# How do you add a sig line to your profile? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 10, 2005, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-sig-line-to-your-profile/325530 "2005-10-10T08:24:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-sig-line-to-your-profile/325530/1 "2005-10-10T08:24:25Z")
Simple enough question. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-sig-line-to-your-profile/325530/2 "2005-10-10T09:24:31Z")
Click on the User CP link above, then “Edit Signature”. To have your signature appear, you have to click on “Show Your Signature” when you post, but it’s a generally accepted rule of etiquette to have 1) a signature that is small - less than 4 lines is the rule here, I think and 2) only use it once per thread. ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-sig-line-to-your-profile/325530/3 "2005-10-10T09:56:44Z")
Thanks ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-sig-line-to-your-profile/325530/4 "2005-10-10T09:57:47Z")
Huh? ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-sig-line-to-your-profile/325530/5 "2005-10-10T09:59:27Z")
Gosh ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-sig-line-to-your-profile/325530/6 "2005-10-10T10:00:32Z")
Why isn’t it doing it? ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-sig-line-to-your-profile/325530/7 "2005-10-10T10:04:19Z")
It isn’t showing my sig when I reply, even when I click the box- why the heck not?!!! ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-sig-line-to-your-profile/325530/8 "2005-10-10T10:07:53Z")
I just shortened it ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-sig-line-to-your-profile/325530/9 "2005-10-10T10:09:29Z")
And it still does not work. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-sig-line-to-your-profile/325530/10 "2005-10-10T10:41:49Z")
I’m seeing it just fine. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-sig-line-to-your-profile/325530/11 "2005-10-10T12:33:33Z")
Go to _user CP_, _edit options_, and check the view signatures box. This will let you see all the sigs. ---
**Author:** ![Gas-Rip-Off.com](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gas-Rip-Off.com](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gas-Rip-Off.com)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-sig-line-to-your-profile/325530/12 "2005-10-11T16:24:40Z")
thanks, it worked.