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Old 10 November 2003, 02:40 PM
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I was wondering how comes there are no sigs on this board?
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Old 10 November 2003, 04:09 PM
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Because they increase download times and use up bandwidth when all 20 posts on a page have one. I believe there have been numerous votes against them. They are for people suffering an identity crisis.
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Old 10 November 2003, 04:15 PM
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Ok. I just think it helps put a car to a name...
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Old 10 November 2003, 04:19 PM
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I do agree. Some sigs look great to. But you have to think of the people on slower connections and those who don't really care about anyone else.

Just host a picture somewhere and stick it in your post.

[ img ]Your sig address here[ /img ] without the spaces.
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Old 10 November 2003, 04:23 PM
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Like this


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Old 10 November 2003, 11:57 PM
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There was a lot of debate about sigs and avatars a while back and it was the choice of the community as a whole to leave the board without them as they liked the clean and simple look that we had and currently do have.

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Old 11 November 2003, 12:03 AM
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Its not a prob mate - i was just wondering as most other boards have em - seemed a bit impersonal thats all. I suppose u like what yr used to though....

[Edited by Will_B - 11/11/2003 12:04:26 AM]
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Old 11 November 2003, 08:11 AM
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As an example your sig is 47742 bytes. If 20 different people posted with sig like that each page would be an additional 954840. Almost a meg makes for a slow board for a 56k user.
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Old 11 November 2003, 09:19 AM
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Before we go off on one about cacheing and technical stuff, the answer has already been given: the board was asked, and the board said "no thank you".

Cheers,
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