Forum:CT Archive/Restrictions on custom user signatures

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This topic concerns establishing restrictions on user custom sigs – should they be established, and if so, what? RMF 14:27, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Discussion
As I mentioned here and here, I think we should establish some basic restrictions on custom user signatures. If you read the first link you see the basic rationale as to why we should restrict them: There are various restrictions we could set in place – we could ban images, we could restrict sigs to a certain number of colors/links, we could restrict the use of variables (or require them to be subst'ed), etc. Thoughts? RMF 14:27, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Unnecessary use of server resources (and therefore slowdown)
 * Clouding of page source (for example take a look at – very distracting, in my opinion)
 * in most browsers, images do not scale with the text, making lines with images higher than those without