Kuky Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 (edited) Something is wrong with signatures as it keeps saying to me I'm exceeding 1000 characters limit and my signature is not anywhere near this 1000 character limit? So I try how many characters is actually limit and edit my signatured to have 500 numbers and I'm right.... it gives the same error characters limit 1000 I can't even put 300 characters Can you fix this please? Edited October 25, 2012 by Kuky No longer active in DCS... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuky Posted October 26, 2012 Author Share Posted October 26, 2012 (edited) I can see you've changed the warning to show limit to 500 characters and thanks for that... but still not quite correct as I can put 491 characters only ;) (I've counted them :D) Edited October 26, 2012 by Kuky 1 No longer active in DCS... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilman Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I can see you've changed the warning to show limit to 500 characters and thanks for that... but still not quite correct as I can put 491 characters only ;) (I've counted them :D) why dont you make a image kuky then you can write whatever you need to write as long as its 500 x 100 pix and less than 100kb just a thaught.. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Join Maddog Simulations DCS World Club & Squadrons for every module Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtherealN Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I can see you've changed the warning to show limit to 500 characters and thanks for that... but still not quite correct as I can put 491 characters only ;) (I've counted them :D) I counted them too. Your current signature has 506 characters in it. ;) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobek Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Also Kuky, i'm not sure whether you are inside the 120px height limit with that. Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuky Posted October 27, 2012 Author Share Posted October 27, 2012 (edited) I counted them too. Your current signature has 506 characters in it. ;) no its not, count again. I made it easy with numbers in sets of 10, 50 per line... last line if full would add to 500 but it's 9 digits short :smilewink: EDIT: UNLESS these __________________ lines on top of signature are counted also? Which if they were should not be counted as they are there regardless what I put in signature... site/forum admin should increase number of characters to include these lines so if there are 10 characters of lines, add that to 500 and make it 510 to give users TRUE 500 character limit for THEIR OWN stuff Edited October 27, 2012 by Kuky No longer active in DCS... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuky Posted October 27, 2012 Author Share Posted October 27, 2012 Also Kuky, i'm not sure whether you are inside the 120px height limit with that. that should apply to text also? But still that can't be it either as what I have now (491 numbers) works, but if I add 1 more it doesn't, so same height with 491 works but with 492 it doesn't, so its not quite stated 500 characters. No longer active in DCS... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilman Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 are line returns counted as a character ? 10 lines, 9 returns (last line has no return) 491 + 9 returns = 500 ? no ? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Join Maddog Simulations DCS World Club & Squadrons for every module Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuky Posted October 27, 2012 Author Share Posted October 27, 2012 are line returns counted as a character ? 10 lines, 9 returns (last line has no return) 491 + 9 returns = 500 ? no ? LOL! You're right hitting ENTER for new line IS counted, that's stupid :music_whistling: At least finally the secret of missing characters limit is out :D and I need to edit my sig again No longer active in DCS... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtherealN Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 no its not, count again. Here is the contents of your profile, copied straight out of your profile except with a count of characters at the start of each row, also changed [ and ] into ( and ) in order to make it show correctly below: 58: (SIZE=1)01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 50: 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 50: 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 50: 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 50: 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 50: 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 50: 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 50: 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 50: 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 48: 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890(/SIZE) 58+48+8*50=506 Also, newline is a character. Information stored is information stored, and "new line here" IS information. Not stupid, just how computers work. ;) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuky Posted October 27, 2012 Author Share Posted October 27, 2012 (edited) Erm... but why does count towards sig character limit? So even font formating counts towards this limit? Isn't that bit stupid? What's the difference if I type in size 1 or 2 if I want to type something? Also error message states: Your signature cannot be longer than 500 characters excluding BB code markup. Doesn't this mean font type/size colour/etc should not be included in the character limit? Edited October 27, 2012 by Kuky No longer active in DCS... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtherealN Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Ah, right, I thought this was the systematic limit, but this appears to be the content limit. Different things and they act differently. Sorry. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobek Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 that should apply to text also? Yes of course, the point is to keep the forum readable, so the average post doesn't contain one line of text and a full page of signature, get it? :) Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuky Posted October 27, 2012 Author Share Posted October 27, 2012 Sobek, I get the intention of limiting the signatures but when it says it allows for 500 characters then it shouldn't matter if I make text formating for those characters in different colour, size, etc... it's should still allow 500 characters for me to type, and one more time: Your signature cannot be longer than 500 characters excluding BB code markup. No longer active in DCS... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobek Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 My point is, why do you want you sig to contain 500 characters when it's not practical to arrange them in a way that does not violate forum rule 2.3? Btw. empty lines aren't allowed either... Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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