| At one time I had a signature - then I removed it (made it null) - then later put another in place -- during the time there was a "null" signature, my posts were not "marked" with "Show your signature" - even thought my default setting is to turn this option on.
IMO, the "Show your signature" option should still be "marked" (set) on a post even if the signature is "null" - based on the default settings defined by the user - so that, at whatever time the signature becomes "non-null", it will show up in any post that had that option set.
In other words, the post option should be set based on the user's defaults, and not over-ridden by whether the signature was "null" or not at the time --- this is VERY BAD logic --- the post option itself should not be affected by the length of the signature *at any time* - it should strictly be based on what the user's default settings (i.e., what the user wants) -- somebody wrote some really bad code somewhere...
Put another way -- it is OK for the code to 'say' - "if the signature is null, then don't bother displaying a line with nothing under it" -- but it is not OK to change the "Show your signature" setting on the post just because [at the time] the signature is "null" -- "null" should be a legal/legitimate "value" for the signature -- whether the signature is "null" or not should only affect displaying the signature, but nothing else...
"show the signature" and "display the signature" are two different things -- and should be treated as such (in/by the code).
"Forget what I said in the original post..." -- that is just a "bandage fix" for what I now realize is the real problem... | 
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