I'd like to know how to eliminate all the graphics in the posts... I have my settings set to not show that... yet there they are.

Sorry... but there's so much "screen clutter"... it's almost impossible to find the words in a post what with everything flashing and the pictures, and the....

Hi sjm,

On the top of your screen click on “my controls”

Go to the left side of the next screen to “board settings” and click

On the same page you will see “Board Display Settings”

To the right of “Do you wish to view member signatures when reading topics? Select “no”

To the right of “Do you wish to view images in posts, such as smilies and posted images? Select “no”

Towards the bottom of the screen is the “Change my account options”, click on that button.

You should no longer see any signatures or graphics.

Yes, one would think that!

Yet, I do still see all the graphics...!!!

I did all that... multiple times even...

Thank you both...

it seems that once again, even though my brain told me that “Do you wish to view member signatures when reading topics? Select “no” was set at "no"... this time, my eyes read "yes"! and changing it to NO (for real), did the trick!

Bifocals... senior moments... what can I say!!!

Thanks again!!!

You're welcome. I tried to change something one time and forgot to click on the "change my accounts options", so of course it didn't work. Easy to do.

That part I had... it was the show signature... sometimes "yes' is read as "no"...

It just goes to show that the brain will tell you what it wants... even if that's not what is there!

Don't you like looking at us SJ???? LOL - Just kidding (Was gonna insert a wink here but realised you wouldn't see it!!!!!

I'm glad that was worked out. When I asked the admin about this (prior to all the wonderful responses from my moderators), here's what he suggested:

If she wants a "clean, no frills" version of the board, she can view
the lo-fi version at http://www.lowcarbdiscussion.com/lofiversion/ --
although she will have to view the "full version" when she wants to
post a response.

All of those things (images/signatures/etc) can be turned off at:

http://www.lowcarbdiscussion.com/index.php...=UserCP&CODE=04

However, disabling those things adds a cookie to your computer with
that information, so if she's still seeing those things after she
disables them, it's because she has her security settings too high or
cookies are disabled.

Hope this information helps everyone! THANKS!

At one time at LCF they suggested that people only show their signatures in their first post in a thread and that they should hide them in subsequent posts in that thread. Just a suggestion but maybe we could try that here too. It would make the threads quite a bit shorter to scroll through. Some forums that I visit have "Enable signature" unchecked by default so that people don't forget to uncheck it. Maybe that's another thing we might try. It would be easier to remember to turn ON your signature once per post than to try and remember to turn it OFF in all of your other posts in a thread.

I see that our signatures don't show up in our Post Previews. That's not the case on the other forums I visit. If we could see our signatures when we preview it would be easier to remember to turn them on or off.

I'll ask the admin about turning them on in "preview" Linda! THANKS everyone!

THANK YOU again, Admin!

I'm a bit confused by what the Admin posted. Whenever we post a message, we do have the option of turning off our signatures. I've turned mine off in this post.

Yes, it's a tiny checkbox underneath the reply window.

I think disabling it by default would cause more annoyance to users, though, because a lot of people that are new to forum software would constantly forget to turn it on. Besides, that's the reason why there's a "disable forum signatures" option in the control panel -- for people that don't want to see them.

Although, in the end, I suppose it's up to Jimmy. I should be able to figure out a way to make it disabled by default if he wanted.

I'm all new to this forum thing, so I'm not sure whether defaulting it to enable or disable makes the most sense. I'm leaning at this point to leaving it to enable signature and simply asking the members to leave graphics beyond their ticker and pics out of it. Does this sound like a plan everyone? THANKS for your help as always, Admin! Without you, this board would never have been birthday, so we are all grateful for your service.

As long as they're not going to cause bandwidth issues for the board and slow things down for everyone, I'm for keeping them. If they're making people feel comfortable and "at home" here then so much the better. I'd never thought of it the way that Lori put it and she made a lot of sense. There's nothing stopping the men from putting cars and motorcycles in their signatures but I think we should draw the line when it comes to pin-up girls and that sort of thing, LOL.

I've never told anyone to completely remove all of their signature, Lori. But with Chrysalis, the montage of butterflies was difficult to navigate through. She can add back ONE butterfly because I did not ask her to remove ALL of them. That's all. Keep your signatures fun, just don't get too busy with them. Okay?

TY!