Why won't my signature show?

David on 6/12/2003 at 22:45

I believe you are currently locked out from your profile for adding your long signature back to your profile for the second or third time after you said you wouldn't.

We are altering our forum regulations page to say "150 characters or three lines, which ever is less." as three lines is subject to users' resolutions.
I hope this clears things up.

deadman on 6/12/2003 at 23:02

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Originally posted by David
I believe you are currently locked out from your profile for adding your long signature back to your profile for the second or third time after you said you wouldn't.

Again, I was under no impression my "long signature" was not in line with regulation; would it make any sense for someone to seemingly call upon them retribution if they knew they were doing something 'illegal'? My point is I received two different signals by two different mods, and although I am in no way asking for an apology (I wouldn't have the gall for that, even if I were to be deserving), I am simply pointing this out and asking that this more patience be given to members who feel they have been receiving "mixed messages" (no pun intended).

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We are altering our forum regulations page to say "150 characters or three lines, which ever is less." as three lines is subject to users' resolutions.
I hope this clears things up.

I 'feared' as much; at least now I know for sure whether a sig will be too long. This was the point I was going to bring up with GBM; that, as far as I could see in my own resolution, my sig was three lines and no more. There are too many variables such as font family and size, as well as browser (I'm sure some don't allow as much 'real-estate' space as others), and as a result, the 3 line bit ends up being too vague.

Since we have all now come to an understanding and you hopefully believe me when I say I didn't post an illegal sig intentionally, can my profile be opened again? If I'm not careful enough to keep mine to 150 characters, I deserve to be locked out :laff:.

deadman.

deadman on 14/12/2003 at 02:15

So have mods heard my cry for help or are you just ignoring my request? ;). Honestly, I received a PM telling me my Chomsky sig was fine, and then only later the angry PM from Gingerbread Man asking me what I didn't understand about the 150 character limit. I don't seem to have the PM anymore or I would post it here for 'proof' (I think I may have been click-happy with my inbox clearing and didn't realize the significance of it). But seriously, you can't expect to send two contradictory messages and for me to not piss off the messenger of one of them unknowingly. A response answering my question (namely, "Can I have access to edit my profile again, now that all parties involved are clear on the guidelines and, as such, misunderstandings will no longer occur on this matter?") would be most helpful, or else I'll have to resort to using an in-post sig to the effect of:

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"Famous last words." -Some dead guy

:laff:

I reiterate my previous statement: I would gain nothing other than a sorely needed IP ban if I were lying all along and only abused this privilege once more (if a mod were to re-allow access). And I'm just too addicted to TTLG on a whole to make a move that foolish.

Cheers,

deadman.

David on 14/12/2003 at 08:04

The messages were not contradictory. You were told you could have one of the two quotes but not both. It appears that you added the second quote again, on more than one occasion.
I will enable your profile again, but please keep within the guidelines of 150 characters or 3 lines, whichever is shorter.
There is no conspiracy to keep you from your signature, nor do we wish to annoy you by doing so and no-one is accusing you of lying, although I do believe you have mis-understood the messages.

deadman on 14/12/2003 at 17:27

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Originally posted by David
The messages were not contradictory. You were told you could have one of the two quotes but not both. It appears that you added the second quote again, on more than one occasion.

I don't understand this. Do you mean to say I attempted to add both quotes to the same sig? I do not remember this; nor do I remember having two separate quotes and one being approved while the other wasn't.

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I will enable your profile again, but please keep within the guidelines of 150 characters or 3 lines, whichever is shorter.
There is no conspiracy to keep you from your signature, nor do we wish to annoy you by doing so and no-one is accusing you of lying, although I do believe you have mis-understood the messages.

I clearly do remember messages from you or someone else. I was having problems with my sig showing up (at this time I had absolutely no explanation, to memory, of why it was removed), and I said as much. I tried adding it a few times, and whoever it was, kindly enabled my profile access each time the sig was removed. Then, if I recall, I asked the mod if my sig wasn't alright because it was 3-lines in my resolution. I received an "ok", and all was well.. for a while. Then, GBM PM'ed me with a "What don't you understand??" message. This confused me. Are there, by chance, back-ups of all PMs sent on the network? Of course, if it were a trouble to find that deleted PM, I wouldn't ask, but I would like to understand once and for all.

Regardless that there have been misunderstandings (or as I felt, mixed messages) in the past, I know the rules now (namely "150 characters or 3 lines, whichever comes first", where before mine was 3 lines and I didn't remember being told it had to be under 150 characters) and am sorry this misunderstanding on anyone's part had to occur in any event.

deadman.

Mortal Monkey on 26/1/2004 at 15:27

And now it wants my sig to be two lines or less? How the heck am I supposed to write letters only two units high that are still readable?

David on 26/1/2004 at 15:37

The <a href="http://www.ttlg.com/forums/regs.htm">forum guidelines</a> state that your signature should be 3 lines or less. Up until the weekend the forum software had set to allow three linebreaks which meant it allowed four lines instead of three. This was remedied, but it appears to be playing up, I'll have a look at it later.

Mortal Monkey on 26/1/2004 at 18:07

Ok, thanks.

David on 26/1/2004 at 18:22

There we go, fixed.