Plague of smileys in sigs ...

[The Last Conformist]

You needn't look further than to my sigline to think this is a tad bit hypocritical, but I've been somewhat annoyed by the plague of smileys, particularly animated ones, in people's signatures lately. There are several people who have half-a-dozen or more apparently random animated avatars in their signatures, which I find distracting.

So what do people think of banning or restricting it? Personally, I'd like it restricted to up to three non-animated ones, but you had guessed that already.

 

[Ankka]

I think it should be limited to something like 3 or so, I agree. I have also noticed some posters with loads of them in their sigs...

 

[MarineCorps]

Yes that does get rather annoying.

 

[Dell19]

Yes that does get rather annoying.

You have two animated smilies...

 

[Plexus]

It's not so much the smileys that bug me. It's the big ones and the animated ones. And the big animated ones. Ok, they all annoy me.

And another thing: I don't understand why we can have animated smileys in our sigs, but not animated avatars.

 

[Dell19]

The only animated things that I've seen in sigs are animated smilies... Two laughing smilies do not compare to the dancing girl avators...

 

[The Last Conformist]

I can't recall seeing anyone have a non-smiley picture in a signature for quite some time, but it's size and animation that determines the whether it's irritating, not smileyhood.

 

[Ankka]

I can't recall seeing anyone have a non-smiley picture in a signature for quite some time,

Because they aren't allowed here.

 

[Chieftess]

Ban, or restrict animated smilelies, especially more than 1.

 

[Gogf]

You mean like:

Shoot the Criminal, win an iPod!
I wrote the Applentice, the Applentice II and Feer Factor, although Feer factor was never used!
I was Also Ronald Trump!
You fired!

Yeah, I dislike that too. I think you should not be able to put animated ones in your sig (except maybe for the small ones like for example).

 

[Paalikles]

I agree with Chieftess. Please ban anything but text from the signature, or if you decide on a different approach, at least restrict usage.

*goes to remove emoticon from sig*

edit: I mean all smileys in general - since restricting to disallow animated saves some bandwith, but restricting to disallow static (like Jesus...) saves a bit more bandwith. Besides - if you cannot live without an emoticon to deliver your thoughts, feelings, messages etc - you have a communication problem.
my humble opinion of course. I run a 1600k dsl line, so the bandwith issue is for the server and not myself

 

[MarineCorps]

The C3C tag in your sig is part of the smilies collection.

@Dell: Two small smilies is nothing like 5 or more smilies in your sig.

 

[Paalikles]

The c3c tag is a RELEVANT "smiley" - which is not the case for the Jesus smiley, among others (took it as an example as I ve read a lot of Wizard's posts these days, and his sig is sometimes longer than his post, to the extent that I m sometimes a bit confused

 

[MarineCorps]

Relevent depends upon your point of view and what you define it as.

 

[Paalikles]

Well - we are civfanatics - thus the civ3, ptw and c3c icons are relevant.
reasons: easier to spot people to play with/against - in a SG, in multiplayer either online or in a pbem, etc.
At least that's my definition, and reason to support a limitation.

I also assume that this is in line with Thunderfall's efforts to remove all unnecessary attatchments, unused smileys - specifically to save webspace and provide a faster forum experience.

 

[MarineCorps]

Well we do have OT and the other forums. SO we are not a specific civ site.

 

[bobgote]

@Gogf:
Yeah i spotted LLXerxes' one as well. quite annoying.

i'd say restrict to non-animated smilies, and keep the old restrictions on size to weed out the big smilies too.

 

[Dell19]

@Dell: Two small smilies is nothing like 5 or more smilies in your sig.

Yes because I have 5 smilies in my sig but I keep on editing it so that you are the only poster who sees them...

 

[wilbill]

Ban, or restrict animated smilelies, especially more than 1.

Sounds about right to me.
One of the reasons I quit checking in at 'Poly very often is the animated avatars. I think a couple of them are similar to that Japanese cartoon that gives people seizures.

 

[Ankka]

The c3c tag is a RELEVANT "smiley" - which is not the case for the Jesus smiley, among others (took it as an example as I ve read a lot of Wizard's posts these days, and his sig is sometimes longer than his post, to the extent that I m sometimes a bit confused

Actually my sig is fairly short compared to most of the people who have a sig..