Browser extension that looks for the text entry field on Hexbear and automatically pastes the text into the field if the field is blank. Or you could use something like tamper monkey to run the JS code without needing an extension. It wouldn’t be too dissimilar to the extension that does a text replace. You’d be looking for this:

<textarea 
    class="form-control border-0 rounded-top-0 rounded-bottom" 
    id="markdown-textarea-Nz0qXtBTCHwM9wcFomEu" 
    required="" 
    rows="2" 
    maxlength="10000" 
    placeholder="Type here to comment..." 
    spellcheck="false" 
    style="overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word; resize: none; text-align: start; height: 60px; line-height: 24px;" 
    data-tribute="true" 
    data-lt-tmp-id="lt-64348" 
    data-gramm="false">
</textarea>

Probably want to search for the node with the markdown-textarea- ID, since that should be true for comments and posts. So you can do something like this:

var sigHR = "\n\n---\n"
var sigMessage = "ⓘ _This user is suspected of being a cat. Please report any suspicious behavior._"
var sig = `${sigHR}${sigMessage}`

var elements = document.querySelectorAll('[id^=markdown-textarea-]');
// this gets all elements that have an ID which starts with markdown-textarea-

for (element of elements) {
    if (element.value === "") {
        element.value += sig
    }

Then you would use the same observer code that you used to find and replace text to check if the page changes, and run that code above when it does. So if you click to create a new comment somewhere else in the page, and it spawns the textarea, it should add the text for you automatically.

You could eventually expand this idea to an extension that when clicked presents a page with a forum that allows you to submit and store your sig. So, if you ever want to change it, you don’t have to edit the code to do so.

I cannot get it to work. If I change s to SS, the ss regex changes it to $$. So I’m removing the $$ and just going with s to SS.

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Yup! As you can see I commented I had made a version that did what Awoo said. And then I was thinking, well if I can replace words surely I can replace letters, MSE!

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If possible, you can write them as userscripts and use a userscript manager.

Yeah. depending on what the script is, using some userscript manager like violentmonkey might work.

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