Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-25075055-20140206220508/@comment-9062114-20140207181921

Speysider wrote:

TombRaiser wrote: Man of steak, while your signature may appear shorter, take a look at it in source mode. The way you have your signature set up in DragonScript is not correct, since all you needed to add was along with any clickable links.

I don't think it should be forbidden to use DragonScript or any of the other language templates, as long as you know what you're doing when you create the signature, and link back to your profile or talk page.

There are times when I can't see some user's signatures when I'm on a different computer. For instance, when I'm on my MacBook or iPad, I see a unidentified characters or even question marks. I think this happened when viewing UAM's previous signature. It doesn't happen now, since it's different now. The issue is that few people who are using these templates are actually linking back to their talkpage / userpage at all. :/

The signature is supposed to identify the commentor, if the user's name is replaced with a load of symbols from template scripts, how is anyone meant to know who made the comment, unless you hovered over the links - if any - and looked at the URL, or if someone actually put their username after all the template stuff ? I'm pretty sure that the templates weren't created so people could obfuscate their username when posting comments on talkpages. :/ People are giving links back to there profile and talk pages though, I understand this could pass for people who don't, but we shouldn't punish people who do.