[duyvan82]

I would say remove da status. Who needs it anyway?!!

[Paralex]

Join date is kind of useless also.

[Timan]

Paralex said:

Removing signatures would solve nothing.

Edit: Here's an idea. Make a rollover link on our usernames so that we can check the join date, post count, status, etc. Just an idea.

Actually they would, I've had sigs off for the longest time, and pages load so much quicker. You guys need to realize if the person in the first post has a sig that is on a ****ty hosting provider and takes ages to load, it will prevent the rest of the page from loading, ( at least in retarded safari ).

I'm up for avatar reduction or sig removal. I'll let you guys pick which you want over all.

[liquidplasmaflow]

I second the idea of a rollover with more specific info like postcount and join date. Frees up postbit space and makes room for usertitles. Also, why not change the Status to an image next to the username? Like an iChat status orb.

[nightcrawler1089]

I rely somewhat heavily on Post Count and Join Date. Status doesn't make much difference to me, and I don't know how much "clickage" the messenger icons get.

Rollover idea does sound interesting, but if push came to shove, I would remove either the status or chat icons to make room for the user title.

-NC

[Paralex]

@NC: How come join date is important to you? In my opinion, the status is important to see if someone is online is available for a PM or IM.

[duyvan82]

Timmie, whatever you do, please don't remove Posts count and Join date. Like somebody has pointed out, it helps me know whether the poster is a n0oob or not.

[nightcrawler1089]

Paralex, I don't know, but in the years I've spent here, I've never once glanced at the status feature. Personally, I think it can be relegated to a rollover or the Member Profile section. I suppose it might help in threads with constant traffic...

I use join date and number of posts together to create a "user status." For example, if a user has 3 posts but they joined in December '03, I'd treat them as a lurker instead of a new member. Other than that, I guess it's not too crucial!

-NC

[Timan]

True, I can tell everyone in this thread but rjohnstone and myself are nevvbies. (sarcasm of course)

But in all honesty, Avatars are huge, 128x128 (OSX's icon size or not), is waaay to big to have a little picture represent your account.

As for the msn/aim/yim/icq icons. Can be useful, I can click the msn icon under someone's name and get their msn address in seconds.

[Timan]

nightcrawler1089 said:

Paralex, I don't know, but in the years I've spent here, I've never once glanced at the status feature. Personally, I think it can be relegated to a rollover or the Member Profile section. I suppose it might help in threads with constant traffic...

I use join date and number of posts together to create a "user status." For example, if a user has 3 posts but they joined in December '03, I'd treat them as a lurker instead of a new member. Other than that, I guess it's not too crucial!

-NC

Nancy I can always display that information for moderators only, so tbh anything could be removed or added for certain user groups.

[blaze]

/Please don't double post Mr.Administrator of AS

I don't think the signatures should be taken off because people link their websites there and showoff the funnies

[Timan]

Double posting is when someone posts the same post twice...

[duyvan82]

We can tell who ever is online of offline by looking at "Whats going on" on the index page. So yeah, get rid of it please

As for avatar, having big avatars is sometimes useful too, I've got lots of quality icons from those big avatars

[smoovie]

I never even noticed the Status line was there until it was pointed out in this thread. Other than that I like how it is now.

[Unbeliever]

Why bother? Changing something on a forum the size of AS is not as easy as you think Paralex and we're not going to install plugins so we can satisfy everyone. I say we keep things as hey are.

[gnomexp]

If we kill Sigs, Unbe will have to use an avatar....

Or you could kill it for non-Mod/Admin/Newsies etc. as a "priveledge" and a useful way to link the rules.

People can always pimp their sites in the "Community Sites" section or when releasing goodies.

[Paralex]

Unbeliever said:

Why bother? Changing something on a forum the size of AS is not as easy as you think Paralex and we're not going to install plugins so we can satisfy everyone. I say we keep things as hey are.

Well, it's a simple template edit. :slant:

[Unbeliever]

Meh... can't be arsed to explain.... Tim's been too lazy for much simpler stuff than this

[Paralex]

Don't explain, I'm feeling kinda lazy right now too.

[Pe8er]

Timmie please turn off Status and IM icons for us moderators, we hate them. Unbe, NC - we do, don't we?