On 30 September 2014 20:58, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
Would this mean that if people had a fancy sig, and they changed it, it would automatically update everywhere with this magic tag instead of just applying to new signatures? (Which might be cool)
Downside to that you might have some tricky issue where people change their sig after the fact to be something malicious (For some definition of malicious), and then all the old sigs change without an edit to track it and generally be a vehicle for mass vandalism. (Didn't that use to be an issue on /. ?)
This also makes working out ​what the state of the page at time X quite hard for things like "Please note that I am being paid to edit by XYZ Inc." that come and go from month to month to be seen. I'd not be a fan of changing this expectation without a huge amount of prior notice, and definitely not doing to retrospectively…
J.