Proposal: New signature rules please

[felix]

KholdStare: "anoying" is too subjective, but yes having a simple rule that just works is the idea.

The 500px width and 160px height thing is one major headache. Its simple, but not something simple enough for simple minded people to understand properly IMO. I've tried to bypass the entire philosophy behind it as much as possible.

Also, 50000 bytes thing should really just be 50Kb as in 51200 bytes. It then does not matter what people understand by 50kb, unlike now where people are punished for wrongfully understanding 50k bytes as equal to 50kb. Is 1.2k bytes that big of a deal?

Anyway, what do you think of this version xris?

draft #2

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Signature guidelines:

We allow signatures if they can fit in a imaginary 500 pixel wide and 160 pixel high box and the total size of the images is only at most 50,000 bytes (that's 48.8Kb). They do not need to fit in the box all the time, but must fit if we place them in one. If bits of your signature stick out of the imaginary box bunnies might grab hold and your signature will be eaten!

This is how big a imaginary 500 x 160 pixel box is:


Detailed version:

1. A signature can not be more then 50,000 bytes (48.8Kb). We only add up image sizes.
2. A signature can have text, images and bbcode. Yes, you can have links.
3. Signatures can not take more then 160 pixels in vertical space (height). We consider normal text tacking 16px.
   With size formatting, going from size=1 to size=7 in order, the values are: 12px, 16px, 18px, 23px, 32px, 40px, 56px.
4. A signature must be capable of fitting in the space of 500px. Once limited to that space, the height must still be no more then 160 pixels.

[KholdStare]

Well Cats, I don't really want to get technical. If I see a signature that is one pixel over the limit, I'm not the type of person who is an ass enough to report it, nor am I motivated enough to do so. I would only do something about it if it irritates me in some way.