Updated Signature & Avatar Policies Discussion Thread
 

You now have greater power and flexibility for both avatars and signatures here on AnimeSuki Forum!

Highlights of the key changes, effective immediately:

• Avatar File Size limit increased to 100 KiB (formerly 50 KiB)
• Signature File Size limit increased to 100 KiB (formerly 50,000 bytes)
• Maximum Signature width increased to 600 pixels (formerly 500 pixels)
• Simplified "must fit in the box" signature size limits; no more restrictions about lines of text or text+image combos

Because all of these changes represent an increase from our previous limits, you do not need to change your current signatures or avatars if you don't want to. Please note that restrictions on signature height or avatar dimensions (width and height) have not changed at this time.

For the complete details, please read the new wording of Forum Rule section 3, shown below:

3.0 Signature Rules

These rules apply only to member signatures. Users who do not wish to see member signatures may disable them in their User Profiles via the User Control Panel.

The Signature Rules are only loosely enforced. Nevertheless, signatures that violate them will be removed and/or replaced with a warning. Members who ignore warnings and keep violating the Signature Rules will receive infractions that may result in temporary or permanent bans. Annoying signatures, or those that break any part of the Forum Rules, may be edited or removed at any time without notice at the sole discretion of the staff.

3.1 Size Limits

To keep The Forum loading quickly for users who wish to see signatures, and to preserve The Forum's visual aesthetic, your signature must conform to the following size limits:

• Signature Dimensions:
  All contents of your signature, including all text and all images, must fit in a space that does not exceed 600 pixels wide by 160 pixels high.
  
  A "Size Constrained Preview" tool is available on the Edit Signature page in the Control Panel to help you ensure that your signature fits in the available space.
  
  
• Signature File Size:
  If your signature includes one or more images, the total file size of all included images must not exceed 100 KiB (102,400 bytes).
  
  Please note that the File Size limits apply even if you are hosting the image on an external image host.

To reduce bandwidth consumption and to ensure compliance with the above limitations, we expressly forbid any form of dynamic image that has to be reloaded each time it is shown, which includes "Signature Rotators".

3.2 Limited Advertising Permitted

Signatures are excluded from the advertising restrictions found in the Posting Rules, provided the site, product, service or event being advertised and the content of the advertisement complies with the rest of The Rules. If you are not sure, please ask a member of staff.

3.3 Content Restrictions

Please refrain from including any image or text in a signature that could be considered a spoiler, or is otherwise in violation of any other section of the Forum Rules. In addition, your signature may not use the [quote] tag, [indent] tag, [spoiler] tag, or any tag that hides some or all of the signature contents.

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If you have any questions or concerns about these new policies, please feel free to post them in this thread. We hope that everyone will enjoy the flexibility and creative potential that the new limits will allow.

This is amazing, seriously! Thanks moderators, you have no idea how happy this makes me :love:

Good change; I like how it's simplified to just "fit inside the box" for signatures so there's no confusion whatsoever on the issue.

Will it return an error message if it exceeds it though?

It doesn't return an error, since it's a visual (client-side) check only at this time. But, when the staff evaluate signatures, we will use the same sort of box to check for compliance, so there should be less room for confusion in the matter.

Sounds good; guess I have some more space to work. ;)

Oh wow. I wasn't expecting the limits to get changed at all. What a surprise; it simply leaves me ecstatic. My most sincere thanks go out to the people who made this change possible, and to the moderators.

a little test for today, i maximized the quality of my previous avatar and signature.

Currently used 81.4kb for avatar and 87.2 kb for the signature.

Oh yes~ Now we can expect some more customization from our Graphic Designers :)

Limiters disengaged?

Wow, my avatars were awesome enough at 49KB, I wonder what 100KB would be like.... ah, the possibilities! Twice the bounce! Thank you mods! :heh:

Thanks for this. Reduces the stress greatly while making an animated ava/sig.

Update, sweet, thanks relentlessflame.

Whoa. Seriously?

I was about to go to bed then I saw this thread. Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for increasing the allowed file size for the avatars and signatures.

About damn time!
I'm so happy! :) Now we can finally have good quality sigs and avatars.

Mr. Admin, can you increase the Animesuki albums file size limit to 100KiB?

http://sadpanda.us/images/839981-3GPHAO3.jpg

I want to host my 100KiB avatars on Animesuki albums.
http://forums.animesuki.com/album.php?u=95382

Thanks.

Wow, this is pretty nice... I had a hard time compressing my avatar to fit the requirements yesterday and when I'm about to upload it ... here comes woah!! 100Kb?! Nice one!!!!

Finally! This is awesome! Animated avatars are going to be a lot less of a pain to make, and this is going to increase the possibilities by a lot.

See, this is why we can have nice things. Updates.

Though I'm surprised it was this and not something else.

Yup, that makes sense. It should all be updated now, but let us know if there are any problems.

I like the "fit in the box" layout for the signature limit. I think it should eliminate confusion on what works and what doesn't.

I don't even know how many times in the past I got busted because I put a banner AND lines, heaven forbid.

That fit in the box was previously there too, yet you still saw people with signatures that went over the box with text ... lol.

Yeah, I remember 1-2 cases where the signature still went over the box. So it doesn't necessarily prevent someone from going over the limit sometimes :p

Awesome :)

I'm noticing the bottoms of some sigs (like mine) are being cut off at the bottom by a pixel or two. Weirdly, it doesn't seem to be true for everyone, like King Lycan's (pretty awesome) sig above, which looks fine to me. Does this have anything to do with the new policy? I kind of doubt it but I just wanted to ask.

Edit: a kind soul just informed me that the issue has to do with tables that adds pixels to the sig's overall height; does that mean we need to resize them to be shorter to have them not cut off then?

I just noticed this...AS I will always love you! :love:

Thanks for making the lifes of animators easier :D

I don't like this change, as it means each page load will take longer due to the increased size of a lot of posters's avatars and signatures.

Frankly, I wish animated avatars were forbidden because they distract from the posts I want to read and cause large amounts of used memory in Mozilla-based web browsers.

There are options to disable both avatars and signatures completely if you want to do so, you can find the option on this page.

Thanks for the suggestion, but that'd be like firing a bazooka at a butterfly.

Do we have censoreship in the contents of avatars and signatures. I seemed there isn't. Which means, we can post what ever pictures we want to used as long as the fits the size and maximum kb. Well, honestly, I'm planning to used lots of boobies and panty shots for my avatar and signature...hehehe

The avatars and signatures do fall under the forum rules especially forum rule 1.3:

PG 13 huh? So boobs are ok right? I see many though, and I'm envious.

As a general thought, I would suggest you show some restraint/moderation. We don't allow signatures with fully-exposed breasts, for example, nor anything that's too overly-suggestive or overtly-sexual.

Well, I'm against nudity as well.

I think the policy is simple: do not use NSFW avatars & sigs. They need to be SFW (safe for work/family).

Also while the increased limits allow for greater flexibility for animated avatars and signatures, please do not go overboard with this. I hate to see forum look like a Christmas tree or induce epilepsy or something. Just because it is easier to make animated avatars/sigs right now doesn't mean everyone should try to make them animated.

I've noticed a weird issue over the past few days. Some signature images (most notably my own) have the bottom few rows of pixels cut off. Interestingly, I even saw a signature where the person had text at the bottom, not in an image, and it also had the bottom few rows of pixels cut off.

I'm using Safari 5.1.3 (the latest). I don't believe that it's a caching issue, as my signature shows up perfectly in certain areas of the forum. I haven't noted a pattern just yet, but is anyone else having this issue?

I think the box now cuts off things outside of it, so your image is slightly too large with the text and sig(this is why I shifted my text to the side to fit the box :p).

But I haven't changed anything in months. As far as I'm aware, I was within the former, more restricted limits. Am I really outside of the limits?

The old limit was size + text, while the new limit purely size for image and text.

And your image is 150, while limit is 160 pixels high, so maybe try using a smaller font?

Ah, that was it. Thanks.

I noticed in the FAQ for account profiles still states it as 50 KB for avatars. Could you please update the information as well? Here is a link:

http://forums.animesuki.com/faq.php?...ccount_profile

Thank you

Good catch -- I updated the FAQ now. :)