Thread:Mathmagician/@comment-188432-20120827220853/@comment-188432-20120828124719

I know no one here cares about past signatures. That's what's making this even more infuriating. If this were really good policy then of course the staff would care about past signatures. I mean, if it actually mattered that I was aborting the RTE, it seems to me they would do what was necessary to see that the few hundred messages to which I've replied would no longer exhibit this behavior. But, curiously, everyone seems quite willing to just allow my work so far to stand, such that my sig looks like crap and the pages still abort the RTE.

I obviously, however, can't allow that on my home wiki, where I'm supposed to be someone who knows what they're doing with technical matters. Instantaneously, around 10K signatures around Wikia were foobarred by this change required by the staff of a wiki where I've barely made any contributions.

Obviously, I have changed to a SpecPref line similar to the one you've suggested Eladkse. That — or something very like it — is how you fix it. As I said before, there was no question of how to fix it. The question is — and nobody involved in forcing this down my throat cares about this question — "What happens to all the instances where my signature it is now broken?"

What if I asked you or our newly-minted BS here, to accept a solution in which your signature — in every instance where you've used it for the last two years — would now display raw HTML? What if the solution I was forcing on you had absolutely no impact on your home wiki, except that it made your signature look like crap? Would you be happy with that? Or would you think you were being forced to do something that made no sense?

If you're honest, I think you'd probably be a little upset, too. The reward for helping out at Central should never be something which has a negative impact on your home wiki.