About 2 years ago, I was looking at a forum that looked like the one pictured and thought, "Why would anyone let this happen to their forum?"
Signatures started as a way to putting personality into your post, and they still are, but it's gone way overboard. Many forums put a reasonable limit on that stuff now. 2 lines, 100 characters, etc.
I never looked at StackExchange as a solution to that, though. Forums were for everything from chatting to problem solving, and are usually conveniently divided for such. StackExchange is just for problem solving.
Signatures started as a way to putting personality into your post, and they still are, but it's gone way overboard. Many forums put a reasonable limit on that stuff now. 2 lines, 100 characters, etc.
I never looked at StackExchange as a solution to that, though. Forums were for everything from chatting to problem solving, and are usually conveniently divided for such. StackExchange is just for problem solving.