What's the deal with sigs anyway? Who came up with them? Why do we use them? You read the user's sig once, and if it's good, you laugh think about it, get angry that it has forced you to breathe manually, etc. If it's retarded (this space for rent, I have no sig, signature goes here, under construction, etc.) you groan. It's pretty easy to skip over a small signature a line or two long. Flashy images between posts are pretty distracting. In the past some users have attached completely irrelevant images to their posts, and what happened? It ticked everyone off.