I’ve noticed a few people starting to use graphics (some fairly large) in their sigs. I don’t want to get heavy handed and remove the ability to add graphics into posts/sigs, but I’d prefer people to keep their sigs reasonably short and non-graphical
IMHO long sigs have three problems:
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They cause the forum database to grow quickly, which slows the server and therefore the forum down for everyone.
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For POTS modem users they make the forum slower still. One sig graphic I’ve seen is around 50k. That’s 10+ seconds with a 56k modem and some threads have the graphic repeated multiple times with each new post. With a 1Mb/s always-on link it doesn’t bother me, but I do care about others who might be paying for slow modem links.
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Some people really hate big graphical sigs :x
I have no problems with a few lines of text, including URLs to advertise your web site. There’s even a forum topic where you can put a pointer to your web site. I’m happy to have embedded graphics in that topic as they’re not repeated on each post.
Remember a picture is worth a thousand words, but it usually takes up the same space on disk