If it's becoming that intrusive, can't you just turn off signatures?

There was little discussion on TB about this change, which was not promulgated by them. The problem of signatures was repeatedly brought to TB, which refused to do anything to clarify/improve the situation - signatures were a massive grey area, where the TOS was unclear and the mods had real difficulty intepreting the TOS. As a result Randy took the decision to change the TOS to allow commercial links, but to limit how these could be displayed.

I have to say, is there a real difference between my signature, drawing attention to two Dos in Edinburgh, and someone else drawing attention to a bar say in the US? Visually they look the same. I don't really see why one is seen as an imposition and one is not. And until recently, I had a signature promoting a charity I am associated with - that also would not have been allowed under the previous rules without getting all kinds of permissions which no-one actually had time to look into the charity to give.