I personally like the 4 lines that BrowserUk used as a kind response to somthing stupid I said. I probably will remove the last line, because it doesn't add anything. *shrugs* I don't know. This is a vi vs. emacs kind of debate. You're not the first to comment on this, and you won't be the last.

An interesting note - PM is the only place I actually have a signature. I don't even use one at work.

90% of the time your nodes are 20-40 lines long? Are you sure? I checked your last 10 nodes (as of this writing), and here are the line counts:

395203:  7
395121:  2
395117:  3
395114:  4
395101:  1
395093:  3
395092: 11
395090:  2
395089: 14
395010:  1

This is using a window width where your signature itself uses 6 lines (excluding the disclaimer you sometimes use below the sig). I didn't count blank lines, but I did count lines of code that had just one character on a line. This, admittingly small, sample uses an average line count of 4.8. Which is less than your sig. In fact, only 3 out of 10 postings have more lines than your sig.

Even if I customize my CSS to completely hide your signature

Here is the css-

  div.pmsig-85580 {
    display: none;
  }
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which I'm unlikely to do since I find completely hiding things from myself is a bad idea

I couldn't agree more but this node was just too much for me :) I'd have prefered to replace the signature with text that said "signature hidden" or somesuch but even if it is possible my CSS skills aren't up to the job. Is there some sane way to limit signatures at a site level?

I'm not sure if this works, but it should:

div.pmsig-85580:before {
    display: block;
    text-align: right;
    color: #444;
    content: 'Signature hidden';
}
div.pmsig-85580 {
    display: none;
}
[download]

Update: turns out it needs more tricks. The :before block is considered to be a child of the element it is attached to, so display:block, visibility:hidden or anything else applied to that element will also affect the :before block. So it requires a little cheating:

div.pmsig-85580 {
    height: 1.5em;
    overflow: hidden;
}
div.pmsig-85580:before {
    content: 'Signature hidden';
    color: #444;
    text-align: right;
    height: 1.5em;
    display: block;
}
[download]

Here the box is set to a fixed 1.5em height, all of which are then occupied by the :before block. The rest of the content would normally spill onto the elements following on the page, but is prevented from that by way of overflow:hidden — voilà.

Makeshifts last the longest.

Very nice thank-you :-) I started to reply to your original node with a quote from the W3C documents-

The :before and :after pseudo-elements inherit any inheritable properties from the element in the document tree to which they are attached.

Which you obviously worked out just as I did :)

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