Shoutbox

Well, I was reading rebelsean's complaint about the signature height (he presumably seemed to remove later on) where we did some research.

In my geek-ish research, I found out that it is technically limited to 125px high.
Someone else, in their legal research discovered the rules say the limit is 125px.

Nonetheless, I'm not going to discuss the fabulous congruence between theory and praxis on this board right now, anyway.

What I'd like to request is:
Increasing the height limit to 150


Wait, don't start typing below yet.
Before you say this would make threads look bad and sigs too big I ask back: Why?

Currently, if the limit was set to 150px, it would be noticeable, but the layout can be slightly tweaked in some ways so that it doesn't make any difference:


Edited: click for full size.


This is Zaher's sig in one of his posts seen on Firefox 1.0.6 with all block elements (here div's and p's) outlined in a way they are not modified, just marked, and a nice ruler I just found in an extension. Units are in 10px.

Firstly, and most important: Zaher's sig is exactly 125px high and still it shows cropped because there is a roughly 12px of padding on the top of the sig's div which causes it to be cropped at approx 113px height. Extending my geek research I found that the sig's div has 10px padding and 1px border, which pushes the sig 11px down.
Appart from this apparent bug, As you see, the ruler sizes 150px height, and this fits into the post, still preserving the top padding and also including some bottom padding. The problem is, that the "IP Address Logged" block uses that space.

In my humblest opinion, that IP address notice, appart from being almost completely useless for non-staff, takes much too much space. Actually, it could be placed over the Timestamp in the postbit or over the sig, to the left of the edited-post notice, when present, or simply below the post body, when not.

I'm posting this because I've made great efforts to fit my new signature to 150px height, which I thought was the most logical and acceptable limit, and I suppose many others also did feeling fustrated by this tight limit.

I hope this can be modified in one of the mentioned ways or any other.

Thanks for reading.

Edit: boredom has no limits

but the problem isn't just space used... if a signature is too big it can be too much of a distraction...  sure my current sigs might be distracting but if they were any bigger i'm sure people would be furious

TBH, we should be allowed to have at least 200px because that is a VERY reasonable size. 150 is VERY small, not to mention that there is already a few peoples signatures that are getting cut off (Omar's for example).

Nevertheless, I doubt that would happen, so I do agree with Keystorm .

I deleted that thread because I read the sig size in the preview thing wrong

Edit: About the IP address logged, I think that should totaly be removed from members view because we dont have access, nor do we need access to see any members IP address.

The only use for it to non-staff I could figure was to warn malicious users about IP's being tracked. But the's already stated in the registration agreement, if I'm not wrong, so this would just work as a reminder.

It certainly has a slight use, but I still think sigs could use that space better and that notice could be moved to somewhere else.

People, read again.

He isnt saying its too small, he's pointing out bugs that cause it to be smaller than 150px and essentially saying to scrap the IP Address: Logged bit.

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
The only use for it to non-staff I could figure was to warn malicious users about IP's being tracked. But the's already stated in the registration agreement, if I'm not wrong, so this would just work as a reminder.

It certainly has a slight use, but I still think sigs could use that space better and that notice could be moved to somewhere else.

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Why do members need to see something in which we cannot use? Thats like adding Moderators "There are x reports that have not been handled" to out nav bar at the top. Completely useless IMO .

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Originally posted by XxRebelSeanxX
Why do members need to see something in which we cannot use?

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Same reason 'change user' is in Post Reply.

For that matter, same reason the 'isnt you?' link is in most emails.

IMHO 125 is too small.

Should be upped more.

Blah, good reasoning, nobody doubt of your geek capacity, but is really necessary?

It would compensate the inverted work for these results, would not be a superficial necessity?

Well, I just wanted to give a solid support to my arguments, not that we have to hold a large discussion about why wnd why not. If more argumentable facts appear, I'll try to argument more, but I think I covered all possible counter-arguments, at least the most obvious ones.