There are several reasons for these rules.
1: signitures appear in general chat. Having a signiture with 'last Si: yesterday' on it in general chat is inappropriate as it could be triggering and that is a trigger free forum.
2: It helps remove competitiveness
3: by useing bracelets there are a defined set of dates, instead of any date being used; this ensures that the time period mentioned isn't too small and constantly changing (as has been mentioned above, imagine you are spending hour san dhours supporting someone, and every few days there 'time free' date in their signiture resets to zero.
4: There is space on your profile for this information, so potentially it takes a lien out of people signitures (yes, I know the e-bracelets take up space, but often if e-bracelets are used, no other image will be).
NB: these rules were brought it after a logn community discussion, it wasn't just something where the mods woke up one morning and thought 'oh, I know, i'm goign to spend 3 days solid making e-bracelets and make people put them in their sigs instead of dates'
If you don't understand a rule, instead of making snarky comments about it, it may be better to simly contact a mod and ask.
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