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Indeed. Though I admit freely that we had not looked at the difference between valedictions and expression of opinion.
Some people started pasting their old sig line (with political / philosophical...

Yes, that would be the idea. I can limit it fairly well. Number of lines, BB code yes or no, links, pics, number of characters etc.

It would still require some amount of policing, but if I set it...

Ok guys, we've been discussing this some more, and I would like to verify something.
We've been inadvertedly mixing up 2 different issues: 1) expression through sig lines underneath every post...

I just wanted to add that we are brainstorming on this issue.
Stay tuned for more information in the next couple of days.

Yes, actually it is.
We are looking at a way to automatically put your name next to the post.

Other than that, please do not put signature lines inside your post. We removed the 'sig line'...

It's true that a community exists by the virtue of its members. Without members, there is no community.
Yet that does not mean that everyone can just do as they please. And there is also no free...

That is correct.

IF something is cause for celebration, or well wishes, or prayers, etc, it is perfectly reasonable to close your post with a statement to that effect.
However, if you are just...

The dollar is plummeting, the economy is in the tank, thousands are homeless, and you're talking about revolution over a sig line.
This must be the internet :D :p

<makes the Jedi hand sign: This...

What I have seen on other forums where use of a real name was mandatory (for legal reasons) was that the user profil had a custom field 'Real name' which the user had to fill in. This was then...

It's a sig line guys. Not your firstborn.
As to the comments about the fact that there are other issues as well: we know. And some things can be fixed with some time, and others would require...

Did you perchance miss the post where I say we are looking into the name thing?
Instead of shouting at us for for not getting everything 100% right first try while at the same time fullfilling...

This is not a storage or data issue.

There are a couple of other issues. The first one is that often, sig lines take up much more space than the actual message.
At 20 posts per page, that is an...

Yeah, but otoh, the way you've shown here, you have a 1 line post with a 4 line sig (including the empty lines).
And that's the clutter we wanted to get rid of.

Anyway, for now please don't do...

Hey guys, we disabled sig lines because we don't want sig lines in the forum.
This also means that you should not put your sig line IN your forum post as text.
Some people have started doing this,...