Signatures

SideEffectz

[GM]Saidin wrote: »

The blunt answer is because this is a private site not a free speech forum. Images are harder to control than text and it would be very worrisome if we opened up signature images and everyone posted **** or other offensive material.

Signature images are something we want to add, but until we can find a way to properly police them such that offensive images or other such behavior can be taken care of swiftly then this is the system we all have to deal with.

In the future we would like to implement reputation or other means of controlling a proper ranking system of players to encourage good clean intelligent discussion. And subsequently give them further privileges. But since it's already a full time job cleaning up the 4chan aspect of these boards we don't have those features left.

For now we have a 140 text (twitter size) signature that you can use to impart some personal flare to your posts. This will have to do until we put in other features.

We allow mods to have signature images because that is a privilege they get for being a mod. For being responsible member of the community, being a liaison for the public to the gm's and for helping the gm's keep the peace on the forums.

free speech forum?
otherwise we don't have freedom of speech.. lol phail more so mods get it for being mods but non-mods don't get it because they aren't mods o.0 so higher authority's have better stuff than us who pay for zp.. thats phail go phail more plz.

omgtheycham

Saidin, Saidin, OH Saidin...

When will you ever learn...

DynextDrK

[GM]Saidin wrote: »

I closed the original thread because this subject has been discussed in the past. There are threads that have been created where the same information can be found over the boards. And since that obviously wasn't satisfactory I merged the other threads and reopened this to allow more discussion on the subject. (which btw at this point should be in the z8 forum section, not the cross fire section)

Signature images are something we would like to do. But currently we haven't activated that feature yet.

The mods don't have any control or some secret power of approval or something. And there is currently no 500 post count limit to allow that. Rumors like that are based off our old board system which had signature images for some of our regular users who received karma.

We will have to look at the approval system within vbulletin as well as the other functions of the boards in order to open those features up. As we've said in the past it is a feature we will look in to, but we do not have it on the boards at this time.

Ok before I get ban from the forums cuz i feel like i'm on that road I got one more question.. Can I put the picture in my post because its not in the sig. section

Bloodyfire.

[GM]Saidin wrote: »

I closed the original thread because this subject has been discussed in the past. There are threads that have been created where the same information can be found over the boards. And since that obviously wasn't satisfactory I merged the other threads and reopened this to allow more discussion on the subject. (which btw at this point should be in the z8 forum section, not the cross fire section)

Signature images are something we would like to do. But currently we haven't activated that feature yet.

The mods don't have any control or some secret power of approval or something. And there is currently no 500 post count limit to allow that. Rumors like that are based off our old board system which had signature images for some of our regular users who received karma.

We will have to look at the approval system within vbulletin as well as the other functions of the boards in order to open those features up. As we've said in the past it is a feature we will look in to, but we do not have it on the boards at this time.

Karma was the good old days Saidin 82, second most for any Cross Fire play
Anyways, why not introduce the Reputation system to take on the roll of Karma?

DynextDrK

If we were allowed to have sigs would this be able to be one.

[MOD]D34d3y3

Bloodyfire. wrote: »

Karma was the good old days Saidin 82, second most for any Cross Fire play
Anyways, why not introduce the Reputation system to take on the roll of Karma?

Databases as large as outs don't take kindly to changes. I believe they were working on rep, but ran into database related problems and decided to postpone. Seriously guys, the GMs aren't some evil group of greedy *******s who hate everyone. There are roadblocks that can't be solved with a snap of the fingers. The community has done fine so far without rep or image sigs, so the GMs may as well work on the more pressing issues. Like, you know, keeping CF running.

CF_Lous

[GM]Saidin wrote: »

The blunt answer is because this is a private site not a free speech forum. Images are harder to control than text and it would be very worrisome if we opened up signature images and everyone posted **** or other offensive material.

Signature images are something we want to add, but until we can find a way to properly police them such that offensive images or other such behavior can be taken care of swiftly then this is the system we all have to deal with.

In the future we would like to implement reputation or other means of controlling a proper ranking system of players to encourage good clean intelligent discussion. And subsequently give them further privileges. But since it's already a full time job cleaning up the 4chan aspect of these boards we don't have those features left.

For now we have a 140 text (twitter size) signature that you can use to impart some personal flare to your posts. This will have to do until we put in other features.

We allow mods to have signature images because that is a privilege they get for being a mod. For being responsible member of the community, being a liaison for the public to the gm's and for helping the gm's keep the peace on the forums.

I think its very skeptical to disable forum signatures. Should just disable avatars all around. Adding little diversity to these forums, you already put image ads top left of our screens, making it very annoying and unavoidable experience. As text like yours get block by them, and accidentally clicking it to add more clicks-per-ad to your statistics.

I am pretty sure the community has the audacity to report any offensive materials in signatures. You should also grant the community with privileges of (i.e. Reporting post,signatures,avatars,spam etc) To the following MOD private message. I personally think you need to stop restricting your users. Their will never be "peace" on the forums until you restrict posting any images in the first place. As you have users posting spam images such as "troll is obvious",or some random images unrelated to topic, all the above. I am pretty sure they know the forums rule when it comes to not posting sexual images, it's not that hard to understand. At least for the game being rated T for Teen which most are, most have common-sense to understand without even looking or glancing at the forums rules.

If the only way to get signature is for a reputation functionality to be carried out, I am sure their many users already have their hand up to exploiting. Creating multiple of accounts throttling multiple of reputation points into one users. Responsibility is one factor, but being totally insecure to your whole community is another.

Trust in your community more.

DynextDrK

CF_Lous wrote: »

I think its very skeptical to disable forum signatures. Should just disable avatars all around. Adding little diversity to these forums, you already put image ads top left of our screens, making it very annoying and unavoidable experience. As text like yours get block by them, and accidentally clicking it to add more clicks-per-ad to your statistics.

I am pretty sure the community has the audacity to report any offensive materials in signatures. You should also grant the community with privileges of (i.e. Reporting post,signatures,avatars,spam etc) To the following MOD private message. I personally think you need to stop restricting your users. Their will never be "peace" on the forums until you restrict posting any images in the first place. As you have users posting, spam images such as "troll is obvious",or some random images unrelated to topic, all the above. I am pretty sure they know the forums rule when it comes to not posting sexual images, it's not that hard to understand. At least for the game being rated T for Teen which most are, most have common-sense to understand without even looking or glancing at the forums rules.

If the only way to get signature is for a reputation functionality to be carried out, I am sure their many users already have their hand up to exploiting. Creating multiple of accounts throttling multiple of reputation points into one users. Responsibility is one factor, but being totally insecure to your whole community is another.

Trust in your community more.

I don't think anyone could say it any better

omgtheycham

CF_Lous wrote: »

I think its very skeptical to disable forum signatures. Should just disable avatars all around. Adding little diversity to these forums, you already put image ads top left of our screens, making it very annoying and unavoidable experience. As text like yours get block by them, and accidentally clicking it to add more clicks-per-ad to your statistics.

I am pretty sure the community has the audacity to report any offensive materials in signatures. You should also grant the community with privileges of (i.e. Reporting post,signatures,avatars,spam etc) To the following MOD private message. I personally think you need to stop restricting your users. Their will never be "peace" on the forums until you restrict posting any images in the first place. As you have users posting spam images such as "troll is obvious",or some random images unrelated to topic, all the above. I am pretty sure they know the forums rule when it comes to not posting sexual images, it's not that hard to understand. At least for the game being rated T for Teen which most are, most have common-sense to understand without even looking or glancing at the forums rules.

If the only way to get signature is for a reputation functionality to be carried out, I am sure their many users already have their hand up to exploiting. Creating multiple of accounts throttling multiple of reputation points into one users. Responsibility is one factor, but being totally insecure to your whole community is another.

Trust in your community more.

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