrong here, seamus) was that your sig was causing threads to stall because of the outage so it was removed to stop this.

    Seamus has this habit of confusing me :)

    I see what he means now, although I've not seen it occur. It doesn't mean that it hasn't but its new to me.

    Does it not load past remotely hosted images? (Userbars?) Has there been a change in policy in this regard?


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


    DMC wrote: »
    Does it not load past remotely hosted images? (Userbars?) Has there been a change in policy in this regard?
    Depends on the browser/setup. I've seen whole pages hang while they wait for one image to load.

    Hasn't happened in a while, but it's the only explanation I can think of.


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    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,210 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    seamus wrote: »
    Depends on the browser/setup. I've seen whole pages hang while they wait for one image to load.

    Hasn't happened in a while, but it's the only explanation I can think of.

    Interesting. I use firefox and everytime I open a boards tab the browser will hang for 2 seconds before it displays the page.. this seems to be a unique issue I have with Boards.ie and its been going on like... forever.


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