- Signature is neither a portfolio, nor a Instagram section.
It's a section where you put useful information about you

Well I can understand when it is hand-made since it gives useful information about the talents and the hobbies of the person, and I can understand one pony image in a sig to find more easily who shares the same hobby. But I agree that the first person should remove some images, or at least resize them so that there is more content in the post than in the signature.

- Spoilers are not a solution to hide what you don't want people to see.
The computer see it and process it as for the other visible content.
Look at the generated HTML if you don't trust me.

Here too, I can understand someone using spoilers when a signature becomes too large (or like me, when some dead links kill the harmony and waiting for the links come back (if they ever come back)), but for the first person, I don't see why there is only one image in the spoiler and why the rest is out.

Comment on my sig
The Absol says that I am fond of Pokemons, so I can find people sharing the same hobby.
The spoiler for image fails was described in the above paragraph, and even out of spoiler, it is useful information about me (it says what calcs I own, etc).
The Pokemon Topaze bar is "useful information about me" since it says what program I achieved, what language I know (once you click on it you know that I program in Axe) and what calcs I program for (and also a bit of advertising, I agree)
Applejack is "useless", I agree, but I arranged her height so that she doesn't waste space
The last spoiler is kind of useless too at first glance, but in fact it is kind of "useful information about me" in the way it says that you'll have a hard time finding a lot of information about me (so it says that I am in favor of anonymity)
And there is a link at the bottom that is not useful information, but it is still useful.

Wasn't/isn't there some rule against Ridiculously Huge Signatures?

Levak makes some good points. Signatures should not be excessive or distracting. We don't have any specific rules on signatures, but we have asked people to amend them in the past if necessary. I also didn't realize how many people had a massive amount of hidden content in their sigs in spoiler tags. 

well, i ectra put the hug-me image to the side of the other stuff in a table - if i removed it then the sig height wouldn't change.

And to all my spoilers....i have no idea what is in them, to be honest, i just keep puttin old sig-stuff into spoilers and that's it. But then again, if it is plain text in the spoilers, it shouldn't affect the browsers noticably

I would say stave off on cleaning up your sigs until we (the admins) announce something about it.

Actually we had signatures rules in the past regarding psychedelic gifs (basically not filling the sig with them) and height, but they were scrapped after Randomist was banned (he was the only reason why we got signature rules).

I don't mind some gifs in sigs, ponies and lot of text as long as the sig isn't too large in height and file size. I don't mind spoilers to hide certain stuff as long as they are not abused to the point where the sig is several KB large. I actually warned someone once who nested 10 spoilers because it slowed down page loading but that was way back in 2011 when I was still admin.

What is the char limit in sigs anyway? I think it was 5000-10000, right? (Maybe 2000 would be better)

What is the char limit in sigs anyway? I think it was 5000-10000, right? (Maybe 2000 would be better)

You really don't need more than 500 chars to put in your sig.
I mean, you really don't need more than 200 displayed chars (excluding the bbcode ones).

I know that it can fed up some people to delete their entire sig, but they should remember what is the real goal of a sig.
You don't put 10 000 chars of sig in a mail, this is absurd.