political statements in signatures

[ignatius345]

Why are signatures allowed to have political statments? IMO it's distracting and way off the normal scope of discussion in a computer tech focused forum. It just raises the temperature for no reason.

 

[adrianlondon]

As soon as I created an account, I went into settings and disabled signatures. I don't see them at all.

https://forums.macrumors.com/account/preferences

Then on the right, under "Content options".

 

[BigMcGuire]

One of the first things I did too ^. Used to be involved heavily in the old politics forum - wasn't worth it. Glad they have the option to turn that off now so those who wish to spend their time doing that can, and those of us who don't are happy too .

REALLY bugs me about Discord now ... forcing those user Title tags - people putting political messages in those with (as far as I know) - no way to turn it off.

 

[maflynn]

Why are signatures allowed to have political statments?

this is why:

Political content is permitted in signatures as part of the balance between freedom to express opinions and maintaining order in the forums. Forum members have used signatures to list their Apple products, to be silly or serious, to promote causes (including the MacRumors Blood Drive), to personalize their online presence, but also to state political opinions. Normally this does not disrupt forum discussions, so it's an overall benefit to allow them. In extreme cases, the rules permit the moderators to change or remove a signature that is causing problems.

The Political News and PRSI forums are separate forums that members are free to visit or to ignore. In the same way, signatures are separate from posts and members are free to display or ignore them.

To suppress the display of signatures, go to your Preferences and uncheck "Show people's signatures with their messages."

Since signatures are not categorized, there isn't a way to suppress political signatures while allowing others, but of course you can ignore particular users to avoid seeing their signatures.

 

[ignatius345]

As soon as I created an account, I went into settings and disabled signatures. I don't see them at all.

https://forums.macrumors.com/account/preferences

Then on the right, under "Content options".

Thanks! I did not realize this was possible.

 

[decafjava]

Oh well, I guess I'll have to change my avatar, which I was contemplating to do anyway, and compress some text - say "Das Kapital" - in its place. /jk

I'm glad the forum allows this flexibility for the members, thanks!