In response to several comments past and future: obviously these are guidelines and will not be enforced to the letter every moment of everyday. Not only is that not practical but it's not desirable as there will always be some judgement involved and the idea is to promote a constructive environment, not to make everyone move in lockstep (or goose-step as some like to claim any time a hint of order is maintained by "artificial" means).

The point is to clarify what is and isn't appropriate so that the proper response can be determined by any moderator, thus enabling a team of moderators to act more consistently and with less overhead (overhead which you don't see because it is mulled over in the moderator forum). For this, a more detailed policy is needed than has existed, and this is it.

That's covered under "spamming".

I think he thought you were referring to a different clause. Signatures are subject to the same guidelines as forum posts--all communications on t.m.o. are covered--and therefore signatures that are inflammatory or offensive are indeed subject to moderation. The source of a quote doesn't inherently make it anything, however.


Edit: Texrat covered this already.
Regarding post count: it does contribute to "Karma". Never underestimate the ability of people to derive pleasure from the strangest of statistics, either.