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Originally Posted by tehKitten
Hmmmm. I use my sig to advertise my blog. Now I get about one visitor a day instead of none. 
But indeed, those large signatures are annoying. On other forums I used to send a sarcastic PM to those users, and the large signatures magically disappeared after that.  |
Your .sig is great. It meets my rule of thumb: it's smaller than your post.
I have seriously seen posts on gaming forums that say something like "Yeah, that really sucks" followed by a whole screen full of gamer banners of various sorts, each of which is nearly the size of the outsized graphic that is an issue right now. So you scroll down past the billboard collage, and get to the next post. It says "I know, right?" followed by
another collection of the things in different colors.
I'm reasonably sure that riots would break out here if someone tried that, but the gaming forums didn't get that way overnight, either. First it was graphic .sigs, then one little banner, than another for a different character, until finally you have that nightmare.
Not showing .sigs isn't really an option, because so many people have ones that are worth reading (one even quotes me!). Just keeping the things down to a reasonable size -- personally, I consider my own to be about at the limit -- would be better. If I ran the zoo, I'd limit them to 3 lines of text (blank lines count) and no graphics. But whatever the limits, unless they're reined in now, we're starting the long slide to a forum that looks like the Las Vegas Strip with the actual posts buried under all the signs. This should be totally content-agnostic: it doesn't matter if a .sig has a picture of your new book or your new puppy if it's too damn big. (and no, I don't care how many achievements your blood elf pally has; belfs should be strangled at birth anyway)