[WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures

Tue Jun 6 01:14:10 UTC 2006

Steve Summit wrote:
> Tony Sidaway wrote:
>> On 6/5/06, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
>>> When you see someone with a big, fancy, "cutesie" signature,
>>> it is obvious that (a) they spent a lot of time on it, and
>>> (b) it is very personal to them, it is part of their identity.
>> Yes, of course.  This isn't something to be encouraged.
> 
> Indeed not.  But (a) we "encouraged" it the day we implemented
> the "Raw signature" checkbox next to the Nickname field on the
> Preferences page,

This crap was well-entrenched before that. The 'raw signature' mode was added to
minimize the damage caused by invalid code being used in hacked-up signatures
breaking thousands of pages when bugs in the wiki got fixed.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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