I sat on this for a while to see how I felt about it and I've got bunch of new things to say:
I'd like to request a ban on quote blocks in signatures, They're rarely useful, and add way more space than just using quotation marks. Usually they're ok, but at current we're dealing with this from
@SC PL:
Which I hope we can all agree is ridiculous to the extreme.
Allowing signatures allows otherwise good signatures to become bloated, here contrast
@HolySnickerPuffs with
@Cytosolic who both have a quote and a line of links. One is compact while the other is bloated. (sidenote: the content of Snicker's quote is questionably inappropriate for anywhere other than the off topic board where rules are more lax)
These signatures, from
@Berry,
@Leminnes and
@Fr0Z3nR, in my view, are also far too big:
Frozen's is undeniably useful, but it's massive. It could stand to be 50-75% of the height without losing much impact.
The signature I use as my baseline for acceptability in content and height is
@LeSwordfish's, it's practical, uses muted tones that blend well with the forum and it isn't huge.
I've done this publicly so that we can have a discussion over it, I've tagged each of the users whose signatures I've picked as examples so that the "Why don't you just tell them individually" argument is covered.
For the most part I believe signatures are quite good on this site, most are only one or two lines, the problems only really start once quotation blocks and images start slipping in.