To the mod that keeps doing this

[Adrenaline_Junkie]

What do i do? I dont get why im over my charecter limit now but wasnt before.

[TheDuelist]

I would have appreciated a pm. I mean I understand a mods responsibilities are tedious but if we are trying to have an environment where we work together a pm would have been appreciated. My sig was mostly text except for the AO-FL sig. No big deal, I don't need a sig but all of a sudden its "BAM" and goodbye instead of "Hey (insert name), I need you to alter your sig to comply with the guidelines please."

[MarkM]

I would have appreciated a pm. I mean I understand a mods responsibilities are tedious but if we are trying to have an environment where we work together a pm would have been appreciated. My sig was mostly text except for the AO-FL sig. No big deal, I don't need a sig but all of a sudden its "BAM" and goodbye instead of "Hey (insert name), I need you to alter your sig to comply with the guidelines please."

We tried that and you will still see signatures that say things like "image is over 20K" etc etc and still they are here so it proves that the users don't read their signatures...look at Jonneh's signature (in this very thread) that was done over 2 months ago so we swapped this for the pic that links to the rules

This is why the sig replacement has been designed as a link to the rules thread, a thorough reading of the rules and a quick check of the image in question should solve the question as to why it was removed.

[Potatoboy]

AJ- If I recall correctly, when the character limit was set, it wasn't applied to existing sigs, since it's now being changed, it must fall within the 500 character limit. Try removing some of your text.

[dj89]

Normally I would say that deleting a sig that is 354 instead of 350 is just being mean, but I suppose if you let it slip a little at first, it will keep getting worse and worse. Good job mods Oh, and wouldn't avatars be so much easier?

NO

Ya that happen a long time a go.

http://www.automags.org/forums/showthread.php?t=133953&highlight=bother

[Adrenaline_Junkie]

Potato - I got it under control now, MarkM helped me out. The thing is, my sig was changed to what i had it after the 500 limit was put on. Its all good now though.

[-=Squid=-]

1 kb over? Gimme a break.

- Goro

[Potatoboy]

Person A: But I was just 1KB over!
Person B: But I was just 1KB over Person A!
Person C: But I was just 1KB over Person B!
Person D: But I was just 1KB over Person C!
Person E: But I was just 1KB over Person D!
Person F: But I was just 1KB over Person E!

Do you see a pattern here?

[-=Squid=-]

Person A: But I was just 1KB over!
Person B: But I was just 1KB over Person A!
Person C: But I was just 1KB over Person B!
Person D: But I was just 1KB over Person C!
Person E: But I was just 1KB over Person D!
Person F: But I was just 1KB over Person E!

Do you see a pattern here?

I see a pattern, but I don't see a problem.

- Goro

[Miscue]

I wrote this in our mod forum -- because I'm in disagreement with some things.

Reviewing this rule:

What is its purpose? There are two things - the resource taxation on the AO server, and the user experience.

When a picture is hosted offsite, there is ZERO resource taxation on the AO server. Allowing users to have 20k sigs hosted from AO is worse than allowing 10 Megabyte sigs offsite - as far as the AO server is concerned.

These pictures are in excess of 10MB (total):
<img src="http://kiernan.nmsu.edu/giving/art_studio_042804.jpg" width=100 height=100><img src="http://kiernan.nmsu.edu/giving/curran_students_020204.jpg" width=100 height=100><img src="http://kiernan.nmsu.edu/giving/bosland_greenhouse_051303.jpg" width=100 height=100>

Did this text have to wait for a picture to load for you to see it??? Nope. Did the rest of the webpage have to wait to load? Nope. Did it tax AO at all? Nope. This is the beauty of multithreading.

You'll notice that you still have an hourglass, but so what - you can see the webpage except for the completed picture. My 12k signature, hosted by AO, is far worse.