Anyone know how the new signatures actually work or successfully revised one?

Edinburghlass_2

Until someone more techie posts I think part of the problem is when you edit your signature in your UserCP it is counting your 5 lines as they show in that little box and not when they display on the forum, if you see what I mean? (although a new line should be when you hit return) Its difficult for me to test as I don't have the same restriction but do remember that smillies will take up more characters and especially the "eek" smillie takes up 2/3 lines.

I'll pm sra and see if he can help you on this thread.

hypno06

Hmmm......mine is changed, but it took me a while!

Edinburghlass_2

taxi73 wrote: »

I don't have a clue myself but had a go the other day and it seems to have done it but I don't understand what BCC is

Taxi because you altered your signature before the software changed it wouldn't affect it but it will if you alter it today.

postingalwaysposting

Edinburghlass wrote: »

Until someone more techie posts I think part of the problem is when you edit your signature in your UserCP it is counting your 5 lines as they show in that little box and not when they display on the forum, if you see what I mean? (although a new line should be when you hit return) Its difficult for me to test as I don't have the same restriction but do remember that smillies will take up more characters and especially the "eek" smillie takes up 2/3 lines.

I'll pm sra and see if he can help you on this thread.

thanks edinburgh, i thought it may be the smilies and any blank line but alas when i deleated all the smilies and checked there were no spare lines it still wouldnt allows me to add the word super~pap!!! :rolleyes: :rotfl:seems like i am doomed :rotfl:

Jacks_xxx

I'm leaving mine until they amend the rules to allow me to include at least the info on the three challenges I'm involved in.

I deleted all of this earlier

TOTO & JACKS DEC 2008 HEAD TO HEAD CHALLENGE 10% DFW NERD 658 / LONG HAULERS 25 / DFD MARCH 2009

'Work for those who can, security for those who cannot.' Yeah right Mr Brown :mad:

Then I abbreviated everything, removed as many words as possible and removed all spaces - which left this unreadable mess:

G.C.Sept£500£311.43 Oct£400£361.69Nov£35£244.94Dec£455£440.32Jan£300£239.58Feb£250 LIVEON£10,000NO67£1131.19/£8868.81

but evidently it was still too big for the new ruling.

I'm partially sighted so I can't read tiny fonts

And my sig is my daily moneysaving motivation.

It's impossible to know what's going on all over this site but I've joined all kinds of challenges just cos I saw them in someone else's sig.

Gordon Brown diatribe aside I think my sig is all relevant. (I only put that on three days ago when they government told my dad to quit his p/t driving job or they'd take his Incapacity Benefit away - and I'd probably calm down and remove it in a few days anyway.)

I'm really peed off with the change and quite surprised that Martin has told people to leave if they don't like it in post 42 of this thread:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=706045&page=3

Quote:
Originally Posted by MSE Martin
The new codification comes in today. I hope it works. If it doesn't and anyone is being penalised or not saving money because of it - I will happily amend it in future.

For now - we really don't have the time to carry on this discussion. I'm doing what i think is best - and its my job to do that. If you disagree strongly and it ruins your user experience that would be awful and I would fully understand if you chose not to use the site again.

Kind regards

Martin

I disagree strongly and I think it negatively impacts my moneysaving efforts. Should I get my coat?

Love Jacks xxx

meerkat2007

I edited my sig when I first read about the restrictions, and got it down to something that appeared acceptable. However, I didn't post anything, so I couldn't try it.

I've just tried editing my sig now, but haven't changed anything, and it said it was unacceptable. I'm posting this to test what I have at the moment, although it looks like my next sig update will have to be a serious edit!

Edit: the serious edit of my sig has now taken place, so that I can update the meaningful entries. It used to be multi-coloured, but is now all black. It has also been shrunk to 4 lines, as 5 lines was unacceptable.

Gemmzie

I think everyone's getting a bit too stressed over this, they are pretty common place rules for a forum. There's no need to have a massive amount of info in your signature.

Keep it to the main figures, people will see your totals and check your diaries for the updates, that's what I always do when I notice someone's updated.

rayday2

I agree Gemmzie other forums I am on have had smaller sig boxes for years, and it does improve things much easier to pick out the message rather than have to read through loads of crap that really only means something to the individual - hence it being a sig!!

pandapaws

I agree with you guys - I don't have a problem reducing it (although that's the problem with having a hell of a lot of debt, and doing a lot of challenges - what bits do you miss out?!), it's just the difficulties in doing it.

Gemmzie & Rayday, have both of yours updated this evening without any problem? You've both got quite a bit of info in there and a few colour changes etc, but I can't get it to save any of my revisions, even if I take loads out.

postingalwaysposting

well i dropped one of my challenges and all seems fine now :j

maybe not ~ i try and change the colours and i get

1. Your signature can not be longer than 1000 characters including BBCode markup.
2. Your signature contains too many lines and must be shortened. You may only have up to 5 line(s).

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