Experiment: Hide DU names CSS script:

[Make7]

3. One can definitely form habits when browsing and posting in online forums.

Hiding all usernames is definitely one way to break up one's routine. Perhaps I'll give it a try when I get some larger blocks of time to spend roaming and posting here.

About the signatures, you're probably right - they used to be in a [font style="color:#000066;"]<p>[/font] element and anyone using a [font style="color:#000066;"]<div>[/font] or [font style="color:#000066;"]<center>[/font] tag would break it making their signature visible. I think I had four or five CSS selectors to try to hide all of them (and still didn't succeed 100%). The current [font style="color:#000066;"]<div>[/font] signatures are much better in that regard but can still be broken (or at least closed prematurely), but I can't recall seeing anyone do that (and leaving it broken). Turning off signatures in my account settings prevents the server from even sending code to display them - which eliminates the need for my browser to load animated gifs that I was hiding from view anyway. Poh-tay-toe / Poh-tah-toe.

Another great tool for customizing websites is GreaseMonkey - it does for Javascript what Stylish does for CSS. Used by me mostly for an 'Ignore Threads by Author' script here. You might be able to figure out how to hide some things that can't be filtered out with CSS - assuming you have some moderate knowledge of Javascript.