Size Down Those Signatures!

[ICE MAN]

Originally Posted by Adam Richards

Hey everyone,

This may be long, but bear with me, I have a point (for once ). For the record, I run 1280x800 pixels on my screen. I've been looking around the forums over the past few weeks, and I've been noticing people who have had excessively large signatures, some even to the point of taking up a page and a half of my screen (not mentioning any names here).

I do know about the other threads relating to this, but there hasn't been one in over a year, and resurrecting the last one might not have as much impact.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a signature nazi, who complains about someone's signature being a few pixels over the limit, but many people are just outright disregarding the rule and disregarding gracious professionalism, just because "it isn't enforced."

The forum rules state:Yet day in, and day out, I can take 10 random threads out of the portal and find several people who violate such a simple rule of courtesy and respect. It isn't very hard to keep a signature under 200 pixels.

Until now, I was happy to just sit by, and negative rep people as they went by for grossly large signatures, and then I got a nice reply to one of the post I negative rep'ed telling me to live with it because they don't care what I think. I won't post any names or any direct quotes out of respect for them, but I was utterly shocked that a mentor of a well-respected team would act in such a way.

For those who follow the rule, you're awesome. It isn't something hard to abide by. For those of you who don't, here is my challenge to you: Have some gracious professionalism, show respect towards your fellow community members, and just follow a simple rule. Thank you.

I really hate to interject here but to me this makes no sense to me what so ever. Now, this whole thread has been started to make people understand that the 200 pixel limit should be abide by. OK i can understand that. but then you go to the length of such acts of bad reputation points for the crime of having a large Sig, and you even go to the point of calling these criminals to have bad gracious professionalism. Now, how in the world is giving bad rep to people for just having a large Sig in any way a reflection of you being a very GP person. For one it is not up to you to regulate or monitor those who are breaking the 200 pixel limit. that job is up to the moderators on CD. Although i do feel that you may PM someone and simply say, hey your Sig exceeds the 200 pixel limit, could you please fix this at some point in the future. and maybe you could even through in some advice on how to shrink ones Sig but no you don't even go to the lengths of helping those who you deem to be breaking a CD law. So all you seem to be doing is complaining and not helping, to me this is not being very GP. Now of all of the announces in life you are complaining about the fact that now you have to scroll a few more times via your mouse. to me that isn't such a big announce. in the future i would ask that when you choose to bad rep and PM someone on how there Sig is exceeding the 200 pixel limit to not only complain that they are wrong but to help them shrink there Sig and remember is what you are doing GP. if you feel like someone needs to be reported then PM a moderator. if you and your girlfriend decide to bad rep me on this issue then fine but remember if you do that then you deem yourself to be someone who completely defies the rules of GP. if you have anything to say to me then simply reply to me on this thread. please don't PM. I took the time to express my feelings on this issue for all of CD to view.
-Cory