I know we went down this path once.
You should let people add a signature. You can do like some sites that don't allow pictures, or even limit the signature to 3 lines of type with links.
I recall in the past that it was about not wanting people to crap up the page with big animating banners and shit.
Just another unsolicited suggestion.
It's a small thing you can do to help make the forum a little more sticky.
That is all.
Signatures
Moderators: Jake, D. Phillips
Re: Signatures
For me, it's about the signal-to-noise ratio. As for stickiness, since most sigs seem to be links to other sites, I'm not sure how allowing them would make the boards stickier...Chris G wrote:I know we went down this path once.
You should let people add a signature. You can do like some sites that don't allow pictures, or even limit the signature to 3 lines of type with links.
I recall in the past that it was about not wanting people to crap up the page with big animating banners and shit.
Just another unsolicited suggestion.
It's a small thing you can do to help make the forum a little more sticky.
That is all.
But I'm open to it if people want it. As long as I can figure out how to allow users to choose not to see them...