User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: August 27, 2013/@comment-3279487-20130827193746

I honestly don't like the character limit increase since long signatures should be templetized in my opinion. If you want a "semi-global" signature, just use a code like: This way if you don't have the signature template on a wiki, a standard signature will be used.
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