Forum signature policy change - PLEASE READ

We have always been very flexible with the use of signatures on the forums.  Many people use them to advertise their businesses and as long as they are providing useful advice and information then that's fine.

However, this is getting more abused by the day with some signatures considerably bigger than the actual posts that some users make.

To bring some structure and organisation to the use of the forum signature as of next Monday, 12 October, all signatures must comply to the following rules:

1. For members with less than 200 posts, signatures will be limited to a maximum of 75 characters and no hyperlinks will be permitted.  The signatures will be able to display a web address, they just won't be clickable.

2. For members with more than 200 posts, signatures will be limited to a maximum of 150 characters and they will be allowed to include hyperlinks.

Next Monday our system will automatically check existing signatures to see if they comply with these new rules.  If any signature is found not to comply it will be automatically deleted.  In this case you would have to go and enter a new compliant signature.

Thank you for your understanding in this matter.

Justin

Just thought i'd bump this as I missed it and others may have too.

Mark

Slightly off-topic, when are members allowed to show an avatar please?  I did try to download one when I joined the site, without success, so I assumed that perhaps a number of posts were required before an avatar would be permitted.

Justin

Does the 150 include spaces or not? I am trimming my signature to comply and have 147 without spaces, but 172 with!

merrylegs

No posting limit for an avatar (as far as I am aware), but it does have to be a certain size (in pixels) and below  a certain file size.

Mark

being computer useless! how does one add a signature?

advisor, you have a signature!!

Nobody plans to fail, many fail to plan, sadly the result is the same.

Hi Mark

The 150 limit includes spaces.  However, for existing signatures we'll adjust our program to not count the spaces so you should be ok.

Merrylegs, you can upload an avatar in your profile here.

Justin

Thanks for the clarification, i'll adjust mine now

Mark

Just to let everyone know that we've been having some problems with the server over the past few days so we won't be implementing this signature change until tomorrow.

Thanks

Justin

.......only 'cos you are driving around in your new Lambo'

Just posting to see if my avatar upload worked.....

Damn!

Vivki, email it to use to info@ and we'll upload it for you if you want.

Justin

The new forum signature algorithm is now fully functional on the site.  Existing signatures that have not met the new guidelines have been automtically cropped or adjusted to fit.

As this has been an automatic process you may wish to go in to your forum profile and alter your new signature.

I hope that this change will yield a better user experience on the website for our regular users and visitors.

Justin

Hi Justin,

You have included yellow notices about this change of signatures that include a spelling error.

It says "IMPORANT NOTICE"

I hope its not too late to fix this.

Cheers!

Martin

Hi Justin

Why have i lost my send privatr message title, it just says edit this post

Thanks Martin.

cath&kevin...you can't send a PM to yourself...that's why you don't see that link beside your post.  Others however will see it!

Justin

Justin

On my replys it said send private message it now says edit post so any body wanting to send a private message would think that they cant, is it something we can put right.

When anyone other than you looks at your post it says "Send Private Message"

As Justin says below, you can't send yourself a private message but you do have the option to edit your own post. 

Noreen

It also depends on whether you are logged in or not - if you are not logged in you will see the "send private message" link.  If you are logged in you will see the "edit" link, if it was the last post in the thread.  If your browser is set so you log in automatically when you visit EOS, you won't see the "send private message" link because, as already explained, you won't want to send a PM to yourself!