Sigs getting turned off

[shartley]

[SCpoloRicker]

stoopid. Sigs being an issue is news to me. Seriously.

["Joe"]

OOOh, that's what happened to my sig. LOL, I thought I messed something up

[Blazestorm]

omg this sucks I ahte ao you all suck suck scuk scukscuskcusck this is stupid theres nothing wrong with sigis tehres only stupidi epopel who are screing this up ocomoene tomecake dont turn off sigs ine eed mine for stuff it represteisnt my identity you all suck i hopw you explode.

hahaha that was fun...

[Muzikman]

omg this sucks I ahte ao you all suck suck scuk scukscuskcusck this is stupid theres nothing wrong with sigis tehres only stupidi epopel who are screing this up ocomoene tomecake dont turn off sigs ine eed mine for stuff it represteisnt my identity you all suck i hopw you explode.

hahaha that was fun...

Did you mash the keyboard when typing that?

[punkncat]

I think you are misinterpreting me. I was speaking about members as well as mods...

Never said life was fair, and never tried to explain it off as so. I wasn't trying to be uncivil or immature. I did edit my post (obviously not before you saw it) for content that I felt was appropriate. I don't need a lecture about life and its realities. I have been living it too.....got a Tshirt...lol

I am not trying to say that mods should leave people alone. There is a need for a "governing" body in a forum like this. I do see a problem with some situations being blown out of proportion by both mods and by members. I see mods who are using their power in such a way that brings their decisions into question, as all can. (If you can catch it before its edited, or removed by those powers that be....) In reality a larger portion of the cause for the big discussion in the now closed thread was about this practice, not about Sigs.

Not all things related to a mods job need oversight. But when someone is going to take a perm ban, then maybe more than one person should have the power to decide this. When enough people are bothered by a decision(or decisions) that it causes this much backlash, doesn't it indicate there is a problem that needs to be addressed and fixed? Not just "patched for now"? Shouldn't the people who enforce the rules be held accountable by them, not exempt from them? Shouldn't they be the example by which others are led? And just because we can point out many "bad" examples of this still DOES NOT make it right!

Sig rules are simple stuff. If someone can't follow them, then disallow that user to use a sig. Honestly I could care less in a way, I just hate to see all users "punished" over the actions of a small group of members.

I am not trying to diss on or upset anyone, but I truly see this as a direct result of growing unhappyness within the forum concerning the enforcement of sometimes vague policy and voiced by a specific group of people. And instead of dealing with that, which there is no easy solution for, out of frustration its "screw it, no more sigs"or even worse the practice of just banning those who have the guts to voice their displeasure.

I have had no(or very little) problem with the mods. I keep most of my posts related to paintball, out of controversy, and when or if I am warned about something I simply steer clear. ....but be it small potatoes or not, taking away sigs isn't going to make this problem go away. The people involved in this will find another way to stretch the limits, and what will we lose then?

[Blazestorm]

Did you mash the keyboard when typing that?

No... I just typed as fast as I could without correcting any of my errors.

[RRfireblade]

Shame really...but w/e.

AO looks like the classifieds in the newspaper now.

Individuallity and personallity are heavily over rated anyway.

I guess I should change my user name to #6033 now. (figure it out )

[Webmaster]

The problem I see is there is a certain ammount of users who like to push the rules, play dumb, and then get pissy when they get called on it. No one likes to Police Sigs - but we have to on occasion to keep this place from looking like a 12 yr old girls LiveJournal.

We dont have a luxury that PBN has - where they dont care what goes on - as long as they get eyeballs for thier sponsers. They more hits the better. I suppose the upside of this is you can act like an idiot and not get called on it.

So anway to the 98% of you playing by the rules and making our lives easy - thanks!

[Magaman]

No one likes to Police Sigs - but we have to on occasion to keep this place from looking like a 12 yr old girls LiveJournal.

Doh, I thought I was in the wrong place, I should have figured that when I saw all of these shiny Guns...

[Jack & Coke]

The problem I see is there is a certain ammount of users who like to push the rules, play dumb, and then get pissy when they get called on it.

Why not just ding them?

[alooney11]

It was about time

[ScatterPlot]

Now I'm just gonna have to start copy-pasting my sig into every post I make

[WenULiVeUdiE]

Although I do not mind the turning off of sigs, there could have been a better solution. Such as no images, only text, similar to Pbn. However, I am not sure you can do something like that with this forum.

[Duzzy]

For anyone having a problem with the lack of a Feedback link, try to make it your homepage. I have yet to try it so I don't know if it would work, but try and do that and in your for sale thread say, "check out my homepage for my feedback."