Posts & the signing thereof

[Lobohan]

@LilShieste

I’m going to keep signing my posts with my username, until I reach 1,000 posts.

After that, I’ll just have to find some other way to work my arrogance, smugness, and general pretention into my posts.
LilShieste

I’m not saying it is smug, I’m just saying it seems smug. I’m sure you’re a peach in actuality.

Lobohan

[Red_Barchetta]

Oh another reason why I hate these stupid “sign-offs” is that they eat up valuable screen real-estate. They often take up 3 or more lines, and even more when combined with the stupid sign-offs of others. I like being able to do other things without having to scroll every few seconds, and this attention whoring behavior doesn’t help maters.

Why can’t you all just add your sign-offs to your signature, that way people have the option of not being exposed to their silliness?

[descamisado]

@Green Bean

Yes. Please stop signing your posts!

I don’t necessarily mind the “regards, Shodan” thing so much because it’s clearly a sign-off. But it does irk me when people just type their username at the bottom. It can be really confusing. Like this one poster, Sailboat…I’ll be reading his post, and it will say “Sailboat” at the end…and I’ll sit there wondering what the heck a sailboat has to do with anything. It’s confusing and annoying.

Actually, Shodan’s disconcerting “Regards,” sig is why I clicked into this thread.

Besides being annoying in general, sometimes the “Regards” doesn’t fit the jist of what he has just written, coming off as snarky or condescending, whether that’s what he intended or not.

What twickster does is occasional, specific to ther response and is, therefore, okay.

[What_Exit]

@Peak Banana

This is the part that seems bizarre to me. It just seems like a split personality disorder. Dude, on the interwebs, your username *is *your name. It’s what people will think of you as and refer to you as. If you sign with a different name than your username, I don’t even know who the heck you are anymore. If you want to be know by a different name than your username, just change your username already. If you want your username and your real life name to be identical, the option is obviously there for you. It’s like if IRL my name was “Joe Bloggs”, but I insisted on signing all my correspondence with “Buzz Aldrin”. Mucho confusing.

But then again, what do I know.

Maybe, maybe this is because I am a late comer to message boards. Also I have met quite a few dopers off the boards now and I would rather they know me as Jim then “What Exit?”. In fact it gets confusing with a few posters to ensure I refer to them by their user name as they don’t generally invite the use of their real name.

I still don’t understand the “smug” or “arrogant” part. That throws me for a loop. I could see if I signed as Jim “Super Genius” or Jim “Awesome Dude”, but just plain Jim? Where’s the smug in that?

Jim

[Mtgman]

My sign off is a double entendre. One of my big weakenesses is double entendres. A couple people have picked up on it over the years, and commented. More may have picked up on it and just commented, I don’t know.

Enjoy,
Steven

[Triskadecamus]

I sign my posts.

I don’t do it to piss anyone off. However, if it pisses you off, uh, kiss my ass. You got a real bleak view of life if that sort of minutia has gas for you.

I turn off sigs. Mostly because nothing anyone ever said needs to be repeated every time they speak.

I use hand made sigs, and you can’t turn those off. If that pisses you off, see above sentiment.

Tris

"A nihilist? That must be exhausting! " ~ Lebowski ~

[Red_Barchetta]

@Mtgman

My sign off is a double entendre. One of my big weakenesses is double entendres. A couple people have picked up on it over the years, and commented. More may have picked up on it and just commented, I don’t know.

Enjoy,
Steven

And this is worth exposing everyone to it for perpetuality because?

[Red_Barchetta]

@Triskadecamus

I use hand made sigs, and you can’t turn those off. If that pisses you off, see above sentiment.

Hence the “smug” and “arrogant” comments of former.

[Lobohan]

@Red Barchetta

Hence the “smug” and “arrogant” comments of former.

Awwww Snap!

[descamisado]

@Peak Banana

. . .

Peak, in this case I’m gonna need a sig/signoff, so as not to have to scroll back up to prevent confusing you with Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fana Bobesca IV.

Really,

[Mtgman]

@Red Barchetta

And this is worth exposing everyone to it for perpetuality because?

For the same reason you exposed your opinion of my practice to everyone in perpetuity. Because I want to.

Enjoy,
Steven

[Red_Barchetta]

@Mtgman

For the same reason you exposed your opinion of my practice to everyone in perpetuity. Because I want to.

Enjoy,
Steven

The difference is that my opinion won’t appear in every single post beyond the one where it was relevant.

[Triskadecamus]

@Red Barchetta

Hence the “smug” and “arrogant” comments of former.

If that trips your smug and arrogant trigger, you must live in a very insulated social matrix. Page down, man. Or, if you really need it, go to the User Control Panel, and put my name on your ignore list.

Tris

“As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.” ~ Samuel Johnson, 1783 ~

[Cat_Whisperer]

People can turn off seeing other people’s sigs? But but I put a lot of thought into mine and only use it when I feel it will be appropriate! Dang it all to heck anyway.

Love,
Queen Feather of Lou

[LilShieste]

@Lobohan

I’m not saying it is smug, I’m just saying it seems smug. I’m sure you’re a peach in actuality.

Lobohan

I see the distinction between the two, I’m just not sure it’s one worth making.

@Red Barchetta

Oh another reason why I hate these stupid “sign-offs” is that they eat up valuable screen real-estate. They often take up 3 or more lines, and even more when combined with the stupid sign-offs of others. I like being able to do other things without having to scroll every few seconds, and this attention whoring behavior doesn’t help maters.

How about a compromise: we Signers can reduce our line usage by 33%, thereby saving you a bit of scrollwork. In fact, I’ll get the ball rolling by just using up 2 lines instead of he usual 3 for mine.

@Red Barchetta

The difference is that my opinion won’t appear in every single post beyond the one where it was relevant.

But our usernames are relevant to all of our posts!

LilShieste

[Red_Barchetta]

@Triskadecamus

If that trips your smug and arrogant trigger, you must live in a very insulated social matrix.

False dilemma fallacy. Rest assured, while you may reside lower than some on the “smug and arrogant” meter, you’ve exuded more than most posters at this stage.

[Cat_Whisperer]

OOh, that was my 15,000th post! How exquisite!

[LilShieste]

@???

OOh, that was my 15,000th post! How exquisite!

Hey, who said that!?

LilShieste

[Sarahfeena]

@John Mace

Me, too. But if that person really gets upset about it, maybe he’ll stop signing his friggin’ posts in the first place!

Well, I would think he would, you know? I mean, really, if someone is going to get bent out of shape about it, best to hide what your real name is in the first place, isn’t it? With Sarah being part of my user name, I think it would be pretty obnoxious of me to request people not to call me that, since it’s right out there for everyone to see, and I don’t hide the fact that it is, in fact, my name.

[El_Cid_Viscoso]

@featherlou

OOh, that was my 15,000th post! How exquisite!

Dear featherlou,

May I use this as my sig?

Yours truly,

The Cid