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-)

[knitting0198]

Heat and Kitchen?

[felines*whiskers]

wotdoiknow good post.

[boo1843]

wot - well said!!

[wotdoiknow]

Two pink posts and I'm still none the wiser as to why theses sigs are such a problem to ebay/liveworld- or am I just being my normal numty self? :_|

[boo1843]

Sounds about right wot.

They post about sigs but don't post about the horrific pics of a few weeks ago :-(

[wotdoiknow]

Well we now know how to get a pink to the boards - huge animated sigs - they'll be on here like a shot:^O

[felines*whiskers]

:^O

[*merly*]

Well done Wot

Great post

[ghost*of*st*libbzz]

*thinks Knitted has an attitude problem*:|

[knitting0198]

They post about sigs but don't post about the horrific pics of a few weeks ago

To which particular photographs do you refer? Please elucidate. (explain giving numbers)

Have you checked that the alleged photographs are still in situ?

[very*scary*absinthe*fairy]

knitting - I think the pics must have gone cos the IDs that posted them have gone *whoosh*, these days if you get banned all your posts are deleted

[felines*whiskers]

The pictures were removed knitted eventually. I was one of the lucky ones that didnt see them I am glad to say, but others did. The board was flooded with them and they were horrific by all accounts. What wotdoiknow is saying it would have been great if a pink had posted at the time and explained what was being done to remove/deal with the problem. Does that elucidate enough:-)

[knitting0198]

feline I did not see them either but why is wotdoiknow posting NOW when these photographs have gone?

The thread has given a lot of pleasure to a great many people and, if offensive material had been posted, the other posters would I am sure have reported them. If the powers that be do not act immediately why should the innocent suffer?

It was not he thread (now pinned) that caused offence so why does wotdoiknow speak as if it was responsible for the offences.

[felines*whiskers]

Sorry knitted I think we are at cross purposes here. I didnt mean the photograph thread. I took it elucidate meant when the board was spammed a few weeks back by new ids posting porn pics and other things.:-x

[felines*whiskers]

elucdate sorry got the word on the brain now I meant wot:_|

[felines*whiskers]

wotdoiknow meant

oh shall I just give up am having a serious blonde moment

[sellasprout]

I have under duress changed my sig which I loved.
Mutter mutter about can't have a little bit of fun anymore.:-(

Please can someone tell me how I put it in the centre.
Thankyou so much.:-x

[knitting0198]

felines you and me both

I have noticed that this Live World lot are slow to act when bad things happen, of what ever kind.

[knitting0198]

sella just put


in front
AND take everything out before the

[felines*whiskers]

My arguement was and still is, the constant bping for vendetta's. Sigs hurt no-one, just abit of fun but bping someone constantly until they are banned, just doesnt get dealt with. Several posters I know including myself once or twice have had slaps for just a smiley face or a hello.