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.
Dies ist ein Thema in unserer Community, das die Signaturen (Firmas) zeigt, die ein anderer Benutzer für viele Mitglieder erstellt hat.
http://www.helloforos.com/t/varias-firmas-que-marta-nos-hizo/8625/31
Was das Erscheinungsbild betrifft, bin ich mir nicht sicher, dass es etwas Besonderes sein muss. Die Idee ist einfach, dass für Benutzer, deren Signaturen aktiv angezeigt werden, es so aussieht, als hätte ein Benutzer am Ende ihres Themas eine Nachricht gepostet.
Eines sollte man beachten: Oft handelt es sich um animierte GIFs, daher möchten wir nicht, dass das System sie automatisch als PNGs importiert und ihre Größe ändert.
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.
Man wusste einfach nicht, wie einfach es ist, animierte GIFs zu vergrößern oder zu verkleinern. Wir könnten die Nutzer auffordern, selbst für die Dateigrößenbegrenzung verantwortlich zu sein.
Ich denke, die Nutzer würden es verstehen, wenn wir die Option nur für Desktop verfügbar machen. Oder aber die Option dual gestalten…
Nutzer-Signaturen anzeigen
Desktop
Mobile
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.
Gibt es eine Stelle, an der man Entwickler findet, die Discourse-Plugins entwickeln können? 
@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, wenn Benutzer ihre Signaturen manuell in ihren Beiträgen einfügen würden, möchten Sie dann nicht die Möglichkeit haben, diese zu deaktivieren? Da es kein Signaturfeld gibt, neigen die Benutzer in unserer Community dazu, diese direkt in den Text ihrer Nachrichten einzufügen. Mein Vorschlag ist, die Anzeige von Signaturen als Benutzereinstellung zu gestalten (standardmäßig deaktiviert).
„Wir sind das Wesen dessen, was wir tun! Der Teil, den wir jeweils im Kosmos spielen. Gutes für andere zu tun, bedeutet, unsere Unterschrift unter die Welt zu setzen.
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 ?