Thread:Feedback/Stopping bad signatures?/Titoxd

From what I understand, allowing signatures to be updated automatically can cause all of the issues listed in Wikipedia:en:Wikipedia:Signatures, from both the editorial and technical perspectives (although yes, I concede that signatures are usually only used in pages with high cache miss rates, so it's probably not as bad from the performance side). I have to agree with 86.141.176.247 below, though. What is wrong with storing the raw signature text? What do we gain by allowing dynamic signature updates? Titoxd (talk &bull; contribs) 17:01, 16 November 2009 (UTC)