Basically we don't like to encourage newbs to interact with staff members any more than is necessary. Life would be so much easier if we could bar entry to anyone unable to spell and define the word 'obnoxious'.
While I was originally of the opinion that OWF's sig and avy limits were painfully extreme, I have - since those unenlightened days - been on many a message board where said limits were much freer, and therefore the average full page of posts could take more than half a minute to load, and you were blinded all the way down to flashing banners and avatars and spent more time scrolling past signatures than posts. Basically bigger images means more room for annoyingness.
You are neither funny, nor clever. You think you are... but you aren't.
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