Sigs! Remember them on the old board?

I’m not disputing your taste good Sir, but I am surprised anyone did that, much less a fine and understanding citizen such as yourself.

I do know a bunch of people have changed their avatars. I recall the thread that encouraged all the cat owners to change their avatar to a pic of their cats with the result that we now have about 20 posters with indistinguishable dark gray bordering on black smudges for avatars. I find that vexing, but it falls short of deserving an Ignore.

You might find that some of the ones you deemed objectionable before have since changed or seem less outré than they once did. Of course if a bad-avatar poster was also an idiot or impolite or … , then no great loss. One can find it hard to say which straw broke the camel’s back when there are many.

One of mine was: dogbutler: Not a serial killer!

Mine was from Rummy, and a lovely example of deadpan academia:

“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.”

My sig came from @Muffin :

It was in response to my advice to a young poster earlier in the thread.

I miss Muffin. He didn’t like infinite scrolling on the new software.

I miss him too. Always had something interesting to say. Is that why he stopped posting?

That’s my recollection. Other posters also didn’t like infinite scrolling. I never understood why.

Perhaps because in a looooong thread, you could go to the page number list at the bottom of, say, page 7 and click on, say, 14 and thus jump past pages 8-13.

Of course Discourse has the same feature.

But some speshul snowflakes couldn’t be bothered to learn how to do it. And so off they flounced.

I find some of the images visually disturbing and don’t want to see them.

Cats I’m okay with.

I put them on ignore for a set period of time.

If they come back with the same image, back into the ignore pit they go.

I’m thinking of changing my car avatar (recognize it?) to a new user name - Laminated Veneer Lumber. Then I can have purple LVL avatar and people will get us mixed up.

I doubt avatars have to be unique. Even if Discourse did try to enforce a uniqueness constraint, you can probably bit-twiddle one pixel to be one shade different and fool their filter.

No need for you to to struggle with getting the Mods to approve a username change.

Heck, maybe we could get a bunch of the regulars together, all get custom titles of “The Dirty Dozen” and get seemingly identical avatars, maybe a stylized dark brown DD on a light brown background symbolizing dirt.

I can’t image how that could possibly backfire? Can you? [Mods: NOT a serious suggestion.]

Never had a sig on straightdope, but I have some private messages from another vBulletin site, and managed to find a few of mine.

“Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.” Judith Viorst

From Red Dwarf

Abandon shop! This is not a daffodil. Repeat, this is not a daffodil.

Bloom County

Dandelion break

And some favorites from one of the other posters:

Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.

“Semper in fæcibus sunum, sole profundum variat.” (We are always in poo, only the depth varies.)

Sigs? I remember Sig Slugnorino.

Wait, that’s not right…

I’m pretty sure that I had a sig, but I can’t for the life of me remember what it was, or how I used it. And as far as I can tell there’s no way to look it up under Discourse

Right, our old sigs are gone forever. I had to do mine from memory for here – and now that i ponder it, it might be that part of it read: “…wit, wisdom, badinage, and run-on sentences…”