signature probs

sarahs999

As you can see, I only have three lines in my signature, but when I go to add anything I get a message saying 'you are only allowed six lines in your signature' and telling me to remove some. What gives? Is it more about the number of words rather than lines? :mad:

hayley11

I didn't even think they still had that rule...some people's sigs are really long.

fermi

The restrictions are laid out in this link: Signatures

I think too many lines is the default error message, even when the problem is actually too many characters.

sarahs999

Ah, thanks fermi. I read that when they first changed but I only remembered the six lines thing (thought it says five there, oddly). It's the 300 characters thing that has scuppered me then. How annoying...

Former_MSE_Forum_Manager

Hi sarahs999

As Fermi says its most likely to be the character count. The issue we had was whilst your signature is nice and compact, we had people double spacing them and increasing font sizes etc. Obviously to the other forum users this proved quite distracting when following a thread. We had to apply a standard set of variables to all accounts.

On a side note, well done with your MoneySaving - looking at your signature you're making some real progress :beer:

espresso

This is what your sig actually consists of:



Now do you see the problem?

fermi

Maybe start a new signature from scratch using just the plain text?

When you then have the content you want you could add in some formatting, colours etc and see how much the board will allow before it complains.

Although, you must be near to the character limit even without the formatting.