OOC: GD I can see your point. There are ways to take up less boards space and make posts shorter to read (and hopefully someday getting back all those nifty features that were taken away to enhance download speed of the boards), leaving off signatures would be one way. My longest posts are IC, I hope the next "suggestion" made is not that I should move my story posts off the Fight Club boards. As far as signatures being "irritating" to read, then perhaps the reader should know their own preferences and not read them.
Notice that when you reply to a post that the signatures and avatars are stripped off the threads themselves at the bottom of the reply window. Perhaps avatars should "go away" as well. I've squeezed my signature up as far as I myself believe it should go, taking part of your suggestion to heart and thanks for making it. Those who feel that they wish to include their signature in every post or not should also make it shorter, leaving out line breaks and empty lines wherever possible. I like having the Generator link in my posts when I'm fighting, and unfortunately I often forget to do things like verify my post before I submit it.