# Signatures?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/147697>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [January 10, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/147697 "2003-01-10T06:26:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![mindmirror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mindmirror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mindmirror)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/147697/1 "2003-01-10T06:26:05Z")

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Um, I’m sorry if this has already been discussed, and if it sounds incredibly trivial (which I’m pretty sure it does):

How in the world do I enable my signature? I have a signature, but it won’t show up. Not even in my “view user info” page. What am I doing wrong? Heh.

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**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/147697/2 "2003-01-10T06:29:51Z")

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Howdy!

Under the Reply window (not the Quick Reply window), there is a Show Signature box you need to check.

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**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/147697/3 "2003-01-10T07:59:34Z")

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Well, it’s in the quick reply option too.

And if you preview, you must check the box again.

Hence:

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**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/147697/4 "2003-01-10T08:17:18Z")

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Well, so it is. I guess I never scroll down that far when I’m using the Quick Reply. Or something.

Has it always been on the Quick Reply?

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**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/147697/5 "2003-01-10T08:23:43Z")

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I think so.

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**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/147697/6 "2003-01-10T10:26:49Z")

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I’ll just be putting my dufus badge on then and go slink off watch all the LOTR threads.

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**Author:** ![mindmirror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mindmirror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mindmirror)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/147697/7 "2003-01-10T14:18:45Z")

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OH there it is!! I gotta click it every time? Why didn’t I see that? Thanks. 🙂