# Sig Test - Input from a Mod would be welcome **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 3, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test-input-from-a-mod-would-be-welcome/216717 "2003-12-03T15:44:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lockz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Lockz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockz)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test-input-from-a-mod-would-be-welcome/216717/1 "2003-12-03T15:44:31Z")
Just got this latest addition to my .sig from unclviny: > [@](#): > > “women get about 6000 channels, but men have rabbit ears with tin foil on them and we only get 2 channels: hunger and orgasm, you generally have to feed us and/or f%^k us to gain our attention.” > > unclviny Now, the question is whether the f%^k is acceptable in the sig. Should I leave it like that, change all four to “^#”, just put in “fuck” (as everyone knows what it is anyway and probably substitutes it in their heads), or drop this as a sig altogeher? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test-input-from-a-mod-would-be-welcome/216717/2 "2003-12-03T16:52:43Z")
If you include it in your signature then the text would appear in every forum in which you post, and while the occasional use of “fuck” is probably OK in every forum, I wouldn’t want people to make a habit of using strong language all over the SDMB. I would suggest slightly modifying the text to this: “women get about 6000 channels, but men have rabbit ears with tin foil on them and we only get 2 channels: hunger and orgasm, you generally have to feed us, and/or invite us to celebrate our love in the ancient, noble and sacred art of the communion of soul and body known as coitus, to gain our attention.” ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test-input-from-a-mod-would-be-welcome/216717/3 "2003-12-03T19:00:26Z")
What about “obtain mutual knowledge in the biblical sense of the word”? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test-input-from-a-mod-would-be-welcome/216717/4 "2003-12-03T23:20:59Z")
Whatever you use, please clean it up to make it suitable for the rest of the board and not just the Pit. And – most importantly, please – under 4 lines and/or spaces total. Use it only once per page of any thread. Sigs are by their nature short and snappy. If you want something bigger, start a blog somewhere. your humble TubaDiva Admnistrator ---
**Author:** ![Lockz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Lockz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockz)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test-input-from-a-mod-would-be-welcome/216717/5 "2003-12-04T05:42:57Z")
Yes, thank you **TubaDiva**. I’ve seen on the board different regulartions on sigs such as the ones you had mentioned; I was asking here how best to clean it up because it _won’t_ just be used in the Pit, it’ll be in many different forums. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test-input-from-a-mod-would-be-welcome/216717/6 "2003-12-04T08:28:32Z")
It’s always better to ask first; around these parts, better to ask permission than forgiveness, though we do pass out both, though more of the first than the second. Good to see you’re on the right track here. Thanks! your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test-input-from-a-mod-would-be-welcome/216717/7 "2003-12-05T01:35:20Z")
While you’re doling out judgements on sigs, I’d like to ask if a movie quote with the word “bitch” would be acceptable in a sig (specifically, the line from The Princess Bride “I want my father back, you son of a bitch.”). I await the the pronouncement with bated breath. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test-input-from-a-mod-would-be-welcome/216717/8 "2003-12-05T07:40:39Z")
Only if you are Inigo Montoya. 🙂 your humble TubaDiva Administrator Should I prepare to die now or later? ---
**Author:** ![Rusty\_Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Rusty\_Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rusty_Scupper)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test-input-from-a-mod-would-be-welcome/216717/9 "2003-12-05T14:52:53Z")
\*_TubaDiva_ - Not to be rude, but you seem to have an ironic blind spot. You say to “Use it only once per page of any thread.” But then you say 3 times: " your humble TubaDiva Administrator " ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test-input-from-a-mod-would-be-welcome/216717/10 "2003-12-05T15:43:03Z")
lt’s different for mods and admins, as we administer the board as well as being members of this community. When I speak to something personally, I do not use the “Administrator” signature to show the difference. When we sign formally, it indicates we’re on the job and that what we say may be taken to be a judgment on a situation. You know, if we didn’t do things that way, there would be someone complaining that we didn’t make a clearer distinction between business and pleasure. your humble TubaDiva Administrator