Signature rule issue?

[Kardan]

Okay, so the rule for signature size was recently adjusted, from:

"VIP members & Donators can have as many pictures as they want in their signature, as long as each picture is not wider than 700 pixels, and the total height of all pictures together, regardless of whether they are below each other or side by side, is not more than 300 pixels and the file size (whether hosted on or off the forum) is no bigger than 1.5mb (1536kb)"

to:

"VIP and Donator signature images may not exceed 700 pixels x 300 pixels in total size"

This meant that people are now allowed to have multiple images in their signature, provided that they fit within a 700x300 box, and they are no longer measured by putting each image on top of each other.

So, surely, people can have really long signatures now, putting each image on top of each other, as long as they all fit within a 700x300 box?

Example:

Take this 700x300 box:



Now with this new rule, there is nothing to stop someone having the following signature (all words are different images):




etc...
until all words are in the signature. And it wouldn't break the rule, because as you can see above, it is no larger than 700x300 in total.

In theory, someone could have a 1x300 image, 700 times. And placed on top of one another, someone could get a legal signature size of 1x210000

[Mr-Trainor]

What's wrong with mods just making sure the width doesn't exceed 700px and the height doesn't exceed 300px in the way that the user has chosen to stack them :S?

[lawrawrrr]

doesn't it mean the width cannot be more than 700 and height more than 300? badly worded but yeah...

---------- Post added 21-05-2013 at 01:46 PM ----------

What I want to know is you're not allowed text bigger then size 7 in your signature


but if you convert the text into a .jpg file then are you allowed it? because it's a picture and not actual text?

[Kardan]

What's wrong with mods just making sure the width doesn't exceed 700px and the height doesn't exceed 300px in the way that the user has chosen to stack them :S?

doesn't it mean the width cannot be more than 700 and height more than 300? badly worded but yeah...

---------- Post added 21-05-2013 at 01:46 PM ----------

What I want to know is you're not allowed text bigger then size 7 in your signature


but if you convert the text into a .jpg file then are you allowed it? because it's a picture and not actual text?

Yeah, I think you're both right. My bad. I obviously can't read simple sentences

So basically, as long as the area of all the images included doesn't exceed 700x300, it's okay?

And I agree Laura about the text size, it's silly. You could even have text bigger than size '7' really...

I suppose the size rule is because they can't give you a word limit for your signature, but if you want large words in your signature, there's only so much you can fit



This is size 7.

[GoldenMerc]

What's wrong with mods just making sure the width doesn't exceed 700px and the height doesn't exceed 300px in the way that the user has chosen to stack them :S?

exactly

[Chris]

The reason for the size 7 rule is so that people don't fill their signature with size 7 font. It wouldn't be possible to fill an image with size 7 font because of the size restrictions on signature images.

[Kardan]

The reason for the size 7 rule is so that people don't fill their signature with size 7 font. It wouldn't be possible to fill an image with size 7 font because of the size restrictions on signature images.

?

[Chippiewill]

@Chris; you make no sense, size 7 font is way smaller than a 700x300 image.

[Chris]

@Chris; you make no sense, size 7 font is way smaller than a 700x300 image.

You can type as much text as you want though so it could be bigger then 700px x 300px. Saying that, the rule does actually state that the overall signature must be a reasonable size.

[Mr-Trainor]

Is it just me or does this not make sense ?:

Non VIP members allowed to have as they want in their signature, as long as..