As most people know a signature is what appears underneath every post you make. You can edit this in your profile. Many things can be put into this signature and it has the same capabilities as a regular post.
Many people use this signature to give people specific ways to contact them. Some people use it to promote their social media accounts. Others use it to make a joke. Some use it to share memories they've had by giving links to screen shots etc. I specifically use it in an ironic way because I find the whole signature thing quite dumb because I don't like to read the same thing over and over again but I cannot stop myself from automatically reading the signature even if i've already seen it a hundred times before.
I've tested the signatures and I found two things:
1 you have 10 lines of text that you're allowed to use
2 there is a certain character limit to a signature.
These 2 things are there to prevent people from making huge signatures that clog up an entire thread. Which is neat if we're talking about text only signatures. This system gets completely circumvented by the use of embedded links. So an imgur image that will always show up in full or a youtube video.
I think that there should be no embedded links at all in a signature. These clog up way too much space and can be abused. For example FASTESTCLICKEREU has an imgur image that takes up a whoooole lot space. 1pick has a vid of his youtube channel on his signature. I think doing this is quite annoying because in every post they'll make you see that signature and that same screenshot or video take up a lot of space on the thread.
Sharing these media in just a hyperlink would be cleaner and less obnoxious. For example Joyoy0 has links in his signature and uses spoilers to indicate what the links are about. I think that's a better way of doing this but I would still prefer to just see the 3 links in plain text with a small description in front of it. This way the signatures can never become too obnoxious and will always stay limited in size or maybe you're only allowed to use 1 embedded link of which the picture or media isn't too large.
What do you guys think? Should embedded links be limited/ banned or should it just be common sense. Should it be reportable to staff?
Edit: I've made my signature show what I mean by abusing these embedded links.
Final Edit: Changed my signature back to what it was because I couldn't stand it lol.
Many people use this signature to give people specific ways to contact them. Some people use it to promote their social media accounts. Others use it to make a joke. Some use it to share memories they've had by giving links to screen shots etc. I specifically use it in an ironic way because I find the whole signature thing quite dumb because I don't like to read the same thing over and over again but I cannot stop myself from automatically reading the signature even if i've already seen it a hundred times before.
I've tested the signatures and I found two things:
1 you have 10 lines of text that you're allowed to use
2 there is a certain character limit to a signature.
These 2 things are there to prevent people from making huge signatures that clog up an entire thread. Which is neat if we're talking about text only signatures. This system gets completely circumvented by the use of embedded links. So an imgur image that will always show up in full or a youtube video.
I think that there should be no embedded links at all in a signature. These clog up way too much space and can be abused. For example FASTESTCLICKEREU has an imgur image that takes up a whoooole lot space. 1pick has a vid of his youtube channel on his signature. I think doing this is quite annoying because in every post they'll make you see that signature and that same screenshot or video take up a lot of space on the thread.
Sharing these media in just a hyperlink would be cleaner and less obnoxious. For example Joyoy0 has links in his signature and uses spoilers to indicate what the links are about. I think that's a better way of doing this but I would still prefer to just see the 3 links in plain text with a small description in front of it. This way the signatures can never become too obnoxious and will always stay limited in size or maybe you're only allowed to use 1 embedded link of which the picture or media isn't too large.
What do you guys think? Should embedded links be limited/ banned or should it just be common sense. Should it be reportable to staff?
Edit: I've made my signature show what I mean by abusing these embedded links.
Final Edit: Changed my signature back to what it was because I couldn't stand it lol.
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