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ok, well, my intention was to try and help our admin keep costs down on bandwidth…

Well it gets a bit nippy seeing the same thing thousands of times is all, some of it pointless.

A very noble intention I agree. :+1:
If bandwidth saving is needed I suggest we just do away with sig lines entirely. Then do away with the quote button & require that all pictures be properly sized. Those 3 things would indeed save a ton of bandwidth… :+1:

Dale your sig is just as big as teachers.

Not so chadvone, my signature is actually 7.21kb in size, 144 pixels by 83 pixels. TINY!

I found one answer my question, though imperfect.
It is possible to do this kind of stuff with aluminum anodization, even HA3. Not super-tough but maybe price-durability would better?. And with high-end base alloy (7068? 7034?) it should be very tough anyway, should look good much more than half year.

On a computer monitor they both take up exactly the same size though! :slight_smile: Believe it or not!

Ok, it worked.

Bye

I have no idea the context you are using “it gets a bit nippy” in.
But yes, I agree; there are many seemingly pointless things we see on BLF…. but that extends far beyond sig lines.

Someone quoting endless quotes only to say “+1” or “I agree.”

Questions that are asked over & over & over & over & over & over because someone “does not have time” to keep up with a thread.

Pictures that are not properly sized down to at least 100% or less.

And back to sig lines……

Pictures in sig lines…… gif’s in sig lines…… etc., etc.

Signature lines in general in fact, no matter what they say.

But who is to say what is “pointless”…. you, me, someone else???

What is “pointless” to you may not be to someone else. Same for any of us.

The majority of things in my sig line are quick links to things I find interesting, useful, or comical. That may be “pointless” to you… but not to me.

Personally, I find JasonWW’s sig line useful & appreciate it.

I am not so fragile that a sig line I find of no use upsets me…. I simply scroll past it….

BUT…… I shall do my very best over the next couple days, when I have time; to streamline my horrid sig line to be more appealing to the eye. :+1:

Nope…. I am not going to remove the quick links I still currently find interesting, useful, or comical…… But, as I said; I shall make a concerted effort to streamline & make more appealing to the eye my sig line…… so hopefully it will not cause as much undue stress to some others as it apparently has been. . :person_facepalming:

All good points, thanks :+1:

+1 I agree

/\:beer:

I got used to extremely long and repetitive sigs but in some cases the sig to actual content ratio is almost 70/30 on a 5.8” mobile screen.

Extra bandwidth consumption, valuable screen space taken, and yet hasn’t made me click the links more than once or twice, and I see them a coupe dozens times a day. Maybe not the most effective way to spread your word out there. I don’t make the rules but just something to think about.

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. :wink:

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. :slight_smile:
Not many of which I advocate…. . :person_facepalming:

I looks at is as wasting vertical space as well, saves scrolling. We'd save 1 line by the admin removing the time stamp of "Joined", if he could. Do we really care what time of day someone joined in every post? Also if the "last seen" info could be abbreviated, another line could be saved.

I can't cut down on my sig line, because it doesn't exist, but a 1-5 line post doesn't need to take the vertical space of ~14 lines. My profile pic is wider than it is high which helps.

Take note all you square pics out there, and your 2 line locations

More good points by TomE if we want to go there.
Do away with everything except the username on the left hand side of a post. No avatar, no info, no nothing…… except username.

/\ … Note in my post above, the content & the sig line (even on my 5.3” mobile screen) did not take up as much space as the avatar & info on the left.

Just say'n. But though the teach has lots of html in the sig line, but vertically it makes no difference whatsoever because of the left margin stuff. If the admin can pick up 2 lines, and couple lines saved from a rectangular pic, space saved is good space.

I'd also combine the Online status with Send PM on one line - another line saved

I am quoting this exact line to show my wish NOT to do away with the quote button, for I sometimes wonder what is subject of the post, especially when someone posts in between unquoted posts while I am typing.

The ‘quote’ feature really is appropriate when replying or referring to a specific, previous post.

Of course, any of these features can be abused by some ‘deranged’ person but they are actually very few and can be easily ‘spammed’ out if completely inappropriate.

…and btw, teacher, thanks of thinning your sig lines, for sometimes your sig lines are just way ‘thicker’ than your posts! :+1: :beer:

There is no need to go to extremes with some sensible suggestions that have been made. Passive aggressive defensive…

I think the user info is fine but could maybe be streamlined a little.

There is no need for 11-20 line signatures though, especially scrolling on mobile, maybe not so simple a task after all…
Some people have arthritic joints in their hands, all adds up.