Why Does Text In Spoiler Tags Count Against The Signature Line Limit?

[RadiatingLight]

Simple Question.

I want to restructure my signature, but it's already at 29 lines. How is it this long? because my laptop specs, which are in a spoiler tag (since nobody really cares) counts against my 30 line limit.

I don't know if this is intentional, but I'd like to think that one of the reasons people put a spoiler tag in their signatures is to hide info that very little people want to see, so if it doesn't bother people, why make it count against the line cap?

 

Maybe to discourage extremely long signatures with a billion spoiler tags, a spoiler tag can count as 3 lines, or 5, or something, regardless of the content inside the tag.

[RadiatingLight]

Yee I fucked up the title.

Edited it now, but it doesn't update on the sidebar.

Spoiler

For those curious, it used to say:

Why Does Text In Spoiler Tags Count As Text In Signatures?

 

[LogicalDrm]

Imo its counted wrong all together. It counts lines as if line wouldn't be wrapped. Yours is 30+ if it would be counted as wrapped.

[Technomancer__]

maybe a mod like @Ryan_Vickers

[RadiatingLight]

Just now, LoGiCalDrm said:

Imo its counted wrong all together. It counts lines as if line wouldn't be wrapped. Yours is 30+ if it would be counted as wrapped.

Yeah, but I don't care about that part.

I just want to fit more info in my sig, not less.

[RadiatingLight]

1 minute ago, Ethocreeper said:

maybe a mod like @Ryan_Vickers

AFAIK they check this section every once in a while.

also, Ryzen Ryan Vickers can't do as much as @colonel_mortis can about bugs and features. he understands the inner workings of the forum, and usually says something along the lines of

"The forum is built in X way, so there's no way to change this feature using our current system"

[Enderman]

4 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

Yeah, but I don't care about that part.

I just want to fit more info in my sig, not less.

But why if nobody reads it?

[RadiatingLight]

4 minutes ago, Enderman said:

But why if nobody reads it?

No idea.

 

I just want to put all of my tech gadgets in there so people can get a complete picture. IDK.

 

I'm obsessed with making the best signature possible. It's a token of pride.

 

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, RadiatingLight said:

No idea.

 

I just want to put all of my tech gadgets in there so people can get a complete picture. IDK.

 

I'm obsessed with making the best signature possible. It's a token of pride.

 

Use the "about me" page instead.

Few people read signatures anymore...

Maybe only the stuff above the "show more" line.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Use the "about me" page instead.

Few people read signatures anymore...

Maybe only the stuff above the "show more" line.

I read @Energycore's signature cause he puts my pcpp list at the very bottom of it. 

[Enderman]

Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

I read @Energycore's signature cause he puts my pcpp list at the very bottom of it. 

But how often?

Do you read it every day to see if it's changed?

 

Probably not, you read it once and that's it, you know what's there.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Enderman said:

But how often?

Do you read it every day to see if it's changed?

 

Probably not, you read it once and that's it, you know what's there.

Pretty often, I'd say every 2 day just to admire the time and effort I put in that PCPP list. I sometime use it as a baseline for my pcpp suggestions. 

[RadiatingLight]

12 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Pretty often, I'd say every 2 day just to admire the time and effort I put in that PCPP list. I sometime use it as a baseline for my pcpp suggestions. 

That's actually a really nice parametric list.

Obviously can't be changed now, since it's a permalink, but if it included Ryzen CPUs that would be great, since they're really competitive with i5s the 1400 is definitely better than the 7400

Also, RX 480s can sometimes be cheaper than 580s for, essentially, the same chip. so maybe check both boxes on the parametric filter for GPU.

[RadiatingLight]

@deXxterlab97 @Enderman @LoGiCalDrm

 

See, I just changed my signature to include a spoiler tag for my system build. it looks short (15ish lines), but LTT says it's 27 lines. Cutting it pretty close because of the spoiler tags containing lots of lines.

[Guest]

26 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

That's actually a really nice parametric list.

Obviously can't be changed now, since it's a permalink, but if it included Ryzen CPUs that would be great, since they're really competitive with i5s the 1400 is definitely better than the 7400

Also, RX 480s can sometimes be cheaper than 580s for, essentially, the same chip. so maybe check both boxes on the parametric filter for GPU.

The problem is, it's hard to pick R5 1400 or R5 1600 since pcpp always choose 1400 since it's cheaper

 

It still can be edited btw

[NannerBeans]

My guess is that the limit isn't about what it looks like initially, it's about the limit at all times, like that is the max number it can display at any given time. So when you open the spoiler, it can be seen. Personally I think long sigs are terrible because they are pointless. No one reads them. People actually read short ones.

[DildorTheDecent]

When was it a 30 line limit?

 

Back in the day it was 3 

[LogicalDrm]

1 hour ago, DildorTheDecent said:

When was it a 30 line limit?

 

Back in the day it was 3 

It was increased when forum updated year ago. Now its 3 lines before Show More line and 27 more after that. And I think hard limit is there to prevent site sucking too much data by loading users sigs. Or completely breaking UI design.

[colonel_mortis]

The limit didn't exist at all for a period, but we had problems with people creating excessively large signatures that caused all sorts of other problems, so a limit was required. If 30 lines isn't enough for your signature, you should probably consider moving content to your profile instead - people are unlikely to read your whole signature anyway.

[givingtnt]

On 03/06/2017 at 2:51 AM, RadiatingLight said:

Simple Question.

I want to restructure my signature, but it's already at 29 lines. How is it this long? because my laptop specs, which are in a spoiler tag (since nobody really cares) counts against my 30 line limit.

I don't know if this is intentional, but I'd like to think that one of the reasons people put a spoiler tag in their signatures is to hide info that very little people want to see, so if it doesn't bother people, why make it count against the line cap?

 

Maybe to discourage extremely long signatures with a billion spoiler tags, a spoiler tag can count as 3 lines, or 5, or something, regardless of the content inside the tag.

Brcause then you can do like I did, and put a spoiler in a spoiler, in a spoiler, in a spoiler [...] Like 600 times and cause HUGE lag

[RadiatingLight]

On 7/1/2017 at 0:54 PM, givingtnt said:

Brcause then you can do like I did, and put a spoiler in a spoiler, in a spoiler, in a spoiler [...] Like 600 times and cause HUGE lag

That causes lag? I I had no idea. 

[dizmo]

Couldn't you have more space by making better use of what you have?

Eg including all your peripherals on a single line horizontally instead of listing it vertically.

Wouldn't that give you more lines?
I've never messed around with my sig so I have no idea how it works.

[givingtnt]

2 hours ago, RadiatingLight said:

That causes lag? I I had no idea. 

don't ask me why
but it does
(idk, probably just because it makes it hold a lot of data for nothing)

[Guest]

On 03/06/2017 at 4:51 PM, RadiatingLight said:

Simple Question.

I want to restructure my signature, but it's already at 29 lines. How is it this long? because my laptop specs, which are in a spoiler tag (since nobody really cares) counts against my 30 line limit.

I don't know if this is intentional, but I'd like to think that one of the reasons people put a spoiler tag in their signatures is to hide info that very little people want to see, so if it doesn't bother people, why make it count against the line cap?

 

Maybe to discourage extremely long signatures with a billion spoiler tags, a spoiler tag can count as 3 lines, or 5, or something, regardless of the content inside the tag.

I gotta ask - can someone give me justifiable reasons for needing more than 30 lines?

[RadiatingLight]

8 hours ago, Windspeed36 said:

I gotta ask - can someone give me justifiable reasons for needing more than 30 lines?

yeah

it's not a problem of fitting all the info in to my sig, but a formatting problem.

 

for my specs, I like every component to be on a different line for easier readability. however, this obviously takes up a lot of lines.

ideally, I'd like to be able to put my laptop's specs on separate lines, but I can't due to the line limit

 

not a big deal obviously.