"some limits on graphics in signatures"

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Not if you want to use a 1024x768 BMP screenshot of SEV

[Sivran]

Your sig is far too big, CW

[Azselendor]

My own signature is only 18.3 K and it's .PNG formatted (my apologies to IE6 or less users, but upgrade to IE7 or FireFox to enjoy it's transparency goodness)

[Devnullicus]

CW's sig is 41k. Azselendor's is 18k. Most of the avatar pics on here are 2-5k. I will agree that 41k is a bit large for a sig graphics. 10-20k seems reasonable to me.

Of course, it would also be best if users had the option to not show sig graphics.

That seems like it would be a bit difficult to implement though if you want to allow other graphics in the message. Sigs are part of the message itself, unlike the avatar, so if you have the option to not allow sig graphics, you'd have to not allow ANY graphics in the messages.

Changing the forum so that sigs are a separate part of a message seems like it would be a fairly large adjustment to the code architecture.

So, 500k is a reasonable limit because it also affects graphics in the messages themselves.

[Fyron]

Well, the sig is not actually part of the message data; it is pulled from the profile every time the post is loaded. You can witness this by editing your signature, then reviewing old posts. Any image filtering would be done in this step, separate from the post body.