So what's interesting about that is if you go to preview it you will see that I changed your banner to another banner since you were lining to one of my old banners I just swapped them out. Anyway, the current banner shouldn't be any bigger, in fact it seemed to be not as tall even though it was the same width. I might talk with Adam about it anyway, try the preview option on it and see what happens. Did they give you a size range to go by? Obviously they are letting me get away with something on mine, I may switch it now in fact.
When I PM'd Adam, it was still the original banner, but then when he responded, it was the one you've had, which was too big and obviously changed after he responded. The max allowed image size in the rules (
http://board.freeones.com/faq.php?faq=vb3_user_profile#faq_dd) is 575x100 pixels, which the old one was 572x98, and the new one you made is 580-pixels long, so I can't use it. (OCSMs and ACOs get special privileges, which is why you're fine) Adam said he liked it and would have been fine with it, but if I'd been snared by a mod it was likely because of the smilies and text being too much. The funny thing about that is, I remember during the last Miss Freeones contest, the control panel popped up a message that I'd exceeded a limit of links or something and I had to trim it down, so I thought since I hadn't gotten that message I was fine. Guess not. I would imagine that since I was apparently fine before I added that last quote from you, and I've since trimmed it further, that if you make the image smaller, it should be fine and I'll add it back
And now, back to the 11.5 Days of Mandy Christmas...
(Click the last one for the large size)