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On this question, the asker initially included a signature. This was later edited out by a high-rep user. Then, the asker edited the signature back in.
The asker's rep is low enough that he/she probably doesn't know that signatures are frowned on (and didn't take the hint when it was edited out).
Possible courses of action in the future:
Recommendations?
Please just flag this behaviour for the mods to deal with, there's no point getting into an edit war over it. We can put a lock on the question to prevent it happening again should the OP not get the message.
I'd say edit it again, and post a comment. Flagging seems way too much at this point, especially if you can make him realize that there's a rule on the signatures.
At the end of the day, the person asking a question fundamentally "owns" that question. While I appreciate the rule against un-needed cruft on posts in SE, I have to say that I'm conflicted about making it more difficult to roll back posts when you own a question.
I can't help thinking that there is potential for someone to edit a question in good faith and change the meaning of it - at that point it should not be difficult for the person who asked the question to say "no, that's not what I meant at all" and roll things back. And I don't see how you can tell the intention behind a rollback. (And what if someone makes a substantial edit to a post, mistakenly edits something important to the question and also removes salutations from the post... what should happen then?).
I think we should be looking to explain the rules to new people and give them the chance to do things the right way, not impose them.
don't see how you can tell the intention behind a rollback In this case, it's quite obvious from the revision history, the OP didn't rollback, but did another edit just adding his twitter handle. I think your answer is more relevant to this question
edit post + add comment pointing to FAQThat. After you posted this, another user removed the signature again, so I went ahead and left the comment myself.