An idea to help our wee community ?

[~ ~ Cal ~~]

Folks,

How many times have you gone to a meet and got talking to someone you had never met before only to ask them their name and realise that you have chatted before via this forum ?

This happened to me at KH when I had met RS Grant  but could not recall his name

So my idea is similiar to the people pics thread....

Use the piccy from the people pics thread and paste the link into your SIDC signature

Use this code ( insering your own link obviously) & simply paste it in :-

[urlequalsignhttp://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v242/cgs...rent=coupon.jpg]Link to Cal's Coupon

* where I have put equalsign insert "="

it will look like this :-

  Link to Benny's Coupon

  and keep your signature neat

access your signature via the "control panel" link at the bottom right hand side of this page

It then means you dont have to sift through the dross in the people pics thread if you wanna know what someone looks like

Meets for newbies will be 10 times easier as they feel they may know some individuals in advance and will be able to approach them.....The alternative is to all walk about Knockhill etc with those SIDC passes on and feel like a bit of a dobber

Just an idea - I don't have a clue what 80% of the people in here look like [:$]

Cheers

Cal

LINK TO PEOPLE PICS THREAD

LINK TO PHOTOBUCKET FOR UPLOADING YOUR PICCY

You can edit your pics in Microsoft Paintbrush, MS Photo Editor, MS Picture It ! or any other Graphics Suite

 

[RA Dunk]

sounds ok to me, but im sure the anti-siganture group will show up and

do the usual complaining it slows the site down, it looks rubbish, it

wastes bandwidth, i dont like his dish,  blah blah, you know wot i mean

lol[]

[nkwrx]

is that really complicated or have I just had an exotic ciggy and too much wine?[8-)]

[~ ~ Cal ~~]

It's not complicated by any means ..........just explaining how to do it in full incase anyone isn't too hot on their PC

If the powers that be object to us doing this then it's a sad day considering we pay money for membership

One line of text will not kill any servers

Cheers

CGS

 

[micra_wrc]

good idea Cal but not sure if everyone wants their pic linked to the forum [*-)]

Dunc, if its a clicky link in your signature then I guess its ok -

we're not putting actual pictures in the signature, just a link to one

[nkwrx]

just explaining how to do it in full incase anyone isn't too hot on their PC.........

 

Definately me Cal, wine or otherwise

[~ ~ Cal ~~]

good idea Cal but not sure if everyone wants their pic linked to the forum [*-)]

Dunc, if its a clicky link in your signature then I guess its ok - we're not putting actual pictures in the signature, just a link to one

I did wonder about that but a lot of people have put their coupons on that thread already ?

We'll see what happens [*-)]

CGS

 

[micra_wrc]

btw, you're a handsome b*gger in that pic in ur sig [] [Y]

[RA Dunk]

btw, you're a handsome b*gger in that pic in ur sig [] [Y]

i know cheers imy [H]

[jcscoob]

btw, you're a handsome b*gger in that pic in ur sig [] [Y]

i know cheers imy [H]

PMSL [y][]

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Nice piky of Benny/CraigMac [:'(][][]

 

(BTW- I coped and pasted that pik) []

 

O yeah, great idea Cal [h]

[RA Dunk]

btw, you're a handsome b*gger in that pic in ur sig [] [Y]

i know cheers imy [H]

PMSL [y][]

[][]

[wrxmania]

Good idea Cal - I'll find a piccy tomorrow.

The signature/picture removal etc is in the guidelines for two reasons - one is the bandwidtgh useage (which is not huge) - the other is the HUGELY annoying point that EVERY reply with a photo in the signature makes the page AGES longer to scroll through - forums with pictures in the signatures get a bit ridiculous after a while with HUGE signature photo's displaying life stories.  Why people rant on about it sometimes as a big deal is beyond me - it's a web forum, we enjoy using it and the guidelines are there for everyone to see.  Ranting at the SIDC/moderators/forums/world (delete as appropriate) is a waste of energy and life chances - it does nothing for anyone's day.

Brian []

[colin_ross]

I'm with Brian.

I'd rather not have pics in the sigs but a clicky link to one would be fine.

[~ ~ Cal ~~]

Positive responses so far.........

Just want to emphasise ( incase someone skim reads the thread) that I am only talking about links to a picture

In fact, I have had another brainwave......

I have now edited my original thread to include coupon and car in my piccy

Cheers

Cal

 

p.s

Posted this in General Section to gauge opinion

http://forums.sidc.co.uk/forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=861661

 

[~ ~ Cal ~~]

Good idea Cal - I'll find a piccy tomorrow.

The signature/picture removal etc is in the guidelines for two reasons - one is the bandwidtgh useage (which is not huge) - the other is the HUGELY annoying point that EVERY reply with a photo in the signature makes the page AGES longer to scroll through - forums with pictures in the signatures get a bit ridiculous after a while with HUGE signature photo's displaying life stories.  Why people rant on about it sometimes as a big deal is beyond me - it's a web forum, we enjoy using it and the guidelines are there for everyone to see.  Ranting at the SIDC/moderators/forums/world (delete as appropriate) is a waste of energy and life chances - it does nothing for anyone's day.

Brian []

An example of Brian is talking about can be found HERE. Go half way down the page - some of their sig pics are huge !

This is what we do not want --- only links !

CGS

[wrxmania]

Good example Cal - in most cases the signature is about 10 times the physical size of the post.  Let's keep the posts easy to read. []

[~ ~ Cal ~~]

Folks,

How many times have you gone to a meet and got talking to someone you had never met before only to ask them their name and realise that you have chatted before via this forum ?

This happened to me at KH when I had met RS Grant  but could not recall his name

So my idea is similiar to the people pics thread....

Use the piccy from the people pics thread and paste the link into your SIDC signature

Use this code ( insering your own link obviously) & simply paste it in :-

[urlequalsignhttp://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v242/cgs...rent=coupon.jpg]Link to Cal's Coupon

* where I have put equalsign insert "="

it will look like this :-

  Link to Benny's Coupon

  and keep your signature neat

access your signature via the "control panel" link at the bottom right hand side of this page

It then means you dont have to sift through the dross in the people pics thread if you wanna know what someone looks like

Meets for newbies will be 10 times easier as they feel they may know some individuals in advance and will be able to approach them.....The alternative is to all walk about Knockhill etc with those SIDC passes on and feel like a bit of a dobber

Just an idea - I don't have a clue what 80% of the people in here look like [:$]

Cheers

Cal

LINK TO PEOPLE PICS THREAD

LINK TO PHOTOBUCKET FOR UPLOADING YOUR PICCY

You can edit your pics in Microsoft Paintbrush, MS Photo Editor, MS Picture It ! or any other Graphics Suite

 

 

I have papped this back to the front because people keep going on meets and not knowing who's faces are who's

Does no-one think this is worth doing ? See my sig for an example ......  If everyone did this then you would have a MUCH better chance of a) knowing more people and building a stronger community.

Cal

[scoobyiain]

Have just tried this cal but does not work for me? Is it the url link or image code you copy?

[xraydave]

Cal,

As a newbie I think this is a great idea.  Got it sorted out, but did take a bit of doing!! but worth it I think.

Cheers Dave

[~ ~ Cal ~~]

Have just tried this cal but does not work for me? Is it the url link or image code you copy?

Yeah it's the URL link []

Nice one Dave !

 CGS