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Subject: 
Signature Image Abuse
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Wed, 28 May 2003 14:40:56 GMT
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I haven't seen any of this yet, likely cause the FTX features are new. However,
on the EZBoard style sites, many people include LARGE images in their signatures
- non-standard banners for their sites, poorly made animations, etc. Sometimes
these take up more space than the comments they make.

While I think the new FTX feature is neat for some of the good things that can
come of it (embedding MOC images in posts, etc), I think it definitely has the
potential to be abused.

Can there be ground rules laid down about tasteful images - at least when
relating to dimensions and animation? One of the reasons I don't read other
boards as often as I do LUGNET is this very fact.

Another issue would be font sizes ... as Mike Petrucelli illustrated here:
http://news.lugnet.com/publish/?n=4174

I welcome the ability to format text as it's useful for large documents or
multi-point announcements. The same with pictures - they're fun and useful for
MOC or event posts. But, both have the potential to be abused, and I'd like to
see some rules or norms established that discourage such abuse.

-Tim



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Signature Image Abuse
 
(...) Let's wait a bit and see how it ends up being used first. I think the best way to define ground rules would be with tasteful netiquette examples. (...) Yup, there's definitely the potential for abuse. This isn't a full chainsaw like HTML is, (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
  Re: Signature Image Abuse
 
In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Tim Courtney wrote: <snip> Needless to say I agree with Tim that there is a good potential for abuse here... I raised another type of potential abuse in this post: (URL) it seems to have gone unanswered. Perhaps because (...) (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
  Re: Signature Image Abuse
 
In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Tim Courtney wrote: <snip> (...) Mmm, really, may I ask what was the intended purpose of including outside images? I'n sort of confused here- no big images, no sig images, etc. You could make a rule that simply says, 'no (...) (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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