# Turn on Signature Automatically?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-on-signature-automatically/152372>\
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**Created:** [February 2, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-on-signature-automatically/152372 "2003-02-02T22:22:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anaxagoras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Anaxagoras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaxagoras)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-on-signature-automatically/152372/1 "2003-02-02T22:22:53Z")

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Is there a way to turn on my signature automatically? That is, can the

Show Signature: include your profile signature. Only registered users may have signatures.

checkbox be turned on by default? (I keep forgetting to include my sig.)

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**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:** [February 2, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-on-signature-automatically/152372/2 "2003-02-02T22:57:53Z")

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I think it has been disabled by the admins; I believe I am right in saying that it is considered something between unneccessary and bad form to include your signature more than once per thread/page.

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**Author:** ![Anaxagoras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Anaxagoras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaxagoras)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-on-signature-automatically/152372/3 "2003-02-04T19:51:50Z")

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I would submit that the “Use ‘Email Notification’ by default?” checkbox takes up a _lot_ more resources than an equivalent “Include signature by default?” checkbox would.

On a similar note: I use the User CP button to keep track of the threads I am participating in. By default, it always shows me the threads for the past day, even though I would rather have it show me the threads for the past 5 days. Is this possible?

Remembered my sig this time 🙂

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**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-on-signature-automatically/152372/4 "2003-02-04T21:20:29Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Anaxagoras \*  
> I would submit that the “Use ‘Email Notification’ by default?” checkbox takes up a _lot_ more resources than an equivalent “Include signature by default?” checkbox would.

This is probably true, but the difference is, of course, that email notification is useful and productive, and signatures are not. 😉

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**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:** [February 4, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-on-signature-automatically/152372/5 "2003-02-04T23:15:03Z")

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And (correct me if I’m wrong) I don’t think anybody posting regularly would find the email thing very convenient; constantly getting an inbox full of update messages.