A lot of newbs may not know. A lot of old-timers may have forgotten.

[Maddy McCall]

DU has rules about signature images, because a lot of our members have dial-up.

Check your image and make sure that it is within DU's rules on sig image size. If not, go resize it or ask for help resizing it. DUers are a helpful bunch, and I'm sure you can get some help if you're not able to resize.

DU's rules on signatures images:

You may have no more than one image (.jpg or .gif format) in your signature line at any time. This image may not exceed 500 pixels wide, 200 pixels tall, or a file size of 20 kilobytes. If you do not know if your image is in compliance, right click on it and select "Properties."

[Warren Stupidity]

1. volunteer hall monitor

[Maddy McCall]

2. Yeah, fuck me for being helpful.

[Warren Stupidity]

10. self righteous indignant volunteer hall monitor

[Maddy McCall]

12. Ooooo....because breaking rules on DU is sooo rebellious and cool.

:eyes:

[Name removed]

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[Maddy McCall]

24. I haven't reported anyone. Hoped this reminder would help.

Like I said, fuck me for being helpful.

[tammywammy]

16. That's really uncalled for

Maddy wasn't being rude in her OP.

[Maddy McCall]

42. Thanks teedub.

:D

[sniffa]

44. True, but

DU does not allow you to break that rule. I've (and many others) been forced to resize, or choose a different image in order to get my sig to go through. If someone's sig is large and obnoxious, it's not breaking DU's rules, because they've updated their software to prevent you from exceeding their sigline requirements.

[Maddy McCall]

46. Wrong. Numerous sig photos are breaking the rules.

[sniffa]

55. No, you're wrong.

I can speak authoritatively too.

[Maddy McCall]

57. It's not foolproof. DU relies on users to be responsible...

or it wouldn't be in the rules.

[Debi]

87. I've tried to put a jpg in my sig line that was too big and DU won't let me post

I've had to resize it in order to post it.

[tammywammy]

69. Huh

I wonder if posters are just posting pics at the end of their posts and not specifically in their sig lines.


It appears that it only knows when your avatar is not within size, not sig lines. :)

[LittleClarkie]

65. If you like DU, why would you want to see folks eat up their bandwidth

And anyone who hits an alert is also a hall monitor?

Some of us are just trying to keep the place tidied up and help Skinner out. And you?

[MonkeyFunk]

19. better than volunteer jerk

[Warren Stupidity]

37. A little background

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5275233&mesg_id=5275233

The OP is now out and about policing GDP with her stern admonitions against signatures she finds offensive. Oddly enough she only finds an Obama sig, one that is hardly huge, to be a major problem worth admonishing the OP for. I find that offensive. If there is a problem alert the moderators who are here to moderate. If you want to be a moderator, volunteer. Otherwise cut the crap.

[Name removed]

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[Warren Stupidity]

45. :go suck a fishhead?

ok.

I'm guessing that is actually outside the rules as well.

[Name removed]

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[LittleClarkie]

76. Rolly polly fish head. Fish head, fish head, eat em up, yum...

Yeah.

[Name removed]

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[redqueen]

84. Wow.... you really pissed off Name Removed with that response. (nt)

[SoonerPride]

3. Thanks for pointing that out

really

[Nitrogenica]

4. This one would be too big.

[Maddy McCall]

5. Oh of course not. Go ahead and add that to your sig right now.

[Nitrogenica]

7. lols I'll pass on that.

[femmocrat]

15. Eeeek! that is just disturbing!

It took me a few seconds to figure it out... but now.... :yoiks:

[Nitrogenica]

17. It is a very natural fit for Bush's face, isn't it.

[KAZ]

28. Just the left side.

And that's been "shopped" in this photo.

I know. I'm bad.

[femmocrat]

6. You can block signature lines in your "Preferences", too.

I did that because of slow dial-up connection out here in the sticks.

:hi:

[Maddy McCall]

9. Yeah, but you ought not have to.

And you wouldn't have to if people wouldn't break the rules.

:)

[Catherine Vincent]

8. Thanks for letting them know.

And since I was told we can alert on those that are too large, you oversized sig lined Obama supporters better watch out!:)

[Maddy McCall]

11. That's what you're supposed to do.

I've been alerted on for posting six paragraphs instead of four. LOL.

[MadBadger]

14. Funny, it tells me when my sig is too big.

[MonkeyFunk]

22. It will tell you if the filesize is too large

but not the actual height/width of the image.

Yours is exactly 200 pixels high, so you're good :D

[MadBadger]

26. Excellent! Jesus was watching over me when I made it.

lol

[Maddy McCall]

31. Only on avatars. DU has no way to know what your sig image size is...

because DU doesn't host sig images.

[MonkeyFunk]

56. ah, that's right

it's the avatar they check the size on. Not the sig pic. My bad.

[UALRBSofL]

63. Yes, it's just the avatar

I've tried to make mine bigger but it wouldn't work.

[tammywammy]

13. Good point Maddy

:)

I'm not sure if it's in reference to a specific poster(s), but I hate big sig lines.

[Jersey Devil]

18. dial-up? WTF are you you talking about?

Shit, I figure dial-up people are probably just now reading the postss from February, so maybe you should date your posts for June and they'll get them in a couple of weeks.

[tammywammy]

27. LOL

"Shit, I figure dial-up people are probably just now reading the postss from February,"

:rofl:

[KAZ]

20. Good post. Don't like sigs. It took me 5 years of donating before..

.. I did an avatar. Bandwidth means bucks, for the server and receiver.

[SoCalDem]

39. pictures do not use DU bandwidth

they use bandwidth on YOUR site or on photobucket or the other freebies:)

[KAZ]

54. They most certainly do use DU bandwidth. Well, a least the avatars..

..do. Actually, the sigs also. Hence the need for "Defcons".

[foo_bar]

73. a sig-level Defcon probably conserves I/O more than network bandwidth

Since the sig line is limited to 400 bytes and DU doesn't host custom images larger than an icon, the collective impact on DU's available bandwidth would be less of a consideration than the bottleneck of looking up each user's preferences in some SQL table (which also explains the loss of ignore functionality during Red Alerts, since that actually increases bandwidth requirements by serving posts that would otherwise be blank, but saves the server having to cross-check every post against the requester's blacklist). I think the purpose of the 20kb quota on sig images is to keep DU more readable/loadable than a Myspace page, since hotlinked images don't affect DU's servers directly (other than transmitting the image tag).

[totodeinhere]

23. People with slow connections can go into their browser's preferences...

and turn off image rendering.

[Maddy McCall]

25. Sure. But the rules are there for a reason, and they wouldn't have to do that...

if people would just play by the rules on this one, easy-to-adhere-to rule.

[BlueJazz]

36. Maddy....I like you and am proud for you to be a fellow member of DU...BUT...

...Your Frog gives me nightmares. :)

[Maddy McCall]

51. The frog explained.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=5237060

[BlueJazz]

61. I've changed my mind... The Frog is Cool. n/t

[Maddy McCall]

71. LOL. Because Jane says so.

:D

[Bonobo]

29. I thought sigs that don't comply don't get accepted automatically? No?

[Maddy McCall]

30. Avatars won't get accepted. DU has no way to stop you from posting huge images...

because they don't host sig images.

By the way, yours is 300 pixels tall (max 200 req) and 4000 bytes too large.

Not alerting...just thought you might want to resize it.

[Bonobo]

35. I don't know how to do it and then rehost...;(

[Maddy McCall]

38. You just go into MS Paint or Photoshop, size it down....

and then have it hosted on photobucket or any other free image host.

[SoCalDem]

40. Irfanview is super..and it's free and easy enough for slow people like me

www.irfanview.com

you can enhance pictures, resize etc..

[Maddy McCall]

43. Ooooo.....thanks a million for that link!

Bookmarking it now. Thanks a bunch!

[Bonobo]

Test2

[Bonobo]

50. I fixed it. Thank you Maddy.

[Maddy McCall]

52. Excellent.

Good job! Our dial-up members will appreciate it.

[The_Casual_Observer]

32. I think that signature images are checked by the message board software.

[redqueen]

85. I thought this was the case as well.

:shrug:

[Swamp Rat]

33. And tell that frog to brush his teeth!

:D

[Maddy McCall]

34. I'm not talking to you until you hold a cybercrawfishboil in my honor.

You little you! :D

[Swamp Rat]

49. After seeing your post,

I gathered myself up and prepared to go out to buy 10 lbs. of crawfish just so I could come back and brag... whatafool. :dunce: I forgot I had other responsibilities.

Ok, so MAYBE this Friday I will go buy a 20 lb. sack and gorge myself. :9

...... Let the 'berle' begin!

[Maddy McCall]

58. I won't come home without 20 lbs....

or it's just considered and appetizer. LOL. But there ARE two of us here.

:D

[Swamp Rat]

72. burp!

:9 there's a few claws left... sorry. :D

[intheflow]

74. Oh, no!

You're making me miss Mississippi! The Crawfish Festival is only a month away, and I'm going to miss it living in Denver! :cry: Hard to get large quantities of fresh crawfish being so land-locked. :(

[Maddy McCall]

75. I pity you....I do. Seriously.

I cannot imagine being hundreds of miles away from good crawfish when the craving strikes.

:(

[intheflow]

78. Yeah, I suppose I could have some shipped up.

But it's just not the same as being able to stop at the market on the way home from work and pick up a gigantic "single serving" of crawfish, potatoes and corn for dirt cheap. It was dreamy! :loveya:

[Maddy McCall]

80. I know! It's so easy to get here that I never think about being away from it.

I can empathize, though. I fell in love with a special brand of hotlinks made in northeast Texas, and a deli-made boudin made in southeast Texas. Now that I no longer live in Texas, I have to make yearly runs to Texas to get both. We leave home, go to Longview, get the hotlinks, then down to Port Arthur to get the boudin. Spend the night with family and then back home.

But, lord have mercy when the freezer goes dry and I can't get back for a couple of months! I sit here salivating thinking about smoked hotlinks!

:hug: :loveya:

[Swamp Rat]

77. The only cure: Roadtrip to CrawdadLand!

You could do it on a three-day weekend. If you can, make sure you bring back a lot of crawfish tails on ice too. That way you can make some crawfish étouffée for the next weekend. :9

[intheflow]

79. OK, now you're just torturing me.

I had forgotten about crawfish étouffée! Oh, the creamy, yummy, spicy goodness!!! :loveya:

Though I never did find any place in Mississippi that served that, I only got to eat it when visitng NOLA. Probably all the good crawfish étouffée restaurants got washed away. :(

BTW, I hope that crawfish image isn't in you sig line. It's HUGH!!1!!1! :P

As for the roadtrip... one more reason among many to visit in April, but my bank account won't let me go. Social justice work is a good business, but it pays bupkus.

[Swamp Rat]

81. No, only the soldier pic, which has been there since I have been here, and won't be removed

until the war is over and our men and women (kids) are ALL returned home safely. It conforms to the DU size limitation.

C'mon down! We have dozens and dozens of restaurants that serve crawfish étouffée all week long... and shrimp creole, jambalaya, seafood gumbo, etc. :9

[Crunchy Frog]

82. You can catch crawdads in small bodies of water in Colorado.

I used to catch them when I was a kid. I don't know how they'd be to eat, but you could try anyway. :shrug:

[intheflow]

83. Yeah, I used to catch them in creeks in New England when I was a kid.

But I'd be able to catch 1 or 2 over the course of an afternoon. It's an entire industry in Mississippi, where someone else does the catching and you can buy them by the 50-count really inexpensively. One or two crawdads aren't good eating, but 20-30 are! :9 So it's a good thought, but not worth the time and effort for so little payback.

[Crunchy Frog]

88. Really? I used to catch a ton of them out here.

I can remember having a whole aquarium full of them. Hmmm, I sense a new business opportunity in the making. :think:


Edited to add: Hmmm, check this out. http://www.lifeofahunter.com/2007/08/an-evening-with.html

[intheflow]

94. Actually, I do remember seeing crawfish in CO.

It was out in the Paonia area, some fishermen left a whole lot of 'em next to a river, the gulls were having a field day. As I recall, they were as big as the ones in Mississippi. The ones I caught in Massachusetts were really pretty tiny. It may be the difference in latitude, since Denver is so much further south than Massachusetts--maybe they grow bigger and multiply more fruitfully out here. :hi:

[Hawkeye-X]

91. I'll take you to Fresh Fish Company...

And you can order whatever you want - my treat! March is Crab Festival Month

:hug:

[intheflow]

93. OMG, how have I not heard of this place?

It's only about 10 minutes from where I live! If you're serious about meeting for a meal, I'm always up for meeting DUers. But we'll split the check so no one can accuse you of trying to buy off a mod. :)

Seriously, pm me if you'd like to get together, eat seafood and trash Republicans.

[Name removed]

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[msallied]

53. I think mine fits.... when I uploaded it, they told me to downsize it...

How does one get by the system? lol I've posted a couple hundred times but I guess I'm still new here. :)

[MonkeyFunk]

62. perhaps your avatar

sigline pics aren't uploaded.

[msallied]

64. No, but when I put in the jpg link the first time

It said that the picture was too big... I have to use the default avatars since I haven't become a donator just yet.

[MonkeyFunk]

68. well I imagine it can tell if the filesize is too big

but i doubt it opens the file and scans the pixel height and width. Maybe that's what happened.

[JimGinPA]

59. Is That Why You Had That Butt Ugly Frog Shrunk?

Someone reported it?


:evilgrin:

[rasputin1952]

66. We do indeed have rules that cover sig images and a few other

things as well.

There are quite a few people on dial-up, for various reasons, and to make someones life a little harder is not conducive to civility, as are many of the replies to this thread.

FWIW...I AM a hall monitor, part of my job is to uphold rules that we have here. In most cases, people receive polite PM's about sig images, and and almost always comply with the request to bring them down to size.

Just because someone can post like a fool, does not mean they have to. Rather than argue the point, or call people names, running rampant w/PA's... just stay within the rules, things go far smoother that way, and we tend to get along a lot better.

[Maddy McCall]

67. Thanks.

I'm not trying to nudge in on your job. Not that THAT would ever happen. LOL.

Thanks for taking a moment to post here. :hi:

[DaveJ]

70. Should I get bonus points for having no signature?

Or maybe program could be developed whereby I could donate my signature bandwidth to someone else.

Honestly, I personally have a problem with those who push the rules to their limits. It's exactly what corporations do these days.

I'd just assume they break the rules, rather than come as close to the limit as possible. At least then they show their true nature.

[clevbot]

86. WTF is dial-up

LOL :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[RoadRage]

92. You're such a Latte Drinking Liberal....

who can afford such luxuries like High Speed Internet.. probably cable & a phone too. Snob!! :)

[Catherine Vincent]

89. I just alerted on my first one!

;)

[Hawkeye-X]

90. Yup.

That's why I don't have images on my sig - I really don't care for images, but I still love Federico!

:hi: