Longer signatures?

[StarSapphire22]

I see some people with like 8 line signatures. I tried making one that was 4 lines and it said I was over the character limit and had 1 too many lines. What's going on?

Here's what I tried to put:

Jessica
0.0.1 Eastern Hermanns (Littlefoot)
0.0.5 Eastern Box Turtles (Pippin, Luna, Sprout, Willow, and Echo) --coming soon!
1.2.0 Cats (Stormageddon, Lola, and Hippo)



I just wanna brag about my new babies coming in, lol. Can I not do this?

 

[StarSapphire22]

For instance:

Cowboy Ken
Hills East of Silverton, Oregon
Circle Double K Tortoise and Cat Ranch
6 Sulcatas
11 Russians
3 Pancakes
7 Cats Still
1 Syko Dog
1 Wonderful Wife
A Huge Pile of Fish

 

[wellington]

You should be able too. I always had trouble under the old forum format. I don't know why some can and some can't. Let's see what @Josh can tell us

 

[StarSapphire22]

Maybe Josh needs to grant me magical TFO powers.

 

[Yvonne G]

No, when we switched over to the new format, new parameters were put into play. Those examples you quoted were put into effect under the old system.

 

[StarSapphire22]

Oh, so they were grandfathered in?

But, but...but..

 

[Yvonne G]

I know, I know...not fair, huh? This new format won't allow me to have my cute little tortoise in my signature either, so now I have to copy/paste it into every post I type.

I suppose you could do that with your longer signature too. I have my little tortoises in a WORD document that I keep open all the time. Then when I've typed up my post I go to the WORD document and 'copy' the code for the graphic and come back here and 'paste' it.

 

[StarSapphire22]

I was wondering how your little tort changed all the time! LOL

I mostly access on my phone unless I'm at work, so that wouldn't really work for me.

 

[StarSapphire22]

Well, shoot. *grumblegrumblegrumble*

@Josh, can we bring back longer sigs? Or would that make the site go kablooie?

 

[jaizei]

I don't understand the point. I think it's kinda ridiculous when signatures are 5x longer than peoples' posts. Hence, why I keep signatures turned off most of the time.

Wouldn't all the extraneous information be better placed on the profile page?

 

[StarSapphire22]

I don't think adding one extra line is too much more to add...I think anything longer than 5 or 6 lines is probably too much, but I like signatures over profile pages, because I rarely view profile pages. Plus sometimes it's nice to see at a glance in a thread what exactly a member has, etc. (if they do the numbers).