# Signatures... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 3, 2005, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/302185 "2005-05-03T05:04:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/302185/1 "2005-05-03T05:04:12Z")
How do I get my signatures to attach by default? For some reason, the default setting on my account seems to be to leave the signature off unless I check the box every time I post. Any way to fix this? ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/302185/2 "2005-05-03T05:16:56Z")
From the FAQ sticky at the top of this forum (ATMB): > [@Arnold Winkelreid](#): > > **How many times should I include my signature in a thread?** > Once per thread should be sufficient for people to admire the pearl of wisdom included in your signature. If you post multiple times in a thread it is recommended that you only include the signature in one of your posts. We’re an extremely high-traffic board, and limiting signatures is one of the many ways we attempt to save on server resources. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/302185/3 "2005-05-03T15:58:10Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > Any way to fix this? Nope. I’m afraid not. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/302185/4 "2005-05-03T16:02:23Z")
Don’t have one. I for one will think you are much cooler. They are lame. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/302185/5 "2005-05-03T17:56:53Z")
> [@Scarlett67](#): > > From the FAQ sticky at the top of this forum (ATMB): > We’re an extremely high-traffic board, and limiting signatures is one of the many ways we attempt to save on server resources. Ahh, OK, thanks. The FAQ linked at the top of the message board pages didn’t mention anything about that, but now that I look at it again, it seems to be for the software in general and not for this board in particular. Thanks a bunch. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/302185/6 "2005-05-04T09:28:11Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > Ahh, OK, thanks. The FAQ linked at the top of the message board pages didn’t mention anything about that, but now that I look at it again, it seems to be for the software in general and not for this board in particular. Thanks a bunch. Revel in this place’s relative siglessness. I don’t mind seeing them occasionally, but I can’t help but think that the people who display them with every post - especially if they’re big - are just unbearably lame. Making it a once-in-awhile thing allows us to find them clever rather than annoying. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/302185/7 "2005-05-04T13:35:13Z")
> [@](#): > > Revel in this place’s relative siglessness. Actually, that’s one of my favorite features in the more recent versions of vB - the option a user has to hide **all** sigs. Also, I don’t think you’ll ever find “big sig lines” here. When I was modding, we were pretty strict about limiting sigs to just three lines. I dunno if the staff still enforces it as stringently as we used to. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/302185/8 "2005-05-04T14:10:16Z")
We now punish offenders by garrote. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/302185/9 "2005-05-04T14:18:00Z")
> [@Ukulele Ike](#): > > We now punish offenders by garrote. Where’s the _WUV_, **Ukulele Ike**? 😃😃😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/302185/10 "2005-05-04T14:25:07Z")
Awesome, Uke. Kin I have my old job back? I’ll supply my own piano wire. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/302185/11 "2005-05-04T17:55:58Z")
Be careful of what you ask for. your humble TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![mkl12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mkl12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkl12)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/302185/12 "2005-05-04T21:52:53Z")
> [@UncleBeer](#): > > Awesome, Uke. Kin I have my old job back? I’ll supply my own piano wire. Speaking of that old job, shouldn’t you be an SDSAB? ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/302185/13 "2005-05-04T22:55:09Z")
> [@UncleBeer](#): > > I dunno if the staff still enforces it as stringently as we used to. Apparently not. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/302185/14 "2005-05-05T11:52:14Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > Revel in this place’s relative siglessness. I don’t mind seeing them occasionally, but I can’t help but think that the people who display them with every post - especially if they’re big - are just unbearably lame. Making it a once-in-awhile thing allows us to find them clever rather than annoying. I’d always gathered that sigs were limited to no more than four lines, and that the etiquette was to display them only in your first post in a thread, and not in subsequent posts. Anyway, I like 'em: you can have my sig when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/302185/15 "2005-05-05T12:25:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Speaking of that old job, shouldn’t you be an SDSAB? Yeah, I guess. When I re-upped my subscription, the software hung that other tag on me. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/302185/16 "2005-05-05T12:41:46Z")
I thought SDSAB got in free? You could have taken that European holiday with the money you saved 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/302185/17 "2005-05-05T16:36:13Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > I’d always gathered that sigs were limited to no more than four lines, and that the etiquette was to display them only in your first post in a thread, and not in subsequent posts. Anyway, I like 'em: you can have my sig when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. Well, those standards are certainly not enforced. Then there’s Bosda, who normally does limit his sig to under four lines, but makes up for it with big-ass text. Which is annoying, since I _do_ like certain sigs and don’t want to turn them off just to deal with the super-clueless. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/302185/18 "2005-05-05T16:48:46Z")
> [@](#): > > I thought SDSAB got in free? They/we do. But I paid anyway. The first year I paid because I wanted to do a search - I don’t remember the exact details, but the timing between moving the SDSAB group to full membership privileges from guest status was weird somehow. And this year I paid again, because, well, I forgot I could have a free membership. > [@](#): > > You could have taken that European holiday with the money you saved. Or finally get that newspaper I’ve been savin’ up for. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signatures/302185/19 "2005-05-06T04:55:45Z")
Hell, I saw the title of the thread, and I’m doing the following: Testing my signature. Tripler The heck with you guys, for once, I’m following a thread title!!