New Idea - User Profile Signature

Raisin Bran · Oct 18, 2006

The Ban smileys from signature thread made me think of this.

Can it be possible to add a User Profile signature?

Same thing as a signature but only viewable in the user profile, allowing 20 lines or so of text.

This would allow people to put their smiley art or a short story of themself or awards they received in threads or quotes they want to keep.

When changing signatures I often want to keep some of the stuff I take out somewhere for people to see while adding new advertisement/links/quotes in my sig.

That way animated smileys could be banned from signatures, same as the spoiler tag, but users would be allowed to use them in the Profile signature.

Opinions ?

thetrooper · Oct 18, 2006

Sounds like a good idea to me as long as we ban animated smileys from signatures.

Perfection · Oct 18, 2006

A page of text in my profile would most certainly be useful! I could put down interesting links. Maybe we could have it be the size of a singe post.

Abaddon · Oct 18, 2006

Would be very useful- i often have more info than i can fit into a sig.

Heretic_Cata · Oct 18, 2006

It seems like a great idea. :goodjob:

Kan' Sharuminar · Oct 18, 2006

This would be a very good idea, and a handy feature :goodjob:

Mirc · Oct 18, 2006

It seems a great idea! I definetely support it! :goodjob:

Abaddon · Oct 18, 2006

So looks all good.. lets see what Thunder thinks?

How about a perk for adding things to the data base.. perhaps something small like 10 items.. theres thousands and thousands out there!

MjM · Oct 18, 2006

Id supprt it can we put images in this block of info?

MajorGeneral2 · Oct 18, 2006

Note: Emphasis mine.

Raisin Bran said:
Same thing as a signature but only viewable in the user profile, allowing 20 lines or so of text.

In other words, almost nobody would ever see it, thus defeating the purpose of the signature.

I have a hard time believing one can't prioritize and just put a few links or quotes in the space already alotted for signatures. If someone needs a lot of space, they can start up a blog.

Tycoon101 · Oct 18, 2006

I like the idea. But we already have the profile picture for images, MjM.

Do it please!

Thunderfall · Oct 19, 2006

The appearance of forum profiles likely would change significantly in the next year or two... or even sooner. Forum software makers feel they need to improve the profiles page in order to compete with those profile pages on social networking sites like MySpace.

We may as well wait for that.

PS: Here is an example from IPB: http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showuser=61416
vBulletin is probably working on something like that too.

Perfection · Oct 19, 2006

In the meantime we could have a thread say in Site Feedback (or somewhere else) where we could each have post to write these sorts of things.

Abaddon · Oct 19, 2006

possibly wrong- but you could always find an old old post of yours, and edit whatever you like within there, and provide a link to it in your signature.

Ive got various info "hidden" in old posts all over the forum!

MajorGeneral2 · Oct 19, 2006

Abaddon said:
Ive got various info "hidden" in old posts all over the forum!

Well, that's creative, I'll give you that. :lol:

Is there not a limit to how much time is allowed to edit a post?

RegentMan · Oct 19, 2006

As long as the thread is still open, you can still edit it.

Nice idea! Although be sure not to accidently :bump:

the three year old thread... :eek:

Perfection · Oct 19, 2006

Abaddon said:
possibly wrong- but you could always find an old old post of yours, and edit whatever you like within there, and provide a link to it in your signature.

Yeah, but then some dumb guy would respond or some mod would put in a warning or something crappy would happen. This would be a nice centralized system.

Abaddon · Oct 19, 2006

oh yeah, i wouldn't link to my secret cashs, simly pull data from them when its needed... for example the code for my old long signature is out there somewhere... :mischief:

Truronian · Oct 19, 2006

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Not that well hidden :mischief:

mrtn · Oct 19, 2006

thetrooper said:
Sounds like a good idea to me as long as we ban animated smileys from signatures.

Oh, what a jolly novel idea!

New Idea - User Profile Signature

Cereal Killer

Misanthrope

The Great Head.

Deity

We're gonna live forever

Fluffy

Not mIRC!!!

Deity

Deity

Just happy to be here

Loves being STRONG

Administrator

The Great Head.

Deity

Just happy to be here

Deity

The Great Head.

Deity

Quite unfamiliar

Shaven not stirred

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