The "About Me" listing - Page 2

Farling · June 3rd, 2015, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Exmortis

neat idea, I think this works.

Only if you have display of signatures switched on. I switched mine off a while ago when someone's signature was about 20 lines long.

Zaphod Beebledoc · June 3rd, 2015, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Parody

Mine's bad enough already, though at least it's only 3 lines high. (Plus one because I obsessively edit things. :(

How about we take a leaf out of your book! Sig's that go across rather then down...

Aaron · June 3rd, 2015, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Parody

The built-in searches in forum software (including the one on this site) normally ignore signatures. Google and such won't, though.

Except that encourages huge signatures, ones larger than many posts. That gets people to turn signatures off (it's an option in the forum's User Control Panel), and then you're back where you started. :(

Mine's bad enough already, though at least it's only 3 lines high. (Plus one because I obsessively edit things. :(

I find signatures with huge font below posts with normal sized font especially aggravating.

MNBlockHead · June 3rd, 2015, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Parody

The built-in searches in forum software (including the one on this site) normally ignore signatures.

Good to know. Well then, I'll keep it!

Parody · June 3rd, 2015, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Aaron

I find signatures with huge font below posts with normal sized font especially aggravating.

Fair. :)

Of course, it's your forum; you can selectively disable BBCodes in signatures if you want to figure out how. I've seen it happen on other vBulletin 3.8.x forums; I could leave my signature the same, but if I wanted to change anything I had to remove the codes that were no longer allowed.

Aaron · June 3rd, 2015, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Parody

Fair. :)

Of course, it's your forum; you can selectively disable BBCodes in signatures if you want to figure out how. I've seen it happen on other vBulletin 3.8.x forums; I could leave my signature the same, but if I wanted to change anything I had to remove the codes that were no longer allowed.

Nah, it's not that big a deal. I can only recall seeing such a signature once, and the poster kindly reduced it when requested.

ArgoForg · June 3rd, 2015, 07:56 PM

I like the idea, although I'm admittedly an every-blue-moon poster.

Pollution · June 4th, 2015, 03:54 AM

Wow, offhanded comment sparks a trend.

I've seen a ton of people already doing this in the forums. Neat.

Apparently, I do have good ideas. (don't tell my wife, she'll call you a liar)

Dark Lord Galen · June 7th, 2015, 05:16 PM

I have mixed feelings about using the signature area, on one hand it makes one's information readily available, but on the other it makes each thread progressively long due to all those being added to each response.

AEIOU · June 7th, 2015, 06:19 PM

Can the forum software be set to show the sig on first post each thread only?

ArgoForg Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 22 June 3rd, 2015, 07:56 PM	I like the idea, although I'm admittedly an every-blue-moon poster. Darker Age Press - Writer and Developer Realm Works Projects: World of Phantasie (Castles & Crusades) RPG and Art Software Used: Realm Works, Hero Lab, Campaign Cartographer 3+, Cityographer, Hexographer, Fractal Mapper, Evernote, Scrivener, OneNote, Photoshop, Poser Pro, Cinema 4D, Vue 8 Complete.
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Pollution Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 345 June 4th, 2015, 03:54 AM	Wow, offhanded comment sparks a trend. I've seen a ton of people already doing this in the forums. Neat. Apparently, I do have good ideas. (don't tell my wife, she'll call you a liar)
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Dark Lord Galen Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Texas Posts: 707 June 7th, 2015, 05:16 PM	I have mixed feelings about using the signature area, on one hand it makes one's information readily available, but on the other it makes each thread progressively long due to all those being added to each response.
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AEIOU Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 1,147 June 7th, 2015, 06:19 PM	Can the forum software be set to show the sig on first post each thread only?
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