No signature on posts before signature set

CropRotation · Post by **CropRotation** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:49 am

I have changed my signature and have noticed it is not updated to all my previous post.

. It is coming with the newer ones though

Post by **Kieran** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 12:08 pm

safecomtek wrote:I have changed my signature and have noticed it is not updated to all my previous post. . It is coming with the newer ones though

This is normal. When you post with no signature set in your profile, the "box" you can tick on posting (either manually each time or automatically by profile setting) is forced to be not ticked, as if it wasn't then it would add a non-existant signature. This means when you do add one, all posts you have made up to that point effectively now have signatures turned off.

If you wanted to enable them on those posts, you would have to edit each post, changing just the check box saying you want a signature on the post. Probably not worth it really

MYKhan · Post by **MYKhan** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 3:37 pm

Kieran wrote: If you wanted to enable them on those posts, you would have to edit each post, changing just the check box saying you want a signature on the post. Probably not worth it really

Indeed

Post by **biro** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 4:02 pm

Kieran wrote:
This is normal. When you post with no signature set in your profile, the "box" you can tick on posting (either manually each time or automatically by profile setting) is forced to be not ticked, as if it wasn't then it would add a non-existant signature. This means when you do add one, all posts you have made up to that point effectively now have signatures turned off.

Is the same on ADSLTech

My early posts on ADSLTech before setting up a sig don't have a sig even after creating one !

CropRotation · Post by **CropRotation** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 4:10 pm

I think thats what is here also though not a very popular thing as far as I am concerned. All the post should be updated with the signature.

Post by **Kieran** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 4:43 pm

As stated above it is like it is because of issues in making old posts "realise" as sig has been added when none was there when it is first created. Doing it like it is saves database strain and server overload - can you imagine what it would be like it you had to run an SQL query on 3000 posts if a non-signature'd user suddenly enabled one? As the famous development saying goes, its a feature, not a bug.

I'm locking this topic as it is an issue that has no fix for the reasons above.