Keeping The Board Working Smoothly

[Bender]

Nice post, Somebody1234. B)
I think everybody can understand this is important for the proper functioning of the board.

[ilw]

yeah there are built in avatars, not many people use them tho, so maybe it would be a waste of time to remove them.

[TRshady]

Nice post somebody, I agree completely. Guess I'm doing my part eh?

I would like to ask either mods (if they know) or the admins please, (without starting a whole new topic) what company provide the ads and pay?
And how much do you earn a month from it?

If you dont want to say, thats fine.

[NeoTheOne]

Originally posted by 3rd gen noob@29 July 2003 - 20:49
i couldn't agree more

nice post

listen up neotheone...

yeah ill fix my sig

[stonecold1203]

There is a hack that says Only show each user's sig per page.

That might help. Although this site isn't hosting the sigs so its not a big deal.

But its something :-)

[Somebody1234]

Originally posted by neotheone+31 July 2003 - 13:21--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (neotheone &#064; 31 July 2003 - 13:21)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin-3rd gen noob@29 July 2003 - 20:49
i couldn&#39;t agree more

nice post

listen up neotheone...

yeah ill fix my sig[/b][/quote]

The last group knows about the rule, can&#39;t care less and won&#39;t comply; often posting pictures and animation many times over combined limits and continue to do so even after being asked to change it.

See what I mean? neotheone is still over 290 KB in total.

How long can it take to remove 2 links to images in his controls?
Hours? Days? or more? if ever. (we don&#39;t know yet)


Quoted directly from the &#39;Avatar/Signature Size&#39; rules:

Signatures and Avatars that do not comply may be removed or edited by a moderator or administator.

Let&#39;s go mods... Do you job. :beerchug:

[smellycat]

Originally posted by Livy@30 July 2003 - 12:06
bandwidth usage by sigs and avatars dont affect the server as they are not on the server, the person computer veiwing them does the query for the images not the server.

Absolutely agree.

Images/Signatures only become an issue when they are excessive in dimension
or excessive in bitsize because it will affect those

1 ) with small screen resolution. eg. 800 x 600 resolution.
2 ) have slow d/l speeds.

moderate sized images add charm/ character to a board.

[the_faceman]

i agree that sigs and avatars should comply with the rules, but it&#39;s worth emphasising the fact pointed out earlier that the only strain it causes is on each members bandwith as they load each page, it doesn&#39;t affect the server since the images are not stored there.

but as i said, rules should be followed, i hate huge sigs, they are annoying and not aesthetically pleasing, and although they all pretty much load instantly for me on cable, i&#39;d rather not contribute to my bandwith usage with sigs and avatars when it can be used for much better purposes.

[Somebody1234]

This thread was not meant as a place to debate whether or not the sigs and avatars are the cause of the problems with the board or the server.

It was meant as a place where we could discuss about the fact that many members are delinquent when it concerns this rule. And we need to find a better strategy in order to deal with them.

Lets all try to do our part to keep this board running. Please fix your sigs and avatars and/or allow the moderator team to enforce the set rules without argument.

[chalkmongoose]

Why not add these few lines when the user updates his avatar/sig?

I stole this from iezzi.ch

<?php
&#036;u = &#036;AvatarToUpdate

&#036;ourhead = "";
&#036;url=parse_url(&#036;u);
&#036;host=&#036;url["host"];
&#036;path=&#036;url["path"];

&#036;fp = fsockopen(&#036;host, 80, &&#036;errno, &&#036;errstr, 20);
if(&#33;&#036;fp) {
echo("error");
exit ();
} else {
fputs(&#036;fp,"HEAD &#036;u HTTP/1.1&#092;r&#092;n");
fputs(&#036;fp,"HOST: dummy&#092;r&#092;n");
fputs(&#036;fp,"Connection: close&#092;r&#092;n&#092;r&#092;n");

while (&#33;feof(&#036;fp)) {
&#036;ourhead = sprintf("%s%s", &#036;ourhead, fgets (&#036;fp,128));
}
}
fclose (&#036;fp);

&#036;split_head = explode("Content-Length: ",&#036;ourhead);
&#036;size = round(abs(&#036;split_head[1])/1024);
print &#036;size;
?>

That works quite nicely. Just rinse and repeat for the signature. It&#39;s simple to check for size limits with this.
Also, checking for the size of both images and text combined isn&#39;t much more complicated.