grimpirate

I've recently been working on adding avatar pics and signatures to my GrimBB script and was curious people's opinions regarding them. Specifically a question about signatures. Signatures annoy me a bit with their repetitive nature in each post. So I figured on my forum script rather than appending the signature to the end of each post I could only post it on the first of all the posts for that particular thread. So for instance, if I made 3 posts in one thread only my first post would contain my signature. What do the PFers think?

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a thing

Other: attach to every first post by user on that page.

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DaWei

Agree with a_thing.

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Soulstorm

I believe that signatures must be appended to every post, provided that they are well-written enough to not distract the user.

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grimpirate

Well as of right now the whole thread is only displayed on one page a_thing so unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying that would actually be the result. My script doesn't parse it into multiple pages.

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Klarre

I should have limit the length to one row, and a small font size. And absolutely no images.

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pegasus001

I like the programming forums`s rules about signatures.

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demon101

like what Klarre said about having a limit set to it so that no one will have a really big signature and make it where they cant post images in the signatures

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mackenga

Bah. Signatures are for exhibitionists. Don't implement them at all.

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Styx

I've always liked them on every post, regardless of content. It lets me be lazy and not have to scroll everywhere to find someone's signature. In forum-based RPGs, too, it can relieve some work. But you could perhaps give the users that option.