Do the guidelines of Discourse Meta apply to every discourse forums?

Ok, I’ve been noticing people signing their posts in another discourse forum

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though it says this in the Discourse Meta Guidelines

Even though the discourse forum I linked has their own rules, I am confused as Someone told someone else to not do that

so does the Discourse Meta Guidelines apply to every discourse forums?

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Not really, as many Discourse-based forums are independent entities and can decide their own rules.

However it’s a good guideline because of the way the software works and the nature of the UI, so other sites would do well to consider this approach.

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yes like @merefield says it’s up to the individual forums to set their own guidelines and rules.

personally i don’t like signatures for the very reason stated. but there is definitely no general rule against signatures in posts, and there is also a discourse signature plugin.

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