Flash Sig
 

Not sure who to talk to about this but I just made a cool Odd related flash sig but I can't upload it or put it in with html. Is there any code I should use or someone can help me out with uploading? Or is flash a no-no?

Here it is anyway

Sigs are not allowed to have flash in them. If you want to blame someone, blame Havoc. His shenanigans are what caused the rule to be introduced.


And if you want to blame someone for the fact that you didn't know that that rule existed, blame Max for not having finished the new version of the Rules that he started two years ago.

Hate these flash hater foo's.

Hahaha, I remember that.

While I do respect the admins decisions, if we keep restricting the end user because of a miniority of the problems on this forum, nobody will be able to do anything. I think if a long period of time has passed, it might be time to try the waters again and give the user some more options for signatures.

Give me a good reason why flash sigs are a good idea.

Also give me a good reason why a forum full of sigs like cakesnatcher's would not be freaking irritating.

Okay, maybe Flash Sigs aren't a good idea in the long-term. But what about animated GIF signatures?

How are animated GIFs any less irritating than an animated Flash?

They have less quality and look crappier :D

Or was that a rhetorical question?

Flash can have malicious/very annoying shit in.

Animated gifs less so, but I'm yet to see one I'd like to use as a sig.

Things kept cropping up. Which is the excuse I gave that caused half of those things to crop up.

Alex, while I agree with you in theory, practice has taught us that idealism isn't ideal.

HAAAAAAVOC!

Flash signitures are enjoyable.

Until there are so many you can't read people's posts.

Flash websites can be so annoying

I don't think everyone is planning on having flash sigs. And flash is uber. Everyone loves flash.

Well, I can't argue with that logic. You have my vote, sir.

Anyway, any sig flash shouldn't have any interaction or sound. Only animation. And SWF is one brilliant format to animate stuff in, much better than .gif wank.

You would blow off my endorsement with an "anyway"? Forget it. I withdraw my support. I am firmly against having flash sigs. I think it is a stupid thing that contains poop and std's, and I for one am against poop and std's.

There is a time and a place for Flash Sigs. This is neither the time, nor the place.

You don't plan on getting one. You just get one. Like a disease.

Yeah, I can't tell you how many times I have gone to the doctors because I found a big green flash banner on my scrotum.

I have flash disabled most of the time, so even if it was allowed I wouldnt see your sig ;)

edit: btw am I the only one to misread this as "flash slig" ?

No, I keep misreading it as that.

I thought it said slig at first too but even tough its not alloud,thats pretty awesome.

Ah, a serious medical issue, scrotus animatus.

Flasher Slig!

I fully support this flash sig idea if it adheres to the scrolling LED message thing CS has going here. In fact, I think it should be something that is offered as part of the forums itself, not unlike how we offer a default set of avatars to choose from.

Members can punch in their message and voila; there it is in their signature. I think with proper maintenance it wouldn't be a problem. Flash doesn't take up alot of bandwidth, and since so many of you people have already expressed your dislike of it, that leaves only a handful of members that would actually want them.

I don't dislike them per se, I just dislike them in volume, which, as you said, shouldn't be a problem.

Flash sigs are unecessary. And in many cases they distract from the actual purpose of a forum: To read and type text.

Flash sigs are annoying!

I'm surprised Justin or Wil haven't commented on Flashing Sligs yet, I am dissapoint.

You lump me with Justin? D=

I know I bring it on myself, but come on. That's a bit below the belt. Just like the raging hardon I get thinking of flashing Sligs.

There was this little thread made by Cream once, I seem to recall major contributation from you.

Like I say, I've brought it on myself. Not just in that thread.

Except that it still would be freaking irritating. We have html scrolling text disabled for much the same reason.

Flash sigs wont take away peoples ability to read.

If flash sigs are uneccessary then so are regular sigs. So are the smilies in the posts people make. So is most of the images and things that make this forum look good.

I say flash sigs today, flash sigs tomorrow, flash sigs forever!

ok then. you're right, we're wrong. you say all this shit with your own opinions when you have already voiced them and been swamped with members disliking the idea, and still think its going to happen because you and about 2 other people want them.

arguing with members and admins isn't going to change many peoples minds, nor is stating things as being 'unnecessary' with fuck all to back it up apart from 'because flash sigs aren't allowed'.

I'm just saying if people think that this thing is unnecessary then that will render all of the other things like it unnecessary. A lot of things are unnecessary, but we have them anyway. I wasn't the first to state things unnecessary here.

Also I am arguing the case that flash sigs are good, so I must offer you the good points. Also you're saying all of this as your opinion.

And good odd man, don't get so brutal and angry about it.

Normal sigs are indeed unnecessary, but people like them and they don't tend to get in the way of reading the forums. Piling on animated sigs, however... the eye is automatically drawn to moving objects. That they will be too distracting is a biological fact.

Yes I grant that but still I don't think that it actually halts your ability to read. If you have your flash option off then I guess it's not a problem.