# Can't default to "don't include signature" in new vBulletin? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 14, 2004, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-default-to-dont-include-signature-in-new-vbulletin/224481 "2004-01-14T23:59:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-default-to-dont-include-signature-in-new-vbulletin/224481/1 "2004-01-14T23:59:55Z")
Whenever I post, there’s a little checkbox below my message that says “Show your signature”. Now, in the old (read: last week’s) vBulletin software, I could set a user option that caused this checkbox to be UNCHECKED by default, so that I had to deliberately check this checkbox in any message where I wanted my signature to appear. I **liked** this feature, because with most of my postings, I don’t want my signature to appear; I only want my signature to appear on the bottom of a select few messages. Apparently, the new vBulletin software no longer has this option. The “Show your signature” checkbox ALWAYS appears checked when I start to compose a message, and I have to deliberately **uncheck** it if I **don’t** want my signature to appear. Is there any way to get this feature back? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-default-to-dont-include-signature-in-new-vbulletin/224481/2 "2004-01-15T00:08:36Z")
(There, see? I didn’t intend for my signature to appear in my post above, but I’m so used to not having to deliberately un-check the show-your-signature checkbox that I accidentally slipped my signature in!) ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-default-to-dont-include-signature-in-new-vbulletin/224481/3 "2004-01-16T20:56:37Z")
Once again . . . They’re still working on tweaking the new software. I’m quite sure that the “no signature” default will be available once again, what with bandwidth issues and all. Let’s wait and see. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-default-to-dont-include-signature-in-new-vbulletin/224481/4 "2004-01-17T00:56:08Z")
I’m curious as to whether it will show or not, as it hasn’t in a couple of other posts tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-default-to-dont-include-signature-in-new-vbulletin/224481/5 "2004-01-17T01:00:49Z")
Excuse me while I go and kill **beatle**. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-default-to-dont-include-signature-in-new-vbulletin/224481/6 "2004-01-17T01:16:38Z")
> [@Scarlett67](#): > > Once again . . . > > They’re still working on tweaking the new software. I’m quite sure that the “no signature” default will be available once again, what with bandwidth issues and all. Let’s wait and see. I wonder what makes you so sure of that. Are you on the new software committee? **tracer** asked a legit question and got a snarky answer in return. I’m with you, **tracer**. If this is something they can change, I hope at some point they do. Especially since we’re not supposed to show our sig more than once in a thread, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-default-to-dont-include-signature-in-new-vbulletin/224481/7 "2004-01-17T15:25:52Z")
> [@dantheman](#): > > I wonder what makes you so sure of that. Are you on the new software committee? **tracer** asked a legit question and got a snarky answer in return. I did not intend to be snarky so much as to point out that there are already eleventy zillion threads/posts complaining that this or that feature is not present. Do we really need another one? The powers that be have already asked us to be patient while they work on the change. No, I am not on the new software committee. But doesn’t it seem logical that on a board where bandwidth is an issue, the default will eventually be set to “no signature,” as it was before, in the interest of conserving server resources, as it was for that very reason before? Let’s all try to hold our water, hmmmm? ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-default-to-dont-include-signature-in-new-vbulletin/224481/8 "2004-01-17T18:43:39Z")
I think it’s been fixed. The signature checkbox is gone from this reply page. In fact, I can’t see what you’d do if you _wanted_ a sig to show. ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-default-to-dont-include-signature-in-new-vbulletin/224481/9 "2004-01-17T18:49:05Z")
I’ve still got my signature check box on _my_ reply page. Dunno whether that makes me special, or simply overlooked. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-default-to-dont-include-signature-in-new-vbulletin/224481/10 "2004-01-17T19:19:41Z")
I had deleted my signature and thus the checkbox disappeared. I’ve reentered it, and the checkbox is back. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-default-to-dont-include-signature-in-new-vbulletin/224481/11 "2004-01-17T19:25:34Z")
> [@Scarlett67](#): > > I did not intend to be snarky so much as to point out that there are already eleventy zillion threads/posts complaining that this or that feature is not present. Do we really need another one? The powers that be have already asked us to be patient while they work on the change. > > No, I am not on the new software committee. But doesn’t it seem logical that on a board where bandwidth is an issue, the default will eventually be set to “no signature,” as it was before, in the interest of conserving server resources, as it was for that very reason before? Ya know what? I think that’s the job of the powers that be, not regular ol’ members. You were out of line. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-default-to-dont-include-signature-in-new-vbulletin/224481/12 "2004-01-17T19:37:49Z")
> [@dantheman](#): > > You were out of line. Ironically, I find this rather hypocritical, given the rest of your post. And, for the record, I don’t think **Scarlett67** ’s post was even remotely snarky, or out of line. They _are_ still working on tweaking the software (see **TubaDiva** ’s announcement) and they probably _will_ go back to having signatures not appear by default (given the rule about sigs in the FAQ). Now _that_ was snarky. See the difference?