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-)

[*merly*]

Ninja I did notice 😄

Join the invisible club with me

[mandiandbenjy]

*flash flash flash*

blurdy 'ell loon3y, your posts make me order tenna's in bulk now!!!

:^O

[very*scary*absinthe*fairy]

thank gawd for that Merly, I was starting to doubt my very existence!

[knitting0198]

And why have they not been banned for life?

[*merly*]

I do that most of the time :^O

[wotdoiknow]

Thanks Ninja I did say on my first post I stand to be corrected as I hadn't seen any posts from pink but had seen the pics.

I did see the posts from who you have said but again I didn't read it as an admission or responsibility of posting them. Can you remember what the post said?

[very*scary*absinthe*fairy]

#352 they have, they just make yet another ID and come right on back again

[wotdoiknow]

#355 I read that but took it as a general comment that that is what peeps were having to do due to constant BPing. I didn't read it as an admission. *must read more carefully*

[very*scary*absinthe*fairy]

wot - they C&P'd this part of James' post

"And to the poster who asked where I was when the trouble went down on FHG.. ask around.. I was here and worked to get the issue resolved"

then they added something along the lines of "and I'm still here aren't I"

[knitting0198]

I thought they could 'link' ID's and thereby eliminate fraud so why not other crimes?

[wotdoiknow]

I find it so sad that such an issue is being made about unoffensive sigs with warnings etc. yet I completely missed pinks public posts about this vile chit.

If it was the very same poster, sadly James and team didn't work hard enough and it remains unresolved as they are obviously still posting.

[wotdoiknow]

#358 but only if they want to knitted 😞

[very*scary*absinthe*fairy]

knitting - only if they put their real details in when they register! also if they don't have a static IP then they can't even be traced that way

the poster in question has been around a long, long time and has been trolling for years B-) will no doubt be around for many years to come

wot - the pinks deleted the threads the same day which is why you may not have seen them

now I'd better booger off before I get a smacked arris for discussing these things ...

>>>>>>>>>

[knitting0198]

Thanks for your explanation I think I must have lead a sheltered life!

[wotdoiknow]

Shame it didn't get a huge pink pinned post like this then I might have seen it:_|

I'll risk my pinky slap for the freedom fo free speech:^O

[boo1843]

I didn't see it either wot :-(

[**mary-the-fairy**]

Testing :(

[**mary-the-fairy**]

Is the doggy too big and also how do I get it to save in the centre of the post please :)

[boo1843]

Mary think the size should be ok not sure

Too center it type at the beginning & end of the code. x

[wotdoiknow]

#364 At least I wasn't the only one it seems a few of us didn't either