wait, I'm confused.. it's too difficult to moderate offsite images, so the solution is to systematically remove benign ones?

It would be very easy for the site devs to change some code for restricting the size of the signature area. I just hope that this removal is only temporary and it was a knee-jerk reaction to inappropriate material being posted.

You would think that they could now put some extra measures in place to help them monitor and restrict signatures e.g. sig per guild (made by GM/Officer), an official ESO sig builder with pre-defined templates or only allow sigs from certain sig-building sites.

The best way I feel for the community is for custom sigs to have to be verified before they are allowed. I'm sure everyone would rather that even if it meant having to wait 3-4 days for the process to complete.

As for the lack of guild options in game...thinks it's all been said already! I remember when I first started playing MMO's you had to actively recruit in chat or forums and if you wanted to find on, either ask in chat, check forums or talk to people you grouped with. Now though it feels weird having to do that and not having a guild finder tool. Which makes me kind of ashamed with myself but I still think they could easily put in a guild finder tool.

And if you are worried about Immersion and RP purposes, why not have a recruitment board in the main cities. Then GMs/Officers could visit Guild Notaries to post their ads on these boards. Would stay in keeping with lore, rpness and allow guilds to advertise without flooding chat or relying on forum posts.

Slap in the face! But really it's a good move, 99% of sigs are annoying and unnecessary.