I've ran into this a couple of times on my board, and a user recently asked about it again. It seems they are tring to fill out their profile, and they keep getting a "signature too long" error, even though they aren't editing their profile. I've ran into this as well, and even saw it on another site, the name of which currently escapes me.
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