Site Rules

[neongamer 3]

In the Omnibus in the site rules section it says sig images should be no more that 50x300 px, I think it should correctly read 300x50 px, as width generallyu comes before height =).

[Duke87 1,070]

Interesting. You're aware of the rule (and you're right, it should be 300x50), and yet you're breaking it, Mister 350x57.

[LarksTonguesInAspic 28]

This threw me for a while, and I apologize for the sidescrolling I caused in some forums before I figured that out. (not sig images, but posted images.)

[SimRabbit 48]

neongamer sig is fine!

i wonder if you can have two sig images with the same size?

[neongamer 3]

Oooh sorry Duke, I didn't think the userbar's would be more that 300. If it's possible to edit them without causing too much of a mess up in the image I'll change them, but I hardly think the community and the whole Simtropolis experience is going to go AWOL because three small userbars are slightly over maximum size. I mean, they hardly make you have to scroll more than necessary, do they?

[Craig-Abcvs 1,595]

Duke is correct. The maxium size for a sig image is 300x50, your current one at 350 wide does not comply.

Please resize it or delete it.

Forum rules can be found here.

[neongamer 3]

*Grumbles* Is this sig O.K.?

[Yeah_Right 2]

question: what are sig images?

sorry.  stupid question

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: neongamer *Grumbles* Is this sig O.K.?quote>

Yes, it's just fine.

You know, it's interesting. Those userbars were designed to be small and unobtrusive. And, well, they are. They usually they fit unaltered. This is the only forum I know of where a 350 pixels wide is too big for a sig image. We're quite restrictive with these things compared to most other sites. Which does create the problem that people come here with sig images that are perfectly compliant with common rules, but not with our rules- and hence get really surprised when they're told it's too big. They'd never in a million years thought there would be someplace that was the case, so they never bothered to read the rules about it and just went with it, not knowing any better.

Although, you do have the right idea. For anyone displaying more than a couple of them at any site, it's generally considered proper form to make an animated gif (or a swf, but those aren't permitted here last I checked) out of them like that as opposed to continuing to stack them, lest they start becoming too big in the vertical direction and ruining the point of them being small and unobtrusive.

[Voar Tok 4]

Originally posted by: SimRabbit neongamer sig is fine!

i wonder if you can have two sig images with the same size?quote>

This issue came up once before and the general consensus that we arrived at was that if you wanted multiple signature images, that was OK so long as they all fit within the 300x50 rule.  Basically, think of a 300x50 rectangle - you can carve it up anyway you like, but every image has to fit inside that thing.

[ilikehotdogsalot 307]

Originally posted by: Voar Tok

Originally posted by: SimRabbit neongamer sig is fine!

i wonder if you can have two sig images with the same size?quote>

This issue came up once before and the general consensus that we arrived at was that if you wanted multiple signature images, that was OK so long as they all fit within the 300x50 rule.  Basically, think of a 300x50 rectangle - you can carve it up anyway you like, but every image has to fit inside that thing.quote>

When I had two 300 x 50 sig images a moderator told me I had to delete one?

[JanYpe 17]

Yes, read it carefully.

Basically, think of a 300x50 rectangle - you can carve it up anyway you like, but every image has to fit inside that thing.quote>

There is a set amount of space for pictures in your sig: 300 x 50px. You can fill that space with one picture, or several hundred, as long as their total, combined, everything added up size is no more than 300x50.

[hym 358]

Originally posted by: ilikehotdogsalot

Originally posted by: Voar Tok

Originally posted by: SimRabbit neongamer sig is fine!

i wonder if you can have two sig images with the same size?quote>

This issue came up once before and the general consensus that we arrived at was that if you wanted multiple signature images, that was OK so long as they all fit within the 300x50 rule.  Basically, think of a 300x50 rectangle - you can carve it up anyway you like, but every image has to fit inside that thing.quote>

When I had two 300 x 50 sig images a moderator told me I had to delete one?quote>

Please bear in mind that the change from strictly 1 image to multiple images so long as they fit into the 300x50 "zone" is a relatively recent policy change.

[ilikehotdogsalot 307]

Ah...never mind then.

[neongamer 3]

Also, I presume the 300x50 doesn't include the border (see ilikehotdogsalot's sig above).

[Voar Tok 4]

Originally posted by: neongamer Also, I presume the 300x50 doesn't include the border (see ilikehotdogsalot's sig above).quote>

No, the border doesn't count since the software put that there because of the image being a link.

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: Voar Tok

Originally posted by: neongamer Also, I presume the 300x50 doesn't include the border (see ilikehotdogsalot's sig above).quote>

No, the border doesn't count since the software put that there because of the image being a link.quote>

Hold on a minute, let me try something:

EDIT: Aha! There we go. Don't like that ugly blue border? When you go to insert the image, notice a list of a few properties down and to the left in the window. Type "0" into the box by the one that says "border", then when you make a link out of it, presto, no border!

Ugh. That should have been obvious. Why the hell did it take almost two years for that to occur to me?

[Voar Tok 4]

Originally posted by: Duke87

Originally posted by: Voar Tok

Originally posted by: neongamer Also, I presume the 300x50 doesn't include the border (see ilikehotdogsalot's sig above).quote>

No, the border doesn't count since the software put that there because of the image being a link.quote>

Hold on a minute, let me try something:

EDIT: Aha! There we go. Don't like that ugly blue border? When you go to insert the image, notice a list of a few properties down and to the left in the window. Type "0" into the box by the one that says "border", then when you make a link out of it, presto, no border!

Ugh. That should have been obvious. Why the hell did it take almost two years for that to occur to me?quote>

I don't know, but I figured that for the time that I had a linking image in my sig, someone would notice that mine didn't have a border on it (it sort of hit me like that too).  No one ever noticed, so I wasn't sure if it was because people weren't paying attention or didn't want to know.

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: Voar Tok I don't know, but I figured that for the time that I had a linking image in my sig, someone would notice that mine didn't have a border on it (it sort of hit me like that too).  No one ever noticed, so I wasn't sure if it was because people weren't paying attention or didn't want to know. quote>

Experience has taught me that people tend not to pay much attention to your sig. And if they do pay attention, all they do is read it. A link in there actually getting clicked on is decidedly rare. So of course no one noticed.

[Hamish 1,369]

Just a question, would it be alright to have two separate pics in your signature both of 150x50 px so it adds up to 300x50. eg. one next to the other so it looks like a normal sig pic?

[KingTitan 6]

Only 1 signature image is allowed. Remember, the rules say use best judgment...if everyone was allowed more than one signature banner....the forums would be wayyyy tooooooo cluttered. Hence..Judgment.

[hym 358]

Originally posted by: hamish Just a question, would it be alright to have two separate pics in your signature both of 150x50 px so it adds up to 300x50. eg. one next to the other so it looks like a normal sig pic?quote>

The rule is presently being interpreted as "you have the ability to take a 300x50 rectangle and carve it up as you see fit, but the maximum width is still 300 pixels and the maximum height is still 50 pixels."  That said, yes, two 150x50 images would be allowed.

Originally posted by: KingTitan Only 1 signature image is allowed. Remember, the rules say use best judgment...if everyone was allowed more than one signature banner....the forums would be wayyyy tooooooo cluttered. Hence..Judgment. quote>

Actually, this is one of those cases were the site rules are being interpreted differently from the way they are written.  A good second example is the administrative decision to allow political and religious discussions under an experiment with the rules, despite the rules saying otherwise.

[Craig-Abcvs 1,595]

Hym: Correct.

[neongamer 3]

Hym: Not necessarily. He/ she said: 'Two 150x50 images, which would be incorrect because 50+50=100. You would need the images to be max 25 high to comply!

[hym 358]

Originally posted by: neongamer Hym: Not necessarily. He/ she said: 'Two 150x50 images, which would be incorrect because 50+50=100. You would need the images to be max 25 high to comply!quote>

Actually, I believe you misread his comment.

Originally posted by: hym

Originally posted by: hamish Just a question, would it be alright to have two separate pics in your signature both of 150x50 px so it adds up to 300x50. eg. one next to the other so it looks like a normal sig pic?quote>

The rule is presently being interpreted as "you have the ability to take a 300x50 rectangle and carve it up as you see fit, but the maximum width is still 300 pixels and the maximum height is still 50 pixels."  That said, yes, two 150x50 images would be allowed.quote>

He's talking about putting them side-by-side, not stacking them.

[neongamer 3]

Oooooh I see, my bad.