I understand about small screens. I mostly use my mobile phone the last couple years. It has a 5.3 inch screen. I do use it in landscape orientation, not portrait.
The ratio you mentioned, as you noted; is entirely dependent upon how much “content” is written. If you only write one line, your ratio doesn’t look to good either.
Personally, I’m not trying to spread the word about anything by the majority of things in my sig line.
If I want to quickly see TK’s Cree LED Tint Chart….
I click LED Tint Chart in my Sig line.
If I want to see what post was Reported/Marked Rude, I click Rudeness Level in my sig line.
If I want to take a quick trip to Battery University to look up or read something, I click BatteryU in my sig line.
And so on and so forth.
I am not advertising anything I am selling in my Sig Line. BUT, apparently many are.
That is taking advantage of this platform IMO…. but I do not make the rules. So I deal with it.
If sb wishes to do away with all sig lines completely that is fine & dandy with me.
If, as has been mentioned before in this thread; saving bandwidth consumption & valuable screen space is the goal…… removing sig lines entirely is a great ’first step’ .
Followed up closely by mandatory picture sizing at 100% or less… so as to fit on the page correctly.
And then either do away with the “quote” button completely or make it mandatory that only one post be quoted. No looooong string of quotes.
Those three things should go a long way in making BLF a more completely sterile enviroment that should not offend… should not offend to many that is.
Only thoughts, some suggestions, & things to ponder.
Not many of which I advocate…. .