Suggestion: On/Off viewing of Signautres per member basis

[WizyWyg]

I know how many people love signatures, but I think there should be an option based per user/member of the forum, whether they would like to see signatures while viewing the board or not. A "on/off" feature to show sigs in their CP Panel.

What do you think? (same can go with avatars?)

[Mike Sullivan]

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/member.php?s=&action=editoptions :

Show user's signatures in their posts?
Show user's avatar in their posts?
Show image attachments and [img] code in Posts?

Or did I misunderstand what you're looking for?

[Fusion]

Originally posted by Ed Sullivan
Or did I misunderstand what you're looking for? He may be asking for an option to selectively skip a single signature while viewing all others. Why that's called for, I'm not sure, If people's signatures/avatars are so bad they need to be ignored, it's better to set some rules concerning what those items may consist of, like the Team has done here.

[WizyWyg]

Originally posted by Fusion
He may be asking for an option to selectively skip a single signature while viewing all others. Why that's called for, I'm not sure, If people's signatures/avatars are so bad they need to be ignored, it's better to set some rules concerning what those items may consist of, like the Team has done here.

Exactly. But its to the forums moderators/admins to decide that, but for a normal user, they may not want to see a signautre of a member (im not a he btw)

[GameCrash]

I think he means the option that phpBB2 and WBB2 etc. have: every user can turn signatures (and images, avatars etc.) on and off in the user cp - so if I don't want to see all the signatures I can simply turn them off and everyone else can see them normally...

[Fusion]

Originally posted by WizyWyg
(im not a he btw) Oh, a thousand pardons, WizyWyg. I really should revert to my it-stance. Then sexes are of no concern. :)

[tubedogg]

Originally posted by GameCrash
I think he means the option that phpBB2 and WBB2 etc. have: every user can turn signatures (and images, avatars etc.) on and off in the user cp - so if I don't want to see all the signatures I can simply turn them off and everyone else can see them normally... Ed answered that, it's been in vB for since at least 2.2.0...

[GameCrash]

Originally posted by tubedogg
Ed answered that, it's been in vB for since at least 2.2.0...

Oops, yes, I see it here... sorry, I'm running a 2.0.3 board without that so I have simply not noticed that new feature ;)

[Scott MacVicar]

WizyWyg i released a hack on vBulletin.org to turn signatures and avatars off on a per usergroup basis.

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38952

[Fusion]

Originally posted by PPN
WizyWyg i released a hack on vBulletin.org to turn signatures and avatars off on a per usergroup basis.

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38952 Uh.. What real difference is using that hack vs letting the users set their own preferences? I mean, I know some people are incapable of setting those options, but really, a hack? There can't be that many that are so helpless.

[tubedogg]

The hack disallows anyone from viewing the sig and/or avatar of a user in certain usergroup(s), as set by the admin. It's a side-step around a full-blown per-usergroup setting "Can have sig" and "can have avatar" (not that there's anything wrong with doing it this way :)).

[Scott MacVicar]

If you want a quick example I don't want you to be able to view the avatars and signatures of banned users so i turn the avatar and signatures off for their usergroup. I don't want regular users to have avatars so i turn it off for that usergroup.

Though they still have the ability to set their signature and avatar in the usercp just it won't be shown.

[Fusion]

Originally posted by tubedogg
The hack disallows anyone from viewing the sig and/or avatar of a user in certain usergroup(s), as set by the admin. It's a side-step around a full-blown per-usergroup setting "Can have sig" and "can have avatar" (not that there's anything wrong with doing it this way :)). Ah, a full-blown block. That's kind of nifty.