Thread:CzechOut/@comment-4674838-20120825232426/@comment-188432-20120826015706

Wow. Lemme see if I understand this. You ask me to change something about my personal signature. I politely decline, and give you good cause why. So your response is not, "Okay, fair enough. i said my peace." No, your response is to report me to a staff member? I come to this wiki to try to help other people in the community — not to be brought before the principal.

Just out of curiosity, why now? I've had this sig for a year or two. Why is it suddenly a problem for you? And why has it never been a problem for any Staff member I've interacted with here? There have been plenty of times I've signed in threads that were attended by Staff and they've never made a peep. Examples of such threads within just the last week include: Admin Forum:RSS feeds not working and Admin Forum:Monobook tabs seriously dislocated after 1.19 upgrade.

While I'm not asking you to prove the point by actually going to Staff — it's really not worth wasting their time — I doubt you'll find much traction with Staff. The RTE is not an indivisible part of the user interface, since every user has the power to disable it in Special:Preferences, and since every user, of course, has the option to go to Monobook, where my signature has absolutely no effect on anything. Also, in a lot of the threads in which I post there is certainly the possibility that the RTE will get bypassed anyway – because of additional complex elements.

You still have failed to give me a reason why people, in a forum about technical issues, would ever find it beneficial to be fooled by a WYSIWYG approximation of what code actually looks like.

I generally swim in the "grown up" pool of the Admin Forum, and/or answer more technical questions in the regular Forum. It really shouldn't throw anyone who participates in such threads to have to look at source code. If they are momentarily confused, it will benefit them in the long run to have look upon and use "natural" MediaWiki wikicode.

I've been generous with my time in giving now three lengthy answers to your request. Sometimes, reasonable people just disagree. Let's leave it at amiable disagreement rather than escalating it to unpleasantness.