Do you allow tickers in sigs?

Frankly I think they're ugly, but I haven't made a rule against having them. Are there any good reasons (other than aesthetics) to disallow them? If you allow them, do they affect page load times significantly?

 

As long as they do not breach or go against the signature rules, I don't have a problem with em' - although I do agree that they're ugly.

 

What is a ticker?

animated gif?

 

Tickers are dynamically generated graphics that move a slider along a bar to count down until a specified date. You can see some examples here:
pregnancy, birthday, adoption, TTC, wedding, anniversary tickers tickernow.com
That is just one of dozens of sites.

 

Thanks. Thought it might be a stock market ticker screen that quickly moves.

No images in our sigs.

 

We allow images and links in sigs if the member is a Super Member which requires monthly payments of 3000 TF Cash on our site Other than that, members are not allowed links or images, just text

Tickers are allowed by all means.

 

I don't mind unless the have ugly matte.

 

I've never come across anyone on my forum who has one, so don't know whether I'd allow them or not.

 

No, and only moderators can have images in their signatures. or anything but text or links in their sigs.

 

Yeah I dont like em but as long as they follow the sig rules, its all good

 

On other forums in my niche, members LOVE them and use 'em all the time, but my members I guess haven't discovered them yet so we don't have many people using them.
But I don't mind them at all; they are very fun for the members, so I think disallowing them is as bad as revoking a feature of the board.

 

I don't mind them, as long as they abide by the other rules.

 

We don't moderate signatures, but they're turned off by default.