Well, if some people are offended by a sig, and you're asked to remove it, just change it.... Why should you care?

My opinion is that in a competitive games, sometimes you can make jokes to the other guy (I don't know if there's an english word for that). And that's actually a good part of the fun!

But not always:

I remember when I was playing Volleyball (real life). With friends, we could say real "insulty" things, because we were acknowledged friends, and we did have a tone of voice that clearly indicated that it was just a game "How comes you have two left arms", "or you should really stop eating this much, obviously you can't jump anymore" sort of things. It was REALLY different when we were playing with total strangers. At that moment, even the slightest "triumphant knowing smile" could get people angry...

And just to illustrate that again, I just read a thread where someone was talking about allies acting weird, like never coming along, or sometimes coming along, but acting stupidly: he took an exemple of him allied with the french, who after coming along in a battle and helping him break a wave of opponents did withdraw without any logical reason. Someone answered something like "do you want a stereotypical joke about french allies?"

Well, had I knew the guy, I wouldn't have felt anything at all. Probably had made a joke about that with him. But I don't know the guy. And I'm French. For a split second I got angry. I'm not anymore (a split second is quite short), but I do know some people who would've run to conclusions and put another log in the fire which had started there (at least in their head)....

I think the same rule apply everywhere: if you're "good minded", you can say it, if someone is shocked by something you write and you do not understand why, you can get explanations, and if you can't work out something with offended guy, well, if this is all about a signature, what the h**l?

Anyway, you have totally the right to feel offended by offended people. Oh me head...