Our users are clamoring for signatures. It’s the one thing that has become the most consistent issue brought up so far. We cannot just ignore our audience, so I wanted to see what could be done.
While I understand the drawback of them, if there were an option that they were off by default, and users had the option to turn them on, I don’t see what the harm could be.
I hope that this is taken into consideration.
You are going to want to go into more detail than that.
One point of confusion:
So users can turn whether they see them on or off? Or they can enable/disable their own signature?
Also, if you can mockup screenshots of where you think these settings should exist, how the signature should be shown on a post, how the signature gets entered, etc. That would go a long way.
Will migrate to Discourse soon, I am curious to find out how much they will miss them 
Thanks. Will try to draft something more visual.
User Signature (in preferences)
Show user signatures at the bottom of messages
User signature (image) *Similar to the selection for User Card Background
Signature images will be shown below all messages, a max width of Xpx and max height of 200px
User signature (text)
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I don’t think this should be on core, but a somewhat complex plugin.
これは、当コミュニティのトピックで、他のユーザー（マルタさん）が多くのメンバーのために作成した署名（firmas）を紹介するものです。
http://www.helloforos.com/t/varias-firmas-que-marta-nos-hizo/8625/31
外観については、特別なものにする必要はないと思います。アイデアは、署名がアクティブに表示されているユーザーの場合、トピックの下部にユーザーが投稿したメッセージがあるように見えるようにすることです。
覚えておくべき点の一つは、これらは多くの場合アニメーション GIF であるため、システムが自動的に PNG としてインポートしてサイズを変更しないようにすることです。
Yeah, I’ve edited the post, the validation should probably be customized by admin.
OTOH, that will be complex as hell.
Thx @falco for typing the requirements. I’m going to make some adjustments..
Priority 1
an image upload (or URL field) to place a single image (.png, .jpg or .gif). Max file size and dimensions to be checked.
a site wide option to enable this text area and signatures in general
a per user option on profile to see signatures below posts.
Priority 2
a text area on user profile that accepts and compiles the same markdown of posts. Max characters and no images allowed.
This may seem like a low important feature, BUT, the alternative is that users manually place these animated GIFs in the body of their messages, meaning that more users have to see these images that actually don’t want to. They start embedding links to external images that get placed in our messages.
By creating this feature, we end up keeping our message content much cleaner and creating a distinction between message and signature.
“We are the essence of what we DO! The part we each play in the cosmos. Doing good deeds for others is leaving our signature on the world.” ― Angie Karan
That would be waaaaaaaaaay better handled on signature save. Think of the data-caped users! They may want signatures while @ home and let the option turned on, but when on mobile I have lost my datacap to a single page filled with gifs.
You can either find a size that is good enough for both (200kb maybe?) or remove all on mobile version.
アニメーション GIF のサイズ変更がこれほど簡単だとは知りませんでしたね。ファイルサイズの上限については、ユーザーに責任を持っていただくよう依頼することもできます。
もしデスクトップ版でのみそのオプションを有効にすれば、ユーザーも理解してくれるでしょう。あるいは、オプションを二重にするという手もあります…
ユーザー署名を表示
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Again, I want to remind people when looking at this feature not to just think about the users who are asking for it, but the users who don’t want to be forced to see it by users placing signatures manually in their posts.
“We are the essence of what we DO! The part we each play in the cosmos. Doing good deeds for others is leaving our signature on the world.” ― Angie Karan
We had a number of users ask for these until we pointed out the User Cards.
Signatures are pretty disruptive to the overall process of reading and participating in forums, so I was really glad that profile cards sufficed for our group.
As @sam once put it:
Plugin seems like the right place for this, I would be quite disheartened if core development time was spent on something like Signatures.
Discourse プラグインを開発できる開発者が見つかる場所はありますか？
@sam. I respect your thoughts on this. I just want you to keep in mind that our audience is very passionate about this. Meaning they will insert their signatures (animated GIFs) manually in the meantime. So, by not putting the signature in a separate field where it can be handled properly, we are forcing the rest of our community to see them.
“We are the essence of what we DO! The part we each play in the cosmos. Doing good deeds for others is leaving our signature on the world.” ― Angie Karan
This would be a very cool plugin to make, but I not 100% I can handle it alone. 
@eviltrout we have a outlet inside the post that we can use to achieve signatures?
Sure, I can add that. Where would you want it to be?
Other than the one that’s already in post.hbs?
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{{post-gap post=this postStream=controller.model.postStream before="false"}}
{{plugin-outlet "post-bottom"}}
I agree. I think signatures are old-fashioned, just create clutter and don’t contribute to a conversation in any way. If someone says something interesting, I’ll view their card or click through to their profile to find out more about them.
I’m glad Discourse doesn’t have signatures.
@holden、もしユーザーが投稿に手動で署名を貼り付けるようになったら、それを無効にする機能が必要になりませんか？署名フィールドがないため、私たちのコミュニティのユーザーはメッセージ本文に署名を貼り付けようとしています。私の提案は、署名の表示をユーザー設定にし（デフォルトでは非表示）することです。
「私たちは私たちが行うことの真髄です！それぞれが宇宙で果たす役割。他者に善行を施すことは、世界に自分の署名を残すことです。」 ― アンジ・カラン
I think the one we have right now is good to show ads but for sigs it’s kinda strange for then to be after the post controls.
What about after the .cooked and before the .post-menu-area ?