November 14, 2009 - 10:03am
How do you create a signature for your posts?
How can I create a signature for my posts? I can't seem to find the link for it.
Thanks!
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All you have to do is click on "My Account", once in there, click on edit. You will see where it asks again for your password, type it in there. Then scroll down a little bit and you will see a box - that is where you put your signature. After that, scroll all the way down and click submit. Enjoy!!!
Welcome to the site!!
Brenda
ACDF C5/6 2/08 - C6/7 8/09 - Neuropathy right arm and both legs - Cervical Myelopathy
10-11-11 PCF C4-T2 - C4-C7 Lamies; Surgery #2 Emergent removal large Hematoma!
L2/3/4 & L5/S1 fusions and Laminectomy on hold till neck fused.
For the full "Cliff Notes" please click my name!
"Life can knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to get up!!"
Instead of putting your life history in your signature.
While in My Account. Edit the Medical History. I that put everything you want since birth. When you have changes just edit that. Then click Submit.
Now under Signature put something short and to the point and add - See my Medical History for more information.
Graham
• The only valid excuse you have to give up is if you are dead.
Hi Ya Graham!!
I pretty much did what you state here. My signature is like 6 lines (2 blanks), but the rest is in my "medical history" as your suggesting. Some folks don't do that and their signatures are 3x's longer than their posts!
Brenda
ACDF C5/6 2/08 - C6/7 8/09 - Neuropathy right arm and both legs - Cervical Myelopathy
10-11-11 PCF C4-T2 - C4-C7 Lamies; Surgery #2 Emergent removal large Hematoma!
L2/3/4 & L5/S1 fusions and Laminectomy on hold till neck fused.
For the full "Cliff Notes" please click my name!
"Life can knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to get up!!"
Exactly Brenda! You get it.
There is nothing wrong with putting in detailed history if you want to share. I personally don't. But like you said. Their post is 5 lines and their signature is like 50 lines. I see every doctors appointent, medical filing, medication they take etc... Just to get to the next post.
• The only valid excuse you have to give up is if you are dead.
Hehehehe, true! I miss added mine 6.5 lines! But yeah, in all seriousness, yes that is seen on some. It almost gets to me as bad as when someone forwards and e-mail and leaves the "full history" of recipients in the body of the message!!! Bites on a "crackberry"...makes my scroll wheel wear out! Take care Graham.
Brenda
ACDF C5/6 2/08 - C6/7 8/09 - Neuropathy right arm and both legs - Cervical Myelopathy
10-11-11 PCF C4-T2 - C4-C7 Lamies; Surgery #2 Emergent removal large Hematoma!
L2/3/4 & L5/S1 fusions and Laminectomy on hold till neck fused.
For the full "Cliff Notes" please click my name!
"Life can knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to get up!!"
Thanks everyone.
IF you have a signature line, then add medical history you are ok, but if you then go in and update your medical history, the entire signature line will be erased.
Spine-Health development is working on a formal update for profiles. The one that is in place right now, is something I quickly put together when we first migrated to drupal
Ron DiLauro
Ron's Story
Suicide Hotline
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Arthritis
_________________________________________
rdilauro@gmail.com
SH Administrators = dilauro or tamtam
SH Moderator Team =
haglandc , Numbskull , Liz, or Neck of Steel Cindy
"In his eyes we're all the same Someday we'll all have perfect wings, Don't laugh at me."
"That there's none so blind as those who will not see."
The information provided by members of Spine-Health should never be considered as formal medical advice. It is recommendations based on member's personal experiences only.
This can vary from person to person, so do not take comments as medical facts or rules
IF you have a signature line, then add medical history you are ok, but if you then go in and update your medical history, the entire signature line will be erased.
Spine-Health development is working on a formal update for profiles. The one that is in place right now, is something I quickly put together when we first migrated to drupal
Ron DiLauro
Ron's Story
Suicide Hotline
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Arthritis
_________________________________________
rdilauro@gmail.com
SH Administrators = dilauro or tamtam
SH Moderator Team =
haglandc , Numbskull , Liz, or Neck of Steel Cindy
"In his eyes we're all the same Someday we'll all have perfect wings, Don't laugh at me."
"That there's none so blind as those who will not see."
The information provided by members of Spine-Health should never be considered as formal medical advice. It is recommendations based on member's personal experiences only.
This can vary from person to person, so do not take comments as medical facts or rules
Yes I found this out the hard way. The good thing. I only want my sig to be 1-2 lines. Short description and point to Medical History.
So I copied my sig, edited medical history, saved it, then pasted sig back in, saved again.
It's a small work around and not that painful.
Enjoy your vacation this will still be here when you get back. And I'll have the new For Sale section up and running for you.... LOL
• The only valid excuse you have to give up is if you are dead.
I thought I read a post that said we had to keep it to 6 lines, or under? I agree with you Graham - long ones are so heavy to read when the post is like, 3 lines long! I just want to get to the next post and the long signature gets in the way.
The less number of lines in Signature is always better.
I have the option to cut off the maximum number of lines at any number. To date, I have not implemented that. I am hoping that members will do it themselves.
I would rather see a link in a member's signature line to another post they made to provide information.
Also, using the other profile options provides members with a way to document their medical situation, location, birthdate, etc
Ron DiLauro
Ron's Story
Suicide Hotline
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Arthritis
_________________________________________
rdilauro@gmail.com
SH Administrators = dilauro or tamtam
SH Moderator Team =
haglandc , Numbskull , Liz, or Neck of Steel Cindy
"In his eyes we're all the same Someday we'll all have perfect wings, Don't laugh at me."
"That there's none so blind as those who will not see."
The information provided by members of Spine-Health should never be considered as formal medical advice. It is recommendations based on member's personal experiences only.
This can vary from person to person, so do not take comments as medical facts or rules
Ron,
That really would help. It would force people to put their Medical History in their Medical History, not Signature.
I tried to explain how to do it. I'm sure we can help anyone who needs help setting up their profile.
The rest I think just don't or won't. Their sigs have been like this for a long time. I'd really love to see you set it at like 5 or 10 at absolute most. Then people will do it the right way. Since we can't kill sig views like vBulletin and such. It seems an Admin solution is the easiest approach.
Oh could we also setup a rules based automated solution. Have it remove all emoticons from your post if you use more than 5 at a time
Thanks, Graham
• The only valid excuse you have to give up is if you are dead.
Got my vote on this one! When every 6th word has a smile, a hand waving, a hug, it gets OLD! I now just pass by those posts - annoying is a minor feeling! There are some members that swim in them on EVERY post...nuff said!
Brenda
ACDF C5/6 2/08 - C6/7 8/09 - Neuropathy right arm and both legs - Cervical Myelopathy
10-11-11 PCF C4-T2 - C4-C7 Lamies; Surgery #2 Emergent removal large Hematoma!
L2/3/4 & L5/S1 fusions and Laminectomy on hold till neck fused.
For the full "Cliff Notes" please click my name!
"Life can knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to get up!!"
Graham, I will look into setting up the line enforcement. If I am not mistaken, it will not effect any existing signature line, but if a person tries to update it, it will fail based on the limits.
I think I will start with 6 lines as Max.
Brenda, oh you bet about smileys. I am not a user of smileys. Every once in a while I will put one in for effect. But, some posts have more smileys then they do have words. In those situations, I hate to say, but I just skip the post.
Ron DiLauro
Ron's Story
Suicide Hotline
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Arthritis
_________________________________________
rdilauro@gmail.com
SH Administrators = dilauro or tamtam
SH Moderator Team =
haglandc , Numbskull , Liz, or Neck of Steel Cindy
"In his eyes we're all the same Someday we'll all have perfect wings, Don't laugh at me."
"That there's none so blind as those who will not see."
The information provided by members of Spine-Health should never be considered as formal medical advice. It is recommendations based on member's personal experiences only.
This can vary from person to person, so do not take comments as medical facts or rules
Ron,
Fortunately there are only a select few members that do it, so I skip that way, or like you, I come across them, and scoot right past anymore! I too use one or two in a post at times, but lordy, every single post, every single sentence...skip! Thanks Ron!!
Brenda
ACDF C5/6 2/08 - C6/7 8/09 - Neuropathy right arm and both legs - Cervical Myelopathy
10-11-11 PCF C4-T2 - C4-C7 Lamies; Surgery #2 Emergent removal large Hematoma!
L2/3/4 & L5/S1 fusions and Laminectomy on hold till neck fused.
For the full "Cliff Notes" please click my name!
"Life can knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to get up!!"
I think that is a more than fair number to give people some room to work with their Signature.
I just read through the Spine Health FAQ area. You did put a simple and easy to follow directions to setup Medical History.
So the information needed is available. Right here.
http://www.spine-health.com/forum/forum-help-troubleshooting-suggestions...
• The only valid excuse you have to give up is if you are dead.
I will go for the 6 lines.... I will make an announcement in our announcement section so that everyone is aware of the change.
Ron DiLauro
Ron's Story
Suicide Hotline
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Arthritis
_________________________________________
rdilauro@gmail.com
SH Administrators = dilauro or tamtam
SH Moderator Team =
haglandc , Numbskull , Liz, or Neck of Steel Cindy
"In his eyes we're all the same Someday we'll all have perfect wings, Don't laugh at me."
"That there's none so blind as those who will not see."
The information provided by members of Spine-Health should never be considered as formal medical advice. It is recommendations based on member's personal experiences only.
This can vary from person to person, so do not take comments as medical facts or rules
Hummm... I think mine is like 8 - if you are going to count blank (spacer) lines? If so, (the blank lines - if they count) I gotta do a bit of fix there...
<--- oops 1 smile!
Good idea by the way....
Brenda
ACDF C5/6 2/08 - C6/7 8/09 - Neuropathy right arm and both legs - Cervical Myelopathy
10-11-11 PCF C4-T2 - C4-C7 Lamies; Surgery #2 Emergent removal large Hematoma!
L2/3/4 & L5/S1 fusions and Laminectomy on hold till neck fused.
For the full "Cliff Notes" please click my name!
"Life can knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to get up!!"
I just noticed...so yours get shortened too? I didn't realize yours was a sig line. I guess it is?
Brenda
ACDF C5/6 2/08 - C6/7 8/09 - Neuropathy right arm and both legs - Cervical Myelopathy
10-11-11 PCF C4-T2 - C4-C7 Lamies; Surgery #2 Emergent removal large Hematoma!
L2/3/4 & L5/S1 fusions and Laminectomy on hold till neck fused.
For the full "Cliff Notes" please click my name!
"Life can knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to get up!!"
Being a moderator or administrator allows us to be exempt for certain rules.
Ok, that might not be right and I do try to do what everyone else does.
My signature line has some special items in it..
Forget Rons Story, that is old,
But the lines about FAQ, Help, Suicide Links, the Moderators and such, I think belong there.
So, I do hope everyone understands that why I want to set a rule for everyone, I and my team are exempt from that.
Other than that situation, we try to be just like any other member
Ron DiLauro
Ron's Story
Suicide Hotline
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Arthritis
_________________________________________
rdilauro@gmail.com
SH Administrators = dilauro or tamtam
SH Moderator Team =
haglandc , Numbskull , Liz, or Neck of Steel Cindy
"In his eyes we're all the same Someday we'll all have perfect wings, Don't laugh at me."
"That there's none so blind as those who will not see."
The information provided by members of Spine-Health should never be considered as formal medical advice. It is recommendations based on member's personal experiences only.
This can vary from person to person, so do not take comments as medical facts or rules
Ron,
Just busting your chops a bit! All in fun!
You guys are cool...Oh, and I did "trim" mine as you see - as I wasn't sure if you were going to count "blank/spacer" lines?!?!
Brenda
ACDF C5/6 2/08 - C6/7 8/09 - Neuropathy right arm and both legs - Cervical Myelopathy
10-11-11 PCF C4-T2 - C4-C7 Lamies; Surgery #2 Emergent removal large Hematoma!
L2/3/4 & L5/S1 fusions and Laminectomy on hold till neck fused.
For the full "Cliff Notes" please click my name!
"Life can knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to get up!!"
Signature lines:
4 lines or under = No Charge
5 linee, for each line = $1.75 per line
Blank lines = $5.37
Exceeding our Limit = $1,500
All proceeds for this should be forwarded, certified checks only ( or you can give me your credit card number and security code) to:
RonsHopingforaFortune
PO Box: Make me rich
I will be glad to provide postage stampe fo handle all of this. Stamp rates are $15.00 per stamp.
Oh, I like some power atr times
Ron DiLauro
Ron's Story
Suicide Hotline
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Arthritis
_________________________________________
rdilauro@gmail.com
SH Administrators = dilauro or tamtam
SH Moderator Team =
haglandc , Numbskull , Liz, or Neck of Steel Cindy
"In his eyes we're all the same Someday we'll all have perfect wings, Don't laugh at me."
"That there's none so blind as those who will not see."
The information provided by members of Spine-Health should never be considered as formal medical advice. It is recommendations based on member's personal experiences only.
This can vary from person to person, so do not take comments as medical facts or rules
Ron,
You kill me!!! hehehe..... BTW, when are you going to put this new rule in effect? I never really "looked" much at the length of sigs...wow, some are like 25+ lines!!! Wow!!
Brenda
ACDF C5/6 2/08 - C6/7 8/09 - Neuropathy right arm and both legs - Cervical Myelopathy
10-11-11 PCF C4-T2 - C4-C7 Lamies; Surgery #2 Emergent removal large Hematoma!
L2/3/4 & L5/S1 fusions and Laminectomy on hold till neck fused.
For the full "Cliff Notes" please click my name!
"Life can knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to get up!!"
I'm still seeing new members with 10-20 line signatures. Did you change this yet?
• The only valid excuse you have to give up is if you are dead.
Line limit is now 6 lines max for signatures.
Ron DiLauro
Ron's Story
Suicide Hotline
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Arthritis
_________________________________________
rdilauro@gmail.com
SH Administrators = dilauro or tamtam
SH Moderator Team =
haglandc , Numbskull , Liz, or Neck of Steel Cindy
"In his eyes we're all the same Someday we'll all have perfect wings, Don't laugh at me."
"That there's none so blind as those who will not see."
The information provided by members of Spine-Health should never be considered as formal medical advice. It is recommendations based on member's personal experiences only.
This can vary from person to person, so do not take comments as medical facts or rules