[Smoothie]

If you allow signatures on your forum, it's a constant battle keeping them acceptable in size. Don't matter to me if this does or does not affect page load times, it's never been an issue on my site. What it does do is clean up the post, so you're not seeing all that other nonsense that distacts from the actual posts.

I've been on some forums where the signatures allowed are these huge images, post after post with the same images. Very annoying if you ask me. This cuts the clutter to a minimum.