Heh I felt a bit guilty and made my sig smaller 
Anyhow... back to the topic...
I know we probably can't use code to enforce content in the sig, but to hard code limits on size? I'm dont think that'd be horribly hard.
The rule's what, up to the time stamp in a one line post? Just do this: find out how many lines all that username, posts, vg$, etc stuff is. Call it x. Not including the avatar, this is constant for everyone.
Then just get their avatar size, however many pixels that is. Call this y. Add x and y together, and subtract the size of the one line (since the rule's uses a one line post as a measuring stick).
So we get, x+y-(size of one line) = Z. Z is our absolute limit on sig.
So then, whenever someone goes to save their profile, we can simply have the website check: lines of text * height per line (in pixels) + height (in pixels) all pictures must be less than Z.
Done. The only difficult part might be display properties. If someone's got bad eyesight eyesight and increases text size like mad in their browser, then obviously text takes up more and more space relative to the picture. To simplify it, we can just use a universal measuring stick, like say, Firefox 3.0's default display setting, or whatever.
Shouldn't be too bad. Then the only report would be of content, and no size issues. This way, people can feel safe about what they've put up in their sig, and people who are worried about oversized sigs have nothign to worry over anymore.
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