Why are signature images always marked as spoilers?

[Kyleallt]

Example: Someone has a huge goomba picture as their signature, and it's marked as a spoiler.

Does your signature get marked as spoilers if you put an image in it?

[Marina]

Spoilers on this forum (and I also think most other forums) are used to save space. You will often see screenshots in spoilers, because those can take up to half a page and if every screenshot always had it's fullsize, imagine how annoying it would be to scroll through a topic where you need 10 minutes to get to the bottom because of all the large images.

I don't know if it's in the forum rules (I think it is), but I strongly advise you to also always put large images, especially if it's multiple images into spoilers, just to spare us all from annoying scrolling for all eternity.

[Namyrr]

It's just so that pages don't become unnecessarily long. Some of the pictures in people's signatures are quite large.