Quote Originally Posted by Patrick
My tuppence worth : regardless of any artistic merit, or lack of, they definitely do slow the board down and make it much more difficult for people to use the board discreetly at work. Therefore they are definitely a deterrent to users.
As people (and coincidentally it seems to be the same people who are wittering on about "mutual respect" who are the main offenders) can't, or don't, voluntarily seem to want to respect the fact that it is annoying at best for work users - and some of the images, particularly the dodgy porn ones, could be sackable offences for some people in their jobs. For example, that one Wez has just used is blocked by our firewall, so my IP address will be appearing on our admins report for attempting to access a banned site every time I read a thread with that signature in it.

I agree that there should be a size restriction at the very least, if not an outright ban on them. Text only signatures would be preferrable.
Now this guy was the first person on the no signature side of it to post something constructive, and non offesive to other board members.