Thread:CzechOut/@comment-4674838-20120825232426/@comment-3030984-20120826193658

As an admin, I'm going to step in here to represent what I believe is in line with the Wikia/Community Central ethos. Staff may have a different view still.

CzechOut, there is no need to change your sig code. It works perfectly fine, and does not impede any proper functionality of the editor interface.

However, moving onto the main argument here, I do advice you to take more into account the users of RTE. Despite your, my or other advanced users views on it, all new (and many more experienced) users use the RTE as their editor. Users who may be unfamiliar with, or struggle to use, source mode.

While yes, Wikia lets you use __NOWYSIWYG__, such a tag is still used sparingly on most wikis. Certainly here on CC, that tag is almost never used on forums. Having the RTE disabled just because your sig is 'complex' is a bit silly, and it causes problems for non-source users.

When sigs get too long or complicated, we ask users to template them so that source users can easily edit pages without lines and lines of code. I feel that the same courtesy should also be given to RTE users.

I'm not sure if it would solve the issue, but templating the span tag into a new template (using a parameter to add the timestamp) would not alter your signature at all. No offense intended, but you are being quite stubborn about a change that would make no difference at all to the way you edit.