On 6/5/06, John Lee johnleemk@gawab.com wrote:
I think the problem is not so much with custom sigs as with people who use fancy coding. It's irritating, especially when editing in a tight spot with a lot of extraneous HTML code. (Try closing an [[WP:RFD]] and you'll see what I mean.) The best custom sigs (such as mine) get their point across without having to resort to too much HTML. Mine is entirely in wikicode, because all the customisation it has is a link to my talk. This isn't a really big problem, though, IMO. Nevertheless, on one's own talk page, as long as the substance of the comment is unaltered, there shouldn't be anything wrong with altering customisation-heavy sigs.
We should encourage everyone with an outrageous, fancy or creative sig to instead develop an outrageous, fancy or creative userpage (where there really is scope to express one's self), and have their signature as primarily a simple link there, so people are actually able to go and see it.