# Do you have signatures turned off? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 24, 2009, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-signatures-turned-off/518831 "2009-11-24T22:21:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-signatures-turned-off/518831/1 "2009-11-24T22:21:53Z")
Easy one – a quick yes or no question: Do you see your fellow posters’ signatures? ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-signatures-turned-off/518831/2 "2009-11-24T22:41:43Z")
I didn’t know you could turn them off. Now that I know, my answer might change quickly! ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-signatures-turned-off/518831/3 "2009-11-24T22:55:11Z")
I don’t remember turning them off, but I just checked my CP and sure enough, they’re off. Is “off” the default? I know that I see a lot of sign-offs (“Regards…”, “Enjoy…”) that aren’t technically “signatures,” but I could also swear that I’ve been seeing actual sig-lines as well. I bet you’re going to get some inaccurate responses based on confusion about what actually is or isn’t a signature and people thinking they have one setting when they really have the other. Or I could just be the stupidest person on the board. I can’t rule it out for certain. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-signatures-turned-off/518831/4 "2009-11-24T23:51:51Z")
I’m pretty sure “on” is the default for seeing them. And by “them,” I’m referring to the automatic version of the signature line connected to your profile, the one that you click “show signature” to show. The ones that people type out by hand every time are signature equivalents (and let’s not start yet another series of Pit battles about what that equivalence consists of) that are visible to everyone, even those who have toggled signatures “off.” ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-signatures-turned-off/518831/5 "2009-11-24T23:56:38Z")
Whatever is default - so I think mine is on. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-signatures-turned-off/518831/6 "2009-11-25T00:06:25Z")
Show signatures is turned on for me. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-signatures-turned-off/518831/7 "2009-11-25T00:29:31Z")
I used to have it set on. But then one particular poster’s sigs started getting obnoxious, so I turned them off. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-signatures-turned-off/518831/8 "2009-11-25T00:51:50Z")
I didn’t know you could turn them off, and guess I don’t understand why you’d want to… ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-signatures-turned-off/518831/9 "2009-11-25T03:30:29Z")
I do, but they’re far less interesting since they banned the use of hotlinks in them. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-signatures-turned-off/518831/10 "2009-11-25T04:04:01Z")
I thought I had. I do now, though. There was a poster who didn’t like people hiding his signature, so he\* pasted it into his post every single time\*. I just ignored him altogether. That’s obnoxious. ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-signatures-turned-off/518831/11 "2009-11-25T04:21:50Z")
Other’s sigs are annoying. Off, off, off. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-signatures-turned-off/518831/12 "2009-11-25T04:52:08Z")
Yeah, I’ve got them turned off. I really don’t understand those people who have to sign their posts above and beyond their signature. Fortunately, I can use [FoxReplace](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6510) to change their ever so boring and presumptuous sign-offs to the thoughts I really have about them. After all this time, I still get a giggle from their altered sigs. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-signatures-turned-off/518831/13 "2009-11-25T05:06:00Z")
I don’t remember ever actively turning it off, but I never see them, so it must be off. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-signatures-turned-off/518831/14 "2009-11-25T05:28:44Z")
I’m one of those odd ducks who would be happy with personalisation like avatars, but despise signatures. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-signatures-turned-off/518831/15 "2009-11-25T05:56:14Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I do, but they’re far less interesting since they banned the use of hotlinks in them. They did? When? Testing… ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-signatures-turned-off/518831/16 "2009-11-25T08:09:04Z")
On any other board I’d turn them off, because I’ve seen some mega-monster-sized sigs that make it truly hard to read a thread. Here, I hardly ever see them (as in not too many people have them) and if I do see them, they’re never intrusive. Plus I think vB is set to only show a poster’s sig once per thread. That’s nice. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-signatures-turned-off/518831/17 "2009-11-25T13:30:10Z")
Yes, because that’s the default and I don’t care about it. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-signatures-turned-off/518831/18 "2009-11-25T13:43:41Z")
I have ‘show signature’ checked in the User CP but it doesn’t show up when I post unless I click on the ‘show your signature’ in miscellaneous options on the reply to thread page.