Political Advertising in my signature

[mike_s]

[sigpic][/sigpic] allows an external link to a picture in your signature.

[sigpic][/sigpic] also allows us to limit the width and the height of the signature picture.

hmmm... even when I use a small pic in my signature I get

The following errors occurred with your submission:

There is no current signature picture to use.​

using [sigpic]http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/images/smilies/rofl3.gif[/sigpic] for a test case. which is the smiley

 

[almitywife]

How about avatars? I had my political choice as my avatar and got called a communist yesterday in introductions and greets.

dolphins are communists


thanks to the back room for coming up with an compromise on this. i think some of the old size sig pics was bigger than some paying banners ads on SB :mooner:

now back to the forums :wave-smil:


edit: bugger, :wave-smil doesnt work anymore! off to the smilie thread!
double edit: :wave-smil: has been replaced by :wave: oh my poor head...

 

[Kim]

hmmm... even when I use a small pic in my signature I get

The following errors occurred with your submission:

There is no current signature picture to use.​

using [sigpic]http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/images/smilies/rofl3.gif[/sigpic] for a test case. which is the smiley

I think you have to go to your edit sig page, then upload the pic you want to use using the url box there, then insert it into the sig using the[sigpic][/sigpic] code. At least it worked for me with my little sumo man.

 

[Land Locked]

Works well...

If the blonde could figure it out......never mind! Jen

Kim got it right. Don't forget to click, Insert Signature Picture.

 

[almitywife]

i suppose to some of us, the above post is example why a persons politics is best kept a private matter

guys, if you wanna talk politics and swap jibes, you are free to wander on down to The Pub area

this is not the place for it



cheers

 

[drbill]

This is an international board. I do find it interesting that I can't remember seeing divers of any other nationality using politically-based images or comments in their sigfiles. Of course it could be I didn't recognize they were politicians or couldn't read the language. Hmmm.

 

[mike_s]

I think you have to go to your edit sig page, then upload the pic you want to use using the url box there, then insert it into the sig using the[sigpic][/sigpic] code. At least it worked for me with my little sumo man.

hmmm.... i had problems getting it to work earlier..

even tried your "sumo man" (from URL) and still didn't work.

chose a file on my PC though and it seems to be working


Thanks.

 

[Kim]

hmmm.... i had problems getting it to work earlier..

even tried your "sumo man" (from URL) and still didn't work.

chose a file on my PC though and it seems to be working


Thanks.

The url from the sumo man is a photobucket address. It worked fine for me.

 

[mike_s]

ahhh.....

I used the URL that shows up in it's source. When you put it in with [sigpic] it must suck it in and change it...

it shows up as http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/avatars/kim.gif?type=sigpic&dateline=1221000520


I think my earlier mistake might have been trying to use an image hosted on here and it couldn't load it.

 

[John_B]

[sigpic][/sigpic] allows an external link to a picture in your signature.

[sigpic][/sigpic] also allows us to limit the width and the height of the signature picture.

I know it wasn't intentional but a side effect of this change is that its easy to adblock all of a user's sigpics with Firefox 3 + Adblock Plus.

If you adblock just the current sigpic of an SB member whose username is username, for example:
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/avatars/username.gif?type=sigpic&dateline=1234567890

...then the next time they change their sigpic or the timer resets, a new &dateline=1234567890 number will get generated and you have to look at the new one (until you block that one, and the next, and the next...).

But if you adblock the image without the &dateline parameter (or if you replace it with an asterisk "*" ), for example:
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/avatars/username.gif?type=sigpic
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/avatars/username.gif?type=sigpic*

...then the next time they change their sigpic, you will still adblock any new image they may decide to change their sigpic to.

Even better, if they are doing something goofy with their avatar pic to get around this, you can block all of their SB hosted images by editing out anything after the question mark "?", for example:
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/avatars/username.gif
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/avatars/username.gif*

So you don't have to turn off all avatars or all signatures, just right mouse click on the image, click "Adblock Image..." and edit after everything starting at the question mark "?" after the the username.gif part then you don't get bombarded by whatever cause celebre they might be shilling.

El Orans para el presidente!!!