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Originally Posted by Mr. Wang
As I said, the person who asked for it never used it, and the person who made it hasn't logged into Animesuki for two years. If they had logged in more recently, I would have asked them, and this query wouldn't be up on this forum. I checked their profile, and they don't have any links toward contacting them on another site, so... That's that. I doubt they'd come back after two years, just to respond to perhaps one message. I know that any other time, or any other creator, I would ask them first. However, given my unique circumstances, I think that it would be alright to use these old signatures, since current users aren't implementing them. I just hope one day I won't bump into someone who hasn't logged in for two years and exclaim "Hey, you stole my signature!" or something along those lines...
Meh, maybe I'm just making too big a deal over all of this.
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I think you're fine if they've been dormant like that. The only reason AS doesn't purge inactive accounts is that it screws up the post thread history. The threads exist to document what is known about a topic as a resource (particularly for anime/manga).
What you might do is take the signature/avatar image you want and ask one of our fine artists here to personalize it for you (put your account name on it or decorate it slightly in some way) if you just want to be totally clear.
As said, there's no rule against avatar/sig sharing - its just that it can be confusing if *ACTIVE* posters are doing it so most people just don't want to be confused for someone else. Many posters here regularly change their avatar and signature so it isn't a catastrophe.