I believe this is an option on vBulletin? Or at least it used to be. Basically, it just means you will only have to see Michael Jackson posing like Jesus once per page, instead of 10 times. It'd probably make pages less of a cunt to scroll down and to be fair, who the needs to see a signature more than once on a page anyway?
Well you put an end to that didn't you? Grrrr. Smily. 'Twas neccesary though. I still think this is an amazing suggestion.
It wasn't a built in feature of vB but there was a plugin that was easy enough to install so I added that. Seems to be working, I agree, it is an excellent suggestion. I haven't even run this by the other staff yet, so if we decide otherwise, we'll be disabling this feature, but I think it'll stay
Awesome. I appreciate being able to have semi-large sigs. But it gets tiresome scrolling through threads with 1 line posts and huge sigs over and over. Especially as I have set the board to show 40 replies a page.
By curiousity, will there be a way to disable this option if wanted? Just in case someone decides to have a half-naked chick as their sig and I want to see it over and over again.
I disagree and agree with this suggestion. It does make my page load faster since I'm on dail up but I use sigs to inform me when I'm skimming a board to see who's all posted and things like that and if its only once per page that doesn't work out well. I'm just a curious person.
Is it just me, or doesn't it take the same time to load up two of the same photo because well, it's the same photo?
Yeah, you're right. And I think once you load it, it is in the internet temporary files so it won't even need to load it next time.
I think we should have had a vote on this. I niether disagree nor agree with the decision but I think if there was a vote then everyone would be happy.
If you give us enough of a good reason to remove it, we'll listen. Though, I can't remember if we've ever had a vote on something. But this plug-in helps us avoid the clutter and focus on the real important thing: the posts themselves. Too many signatures were dwarfing the size of the posts, and this makes the pages shorter and easier to read. As for the whole "I use signatures to determine whose posts are which" thing: Just use the avatars.
Yeah So It Really Doesnt Help THAT Much. Only Some Code Loading time but thats never much. once you load the image once. It'll Load like Nothing, Even on Dial up, Because then its just the Browser speed Loading the Image code from its Temp files. I Personally Love seeing all the Sigs and helps me Find where i posted and who else posted.
Yeah avatars can do a fine job. As far as I'm concerned, I wouldn't even mind if there was a rule against any images in signatures, but since some people like having a gigantic image in their sigs, this may be an even better solution
I don't really like the one sig per page idea, to be honest. I can't give a really good reason to get rid of it but I don't think the reasons for it are that strong either, considering it doesn't take more than a few seconds to scroll through a thread. The sigs make it a lot easier to distinguish people and sort out their posts (or your own)
It takes half a second to look at someone's name and/or avatar. I don't see what is so confusing. Part of the problem is everyone here (including me I'll admit) changes their sig and avatars like they change their underpants, so you're not getting that instant recognition of who's posting while going down the page. Also, Is the reason you're here to look at massive sigs over and over, or to participate in discussion. Sigs are a nice touch, I just got fucking sick of looking at them to be honest. Probably to do with me growing up on a forum with no sigs or avatars.