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!