Signature files and Animated Gifs

[james_uk@ebay.com]

Good Morning,

I am afraid to say that we have arrived at a post I had hoped I would not have to make 😞 I will be posting this message across most of the main boards throughout the day.

The size of Signature Files in posts is starting to get a little too out of hand. Lately the size has been creeping up and in some cases there are two or three different things in sig files pushing out the size of posts. In addition the use of animated gifs has been creeping back in along with ad's for sales and attempts to hide links in text.

For the most part I've tried to be as flexible as possible, overlooking the ones that are a little bigger than the recommendations. When they have been too large I've contacted members directly to ask them to resize them, and members have been happy to comply. This is no longer an option as it is taking up too much time due to the number of people needing to be contacted.

Were these reported Liveworld will act on them, and I don't want to see anyone getting a warning over something easily avoided.

At this point I would like to remind everyone about the signature guidelines, which you can find here: http://forums.ebay.co.uk/thread.jspa?threadID=400055459&tstart=0

I hope we can work within these guidelines and bring the threads back to a point where posts are easy to read without too much scrolling.

I appreciate your help on this.

James

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I Pink therefore I am B-)

[the-end-is-near]

now?

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test again

[the-end-is-near]

I've mad it smaller in PB, why isn't it getter smaller on here?

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[toweryflats]

ffs not again

off to pb

please dont resize any wiuth copywrite credits on them - it makes them illegilbe and the tagger could get ito bother with the licensee - some people pay atrists money to make tags, please respect their talents

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test yet again

[the-end-is-near]

It's worked now, well that's pointless, can't see what it says. :_|

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[*excited*]

how do i take the PB link out

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see im stuck now

[wizilizi]

Who are these self-appointed rulers of the universe. What harm does a sig do, FFS??

Mine's fine - demure & understated..
Well, IMHO

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:^O

[learning2me]

You need to clear your cookies in order to see your sig in the new size.

[*golddust*]

Think mine is ok :)

[kerry*baby]

Mines OK ! B-)
X K E R R Y X

[lightbluetouchpaperandretire]

".....and attempts to hide links in text."

I frequently use HTML to post perfectly legitimate links (to other eBay board threads, for example) because the url is simply too long to post, and would stretch the thread.

That, surely, is preferable to using, say, a "tiny url" link which does not reveal the actual url?
~o~x~o~x~o~x~o~x~o~

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Stuart

[shelly180]

just checking mine

[lightbluetouchpaperandretire]

~o~x~o~x~o~x~o~x~o~

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Stuart

[shelly180]

Resized?

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mines ok now


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[shelly180]

checking

[batcave-bear]

So size IS everything?? :_|