Talk: Sign your comments

Flow

There's a discussion on my talk page that made me think of a few things. For one, the "interrobang" (as it's supposedly called) does not seem to interrupt the flow of the discussion. For another, even if it did, it would only do so if lines were separated with <br> tags instead of new paragraphs (as I demonstrated on that portion of my talk page). Thirdly, I think the same applies to sup and sub tags. I can see how in general the big tag could be a problem (maybe...), but I think we should allow sup and sub tags, and big tags around characters usually smaller than normal text. -- Armond Warblade{{sysop}} 23:56, 19 May 2007 (CEST)

Agree. Could be changed to something like "Markup such as <big>, <sup>, and <sub> tags (which produce big, ^sup, and _sub text), may be used only if they don't disrupt the normal spacing between rows of text."

Btw: I don't really get why a policy called PvXwiki:Sign your comments leaves signing comments optional. Why not ask people to sign always? --Hhhippo 22:56, 1 June 2007 (CEST)

I'll add note. Readem (talk*pvxcontribs) 23:37, 1 June 2007 (CEST)

Idk if Readem is editing right now as I type, but his last edit left "Your IP address might look something like this: 192.0.2.58. Some users " at the very bottom. Not sure if "Some users" was supposed to come off, or if he has something planned for completing the sentence, just thought I'd bring it up. ‽-(єronħ) no u 00:03, 2 June 2007 (CEST)

He deleted a huge part of the page, I guess by accident. Let's wait a bit and then revert. --Hhhippo 00:05, 2 June 2007 (CEST)

Large page bug. It happens. -- Armond Warblade{{sysop}} 02:31, 2 June 2007 (CEST)

Yeah my bad, didn't notice I deleted it even O.o... Readem (talk*pvxcontribs) 02:33, 2 June 2007 (CEST)

Well, with that bug, you don't. The browser does it for you. -- Armond Warblade{{sysop}} 02:36, 2 June 2007 (CEST)

Is it known which browsers do it and in which situations? We could put a warning on some help page. I know the wiki warns you when editing long pages, but after seeing that a few times without anything happening you tend to ignore it. --Hhhippo 13:15, 2 June 2007 (CEST)

Are we gonna change

• Markup such as <big>, <sup>, and <sub> tags (which produce big, ^sup, and _sub text), are not allowed, as they disrupt the normal spacing between rows of text.

to

• Markup such as <big>, <sup>, and <sub> tags (which produce big, ^sup, and _sub text), are not allowed, unless they don't disrupt the normal spacing between rows of text.

(or something similar and betterly worded (yes, betterly)) ‽-(єronħ) no u 07:12, 2 June 2007 (CEST)

Don't change it. We will encounter far too many problems in the future if we do. Readem (talk*pvxcontribs) 07:15, 2 June 2007 (CEST)

Awww. Guess that sig of mine was just too good to be true... ah well, there's more important things in life, such as that acorn over there. (goes to check it out) ‽-(єronħ) no u 07:18, 2 June 2007 (CEST)

>.>...sweet an acorn :)! Readem (talk*pvxcontribs) 07:23, 2 June 2007 (CEST)

I still vote for changing. A violation is detected only if the flow is broken anyway, so why not loosen the restrictions such that only detectable problems are illegal. I wonder what would have happened if Eronth just overlooked that rule and used his big interrobang without breaking the flow. I bet that nobody would have noticed it. --Hhhippo 13:23, 2 June 2007 (CEST)

There will probably be quite a few people who don't know what flow is and how to check for it. ‽-(єronħ) no u 17:15, 3 June 2007 (CEST)

Teach them. Learning > all. (Except perhaps cookies.) -- Armond Warblade{{sysop}} 05:25, 4 June 2007 (CEST)

Really, you gotta be kidding me? Teach people, and then them learning :O. Blasphemy. It will never work. Readem (talk*pvxcontribs) 05:27, 4 June 2007 (CEST)

Meh, it's not like people look at this much anyways. Might as well allow it unless it breaks stuff. ‽-(єronħ) no u 06:11, 4 June 2007 (CEST)

Well... by the time most people make there own signatures, most are at least somewhat familiar with the wiki, and, if you consider how many total people both to make a Sig, combined with the fact that only a small portion of THOSE people would then try to use these tags, it wouldn't be terribly hard to educate/inform the small number that do. *Defiant Elements* +talk 06:14, 4 June 2007 (CEST)

Good point, though I have seen it around a lot, most of the sigs that have it don't break flow either. ‽-(єronħ) no u 06:20, 4 June 2007 (CEST)

Actually, I meant put something about it on the project page. >.> -- Armond Warblade{{sysop}} 05:09, 5 June 2007 (CEST)

To teach people? I don't know if that would teach more people than this would...or am I missing something? Also, how many people do we need to support the change in order for it to happen. ‽-(єronħ) no u 06:17, 5 June 2007 (CEST)

Simply put on the main page "This is flow. This is how you check with it." etc. etc. -- Armond Warblade{{sysop}} 15:52, 5 June 2007 (CEST)

Does that mean I can use ‽-(єronħ) ^{no u} now? ‽-(єronħ) no u 21:35, 5 June 2007 (CEST)

It doesn't disrupt, but it's too many lines of coding. Readem (talk*pvxcontribs) 21:42, 5 June 2007 (CEST)

It's only 2 lines of coding, I thought 2 lines was legal... ‽-(єronħ) no u 02:59, 6 June 2007 (CEST)

Nvm. Jst realized something lol. Readem (talk*pvxcontribs) 07:23, 6 June 2007 (CEST)

How do i customise my sig?Twin Phoenix Blades 22:13, 13 October 2007 (CEST)

Moving images are disallowed for a reason

Looking at PvXwiki:Requests for Build Master Status/Armond, I fear we are a few quick steps away from absolute trash like this (his signatures are at the top of his userpage; also note his abuse of the new messages color/style). Grinsh started it with his pie sig (which technically violates PvX:SIGN), and I really didn't want to ding him on it; but seeing as others are already copying him, putting my foot down now is most likely not too soon. Comments/thoughts? -Auron 08:15, 17 January 2008 (EST)

Agree. This is not myspace. Signatures can be customized so people are easily recognized, but if somebody wants to spread eye-cancer, please do so somewhere else. – HHHIPPO ‹sysop› 10:10, 17 January 2008 (EST)

Changed it:< --Tab Moo 11:33, 17 January 2008 (EST)

Template

Are signature templates allowed? For example {{User:Dont/Sig|~~~~~}} so there won't be three rows of formatting and can be changed easily. I heard something about caching so I'm not sure. ~ ĐONT*TALK 08:12, 15 March 2008 (EDT)

"Do not use transclusion, templates or parser functions in signatures." Basically, if you or anyone else ever changes that template, the server has to go back and change the content of every single page you've ever signed to match the new template. It can get ugly. ¬ Wizårdbõÿ777(sysop) 12:39, 15 March 2008 (EDT)

I see. Thanks. ~ ĐONT*TALK 14:15, 15 March 2008 (EDT)

You could take a screen of what you want it to look like and use that image instead. ¬ Wizårdbõÿ777(sysop) 16:21, 15 March 2008 (EDT)