What are the rules regarding signatures?

[Rooker75]

I've spotted a user signature that links to a program that violates the TOS of the video game it works with (plus it greatly offends most of the people who play that game, including me). Is that sort of thing allowed? If not, what's the best way to report it?

[Rational314]

Report the account

[Thandal]

Avatar and Signature rules are found here: Avatar and Signature Limits.

 

Ok folks, to try and reduce load times and server queries (which in turn take up processing power, which in turn make the WHOLE server slower) I'm setting the following guidelines for avatars and signatures. These ARE rules. Please keep to them as I don't want to be going around editing everyones profiles - and if I notice people change back their sigs, I'll give them a strike.

Anyway...

• Avatar pics MUST only be 65x65 pixels big and the types of files that can be uploaded are GIF, JPEG, JPG and PNG. If they are animated, they can only be minor and below 30kb in size.
• Sig's can only be 450w x 300h pixels in size...this includes TEXT and PICTURES. For text, thats about 8 lines max. Max file size 110kb, this doesn't leave much for animation.

TUTORIAL - How can I tell if my signature is within the posted limitations?

• Make sure your post with your signature is visible in the browser and press the "Print Screen" button on your keyboard. This copies the entire screen into memory.
• Open "Paint" under Start, All Programs, Accessories and click Edit, Paste.
• Click Image, Attributes. Set Width and Height to 1 and click OK. This makes the initial image very small (lets paste image show only the image pasted)
• With the "Select" tool highlighted (selected by default), arrange the image editor where you can see the entire signature area.
• Press ESC to de-select the image if it is already selected.
• Click the top-left corner of your sig and drag the selection to the bottom-right corner of your sig which should include all text and images.
• Click Edit, Copy
• Click File, New
• Click Edit, Paste
• Click Image, Attributes. The Width and Height of your signature is displayed. Compare these numbers to the rules.

TUTORIAL - How can I add images to my signature?

• Upload your image somewhere such as Photobucket.com and copy the direct URL into memory (highlight and press CTRL + C)
• Edit your signature and past the URL inside IMG tags. Example:

[img=http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee11/Conan_Lon/Oblivion/LHammonds_Profile_Photo_Large.jpg]

 

Note: Don't use Lon's pic from the above example. It's over the limit! :laugh:

[Rooker75]

Done. I didn't even realize you could report a profile page. I thought that could only be done with forum posts.