So, did you get here early enough to catch the Siggie sweepers cleaning up the forum?

[NotHardUp1]

What a bizarre turn of events.

The site malfunctions severely enough to become the butt of ridicule on its own forums.

Investigation apparently leads to abuse of the site's restrictions about signature sizes, an abuse theoretically impossible if you've ever tried to load an avatar or siggie that is oversized.

Then a post-it is added to the top of the forum to warn people that they have only two weeks to stop crashing the site.

Then the post-it does a Trapper-Keeper and consumes all the other post-its and becomes the only one.

And finally we are at Doomsday and the dinosaurs are being slaughtered all over this fiery planet.

What the hell?

Why couldn't the software be tweaked in one of the Pitch Black alignment periods and the limit set? OR, why couldn't the mods simply take a day and close down all active siggies or accounts that violated the rule?

I mean, c'mon. There was one member in Hot Topics kept his huge-ass siggie GIF up and running the whole two weeks. What the heck? Are mods honorary titles now?

Shit.

 

[Vannie]

This is up there with some of the famous speeches of all time.

More inspiring than "I have a dream"....with some Winston Churchill thrown in.

 

[Charon]

Mine is (or was) a reasonable size. Besides, I paid to become a VIP supporter a while back; but apparently it was a scam. *shrug*

 

[Cormac135]

I don't know why you keep trying to do this site down Jase, you should be grateful people put up with you.

Having said that i don't know what the hell the admin guys are up to, i've been asking for the three pages in the Today's New Post dropdown to be re-instated for weeks now only to be met with blissful silence.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Well, you can't do it all on your own.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Mine is (or was) a reasonable size. Besides, I paid to become a VIP supporter a while back; but apparently it was a scam. *shrug*

It's that it is such a roundabout way to address the problem. There are only a handful of active posters who even use a siggie, much less a large one. It's almost like school and group punishment. Sure, there's a courtesy notice for a reminder, but dragging it out for weeks just seems daft.

It gets back to the way the site is run anyway. Posts and threads are moved, removed, edited, etc., without a simple notice to those affected. It's not complicated, nor burdensome, as they don't alter that many anyway, but it might as well be the hand of God reaching down, needlessly cryptic.

Just like Cormac's comment above. They could have answered him. Aloof much?

 

[Ontariobear]

So a big group time out then?

 

[opinterph]

Investigation apparently leads to …

Conclusion is apparently jumped to.

 

[opinterph]

Mine is (or was) a reasonable size. Besides, I paid to become a VIP supporter a while back; but apparently it was a scam. *shrug*

You do not appear to be a VIP Supporter. Perhaps your subscription has expired. Your current siggie measures 500 x 150 pixels, which is too tall. It is also animated, which is only allowed for VIP Supporters.

 

[Alistair]

I mean, c'mon. There was one member in Hot Topics kept his huge-ass siggie GIF up and running the whole two weeks.

Tattletale

 

[FPNY]

is mines gone? no, much smaller tho, I think

 

[Cormac135]

No idea what this siggie is, do i have to log out to see it ?

Found it, seems to be the samesize.

Meanwhile the admins are still ignoring me.

 

[mikey3000]

Lucky you. They won't take their eyes off of me.

 

[Alistair]

I turned signatures off after the first week of being here, they were annoying. I didn't know anyone still used them.

 

[seven2go]

^ COOL! Apparently I missed that option....... (Y)

 

[Cormac135]

Lucky you. They won't take their eyes off of me.

Are you still on MOD review ?

Those poor MODS.

 

[HoodedRat]

I turned signatures off after the first week of being here, they were annoying. I didn't know anyone still used them.

I must've turned them off too. I don't recall seeing any signatures here for years.

 

[johaninsc]

does this mean that I'll have to stop posting gifs?

 

[Vannie]

But I was just gonna make a Siggie of a giant mile wide stuffed cabbage!

 

[72-Jay]

i've been asking for the three pages in the Today's New Post dropdown to be re-instated for weeks now only to be met with blissful silence.

That and all other searches are basically useless now with how few results they give.

I turned signatures off after the first week of being here, they were annoying. I didn't know anyone still used them.

I turned them off soon after joining as well. I mighta even still been on dial-up back then (if not, it was the slowest DSL option available), so did little things like that so pages would load faster...plus I did find some of them annoying too.