It's good to have rules confining the signatures, obviously if everyone had 12 lines of text and a huge image it'd take up a lot of bandwidth and slow the forums down a lot.
Alright, that was a slight exaggeration but you get my point.
But I thought the previous sig rules were fine.I never really gave most sigs more than a couple of glances when reading the forums, and that's the point. Sigs (and avatars) are a good way of identifying posts and members as you scroll down a page. Bright images were good there. Some might steal some attention but you can get used to overlooking them. Sort of a skill you develop just by being on forums. Downsizing them was a discision i didn't like as there was never much of an issue for me in the first place, and it means I have to take stuff out that i wouldn't want to.
Signatures give you a chance to briefly introduce youself, make a first impression. By making them smaller you're removing the chance to do that.
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