Thread:Dopp/@comment-188432-20120828033541

Hey,

I've complied with your request that I change my signature to something that won't abort the RTE. This solution will work on all signatures going forward. However, it does nothing to change the situation on pages on which my old signature was applied. That's because the span tags, which were the cause of the RTE abortion, existed outside of a template call. Changing the templates cannot, therefore, remove these span tags.

If you want to make those past threads come into compliance with this unwritten policy, it's realistically going to require a bot. I'm now having to change thousands of pages on my home wiki, following this sig change.

Of course, running a bot will screw with the order in which threads are listed on the forum. Some long dead threads will be moved to the top of the list. So I suppose you, or another Staff member, have to decide whether compliance with this policy is more valuable than having the forums sort by the last meaningful edit. 