Request: Individualized Signature Blocking

hanaeleh · Post by **hanaeleh** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 12:40 pm

Y'all need to get a cable modem and then none of this will be an issue.

soda · Post by **soda** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 12:42 pm

Yeah, that way you don't have to visit the board because porn loads so much faster.

blueheaven · Post by **blueheaven** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 12:42 pm

hanaeleh wrote:Y'all need to get a cable modem and then none of this will be an issue.

Isn't cable modem great? I've had it for a month now and I don't know how I lived on dial-up for all those years.

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 12:53 pm

blueheaven wrote:WooHoo! Sounds great. A place where noone will have to deal with unpleasant situations or images. The next thing we need to do is fit all members with a tracking device that glows red when they turn 30. Then they will be elliminated from this board! A perfect utopia where people can go about and post, without any unpleasantness to get in the way of their lives. Come, people with soft sensibilities, this is your haven!

I can't tell if this is passive agressive sarcasm or just fun goofyness.

blueheaven · Post by **blueheaven** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 12:59 pm

Not Sir Phobos wrote:
I can't tell if this is passive agressive sarcasm or just fun goofyness.

You can call it goofy sarcasm. There is very little about me that is passive aggressive.

Wendy · Post by **Wendy** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:02 pm

hah...I AM on Cable and I am NOT offended by pictures of two men having sex even though I AM above 30...so please

I AM however, sick and tired of having to scroll through signatures as long as entire movie scripts to get to the next post!!

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:02 pm

How do you like being on Cable ? Oh. I am sorry to hear that you are not offended by pictures of two men having sex even. I can see that in your repsonses.

hanaeleh · Post by **hanaeleh** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:11 pm

soda wrote:Yeah, that way you don't have to visit the board because porn loads so much faster.

Heh... that's what dual 17" monitors are for.

Oh, and blueheaven- I hear you loud and clear. Wasn't dial-up horrible? I can't even stand the T-1 line at work- I'm so used to things popping up immediately.

blueheaven · Post by **blueheaven** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:42 pm

Uende wrote:hah...I AM on Cable and I am NOT offended by pictures of two men having sex even though I AM above 30...so please

I AM however, sick and tired of having to scroll through signatures as long as entire movie scripts to get to the next post!!

Wendy, we talked last night, so I know where you stand. I'm talking about other people on this board.

kymaera · Post by **kymaera** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 2:26 pm

Three different reasons why I want the feature. Neither of them have anything
to do with load time, so comments on that are meaningless to me.

1. Offensivness:
There's very little that offends me. However, on my breaks from work (such
as now), I would like to be able to browse the board without fear of losing my
job because someone walks in right as I happen to be scrolling by the wrong
image at the time. While image blocking doesn't eliminate this, it will help
minimize this as I can eliminate the questionable images after the first
viewing.

2. Scrolling:
It's annoying to get only one or two lines of useful text per screen due to
exceptionally large signatures. It's especially annoying when the
accompanying signature is mostly text as it's easy to see where text and
pictures break, but less so to see breaks between the text from posts and
the text from signatures. Besides that, it's also ergonomically bad as
scrolling is repeative motion. As someone who recently went through
months of physical therapy for tendonitis, I'm concerned about that.

3. Content:
As it is now, the only option that I have is ignoring users with the large
signatures. To do so, I block all of their content and I hate to do that.
Several of the users on my ignore list, I would enjoy reading their posts
if not for the novels in their sigs.

Lynxa · Post by **Lynxa** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 2:31 pm

blueheaven wrote:WooHoo! Sounds great. A place where noone will have to deal with unpleasant situations or images. The next thing we need to do is fit all members with a tracking device that glows red when they turn 30. Then they will be elliminated from this board! A perfect utopia where people can go about and post, without any unpleasantness to get in the way of their lives. Come, people with soft sensibilities, this is your haven!

*shrug* Well IF this is about offense and not convenience (and there are some ridiculously huge avatars popping up so I'm not discounting that) I would rather have an individualized function where the people being offended could just block it out instead of making the person "wearing" the signature take it down!

Although you did make me laugh so hard I almost fell off the couch.

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 2:31 pm

The only reason I thought the feature would come in handy for me is for use blocking the longest four or five signatures. I don't care what's in their signatures only how long they are.

Signatures becoming longer over time, but I still get a kick out of looking at the normal length ones.

Marauder · Post by **Marauder** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:19 pm

I too get annoyed at overly-large signatures. I don't really ever have a problem with signatures being too wide--I just get annoyed when I have to scroll and scroll to read a thread. What if we just limit signatures to a certain pixel size (say, 200h by 600w)?

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:33 pm

Not Sir Phobos wrote:
blueheaven wrote:WooHoo! Sounds great. A place where noone will have to deal with unpleasant situations or images. The next thing we need to do is fit all members with a tracking device that glows red when they turn 30. Then they will be elliminated from this board! A perfect utopia where people can go about and post, without any unpleasantness to get in the way of their lives. Come, people with soft sensibilities, this is your haven!
I can't tell if this is passive agressive sarcasm or just fun goofyness.

Gack.

As one of those elders I don't know whether to be horrified by the suggestion... or horrified that the calendar really *does* say that I'm over 30!!

*weep* I hope I don't act that old... most of the time...

Post by **JWR** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 5:00 pm

Baakay wrote:
blueheaven wrote:WooHoo! Sounds great. A place where noone will have to deal with unpleasant situations or images. The next thing we need to do is fit all members with a tracking device that glows red when they turn 30. Then they will be elliminated from this board! A perfect utopia where people can go about and post, without any unpleasantness to get in the way of their lives. Come, people with soft sensibilities, this is your haven!
Gack. As one of those elders I don't know whether to be horrified by the suggestion... or horrified that the calendar really *does* say that I'm over 30!!

*weep* I hope I don't act that old... most of the time...

I guess not many remember Logan's Run

Of course I stood in line to see the opening way back in 1976.