e_alert, the problem was that signatures were literally taking up half a page. They were much, much too big, and really made everything much less clean looking. We don't need to have people saying five times as much as a normal post in their signatures. They may seem a bit harsh, but I'm sure you'll grow to appreciate them. Who knows, they may even be loosened a bit in the future.

Oh, and for those of you that saw that slip-up...splitting/merging is hard. :p