Plague of smileys in sigs ...

Should something be done about smileys in signatures?


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I say we all give each smilie an annoyance score, and then not allow sigs to have a certain total annoyance score. My suggestion:

All small, non-animated smilies (example: :)) get a score of one. All small, animated smilies (example: :lol:) get a score of two. All fairly big, non-animated smilies (example: [party]) get a score of 1.5. All civ smilies (example: [ptw]) get a score of .5. These smilies: :rotfl: :joke: [offtopic] :bday: get a score of three. This smilie: :spear: gets a score of five billion. All sigs must not go over a total score of three.
 
I forgot to say this: All fairly big, animated smilies (example: :ar15:) would get a score of 2.5.

[I wanted to edit this into that post, but it won't let me do that for some reason.]
 
So long as my sig remains intact, I'm all for putting restrictions on animated smileys in sigs.
 
3 smileys, don't care if it's excessivly animated or static, just put 3 smileys in sig. max. really, people shouldn't have much need for more than two
 
WillJ said:
I say we all give each smilie an annoyance score, and then not allow sigs to have a certain total annoyance score. My suggestion:

All small, non-animated smilies (example: :)) get a score of one. All small, animated smilies (example: :lol:) get a score of two. All fairly big, non-animated smilies (example: [party]) get a score of 1.5. All civ smilies (example: [ptw]) get a score of .5. These smilies: :rotfl: :joke: [offtopic] :bday: get a score of three. This smilie: :spear: gets a score of five billion. All sigs must not go over a total score of three.

That actually sounds pretty good. I like that.
 
ybbor said:
3 smileys, don't care if it's excessivly animated or static, just put 3 smileys in sig. max. really, people shouldn't have much need for more than two

Well, how would this look:

__________________
Not again :rolleyes:!

:ar15: :spear:

How about we just don't allow smileys in sigs at all?
 
I have no problem banning smilies in sigs. Right now smilies in sig is only useful for those Civ3 version icons. Most people don't have any smilies in sigs anyway.

Just deleted LLXerxes' signature. It IS annoying. :hammer:
 
Thunderfall said:
I have no problem banning smilies in sigs. Right now smilies in sig is only useful for those Civ3 version icons. Most people don't have any smilies in sigs anyway.

Just deleted LLXerxes' signature. It IS annoying.

Thank you!

And, to add a little bit of hypocracy to this post:

:thanx:
 
Thunderfall said:
I have no problem banning smilies in sigs. Right now smilies in sig is only useful for those Civ3 version icons. Most people don't have any smilies in sigs anyway.


What would happen to those of us with smilies in our sig should you decide to ban them? And the smilies in my sig show how funny I think my sig is

Thunderfall said:
Just deleted LLXerxes' signature. It IS annoying.

Thank you :)
 
MarineCorps said:
Hehe. I am maxed out at 7 lines size one text. :D

@Dell: :crazyeye: :crazyeye: :confused:

I read your post as if you were suggesting that I had 5 smilies in my sig...
 
MarineCorps said:
What would happen to those of us with smilies in our sig should you decide to ban them? And the smilies in my sig show how funny I think my sig is.
They will just show up as smilie codes if I disable smilies in sigs...
 
Thunderfall said:
They will just show up as smilie codes if I disable smilies in sigs...
Oh I just thought we would no longer be able to edit our sigs. :(

@Dell: Oh. I just thought you were trying to confuse me. :p ;) :)
 
Well, TF, is there any way to allow certain smilies? I personally think that [civ3][ptw] and [c3c] are actually fairly useful, because you know what version of Civ3 people have. If you can't, then just ban everything. No relevant ones are better than some relevant, and a plague of irrelevant ones.
 
Gogf said:
Well, how would this look:

__________________
Not again :rolleyes:!

:ar15: :spear:

How about we just don't allow smileys in sigs at all?

seems fine actually, as long as the extra height the :spear: smiley takes up is worht 2-3 text lines of your 5 line limit (easy version: i don't have a problem with the smileys ion that sig but the height it takes up)
 
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