apoil 0 #1 January 24, 2003 Currently people's signatures can end up right at the very end of their posts. Some folks signatures aren't obviously signatures, it just seems like some randomly unrelated statement at first until you see it showing up again and again at the end of peoples posts. I'd like to see either a way for us to opt not to see signatures at all just like we can opt not to see people's profile photos. Or more simply some easily identifiable tag that identifies the start of the signature. On Usenet postings a signature will always start after a "--" ie: -- signature goes here this would make it pretty easy for me to write my own filter for it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
narcimund 0 #2 January 24, 2003 This strikes me as an excellent suggestion. First Class Citizen Twice Over Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hooked 0 #3 January 24, 2003 Very good idea, since some people can't seem to leave a space between where their post ends and the start of their signature. J -------------------------------------- Sometimes we're just being Humans.....But we're always Human Beings. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndyMan 7 #4 January 25, 2003 QuoteOn Usenet postings a signature will always start after a "--" That only became common on usenet, after people drilled it home for eons... _Am__ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
indyz 1 #5 January 26, 2003 QuoteQuoteOn Usenet postings a signature will always start after a "--" That only became common on usenet, after people drilled it home for eons... And it's technically "-- ", dash-dash-space. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndyMan 7 #6 January 26, 2003 QuoteAnd it's technically "-- ", dash-dash-space. I never played well with others. _Am__ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
apoil 0 #7 January 28, 2003 QuoteQuoteQuoteOn Usenet postings a signature will always start after a "--" That only became common on usenet, after people drilled it home for eons... And it's technically "-- ", dash-dash-space. technically, it's "dash dash newline" and it's the usenet posting software that does it, not the people who had it "drilled home" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
indyz 1 #8 January 28, 2003 Quotetechnically, it's "dash dash newline" and it's the usenet posting software that does it, not the people who had it "drilled home" The string is "-- \n" or the string that matches the regular expression /^-- $/ or the string described as "a delimiter line containing (only) two hyphens (ASCII 45) followed by one blank (ASCII 32)." The later is from the "Son of RFC 1036." Ask Google about "sigdashes" for more information about this long-standing Internet tradition. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sangiro 25 #9 January 28, 2003 A good idea indeed... Unfortunately this will require a change to the source code (not just to the templates) and I'm trying to make as few changes as possible to code simply because I don't want to have to go back and make them all again everytime I upgrade the scripts. I'll pitch this to the company who develops the forums though... Safe swoops Sangiro Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
