This has been bothering me for a while, but I thought I might actually say something.
It's not really fair that we're limited to what 4 lines of small text quotes or something, or whatever arbitrary line/character limit and then other people can just post GIANT 20 megabyte GIFs in their signature that literally take up over half my screen (I'm @ 1600x900 most of the time).
It's also more painfully annoying as I know that not all of us have great internet or might be looking through a dataplan (as evil as they are). For example at my house I get a quarter of a megabit down typically, as of the last 6 months (it literally takes me an hour to download 100 mb). I'd doubt most slow internet users have it that bad but also some have it worse.
GIFs are even worse as they are animated and lag the loading time unless they are cached or whatever. Also giant signatures just look ugly.
Anyways consider this a PSA of sorts. I won't call anyone out as you all know who you are. It looks ugly and chokes people up on bad internet who don't have any other choices. It's also a little confusing to scan the screen and figure out when a new post begins when a huge signature is many times bigger than the post itself.
If we have limits for characters and lines, we should have limits for image sizes. It kind of defeats the anti-spam intent anyways.
It's not really fair that we're limited to what 4 lines of small text quotes or something, or whatever arbitrary line/character limit and then other people can just post GIANT 20 megabyte GIFs in their signature that literally take up over half my screen (I'm @ 1600x900 most of the time).
It's also more painfully annoying as I know that not all of us have great internet or might be looking through a dataplan (as evil as they are). For example at my house I get a quarter of a megabit down typically, as of the last 6 months (it literally takes me an hour to download 100 mb). I'd doubt most slow internet users have it that bad but also some have it worse.
GIFs are even worse as they are animated and lag the loading time unless they are cached or whatever. Also giant signatures just look ugly.
Anyways consider this a PSA of sorts. I won't call anyone out as you all know who you are. It looks ugly and chokes people up on bad internet who don't have any other choices. It's also a little confusing to scan the screen and figure out when a new post begins when a huge signature is many times bigger than the post itself.
If we have limits for characters and lines, we should have limits for image sizes. It kind of defeats the anti-spam intent anyways.