# What's up with the (sometimes) extra line under the sigs? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 28, 2000, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-sometimes-extra-line-under-the-sigs/34937 "2000-09-28T22:50:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2000, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-sometimes-extra-line-under-the-sigs/34937/1 "2000-09-28T22:50:07Z")
OK, I probably just need to up the medication today, but this is getting on my nerves. When you include your sig in a post, sometimes there is an extra line underneath it, and sometimes there isn’t. Like in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=25307) thread. You’ll notice that Show\_biz has 4 posts within the first 10 or so, and that in 2 of them, his/her sigline is flush with the bottom of the allotted space, and in 2 of them, there is an extra line! ::Fighting off OCD attack:: Why is this? Can you make it stop? I HATE THE EXTRA LINE!! [sub] OK, OK…I’m going home now. I fully expect that that when I check this thread in the morning that I will have had a new orifice ripped into me in my absence. G’Night! :)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2000, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-sometimes-extra-line-under-the-sigs/34937/2 "2000-09-28T23:38:51Z")
It’s not your medication. It’s been reported a few times before. One is here, and I recall another on a test thread. \*\*[Trouble with signature blank lines \*\*](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=37743) No answer, though. Probably some boundry condition on the wordwrap for an individual string. (That’s what I tell clients about all anomolies, and it’s sometimes probably true.) ---
**Author:** ![Fat\_Man\_in\_the\_Bathtub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Fat\_Man\_in\_the\_Bathtub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fat_Man_in_the_Bathtub)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-sometimes-extra-line-under-the-sigs/34937/3 "2000-09-29T02:26:44Z")
Has it occurred that perhaps Show\_Biz and others like him (Satan, for one) is a poster who types (or cuts and pastes) their sig every time. Show\_Biz has a smilie in his, I know this isn’t possible. So perhaps by typing the sig and adding spaces is the way to do it. * * * Like this. ---
**Author:** ![Fat\_Man\_in\_the\_Bathtub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Fat\_Man\_in\_the\_Bathtub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fat_Man_in_the_Bathtub)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-sometimes-extra-line-under-the-sigs/34937/4 "2000-09-29T02:27:50Z")
Okay, That was normal. * * * Like this. ---
**Author:** ![Fat\_Man\_in\_the\_Bathtub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Fat\_Man\_in\_the\_Bathtub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fat_Man_in_the_Bathtub)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-sometimes-extra-line-under-the-sigs/34937/5 "2000-09-29T02:29:15Z")
All I forgot was how many spaces to make the underscore. Or overscore. ---
**Author:** ![Pink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@Pink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pink)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-sometimes-extra-line-under-the-sigs/34937/6 "2000-09-29T13:52:23Z")
You’re wrong on three counts. 1- you can put smilies in your sig. Hundreds do. 2- Show\_Biz doesn’t has a regular sig. Go to one of his posts and puch “Reply With Quote”. The sig is not in the reply box because it wasn’t typed as part of the post. 3- If a thing is reported by several people as a bug, it’s not going to be because they all forgot they had typos making their “fixed” sigs. ---
**Author:** ![Pink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@Pink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pink)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-sometimes-extra-line-under-the-sigs/34937/7 "2000-09-29T13:55:08Z")
2- Show\_Biz has a regular sig. Go to one of his posts and puch “Reply With Quote”. The sig is not in the reply box because it wasn’t typed as part of the post. ---
**Author:** ![Fat\_Man\_in\_the\_Bathtub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Fat\_Man\_in\_the\_Bathtub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fat_Man_in_the_Bathtub)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-sometimes-extra-line-under-the-sigs/34937/8 "2000-10-03T02:34:55Z")
…what’s the fuss? ---
**Author:** ![Fat\_Man\_in\_the\_Bathtub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Fat\_Man\_in\_the\_Bathtub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fat_Man_in_the_Bathtub)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-sometimes-extra-line-under-the-sigs/34937/9 "2000-10-03T02:37:31Z")
…But I seem to have the extra line there. 😃 ---
**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:** [October 3, 2000, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-sometimes-extra-line-under-the-sigs/34937/10 "2000-10-03T05:41:09Z")
Referrring to the OP - what browser and OS are you using? I have Netscape Communicator 4.7 on MacOS. I don’t notice any extra lines under ShowBiz’s signature in any of the first five or six posts by ShowBiz in the thread to which the OP has a link. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2000, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-sometimes-extra-line-under-the-sigs/34937/11 "2000-10-04T16:41:22Z")
Interesting, AW. On WinNT, I get the extra line with IE4.01 but not with NS4.7