big signatures are annoying anyway so deal with it. i would be tempted to stab anyone with a 600 character signature
Well, not 600 characters of plain writing, but 600 characters including BBCodes. So like a few URLs, some bold text, some different colours, etc.
I used this signature at another forum... It's 499 characters long:
[table][tr][td][u]My sites:[/u]
?[url=http://dansoftaustralia.net/]DanSoft Australia[/url]?
?[url=http://www.daniel15.com/]Daniel15's Site[/url]?
?[url=http://www.dynamic-sig.com/]Dynamic-Sig.com[/url]?
?[url=http://zurl.ws]zURL.ws - Free URL shortening service[/url]?
[url=http://www.daniel15.net/]more...[/url][/td]
[td]? ?? [/td]
[td][url=http://www.last.fm/user/daniel_1515/?chartstyle=basicrt10] [img]http://imagegen.last.fm/basicrt10/recenttracks/daniel_1515.gif[/img] [/url][/td][/tr][/table]
Which has my website URLs neatly aligned in one column, and my last.fm recently played songs in another column (too bad phpBB doesn't have a
BBCode
)
A lot of forums don't have a character limit, but instead say that the signature can only be 5 lines of text or less, which IMO is a better restriction than a character limit
And besides, I could type up all the text (ie. more than 255 characters) in Photoshop or GIMP, save it as an image, and then just use the image in my signature. Easy way around the character limit 