No more spoilers in signatures.

Status
Not open for further replies.
Maybe it's because of that spoiler in a spoiler in a spoiler in a spoiler thing. That can be annoying. But besides that, they really aren't that bad.
 
PatrickJameson said:
We implemented a 2 line signature rule a while ago because people would make signatures that were obnoxiously long, filled with every PB ever and a bunch of pictures. This took away from the actual content. Using spoilers in signatures is similar to this. It makes signatures larger and more noticeable and takes away from the actual content of the threads.

For the dictatorship thing: we run it like a dictatorship as opposed to a "have everyone vote on everything" kind of thing to, as well as other reasons, avoid ignorance. People often jump to conclusions without thinking about what they're actually deciding.

Also, the banning is probably a bit strict. I'll probably just change people's sigs after the 7 days if I see any. Dan should do the same.
Click to expand...

Again, not that the actual rule matters to me at all, but why does it matter if someone puts more information in a spoiler? Maybe it is important for someone to have their PB's in their sig and they want to use the spoiler tag to clean it up. I don't see how thats harmful to the quality of the forum. And not to sound blunt, but it seems as simple as not clicking on the spoiler tag...

And I agree with your point about most people being too wrapped up in their ignorance to have the whole forum function as a democracy well, but an issue as simple as this seems pretty straightforward. If it is really bothersome and detracting from the community people wont want to keep it, if it is one Admin being picky and deciding to swing his power around as he usually does, its a whole different ballgame.
 
For those who are complaining that this is a dictatorship issue, you should know that the speedcubing community itself is not based on democracy. I mean, look at the Haiyan ban. It's unfortunate but as far as expedience goes, dictatorship is the way to go for the cubing community. Sure we have input into regulations but it's ultimately left up to the "WCA", whoever that entails. If you don't like this, either start a Rubik's Revolution, get out, or put up with it.
 
Is it not possible to make it so that spoiler tags just don't work in sigs? I know that this is probably effort, but it could help to prevent misunderstandings with users who have missed this thread/are away at present/are new to the forum (etc.).
 
jiggy said:
Is it not possible to make it so that spoiler tags just don't work in sigs?
Click to expand...
totally agreed.

Personally, I don't have a problem with spoilers in sigs, but it's true that there's no need to have them. I mean, I don't know why would I use this thing in my sig at all...

But on the other hand, Dan, you should've given us some kind of reason besides "I've got enough" cause now it looks like "I'm da man here and if I don't like anything I delete it and ban the person who wrote it". It's not so nice isn't it?
 
fazrulz said:
I just had to :p
svkkec.jpg
Click to expand...

completely logical explanation

but why not? spoilers can be fun, or really... really... retarded
 
Kian said:
If people don't want to read spoilers they don't have to click on it. How is this an issue?
Click to expand...
Agreed. And I know what my sig is going to be now, I'll change it later lol...
And Faz that is insanely funny lol
 
Last edited:
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top