Signature length

[help3434]

The 400 character limit is too small. Can it be increased to 600 or even 800 characters?

[otseng]

The 400 character limit is too small. Can it be increased to 600 or even 800 characters?

What would require 600-800 characters?

[help3434]

The 400 character limit is too small. Can it be increased to 600 or even 800 characters?

What would require 600-800 characters?

The signature I want is:
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you may not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. [Robert Heinlein] “If this goes On-“

[otseng]

OK, max sig length set to 600.

[help3434]

[Replying to post 4 by otseng]

Thank you.

[keithprosser3]

'Signatures' add nothing and just take up space. There may be many wonderful aphorisms in the world, but 'I think therefore I spam' isn't funny the 200th time - it is just bloody annoying screen clutter.

I say 'no to signatures'. Pointless things.

[otseng]

'Signatures' add nothing and just take up space. There may be many wonderful aphorisms in the world, but 'I think therefore I spam' isn't funny the 200th time - it is just bloody annoying screen clutter.

I say 'no to signatures'. Pointless things.

Go here (Profile/Profile Settings/Reading) and you can turn off seeing others' signatures.

[LiamOS]

I'd never known that; thanks O!

Makes reading threads far more pleasant.

[keithprosser3]

Ditto. I hope people have fun writing 600 character signatures that no-one is going to actually read, or even I suspect, see.

[Danmark]

Along with a limitation on signature length, a limitation on the length of the first post would make for a cleaner look. The original post on each subtopic is repeated on every page. The original poster could state his case concisely in a few lines, outlining the debate topic and question. Then in his 2d post he could expound if he feels it necessary. There is no reason to see the same lengthy post (sometimes with videos and photos) repeated over and over, taking up space unnecessarily.

An example is 'Why Would an Athiest or Agnostic Convert to Christianity?'
posted in Christianity and Apologetics. The repeated post one takes up almost as much space as the replies on each page.