# Manual signatures in thread - same "rule" as automated signature? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 20, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-signatures-in-thread-same-rule-as-automated-signature/650851 "2013-02-20T02:49:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-signatures-in-thread-same-rule-as-automated-signature/650851/61 "2013-02-24T19:41:30Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Ok so three exclamation points and 3 smiley faces in every post is fine, but everyone here throws a conniption fit when people want to use blue font and comic sans? > > \<\_\< Have the mods ever actually taken action against someone for posting in blue font and comic sans? People can throw a conniption over whatever they want, doesn’t mean the mods have to coddle their rage. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-signatures-in-thread-same-rule-as-automated-signature/650851/62 "2013-02-24T20:01:10Z")
On a few occasions we’ve told new posters to calm down with colors and fonts and big text, yes. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-signatures-in-thread-same-rule-as-automated-signature/650851/63 "2013-02-24T20:39:18Z")
So don’t you think that other posters might appreciate it if you would tell another new poster to calm down with excessive use of smilies, exclamation marks and repeated use of the same phrase? ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-signatures-in-thread-same-rule-as-automated-signature/650851/64 "2013-02-24T23:37:04Z")
Please Marley, please, I’m personally begging you. I’m down on my knees. Please! Just ask her to limit it to one smiley every once in a while. She can keep the god bless you business of course, and her name. We’re just asking, begging, humbly beseeching that she not be allowed to fill up every post of hers with tons of smiley faces and exclamation points. A lot of her posts contain up to 9 smiley faces… that’s just too much. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-signatures-in-thread-same-rule-as-automated-signature/650851/65 "2013-02-24T23:37:32Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Have the mods ever actually taken action against someone for posting in blue font and comic sans? People can throw a conniption over whatever they want, doesn’t mean the mods have to coddle their rage. RIP, grapist. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-signatures-in-thread-same-rule-as-automated-signature/650851/66 "2013-02-25T00:10:59Z")
Sheesh. What is the content in **JOSH** ’s posts that you can’t do without, that you are compelled to read her sig over and over? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-signatures-in-thread-same-rule-as-automated-signature/650851/67 "2013-02-25T00:52:23Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Have the mods ever actually taken action against someone for posting in blue font and comic sans? People can throw a conniption over whatever they want, doesn’t mean the mods have to coddle their rage. I’ve told people to knock that kind of stuff off in GQ because it was distracting. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-signatures-in-thread-same-rule-as-automated-signature/650851/68 "2013-02-25T01:57:08Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I’ve told people to knock that kind of stuff off in GQ because it was distracting. > [@Marley23](#): > > On a few occasions we’ve told new posters to calm down with colors and fonts and big text, yes. Duly noted. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-signatures-in-thread-same-rule-as-automated-signature/650851/69 "2013-02-25T02:05:16Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > They’re usually bigger and more annoying. How does a board that gets up in arms over avatars justify a poster using a metric crapton of smilies in every post? GOD BLESS!!!1111one!!!:):):):):)😕😕:eek::eek::o;)🆒🆒:rolleyes::rolleyes:;):D:(:(:smack::smack::p:p:mad::mad::dubious::dubious::dubious:;):rolleyes::mad::mad::):)😕😕:eek::eek:🆒🆒:D:(:(:smack::smack: ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-signatures-in-thread-same-rule-as-automated-signature/650851/70 "2013-02-25T02:12:25Z")
Can we complain about users whose board name is needless long and distracting? ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-signatures-in-thread-same-rule-as-automated-signature/650851/71 "2013-02-25T02:21:26Z")
> [@moriah](#): > > Can we complain about users whose board name is needless long and distracting? Sorry about that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-signatures-in-thread-same-rule-as-automated-signature/650851/72 "2013-02-25T02:34:32Z")
> [@moriah](#): > > Can we complain about users whose board name is needless long and distracting? Ha, I remember someone on this board talking about getting banned from another board because they used the maximum number of characters in their username, something like TheHulkandSupermansPowersCombined. The board wasn’t coded well, and that username on a page compressed the text of all the posts on the page to the extreme left side of the page. If a board didn’t want long names they should’ve restricted the number of characters more. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-signatures-in-thread-same-rule-as-automated-signature/650851/73 "2013-02-25T04:10:52Z")
> [@James Otto Sweet Heart and Damning Suicides to Hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/802): > > ^^^ Sure James emails his responses to you. And just yesterday I saw all four of the Beatles preparing to leave for their tour as the opening act for Elvis! It was **AWESOME** to see John and George again!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 > James has replied to several of my messages, 16 of them to be exact and those are just the ones that you can see for yourself if you are willing to do the digging. His last one was a month ago concerning his website. 🙂 🙂 🙂 > > God bless you two and James always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 > > Holly > > P.S. So far James has written to me directly at Twitter 15 times. 🙂 🙂 🙂 TWELVE smileys. TWELVE! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-signatures-in-thread-same-rule-as-automated-signature/650851/74 "2013-02-25T04:15:17Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > TWELVE smileys. > > TWELVE! > > ☹ Thirteen! Thirteen smilies! Mwah ah ah ahhhh… ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-signatures-in-thread-same-rule-as-automated-signature/650851/75 "2013-02-25T04:17:51Z")
Can we at least ask that posters refrain from typing a bunch of smileys after EVERY line of text in their posts??? ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-signatures-in-thread-same-rule-as-automated-signature/650851/76 "2013-02-25T21:32:40Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Can we at least ask that posters refrain from typing a bunch of smileys after EVERY line of text in their posts??? You can always ask :):):):)🙂 But the answer could be no ;);););)😉 ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-signatures-in-thread-same-rule-as-automated-signature/650851/77 "2013-02-26T02:39:21Z")
> [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](#): > > \ I suddenly feel so insignificant. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manual-signatures-in-thread-same-rule-as-automated-signature/650851.md?page=3)