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Aendruu
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I imagine there's probably a solid reason for disallowing images in our forum signatures. Does anyone know why this is?
"So, drinking is a sacrament to Y'ffre... because it's his way of reminding us not to take things too seriously... You know how the other Elves are. Altmer have their crystal towers, and that's how they want to be — cold and perfect. And Dunmer are just like their Red Mountain — smouldering and dark. We just want to have a drink and not worry about it."
- Regring the Spinner
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CMDR_Un1k0rn✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭No idea why as I'm too new. But I'm glad they are disabled.
I don't normally go for the "it's too much work for the company" stance but in this case I do.
Why moderate signature images when they can just turn them off?In-game username: Un1korn | Happy member of the PCNA UESP guild (Resident Daggerfall Covenant enjoyer) | Main & basically only character: Crucian Vulpin, Imperial Dragonknight of the Daggerfall Covenant, and Undaunted Bulwark (I tank) | Mountain bike enjoyer and vulpine appreciator | If you know me from PCEU: No | To ZOS: THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME BRING MY HORSE INTO BATTLE!6 -
redlink1979✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭I imagine there's probably a solid reason for disallowing images in our forum signatures. Does anyone know why this is?
We can't have nice things because there's always someone who abuses..."Sweet Mother, sweet Mother, send your child unto me, for the sins of the unworthy must be baptized in blood and fear"- Sons of the Night Mother [PS5][EU] 2165 CP
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Aendruu✭✭✭CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »No idea why as I'm too new. But I'm glad they are disabled.
I don't normally go for the "it's too much work for the company" stance but in this case I do.
Why moderate signature images when they can just turn them off?
An excellent point... I didn't think that they'd need to be moderated, but in retrospect, I can totally imagine why they would need to be. Sometimes I have a naive faith in humanity!"So, drinking is a sacrament to Y'ffre... because it's his way of reminding us not to take things too seriously... You know how the other Elves are. Altmer have their crystal towers, and that's how they want to be — cold and perfect. And Dunmer are just like their Red Mountain — smouldering and dark. We just want to have a drink and not worry about it."- Regring the Spinner0 -
CMDR_Un1k0rn✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »No idea why as I'm too new. But I'm glad they are disabled.
I don't normally go for the "it's too much work for the company" stance but in this case I do.
Why moderate signature images when they can just turn them off?
An excellent point... I didn't think that they'd need to be moderated, but in retrospect, I can totally imagine why they would need to be. Sometimes I have a naive faith in humanity!
Yeah, The problem is that while it is very easy to filter text, images... Not so much.
I've seen some sickening things on another forum.
I'm of the opinion to allow text signatures only and just add to the text blacklist as necessary.In-game username: Un1korn | Happy member of the PCNA UESP guild (Resident Daggerfall Covenant enjoyer) | Main & basically only character: Crucian Vulpin, Imperial Dragonknight of the Daggerfall Covenant, and Undaunted Bulwark (I tank) | Mountain bike enjoyer and vulpine appreciator | If you know me from PCEU: No | To ZOS: THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME BRING MY HORSE INTO BATTLE!0 -
Aendruu✭✭✭CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »Yeah, The problem is that while it is very easy to filter text, images... Not so much.
I've seen some sickening things on another forum.
I'm of the opinion to allow text signatures only and just add to the text blacklist as necessary.
Sad, but very true. I only asked because there's the option in the member's profile to use one, but its non grata when trying to save. Naiveté on my part, but I optimistically believe that people are intrinsically good at heart.redlink1979 wrote: »We can't have nice things because there's always someone who abuses...
"So, drinking is a sacrament to Y'ffre... because it's his way of reminding us not to take things too seriously... You know how the other Elves are. Altmer have their crystal towers, and that's how they want to be — cold and perfect. And Dunmer are just like their Red Mountain — smouldering and dark. We just want to have a drink and not worry about it."- Regring the Spinner0 -
idk✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭redlink1979 wrote: »
This is what makes sense. However, it is just as likely they just chose not to for the same reason we are not permitted custom avatars.1 -
molecule✭✭✭✭✭
✭TequilaFire wrote: »Page load times are so much faster without a bunch of junk images.
Says the person with a 15 line signature6 -
TequilaFire✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭TequilaFire wrote: »Page load times are so much faster without a bunch of junk images.
Says the person with a 15 line signature
It's text, images take longer to load.
And it is 11 lines, white space doesn't count.
But facts screw up snarky troll responses.
Edited by TequilaFire on February 14, 2020 4:38PM0 -
Kiralyn2000✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Yeah, if there isn't someone who abuses it with nasty images, there'll be someone who does it with a 10mb+ movie clip.2 -
Varana✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭While the 15 lines of signature is a bit over-the-top to look at, it has a negligible effect on load times. It's just characters - in an image, you're barely past the header with that amount of data.0 -
TequilaFire✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭There happy now? lol
At least I post what I play instead of those players that make nerf threads never saying what cheese they play.
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✭✭✭✭✭Whenever you have a question about why forums are they way they are, just visit the yahoo forums.0 -
Aendruu✭✭✭I admit, I never thought of the video aspect or load times, nor the avatars. However, I am a bit confused about cheese and the Yahoo forums. I think that perhaps I've led a far too sheltered existence!"So, drinking is a sacrament to Y'ffre... because it's his way of reminding us not to take things too seriously... You know how the other Elves are. Altmer have their crystal towers, and that's how they want to be — cold and perfect. And Dunmer are just like their Red Mountain — smouldering and dark. We just want to have a drink and not worry about it."- Regring the Spinner0
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virtus753✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭I admit, I never thought of the video aspect or load times, nor the avatars. However, I am a bit confused about cheese and the Yahoo forums. I think that perhaps I've led a far too sheltered existence!
Now I’m imagining Yahoo as the new name for Sheo’s slice of Daedric heaven. Sacré bleu (cheese)!
But yeah, while it is *possible* to have an automated image censor, when the ones that are used elsewhere (like on Discord) flag a picture of a cat as “explicit/NSFW,” you really have to question how well they do their job. (That was a photo of an actual cat, felis catus, no euphemism, curled up on a couch.) There was also a big uproar a few years back over one of the Tweeters/Instapics/other social media thingy falsely flagging SFW pics as explicit with their then-new censor, so it seems pretty widespread. And I hear it can fail to catch actually explicit things, which kind of defeats the point.
If they worked reliably, I could see an option for displaying images in signatures for users who have loading concerns. (Signatures are already entirely disabled on mobile.)
Shame the few ruin it for the rest of us.0