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I should just keep pressing enter in order to make the most obnoxious signature ever lol jk

So does this measure the length including spoilers or without?

I just looked at a sorted list of all signature lengths. I have the #128 longest signature because mine is literally one pixel taller then Horikawa's (so I shortened it). We should all shorten our sig lengths so Horikawa has the longest.

Lol he pinged us all.

HenryRichard wrote:I just looked at a sorted list of all signature lengths. I have the #128 longest signature because mine is literally one pixel taller then Horikawa's (so I shortened it). We should all shorten our sig lengths so Horikawa has the longest.

Horikawa's actually scales, so if your screen is big enough, hers is the largest by default.

Good fucking lord.

Ok give me a couple hours so I'll have the means of saving my gif.

I'll change my lyrics too.

Spinda wrote:Well considering how you literally quoted the whole op you seem to like inflating your posts, and I'm not sure if that's something to be proud of.

Nah inflating my post isn't really my thing, sorry to disappoint there. XP hahaha
Didn't really think that one through considering I've been juggling a lot at the moment I saw that post.

Furthermore, is it really that bad to have a large signature?
I mean we should be allowed to add what we want to what is limited to us, not feel bad about it. Like I like showing my support in the spoilers, and I think advertising my own episode isn't a bad thing either since I care for my project.

Maybe I'm taking this too seriously, but I don't see any reason for me to change my signature for this cause unless it is truly damaging to this forum or legitimately damaging in general (which it shouldn't).

The Thwomp King wrote:Furthermore, is it really that bad to have a large signature?
I mean we should be allowed to add what we want to what is limited to us, not feel bad about it. Like I like showing my support in the spoilers, and I think advertising my own episode isn't a bad thing either since I care for my project.

Yes, it's bad and you should feel bad. Signatures are garbage that only contain dumb images, bad projects, pretentious quotes, and links to off-site content nobody cares about.

AeroMatter wrote:

The Thwomp King wrote:Furthermore, is it really that bad to have a large signature?
I mean we should be allowed to add what we want to what is limited to us, not feel bad about it. Like I like showing my support in the spoilers, and I think advertising my own episode isn't a bad thing either since I care for my project.

Yes, it's bad and you should feel bad. Signatures are garbage that only contain dumb images, bad projects, pretentious quotes, and links to off-site content nobody cares about.

I'm usually not one to argue in general, and would prefer peace, but this is simply your opinion. No true facts are labeled in your statements, so I still see no reason for me and any of my fellow top 100 signature users to remove them. You may think they're dumb, but there are still plenty of people out there that care for those "dumb" images, "bad" projects, and "pretentious" quotes.

Better'd my signature. I apologize for any inconvenience that caused me to land a rather high spot on this list.

I'm honored. I think I'll need something better for my sig, like cats or flashy dubstep vids...

Enjl wrote:

HenryRichard wrote:I just looked at a sorted list of all signature lengths. I have the #128 longest signature because mine is literally one pixel taller then Horikawa's (so I shortened it). We should all shorten our sig lengths so Horikawa has the longest.

Horikawa's actually scales, so if your screen is big enough, hers is the largest by default.

It has a maximum size which is still significantly smaller than quite a few sigs around here, as I understand it.

The Thwomp King wrote:I'm usually not one to argue in general, and would prefer peace, but this is simply your opinion. No true facts are labeled in your statements, so I still see no reason for me and any of my fellow top 100 signature users to remove them. You may think they're dumb, but there are still plenty of people out there that care for those "dumb" images, "bad" projects, and "pretentious" quotes.

Your sig makes pretty much every one of your posts take up literally half my screen, and you're only 59th. And I have like, an actual monitor made in the past decade. Consider what it looks like on an older screen, or a mobile device of some sort. Like, say, an iPad Air?
There's certainly nothing wrong with showing support for things in your sigs, but if peeps have to disable sigs entirely for the forums to be at all bearable to attempt to read then they don't see what's in your sig anyway. That being the case, you guys actually do have a vested interest in shrinking things down a bit.

e: If nobody's already done it by the time I get around to it tomorrow I'm thinking of slapping together a userscript to only show sigs under a certain height. Seems like a sensible thing to have existing.

Hooraaaaay, 73!

I like the idea of using smaller images to garner interest in the signature's author's work, but just out of honesty, a lot of them don't succeed at being eye-catching. Big ones succeed at being eye-catching and obnoxious, which definitely isn't better, but I'm mostly talking about the styles that people use. If I had such a signature, I'd want to make it look... clean? I can't really say professional, but I'd probably take advice from some of my artist friends and also try to create something that people here haven't seen before, or at least not very often.

I like this thread.

Horikawa, to my eyes, that signature is pretty big. I'm not saying it's as big as the competition, nor that you should shorten it, but it's bigger than I'd expect from someone who doesn't like big signatures. Granted it does looks bigger on my end than it does in your screenshot.

The Thwomp King wrote:I'm usually not one to argue in general, and would prefer peace, but this is simply your opinion. No true facts are labeled in your statements, so I still see no reason for me and any of my fellow top 100 signature users to remove them. You may think they're dumb, but there are still plenty of people out there that care for those "dumb" images, "bad" projects, and "pretentious" quotes.

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Horikawa Otane wrote:I dislike big signatures because of what they do to people with low resolutions and/or people with high-dpi high-resolution devices like tablets or phones. Namely, it makes the forum unreadable.

Keep in mind though that there's plenty of other factors that make the forum unreadable. The max avatar size and tall rank icons can double the size a post takes up like this post for example:


Basically if you have a 250x250 max avatar with a pokey rank, you're already hogging up a lot of room even without a sig to where only one or two posts can fit on screen at a time. It's a bit off topic, but it's something to consider before hacking away at sig sizes.

Horikawa Otane wrote:

Spoiler: show

Magician wrote:I like the idea of using smaller images to garner interest in the signature's author's work, but just out of honesty, a lot of them don't succeed at being eye-catching. Big ones succeed at being eye-catching and obnoxious, which definitely isn't better, but I'm mostly talking about the styles that people use. If I had such a signature, I'd want to make it look... clean? I can't really say professional, but I'd probably take advice from some of my artist friends and also try to create something that people here haven't seen before, or at least not very often.

I like this thread.

Horikawa, to my eyes, that signature is pretty big. I'm not saying it's as big as the competition, nor that you should shorten it, but it's bigger than I'd expect from someone who doesn't like big signatures. Granted it does looks bigger on my end than it does in your screenshot.

I dislike big signatures because of what they do to people with low resolutions and/or people with high-dpi high-resolution devices like tablets or phones. Namely, it makes the forum unreadable. The screenshots highlight this. Mine cannot do that as it scales - which you see in the picture above. It will always scale to give you plenty of room for the post above it and hang around a manageable 20-25% of your viewport size... Up until a certain point (on 4k screens), where it goes below that 25% and won't scale anymore.

I explain the mechanics of this a bit and give numbers in my post above.

For me it's just an aesthetic thing because I don't browse SMBX anywhere but my desktop gaming PC, but you do have a very good point. To me yours is impressive in size, but it definitely doesn't make the forum unreadable.

Is the image scaling a function of imgur? Because either I've been living under a rock (as per usual with the internet) or that's some deep magic.

Horikawa Otane wrote:

Magician wrote:I like the idea of using smaller images to garner interest in the signature's author's work, but just out of honesty, a lot of them don't succeed at being eye-catching. Big ones succeed at being eye-catching and obnoxious, which definitely isn't better, but I'm mostly talking about the styles that people use. If I had such a signature, I'd want to make it look... clean? I can't really say professional, but I'd probably take advice from some of my artist friends and also try to create something that people here haven't seen before, or at least not very often.

I like this thread.

Horikawa, to my eyes, that signature is pretty big. I'm not saying it's as big as the competition, nor that you should shorten it, but it's bigger than I'd expect from someone who doesn't like big signatures. Granted it does looks bigger on my end than it does in your screenshot.

I dislike big signatures because of what they do to people with low resolutions and/or people with high-dpi high-resolution devices like tablets or phones. Namely, it makes the forum unreadable. The screenshots highlight this. Mine cannot do that as it scales - which you see in the picture above. It will always scale to give you plenty of room for the post above it and hang around a manageable 20-25% of your viewport size... Up until a certain point (on 4k screens), where it goes below that 25% and won't scale anymore.

I explain the mechanics of this a bit and give numbers in my post above.

Made everything spoilers and such, things should be better. I understand what you guys mean, and I won't disrespect that. Excuse me for earlier.

tl;dr version of this thread: Large signatures are annoying and unnecessary

10/10 thread, Horikawa.

Lol how can people feel proud being in top 10 or 50?

But yeah, gifs should always be put in a spoiler. They take longer to load and slow down the speed.

I made my signature smaller by putting things in spoilers.