I agree on this. Several reasons, first it just looks kinda silly, when the actual node content is a line or two, and the signature then carries on 6-8 lines or so. It's also hard to tell sometimes, where the content ends, and the sig begins, just making things confusing.

I don't really see the point of signatures on each and every post at all, it seems a huge waste of space (screen + DB), after all, the posts are already individualised, they have user names on, and everyone has a homenode they can list quotes on and whatnot.

I was going to suggest we introduce a hr tag to separate the sig from the node content, but I've seen that elsewhere, and it didn't really improve things there either..

Hohum..

C. (sigless)

In reply to Re: Signature size vs node size by castaway
in thread Signature size vs node size by diotalevi

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