Post by Beelzebibble on Jul 9, 2009 12:04:31 GMT -5
All right, show of hands, who here likes the signature limit? No one? Yeah, I thought so, somehow. 400 characters is weak (unless you're talking about the size of Lee's RP roster). So I was all, "Proboards, is there a way to remedy this?" And it turns out that although that limit is immutable, there is a rather clever way to bypass that limit.
tl;dr version -- you can make a signature of more than 400 characters by manipulating the censored words list. Tell Proboards to censor a keyword like #pohatu _sig# (minus the space) and then you can just stick the keyword in your profile and go.
As you can see from my signature, I threw in a bunch of links to my RP characters' profiles for reference on the fly. That kind of URL bulkiness, plus an image and a quote, would never have been possible with 400 characters. But now, with the help of censored words, anything is possible. Thanks, censored words!
So I want to spread this to the masses. If the 400-character signature limit is seriously harshing your jive; if you find yourself trimming down individual characters off your sig in an effort to meet the limit; then don't despair! PM me your desired signature and I'll fix things right up for you.
(Unless you're Lee or a global mod. In which case you can fix things up your damn self.)
NOTE: I do still want to keep signatures relatively travel-sized -- I mean, they shouldn't get much taller than mine/Blood's/Elliot's at the moment. This censored words trick should be valued primarily for its ability to squeeze a lot of links into a signature, not for its ability to stack a dozen images on top of each other. So if you want a signature that's too enormous, we'll work out ways to shrink it.
tl;dr version -- you can make a signature of more than 400 characters by manipulating the censored words list. Tell Proboards to censor a keyword like #pohatu _sig# (minus the space) and then you can just stick the keyword in your profile and go.
As you can see from my signature, I threw in a bunch of links to my RP characters' profiles for reference on the fly. That kind of URL bulkiness, plus an image and a quote, would never have been possible with 400 characters. But now, with the help of censored words, anything is possible. Thanks, censored words!
So I want to spread this to the masses. If the 400-character signature limit is seriously harshing your jive; if you find yourself trimming down individual characters off your sig in an effort to meet the limit; then don't despair! PM me your desired signature and I'll fix things right up for you.
(Unless you're Lee or a global mod. In which case you can fix things up your damn self.)
NOTE: I do still want to keep signatures relatively travel-sized -- I mean, they shouldn't get much taller than mine/Blood's/Elliot's at the moment. This censored words trick should be valued primarily for its ability to squeeze a lot of links into a signature, not for its ability to stack a dozen images on top of each other. So if you want a signature that's too enormous, we'll work out ways to shrink it.