Disable signature for entire site or by user roles

Hi @Yoeri!

I was wondering if this idea would be possible if it has a more limited scope? 

The bottom line of what we’d like is to only allow signatures for certain user roles. We understand, though, that there’s a lot of lift involved in adding that to the platform so I was wondering if we could propose a (hopefully) simpler measure.

Would it be possible to hide the profile field for all users? It’s possible to hide custom profile fields in settings..

… would it be possible to add the ‘Visibilty’ and ‘Show on regiatration’ options to other profile fields?

Hey,

If I understand correctly you want to add the ‘Signature’ profile field to the Profile field settings page in Control so that you can determine wether this field should be visible and enabled on the registration?

@Yoeri Yep that’s it :) 

Sorry, I just realised that’s not a helpful answer! Let me clarify: yes, we’d love the option to hide the signature both when members are looking at a profile page and on registration. 

We don’t want users to use it to input any sites or text that are against our policies. We restrict marketing and branding promotion in our community for now. It’s great that it doesn’t allow URLs, which is the riskiest, but that doesn’t prevent a disgruntled user from writing something if they’re displeased with us.

Either way, we still wish to make signatures a privilege that we allow our users who continue to return to the community and engage appropriately.

+1 Same case.

Big +1 here! I would love to disable the signature feature, either globally or by role. In addition to limiting spam, I also find that the signatures can create unnecessary visual distraction. 

@ZapierSteph @jillian.bejtlich @rsilvano did the Zapier team find a way to hide signatures until this idea is delivered? 

Edit: I figured out the CSS. It might not be perfect, but it looks like it works. However, it doesn’t hide all the signatures that already exist from showing up on posts. 

/*start -- hide SIGNATURE on profile settings */
#customcss #root
#profile-settings-form > div:nth-child(5) > div.first {
  display: none;
}
#ProfileSettingsForm_signature {
  display: none;
}
/*end--hide signature */

Slightly related: When looking at the user overview, the signature field should be an option when editing columns. It would make scanning new members for spammy signatures easier.