{True Strike}. They were a bit outdated. Unfortunately, you can't fix stupid. Its a never-ending battle. No matter how you write it, a swarm of people with even lower IQs will arrive to find holes in your rules and claim they didn't understand. There's nothing you can do but try to make them better and go from there.
Oh and was it intentional that you used multiple organizational schemas in the rules? It feels like it was written by multiple people and then copy+pasted. You've got numbers, caps+colons, Dr. Seuss, bullets, paragraphs, etc all mish-mashed together. The wording on stuff is fine, I just recommend you use a specific organizational structure rather than everything available in MS Word and more. Just a thought...
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Sheena: Both Silver and Another Chance to Live modified their sig images after I made note of it, so your statement on their images not breaking the postbit is moot. They were way too big when I mentioned it.
Not everyone runs their monitors at WTFxOMG, nor does everyone keep their browser maximized. If it breaks the postbit on a 15" laptop with an almost maximized window, the image is too damned big. FYI: I'm running at 1280x800 if you're curious. It was breaking the postbit at 1280 width.
With that in mind, I turn your attention to what I said:
The settings as they are will not do. It is too constrained, especially the file size. Also, if you force people to use it by disabling IMG and HTML then the problem on images being too big would be solved. If they don't want their image distorted, make your sig image fit within the listed size guidelines and vB won't have to ghetto-rig it. That's pretty much common sense, esp since it already does that on avatars, etc.
Also, the sig features the ability to limit the lines of text as well now. So, with both of these combined features you could clean up TFF postbits across the board in one sweep and make this place a lot more enjoyable to read. Bonus: You won't have to correct people for sig violations other than NSFW!![]()
Its not that hard to implement. Just implement all the changes except disabling IMG and HTML and let people know. Give them a week to fix their sigs to fit the easy-to-use system. Then, nuke HTML and IMG tags. Voila!
Seriously? What do you need HTML in sigs for? SQL injection?
EDIT: Oh and ACTL, good point. The avatar selection system(built-in avys) looks like shit. I'm not sure of a way to fix that at the moment, but its worth investigating.










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