You have included too many images in your signature or in your previous pos

[Black Fluffy Lion]

You have included too many images in your signature or in your previous post. Please go back and correct the problem and then continue again.

Images include use of smilies, the vB code

 

[ainwood]

Did you have too many smilies? That might do it.

 

[Black Fluffy Lion]

hmm there was 11 smilies...I've seen more in one post though. I'll try removing some, thanks

edit: ok, I think that's what it was thanks ainwood

 

[AVN]

10 smilies in one post is the maximum at CFC, so problem solved ?

Information I received from Gonzo. AFAIK it isn't mentioned somewhere. Quite frustrating if one tries to post a message with 30 smilies (I tried that once).

 

[Black Fluffy Lion]

Originally posted by AVN
10 smilies in one post is the maximum at CFC, so problem solved ?

yep, trust vBull to be annoying like that

 

[spycatcher34]

Well it slows downa a page with 100's of smilies everywhere. And if you rely on smilies to make up your post chances are it wont have much quality

 

[Thunderfall]

I saw a few people with lots of smilies in their signature. They must have gotten lots of those error messages.

 

[ainwood]

...... Does that mean that you get the error message, but it still lets you include them in your message anyway

 

[Thunderfall]

Originally posted by ainwood
...... Does that mean that you get the error message, but it still lets you include them in your message anyway

No, you'll need to edit the post first or the forum won't let you post the message.

 

[Eklektikos]

hmm... could be used as a cruel and unusual mod-inflicted punishment: just edit someone's sig and stick 11+ smileys in it

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

Only the admin, TF, can access that function.

 

[Thunderfall]

Originally posted by Eklektikos
hmm... could be used as a cruel and unusual mod-inflicted punishment: just edit someone's sig and stick 11+ smileys in it

It wouldn't work, because posters can choose to not include signature in their posts.

 

[Becka]

Originally posted by Black Fluffy Lion


yep, trust vBull to be annoying like that

No, that's YOUR problem because you want to put 60 smilies in a message.

 

[starlifter]

by Spycatcher34:

Well it slows downa a page with 100's of smilies everywhere.

Spycatcher is right, but many do not realize the overhead that is involved in in processing hundreds of images, even small ones. You can make certain settings changes in your browser to speed things up, or use 3rd party programs to cache things more, but even that can lead to problems, like some have posted in other threads. Lower bandwidth is affected more, mainly because of the lower number of simultaneous default TCP/IP connections being processed in parallel.

The best think to do is just control the number of images by not having them replicating in sig blocks.

 

[ainwood]

At one of those "other" sites, people not exactly foreign to CFC have been putting together some smily art - some is quite good!

(See here).

Interestingly, someone in the thread pointed out that

Originally posted by omichyron:
It isn't bad on dialup. When one smiley of one type loads, they all load....

This seems to make sense - if the smily is cached, then the absolute number of smilies shouldn't make a lot of difference.

 

[Black Fluffy Lion]

Originally posted by Becka


No, that's YOUR problem because you want to put 60 smilies in a message.

It was only 11

 

[Thunderfall]

The smilies certainly slow the forum down. Some of the animated ones are pretty big in size. A few of them probably are more than 10 KB.

 

[Chieftess]

I've seen one with some loooooooooooooooooooooong animated smilies that really slowed the board down.