Why are pictures in signatures not allowed?

[billyhallfan]

Do they cost brewerfan more or something, I just was wondering because I think that sometimes it looks cool when people have a picture at the bottom of their post.

[1992casey]

I think you hit the operative word when you said "sometimes". http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

Brian can answer this better, but I think the reason is a combination of page loading time, the distraction factor, and seeing the same stuff over and over again. Also, in many cases, when this site did allow graphics, signatures were often larger than the posts themselves.

[billyhallfan]

see I would want something like this, just my personal opinion, I think it looks better.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e378/billyhallfan/MILBrewers.jpg

[sbrylski]

No offense, its a nice graphic, but I hate pictures in sigs. Annoys the crap out of me. Just personal preference though.

[berniebrewer4life]

IIRC, Brian hates to see a page worth of sigs, and only a paragraph worth of opinions.

[billyhallfan]

So it's not a financial thing at all, it is just opinion?

[Brian the Automator]

[ So it's not a financial thing at all, it is just opinion? ]

 

Correct. One man's cool is another man's gaudy, and I don't want to be in the business of telling someone their art sucks. To me, boards that allow photo sigs are hard on the eyes.

[billyhallfan]

ok, thanks, just wondering.

[1992casey]

If anyone feels like getting creative, once this site migrates to Yuku, it's pretty easy to add some customization to one's profile.

 

For the sake of an example, I took the liberty of 'borrowing' billyhallfan's picture and sticking it in a 'dummy' profile.

 

http://yuku-doodle-doodler.u.yuku.com/

[mothershipconnection]

When people post a lot, it sucks. I've been to forums where dorks use 250X250 images and post 3 times per page in a thread. Especially when everyone has one, it looks really dumb because the image to text ratio is probably 10:1.

 

Ajay often pastes little gifs (or some kind of image) at the bottom of posts and it's cool because he does it once or twice, so you never get sick of seeing the same thing over and over. I'd guess you could go that route and use something like that when you're particularly pumped or when the image relates to the thread.