# Rules on sig repitition? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 11, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-on-sig-repitition/174503 "2003-05-11T15:29:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-on-sig-repitition/174503/1 "2003-05-11T15:29:40Z")
So I’m just posting along, minding my own business, and this other guy gives me a load of whale dreck about how its against the rules to have my sig on my post more than once per thread? Huh? Can’t see it anywhere on the FAQ’s, so whats the deal? ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-on-sig-repitition/174503/2 "2003-05-11T15:49:42Z")
I’m only answering because sometimes it takes Moderators a few days to get around to it. I speak with no authority. But, on more than one occasion, a Moderator, probably **Arnold Winkelried** , has requested that posters limit their signatures to four lines, and that they limit the use to either once per thread, or once per page (50 posts), I forget which. But, I don’t think there’s a strict board policy on this, or else it would have been added to the FAQ. And I have no idea what to search for to find it this. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-on-sig-repitition/174503/3 "2003-05-11T15:52:19Z")
Here’s a [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=119264) on sig repetition. ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-on-sig-repitition/174503/4 "2003-05-11T18:45:34Z")
Same disclaimer as **Achernar**. First, I think in GD posting your sig more than once detracts from what you are saying (though not so much in that thread, you guys seem to be walking a fine line between debating and sticking out your tongues). But, more importantly to the board, if several posters with high post counts like yours were to decide to change your sigs at the same time, it would be a significant(I know 🙂 ) load on the server if they all had their sigs in almost every post. Maybe this effect would be lessened by the fact that your sig is one line, though you must have changed it, since **milroyj** quotes a line from you which doesn’t appear in any of your posts. And, btw: > [@](#): > > Main Entry: flaunt > > 1 : to display or obtrude oneself to public notice > 2 : to wave or flutter showily \ > transitive senses > 1 : to display ostentatiously or impudently : PARADE \ > 2 : to treat contemptuously \ **Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-on-sig-repitition/174503/5 "2003-05-11T20:16:50Z") [Linkety-link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=183039). ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-on-sig-repitition/174503/6 "2003-05-11T21:41:50Z")
The general guide line seems to be once per thread. Using sigs does add load on the server, making the board slower. Another thing that I have noticed in recent months is a general decline in the usage of sigs (or so it appears to me). I wonder whether that is indeed the case. Does anyone have figures ? ---
**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:** [May 12, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-on-sig-repitition/174503/7 "2003-05-12T00:32:06Z")
[New addition to the “Guidelines on posting” FAQ](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=3407287#post3407287) ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-on-sig-repitition/174503/8 "2003-05-12T00:36:21Z")
I like it. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-on-sig-repitition/174503/9 "2003-05-12T04:06:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \* > \*\*[New addition to the “Guidelines on posting” FAQ](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=3407287#post3407287) \*\* Good policy, but, nitpick, “…deemed _too_ long…” Unlike us, of course, _you_ can edit your own post! ---
**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:** [May 12, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-on-sig-repitition/174503/10 "2003-05-12T04:10:09Z")
:o ¡Muchas Gracias! ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-on-sig-repitition/174503/11 "2003-05-13T16:42:43Z")
elucidator, in your profile you can turn off having to look at any sigs. I use it perhaps because I think it makes page viewing faster for me. ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-on-sig-repitition/174503/12 "2003-05-14T19:02:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by handy \* > \*\*elucidator, in your profile you can turn off having to look at any sigs. I use it perhaps because I think it makes page viewing faster for me. \*\* handy, I don’t think this was the problem. :rolleyes: And I thank you too, Arnold. Even though I have a sig, I never use it. Also, I’ve turned off sigs, so I don’t have to see them. It’s a very very very nice feature of this board. Thanks again, Arnold and all you moddies out there.