Hmmm…Didn’t work…
Oh, I have to check the box!
I keep forgetting to add my sig. I change it more often than I post it.
Sigs that make no sense to anyone other than the sig-owner and the quoted poster are good, too.
Robin
Mine changes every month or so because I have a file full of sig lines to choose from.
I’d like to thank Phlip for starting this thread. Now I know we’re really back to normal, when the “sigs are too fucking long” threads start showing up in the Pit. 
And, Phlip? You’re new, I know, so you couldn’t be expected to know that we spent most of last December, January, and February discussing just this issue. 
How about that.
Brace yourself–
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…and most of us with really long sigs have long since stopped using them for every post, in order to ease the load on the server, as requested by the Administration way back when.
I agree, Robin 
From hardygrrl’s sig:
I’d forgotten about the glass-and-tapioca bit. And for anyone wondering: yes, that is an actual line from my book. No, the whole book is not like that. I will not explain it any further in this thread however.
As for the OP, yes, I can kind of agree. I’ve seen a few epic sigs, so I know what you’re talking about. But as has been pointed out, the mods and admins, some time ago put a limit to sig size and sig usage to save beating up the server with it. If a mod or admin deems the sig too long, the person will be requested to change it.
Also, if the sig is enormous, just don’t read it.
BTW, on my screen this sig is 4 lines long:
I think mine is fine.
I have to post my sig so the Dopers don’t forget how much they love me. Don’t blame me; I’m doing it for you guys!
Oh, good gravy, Phlip . . . you’re upset by a sig longer than four lines?
There was a doper had a farm and Bingo was his . . . oh wait. ::shuffles through notecards::
There once was a doper from Nantucket
who said—wrong again, sorry. ::shuffles through again::
There was this doper who had a story as his sig line. I believe, but am not certain (can’t do a search on the person’s SN), that it was Mu Mu.
He was eventually convinced A) not to use it every singly time and B) to change it to something that was smaller than the entire collection of **handy[/s]'s posts.
Fran - I prefer utmost good faith. As in - I present to you my views and the facts as I see them with no deception on my part.
I use my sig randomly, but I just want to show it off here, because it’s relatively new.
(The beauty part is that, a year from now, some newbie is gonna be reading this post, and my sig will be different, and they’ll think my sig is a year old).
Or, as I do, you can use it as a coup de grace at the end of your argument.
Just one thing, "sub"ing your sig text dosent reduce load on the server, even if it is easier to read.
Just to bump my post count, and show off my “Espirix: I rock” joke.
See The Jargon File entries for McQuary limit and warlording.
The best example of warlording I’ve seen was in response to someone who asked a one line question, followed by a 25 line .sig with an ASCII graphic of Boba Fett. The graphic has been removed, but the exchange is quoted here. It’s one of the three funniest things I’ve ever read on the web.
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25 lines? Feh.
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.
First of all, spell my fucking name right! Lordy how that cheeses me off.
Second of all - usurper!
Esprix