What do you say we drop siglines forever?

[DS1]

Poll question: What do you say we drop siglines forever?

Really, if you have something to say just say it. Clearly we've grown beyond what a reasonable amount of server horsepower and network bandwidth can handle effectively, and frankly on the rare occasion that siglines and especially sig images do reappear, they are pretty damn annoying since they make the pages bounce around as each overtaxed server coughs up another instance of my_cat_is_one_precious_motherfuck_and_dont_you_ever_forget_it.j peg.

I say kill em, kill em dead. They served no real purpose anyway. We're all here, we all agree (mostly), if you've got a point to make, start a thread and make it.

[Fenris]

1. I do love me some purple hippo, though.

[DS1]

4. Yeah, I was JUST thinking about that purple hippo

There are some amusing things they add, but as a whole, in my never humble opinion, they just eat up server resources and drag the whole place down.

If matcom really loves his purple hippo, he can paste it into the end of his threads.

Yes, I know I'll be the one wearing the bucket of coleslaw at our next Boston gathering :hurts:

[Radical Activist]

2. Just get rid of pics in sig lines

they do make threads too long to load. We don't need them. Especially when rude people have very large or several large pics. I feel sorry for people using dial-up when people have pics in their sig line.

[DS1]

7. I thought about making that an option

but the server has to look for siglines regardless of what they contain in order to post them. Rarely are sig images hosted on DU servers, yet in order to display the link, the same amount of DU resources are required.

[rbnyc]

8. everyone says that about dial-up...

...I've always had dial-up and I almost never have a problem.

:shrug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. That's because people don't understand how the browsers work

Once an image is in one's browser cache, it doesn't get downloaded again. So even dialup people, clicking on a thread in which, say, RBNYC has posted 11,000 times with that image of the cute baby and cute cat &tc., the page will still load quickly, because the image need only be downloaded once.

For some reason, people use the Internet without understanding how it works.

[Radical Activist]

15. That would make sense if

only a few people had pics in their sigline and we didn't get new people joining daily or chaning their pics regularly. Such is not the case, so it does take time to load.

[rbnyc]

16. Ah-ha!

:hi: rabrrrrr!

Y'know it'll probably be at least another 10 months before I can have a martini, but I can have one beer.

;-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. 10 months without a martini?!

OMG!!

Must be nursing, eh? Who's to say the baby doesn't want a martini? Did Mr. Smartypants doctor think of that? I bet not. Hmmph. And I don't even have a degree.

:-)

:hi: to you!

[rbnyc]

20. Right. But beer is good for milk production.

Can only have 1 per day 3 days a week tho. I never used to like beer, but now I do. Been drinking Yeungling.

[LynzM]

24. There is an option not to display images

For people who are on dial-up. I think people should read have to read through those before they can start posting here... you can hide avatars and other images...

[rbnyc]

34. Oh Yeah!

Good Point1

[SarahB]

3. Sigline without pics as a compromise.

Or limits on pic size perhaps.

[rbnyc]

5. My cat IS one precious motherfuck

and DON'T you ever forget it!

And so's my baby and my hubby, and I'm pretty damn cute too!

Hugs and Kisses, you cynical fuck!

:P

:loveya:

[DS1]

12. In that case you can demostrate your unwavering devotion

by storing a text document with the hyperlink to her collage on your desktop, and cutting it to paste after each post ;-)

:loveya:

[rbnyc]

13. 'K

:P

[motely36]

6. Never created one cause they've never been up long enough

since i started posting

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. A better idea - keep the siglines, eliminate message text

Like you say, if you have something to say, then just say it - but say it in the sigline. Everyone would be forced to make their point within the confines of the sigline, and then repeatedly post just that in whatever thread one feels the need to make that point.

It's efficient, it's helpful to the dialup people (once the siglines are in their cache, they won't be downloading anyhting!) and easier on the DU servers.

[Endangered Specie]

10. Sorry, I want my Dutch flag back!

[Chovexani]

11. A compromise

Keep sig lines but limit the size of pics. I'm guilty of having several pics in my sig, but I tried to keep them relatively small in both screen size and file size. I only have more than one because I'm too bloody indecisive to pick just one.

[DS1]

17. Still taxes the DU server the same, regardless of linked pic size

even if the linked pics are elsewhere.

[RC]

19. Small avatar size graphics are OK in sig lines

But a few get carried away.

Someone even has a big picture of bu$h. WTF is with that? This is a liberal web site, Why advertise for that other place?

Posts cluttered with big pictures screams "Look at me, immature male here."

Let's have some compassion for the dial-uppers. So say nothing about saving wear and tear on everyone's mouse wheel to scroll past the many, many redundant graphics cluttered posts.

[DS1]

21. You're not getting it

The server has to dig up each poster's sig line data in order to post them, they are separate from the post itself. It's not a matter of image size, it's not a matter of number of images, it's really not a matter of how much text is in them, it's whether the server has to look them up for view per post per user or not.

[RC]

22. Yeah, I get it.

Server time is minimal. The servers are designed for this.
The server has to dig up each individual post in a thread each time someone clicks on that thread also.
To say nothing of all the house keeping for "My Posts" and searches, etc.

[DS1]

23. Not only each individual post

but the sig lines are not written into the post content, which is why you can make a post once, change your sig text, and go back to that post and the post will reflect the change. It's a fresh select each and every time.

[DS1]

25. kick for de morning crowd

purple hippos or not :7

[StopTheMorans]

26. that's a great, bitter, motherfuckin rant Martin!

and I'm with you...

[matcom]

27. wouldn't it just be easier to kill this Kleeb kid and reduce the number of

inane posts? :D

[DS1]

28. I miss Kleeb

I miss Klump
I miss Dweeb
I piss Seaweed

you get the idea - You can kill the Kleebolutionary, but you can't kill the Kleebolution

[matcom]

29. but those are your FAVORITES!

[arwalden]

30. Keep Them... Just Enforce The Rules That Prohibit Fucking HUGE Images

[DS1]

31. I think it would be more efficient to drop sig images and instead

allow much larger avatar images. That way everyone gets one, and with a high enough resolution to show cats or parrots or favorite sky scenes or themselves - like most other messageboards out there.

[matcom]

32. got a better one for ya

see if you can get the strange "news" stories to STOP being posted in LBN so i can read my REAL "news" (sic) at a glance :eyes:

[arwalden]

33. Isn't There An Option That Allows Users To Not View Any Siglines AT ALL...

if that's what they want to do?