signature style

cellrdwellr · May 1, 2015

Hello fellow forum members ibwas just wondering if I could get some better suggestions on the signatures. I'd like to have a category for all the more common coinscopper or silver but can't find a way to make it look nice in two lines. Any feedback is appreciated!

Steve77 · May 1, 2015

Colors help to separate things.

Jamflicker · May 1, 2015

Add some spaces between words and numbers.

Ice Scratcher · May 1, 2015

This might help a lot if you like mine...

http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=138388

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PlasteredDragon · May 1, 2015

jefflima101012 said:
Hello fellow forum members ibwas just wondering if I could get some better suggestions on the signatures. I'd like to have a category for all the more common coinscopper or silver but can't find a way to make it look nice in two lines. Any feedback is appreciated!

The signature limitations here are IMO unnecessarily restrictive. 3 or 4 lines would be fine. Dunno if there is a suggestion box where you can make such a request.

Fajito · May 1, 2015

PlasteredDragon said:
The signature limitations here are IMO unnecessarily restrictive. 3 or 4 lines would be fine. Dunno if there is a suggestion box where you can make such a request.

I agree with you, being a WB and having managed forums, i can tell you that sometimes signatures are a real problem, used for spam, or abused with too many lines or huge fonts, but this forum looks pretty calm and friendly.

I saw some vB forums that use a mod to allow signature after certain amount of posts, dunno if there is a mod to allow extra lines after certain amount of posts, but probably after a couple of posts you can realize that the user is a real one and not spammer, so if after 10 or 15 posts he wasn't banned, he could automatically get a larger signature space.

Maybe it can even be managed by rank too, but not sure.

Cheers!

SeabeeRon · May 1, 2015

As this seems to be turning into a Q&A on the Signature line used on this Forum, I am moving this to our Forum Help & Announcement sub forum.

Rudy · May 1, 2015

PlasteredDragon said:
The signature limitations here are IMO unnecessarily restrictive. 3 or 4 lines would be fine. Dunno if there is a suggestion box where you can make such a request.

The only limitation we impose, that I am aware of, is that live links are not allowed in regular member signatures.

What are you trying to do? :?:

PlasteredDragon · May 1, 2015

Rudy said:
The only limitation we impose, that I am aware of, is that live links are not allowed in regular member signatures.

What are you trying to do?

Signatures are limited to "two lines" of text, by a metric which is hard to discern. Would be nice if I could have a line for my name, a line for my gear, and two lines for finds.

I'm not trying to put links or graphics or anything like that into my sig. If I had my druthers. My signature would look like this:

_________________
PlasteredDragon A.K.A. Chuck Seggelin - Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come...
Garrett AT Pro, Garrett Pro Pointer, 18" Sampson Lesche
Clad: $97.67, Ag: 90%=$0.90, Au: 14k=4.75g, Rings: 8 (3 sterling, 5 junk), Oldest Coin: 1897 Barber Dime
Coolest Find: 100+ year old copper bracelet with twin snake heads

No big deal, really.

cellrdwellr · May 1, 2015

Looks like I opened a can of worms sorry about that! I was just trying to display my different finds into different categories and making it look nicer I like the color idea...but I only have two lines so I had to eliminate spaces. I'm gunna work on it tonight thank you everyone for you're feedback!

Rudy · May 1, 2015

PlasteredDragon said:
Signatures are limited to "two lines" of text, by a metric which is hard to discern. Would be nice if I could have a line for my name, a line for my gear, and two lines for finds.

I'm not trying to put links or graphics or anything like that into my sig. If I had my druthers. My signature would look like this:

_________________
PlasteredDragon A.K.A. Chuck Seggelin - Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come...
Garrett AT Pro, Garrett Pro Pointer, 18" Sampson Lesche
Clad: $97.67, Ag: 90%=$0.90, Au: 14k=4.75g, Rings: 8 (3 sterling, 5 junk), Oldest Coin: 1897 Barber Dime
Coolest Find: 100+ year old copper bracelet with twin snake heads
No big deal, really.

You mean like that?

Rudy · May 1, 2015

jefflima101012 said:
Looks like I opened a can of worms sorry about that! I was just trying to display my different finds into different categories and making it look nicer I like the color idea...but I only have two lines so I had to eliminate spaces. I'm gunna work on it tonight thank you everyone for you're feedback!

Are you using the standard editor text box or the WYSIWYG editor?

PlasteredDragon · May 1, 2015

Rudy said:
You mean like that?

Apparently the rules are different when you are an admin. If I try to edit that signature, say, to change the clad amount for a new hunt, I see this:

The following errors occurred with your submission:
1. Your signature contains too many lines and must be shortened. You may only have up to 2 line(s). Long text may have been implicitly wrapped, causing it to be counted as multiple lines.

Since I can't edit the signature now, I will have to revert it to the way it was.

Thanks for trying though, I appreciate it.

Rudy · May 1, 2015

PlasteredDragon said:
Apparently the rules are different when you are an admin. If I try to edit that signature, say, to change the clad amount for a new hunt, I see this:

The following errors occurred with your submission:
1. Your signature contains too many lines and must be shortened. You may only have up to 2 line(s). Long text may have been implicitly wrapped, causing it to be counted as multiple lines.

Since I can't edit the signature now, I will have to revert it to the way it was. Thanks for trying though, I appreciate it.

Hmm, I wasn't aware of that. I'll see if there is an easy way to change the limit.

cellrdwellr · May 2, 2015

Rudy said:
Are you using the standard editor text box or the WYSIWYG editor?

Standard text box

Vlad · May 3, 2015

OK I increased the limit to 4 lines, 6 for forum supporters.

rick-n-ns · May 3, 2015

Vlad said:
OK I increased the limit to 4 lines, 6 for forum supporters.

4 lines sounds VERY reasonable to me, I won't say where or who, but have seen some ridiculously long Sigs. takes up near half of forum page, every single find the person makes.

PlasteredDragon · May 4, 2015

Vlad said:
OK I increased the limit to 4 lines, 6 for forum supporters.

Thanks!

EDIT: BTW if any line in the signature is wider than 620 pixels (after rendering) it is considered 2 lines.

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