# Signing your member name at the end of your post when it's already there at the top **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 14, 2004, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089 "2004-05-14T08:28:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089/1 "2004-05-14T08:28:10Z")
What’s up with that? -Blowero ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089/2 "2004-05-14T09:43:29Z")
I think it first started around October, 2000. ---
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089/3 "2004-05-14T09:52:07Z")
Is it even possible for you to find something more petty to bitch about? ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089/4 "2004-05-14T09:53:35Z")
Hahahaha…thanks for the laugh, **Blowero**. I needed that. I’m currently engaging in a rather fiesty Pit hijack that’s spun out of control, and a little bit of levity always helps to cool my jets a bit. As for signing your username to posts, I couldn’t tell you. Maybe it’s the same phenomenon that leads people to [quote the entire OP] ([http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=250670](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=250670)) in the first response. Of course, some people have their own signature closing that includes their username, too. I know **Shodan** likes to give his regards. I tend to take the same path as **Left Hand of Dorkness** and conclude my little pearls of wisdom with my real name, though I do this mostly to avoid having people confuse me with the real Roland Orzabal. While I’d like to think he’d agree with my statements, I shouldn’t presume to speak for him 😉 . Maybe one of the principal offenders can shed a little light on the issue for us. I’ll be checking in to see what people come up with. –Ian (who is not Roland Orzabal, in case you missed that part 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![county](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@county](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/county)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089/5 "2004-05-14T10:47:19Z")
It is just stupid repetition. Just like all those stupid “signatures” - I mean what is worth repeating every time you say something. Not those signatures for sure. If these people were talking, well, somebody would tell them to shut up about the second time they repeated one of those things, if anybody was paying attention to them in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089/6 "2004-05-14T11:06:54Z")
> [@blowero](#): > > What’s up with that? > > -Blowero For me, in part, it’s a holdover from Usenet, where (especially with earlier newsreaders) your name was buried in a mass of header jumble and it made conversation easier. Plus, I see this as writing (as in “writing letters”) as opposed to talking and one signs one’s name at the end of a letter, even though it should be right up there at the top too. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![htns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@htns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/htns)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089/7 "2004-05-14T11:25:32Z")
> [@blowero](#): > > What’s up with that? > > -Blowero Dunno what you mean exactly, please clarify? (Hey, it’s early, I just got up, I can be forgiven a little stupidity.) ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089/8 "2004-05-14T11:29:52Z")
> [@county](#): > > It is just stupid repetition. Just like all those stupid “signatures” - I mean what is worth repeating every time you say something. Not those signatures for sure. > > If these people were talking, well, somebody would tell them to shut up about the second time they repeated one of those things, if anybody was paying attention to them in the first place. Try thinking of it more like a T-shirt slogan. For that matter, some sigs ARE worth repeating - WWJD might be annoying, but I can’t argue people ever don’t need reminding. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089/9 "2004-05-14T11:42:54Z")
This is why I prefer message boards to Usenet nowadays – on Usenet there’s nobody who can ban morons like [this.](http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author:bateau&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&safe=off&selm=1em0a0d1pj95um40nctcstcetpe9o6ud6p%404ax.com&rnum=9) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089/10 "2004-05-14T11:50:03Z")
Can’t say it’s ever bothered me, despite the obvious redundancy. From “Yer pal, Satan” to “Regards, Shodan”, such closings have been part of many posters’ personal style. I can’t see a problem here. ---
**Author:** ![Severian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Severian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Severian)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089/11 "2004-05-14T11:51:54Z")
> [@blowero](#): > > What’s up with that? > > -Blowero Buwahahahahaha! You complain about it, then you do it! Now that’s hilarity! You’re madcap! ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089/12 "2004-05-14T11:52:15Z")
> [@county](#): > > It is just stupid repetition. Just like all those stupid “signatures” - I mean what is worth repeating every time you say something. Not those signatures for sure. > > If these people were talking, well, somebody would tell them to shut up about the second time they repeated one of those things, if anybody was paying attention to them in the first place. I find your no sig sig even more annoying. ---
**Author:** ![county](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@county](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/county)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089/13 "2004-05-14T12:07:41Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > I find your no sig sig even more annoying. Somehow, I find your post particularly satisfying on this fine morning. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089/14 "2004-05-14T12:25:44Z")
Just so you know, you can turn off sigs in your User CP. I never see anyone’s sig unless I click on their profile and read it there. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089/15 "2004-05-14T12:32:38Z")
It doesn’t bother me. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089/16 "2004-05-14T13:08:46Z")
I agree with Mr **Firefly**. Personal style. I like that. Especially closings like **Shodan** ’s “Regards” or or **mgtman** ’s “Enjoy” or **Aldebaran** ’s “Salaam.” I only occasionally use it myself (perhaps because I have no personal stlye), and then only in threads where my professional credentials are somehow relevant. -zut, Ponderer of Enormities ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089/17 "2004-05-14T13:29:16Z")
I like it. Sometimes, when I read a long, insightful post, I find myself scrolling back up to see who has bestowed these pearls of wisdom upon us. (And likewise if I read a long, unpleasant one.) When people put their name at the bottom, it saves me scrolling. ---
**Author:** ![D.E.S.K.Top668](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@D.E.S.K.Top668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.E.S.K.Top668)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089/18 "2004-05-14T13:48:04Z")
I got into the habit on another board where I’m a much more prolific poster. I started doing it when people starting asking if there was something they could use that was quicker to type the “D.E.S.K.Top668” so I started ending my posts with “DESK”. It looked too cold so I changed to “Peace - DESK”. It carried over to the SDMB. I don’t just put as a sig line because I occasionally use others (most often here, “Thanks in advance - DESK”) Peace - DESK ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089/19 "2004-05-14T14:05:26Z")
> [@zut](#): > > I agree with Mr **Firefly**. Personal style. I like that. Especially closings like **Shodan** ’s “Regards” or or **mgtman** ’s “Enjoy” or **Aldebaran** ’s “Salaam.” I agree, don’t forget **Kabbe** ’s “Pan” either, or **Kniz** and his… **Kniz!** A few pit threads were even started over that one, heh. ---
**Author:** ![Aldebaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Aldebaran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aldebaran)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089/20 "2004-05-14T14:24:07Z")
I think there was one thread at this very special BBQ thing to “attack” me for signing my posts with wishing the readers peace. (I must say that was the most boring thread ever dedicated to my shining presence on this message board.) As for my signature: What you see is what you get 🙂 Salaam. A [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signing-your-member-name-at-the-end-of-your-post-when-its-already-there-at-the-top/245089.md?page=2)