Should we turn off Signatures in Forums ?
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:21 pm
Maybe its just me, but it seems that not only is the signature serving a useful dev purpose, but many people are using it to make big bold image and/or text advertisments, which is terribly distracting, many of which are against forum policies.
In fact, it seems that advertising in the sigs is the primary reason for participating in these forums in those cases.
Worse, we can't really police the links or ask the people to cleanup their sigs without investing alot of effort.
Would it be better to just turn off signatures ?
(Yes I know I have a sig, I added one recently as a joke on someone else, I could care less about losing it too ;)
In fact, it seems that advertising in the sigs is the primary reason for participating in these forums in those cases.
Worse, we can't really police the links or ask the people to cleanup their sigs without investing alot of effort.
Would it be better to just turn off signatures ?
(Yes I know I have a sig, I added one recently as a joke on someone else, I could care less about losing it too ;)