THIS site/forum's images and links

Images both in signatures and in threads seem to always link to themselves. (Click them and they open up a new window/tab with themselves?) -- instead of the link wrapped around them.

So, for example, people's signatures. I can hover over the image and it says it's going to take me to a website/forum post/somewhere specific, and clicking on the image, it actually just takes me to a direct link of that image itself. All images are acting like links for some reason? And if there is a link, it ignores it in favor of just visiting the image instead.

I'm using Chrome, and I swear this didn't use to happen? I only started noticing it about a week ago, but maybe it's always been this way. It shouldn't be this way...

This just isn't working as intended:
. . . and oddly enough, if I didn't add the *, it attempted to work even in the code brackets.

Doing it here seems to work, but doing it signatures does not work properly. My signature doesn't link to my thread, and a couple of other people's signatures do not link to their sites. I can right-click them and grab the proper destination url, however.

Oh, and, um... sorry I used the official bug report tracker to do this even though it was an issue for this site and not the script? But I wanted to be sure it was seen.