I was just making an off-hand comment about how to make it work when creating a post or sending a PM (hereafter collectively "post") since we (non-admin users) can continue to post images using IMG (the content of which could subsequently be modified) but cannot in our signatures.bz2012 wrote:One thing to keep in mind is that when you change your signature, it seems to get changed in every post you have ever made to the forums.hawkeygoal wrote:Maybe we just all go old school and copy and paste signatures into the body of the post.taco909 wrote:Yes, it is rather silly as IMG tags are still available in forum posts.
A picture in a single posting is only seen by those that happen to see that posting.
To geek out... As you alluded to, the signature function maintains a separate storage space for your signature. Your signature is not actually added to a post. When we request to "add our signature" the content of that storage space is rendered after the post. Putting your current signature in each post would increase the storage consumed with each post. Likewise it would create a static copy of your signature in that post. While this would have the side-effect of separating the posts we made when we started from the ones we made while in other roles, its hardly worth it. The signature display in forum profiles would not be updated since it is just another rendering of the signature storage.
If the goal is to protect viewers from malicious content in images, this seems an incomplete solution. While it may not protect us from all zero-day attacks, observing security best practice on our own computers is still our individual responsibilities regardless of what we access on the Internet.
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