# How do I get my sig on auto? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 30, 2002, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-my-sig-on-auto/145612 "2002-12-30T04:23:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-my-sig-on-auto/145612/1 "2002-12-30T04:23:32Z")
How do I make my signature be on the posts automatically without me having to click the box every time? And did I ask this question in the right place? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-my-sig-on-auto/145612/2 "2002-12-30T04:28:25Z")
Adjust your profile in your UserCP – either under profile or options it allows you to do that. (However, think twice about doing it – it consumes bandwidth, and we’re all trying to avoid abusing bandwidth in an effort to keep the board moving as fast as it currently does with the turbo-hamsters – about five months ago it was the speed of an arthritic snail on downers.) And to your second question, yes. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-my-sig-on-auto/145612/3 "2002-12-30T04:40:01Z")
Ok. Thanks for the prompt answer. It seems like I am in the minority when it comes to the sig being off. And the board seems quite fast lately. Should i still think twice? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-my-sig-on-auto/145612/4 "2002-12-30T04:43:08Z")
Poly - I’ve looked in profile and options, can’t find an option to leave my sig on. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-my-sig-on-auto/145612/5 "2002-12-30T05:17:41Z")
I don’t think there is an option. You want it on every post, you got a lot of buttons to click. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-my-sig-on-auto/145612/6 "2002-12-30T08:26:24Z")
Yeah, sigs are defaulted not to display, since it takes up bandwidth. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-my-sig-on-auto/145612/7 "2002-12-30T23:27:06Z")
I was pretty sure there had been a mod/admin stipulation of (ideally)once per thread or (if you must)once per page appearance of sigs. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-my-sig-on-auto/145612/8 "2002-12-30T23:28:50Z")
(those _ **once** _s being ideal maximums, of course, not requirements). ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-my-sig-on-auto/145612/9 "2002-12-31T00:34:39Z")
There is an option to turn off having to look at anyone’s sig in the profile …I like it. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-my-sig-on-auto/145612/10 "2002-12-31T02:04:24Z")
I though the Mods or Admins blocked the functin that allows that box to be checked by default. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-get-my-sig-on-auto/145612/11 "2002-12-31T02:13:30Z")
It was checked by default when the board software was last upgraded, I remember that…