Please understand this is to keep the boards clean and organized when browsing through topics. We won't be strict on these, but please try to comply as best as you can.

Signature Rules

These rules apply only to member signatures. Users who do not wish to see member signatures may disable them in their Board Settings via the User Control Panel.

The Signature Rules are only loosely enforced. Never-the-less, signatures that violate them will be replaced with a warning. Members who ignore this warning and keep violating the Signature Rules will be temporarily banned. Annoying signatures, or those that break the General Rules, may be edited or removed without warning at the sole discretion of the staff. In addition, please do not use spoiler, indent or quote tags in signatures.

Signature Stealing

Please stop the signature "stealing." There have been signatures which belong to another user, if you didn't make it or request it, it's not yours to use. Stealing another person's signature is not fair to the the person who owns it. Please, if you want your own signature make it yourself or use one of the request threads in "The Creative Side" (section to make/request avatars/signatures).

Animations

To prevent pages from loading slowly, we are NOT allowing animations in your signatures at the moment.

Size Limits

In order to keep The Forum fast for those who wish to see signatures we feel it is necessary to impose limits. Various combinations of images and text are permitted in signatures; these are summarized below:

• Text Only
  Text only signatures may have a maximum of six (6) lines of text (including blank lines), assuming the default font size or smaller. Larger font sizes means that fewer lines are allowed.
• Images Only
  Image: Maximum of 600 pixels wide x 210 pixels tall
• Image and Text
  Signatures with both text and images may have a maximum of three (3) lines of text, assuming the default font size or smaller. Larger font sizes are not permitted.
  Image: Maximum of 600 pixels wide x 170 pixels tall

If multiple images are used, then the limits apply to all images combined. (example: 3 images that are 200 pixels wide = 600 pixels wide)

Resize Your Images

If you already made an image, bring your picture into a picture editing program and just resize it to meet the requirements, making images smaller doesn't ruin the quality of the image, so it should still have the same look.

Limited Advertising Permitted

Signatures are excluded from the advertising and promoting of other websites. If you are not sure please ask a member of staff.