Dear denizens of the internet,
Look, it's been twenty years. I know it took awhile for everything to shake out, but the internet is old enough to start its own family now. You no longer have any excuse for thinking the following are acceptable:
  • glittering text
  • unusually-colored text
  • signatures the size of a page
  • signatures the size of a page using unusually-colored, glittering text

I am hereby outlawing these abusive forum practices. Violators will be subjected to a two-hour montage of MySpace pages designed by 12 year old girls. Repeated violations will result in losing all formatting, signature, and avatar options on all forums, everywhere, forever.
,
Thickle

PS. There is a crop tool in every single imaging program that exists. Learn it. Live it. Love it.



(This forum is hardly the worst offender, and I'm to blame myself sometimes, but when I looked through a thread and found several examples where the posted message was 1/12th the size of the user's signature... arrrrrgngngngngngngngh. WHY SO WASTEFUL, INTERNET?)