Discussion: Stats in Signatures

[apophis775]

Aission Mccomplished.

[kazere]

Frankly I am not here to bandwagon but Apop is right when stats are concerned since CM is set in such a way that everything is reset after the round ends. Also signatures should be about the description of the player and not their acievements.

[NoahKirchner]

this doesn't really fix the problem. I can condense my "stats" into the smaller space that we have now, it'll just be uglier. on the downside my TOTALLY HILARIOUS pictures all got cut off D:

[Artouris]

Im onboard, but I'd also like to extend this to stupid amounts of quotes or things that A.) have no relation to their Character or B.) are made obnoxiously large or with glowing font. I mean seriously, I understand you found some great moments, but if you're going to have 200 of them then put it in spoilers or don't put it in at all. That and for the love of god stop with the glowing large font, it's so annoying because its fucken almost the same thing as putting meaningless stats.

[NoahKirchner]

Im onboard, but I'd also like to extend this to stupid amounts of quotes or things that A.) have no relation to their Character or B.) are made obnoxiously large or with glowing font. I mean seriously, I understand you found some great moments, but if you're going to have 200 of them then put it in spoilers or don't put it in at all. That and for the love of god stop with the glowing large font, it's so annoying because its fucken almost the same thing as putting meaningless stats.

Spoilers have been ruined ;_;, cut off midway through

[Feweh]

I dont see how this is an issue.

Does anyone look at someone stats and go "wow so robust so cool".

If people want to show some stats off who cares.

[NoahKirchner]

I dont see how this is an issue.

Does anyone look at someone stats and go "wow so robust so cool".

If people want to show some stats off who cares.

It's not really an issue, the limit only really hurts the people who have longer sigs. It doesn't even properly solve it because i can brag about how robust I am in less than 850 characters.

But I don't want to agree with you, so you're wrong

[slc97]

So here's where I stand on this. I'm 100 percent okay with limiting the length of signatures. I'm 100 percent not okay with telling people they can't have stats, even though I think stats are fuckin stupid, for 3 main reasons.

1. People lie on the internet. I don't like lying at all. Thing is, lying about your "stats" is completely not malicious. No one is getting hurt from you saying you've killed 8 billion crushers. Non-malicious lies on the internet are fine. I've regularly held myself out here to be a bearded, meat eating, whiskey drinking, cigar smoking, red-blooded fucking American, when for all you people know, I could be playing pretty princess dress up with women's lingerie on my weekends. Or worse, I could be fucking British. Either way, it doesn't matter. If I say I've killed 8 billion crushers, and you see me immediately get fucked up by one, you're probably gonna be able to guess that I'm full of shit.

2. Telling people they can't have stats would be the dumbest restriction we have ever done. As long as it isn't breaking our basic forum rules of no adult content and generally don't be a dick, then you should be able to put whatever the hell you want in your forum signature.

3. Nobody is being hurt by us allowing stats, but people would be by us restricting them. You are not being hurt by seeing people's stats in their signature line. It is not affecting you in anyway. This is straight up the gay marriage of the CM forums. If you don't like it, and we allow it, it's still not affecting you, you just don't like it. Meanwhile, if we restrict stats, the people who want to have them are being told they can't just cause some other people don't like them being able to do that. It's not hurting the people who don't like it in any way, but the people who do like it are now being told they can't have it, and that's not fair to them at all.

So there. Limiting signature size, +1. Restricting stats, -1.

[NoahKirchner]

https://gyazo.com/65a0176ae5e422de00ddefed8f0f8cb5

I agree wholeheartedly with feweh.

(BUt I'm not sucking his dick too hard)

(Also to keep this on topic, just having it so that signatures expand like spoilers, or allowing spoilers to show everything inside of them would make me a happy camper

[Nubs]

I think the culture of egotism and entitlement are one of the worst aspects of the community (both ic and ooc)

[Boltersam]

I don't really like them. Sure, I made a joke one, but I'm of the opinion that they make you seem arrogant, depending on what kind of stats they are. And when your stats, are longer than your Commander application, there's a serious problem there.

[darkwahn]

I dont see how this is an issue.

Does anyone look at someone stats and go "wow so robust so cool".

If people want to show some stats off who cares.

^
I think it's a little lame, but I really don't have any sort of problem with it. It's just kind of whatever.

[apophis775]

I wouldn't tell people they CAN'T have stats in signatures.

This discussion won't results in rules or anything.

I just wanted to discuss how fucking moronic it is.

[Jaketeaking]

but this begs the question once again, does mine count? it has notable achivements for me in game, yet isnt too long

[Emeraldblood]

Personally Jaketeaking, I think that your signature is too long if it stretches out your post in a post that is one line of text. In your case, that's the final block of text. Do I think yours is bad? No, I'm fine looking at it but it feels a little bloated with stuff for my personal taste.

[apophis775]

If it didn't get cutoff by the new Pixel Signature Size limit, it's fine.

[Monoo]

I think having stats just for your e-peen is pretty bad, yeah. I was doing it with T3 xenos I had melee killed, but that was more to keep track than to show off. I think the main problem with the stats is that it grows tedious for everyone to read after every post of yours, since nobody really cares. I'm tracking that melee kills more subtly in my dossier now so people don't really have to have it shoved in their face.

[NoahKirchner]

Why not set up signatures to be like spoiler bars automatically, in that you'd have to click on a "signature" button to see it at all. That way people can show off their stuff without it getting obnoxious

[tuzz]

I turned off forum signatures 10/10

[KeyWii]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaG5SAw1n0c

[Nick123q23]

I don't mind unless it doubles the length of the post. Then I ask, what's even the point?

[Jroinc1]

Most of my sig can't be done anymore due to removing engineering. I just keep it to remember past rounds by. Like the one I built a secondary reactor. Or the one when EVERYONE on the pod died due to an engi using a bomb I gave him as a grenade...

Really just memories for me.

EDIT-Aand I just noticed it got cut off. Welp. Guess I didn't need those memories.

[Recounted]

Only worthy stats are pred kills and major marine victory, rest are just ehhh