# The Peter Files: A word of advice. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 16, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-peter-files-a-word-of-advice/312809 "2005-07-16T16:42:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PETERFI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PETERFI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PETERFI)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-peter-files-a-word-of-advice/312809/21 "2005-07-16T17:45:58Z")
> [@Ferret Herder](#): > > Since you put “in Chicago” in the thread title, I would assume non-Chicagoans would skip it entirely as a result. Thus the length of your post wouldn’t matter one whit. But I have a suspicion that that was not the case. Even with the few replies that there was time for. For example, any Chicagoans in this group. Affirmatives only need reply. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-peter-files-a-word-of-advice/312809/22 "2005-07-16T17:50:54Z")
:smack: What part of “Use your sig **once** per thread” don’t you understand? ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-peter-files-a-word-of-advice/312809/23 "2005-07-16T17:53:28Z")
Yay! Look at me! I’m posting my sig like a motherfuck! ---
**Author:** ![VegemiteMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/df788c/32.png) [@VegemiteMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VegemiteMoose)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-peter-files-a-word-of-advice/312809/24 "2005-07-16T17:56:06Z")
I burning your sig! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-peter-files-a-word-of-advice/312809/25 "2005-07-16T18:14:25Z")
Suffering jaybus, Griffen. ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-peter-files-a-word-of-advice/312809/26 "2005-07-16T18:30:12Z")
you can disable viewing other’s sigs in CP people. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-peter-files-a-word-of-advice/312809/27 "2005-07-16T18:54:08Z")
Wow. I didn’t know that, but I’ve disabled viewing signatures now, and this thread at least is much improved as a result. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-peter-files-a-word-of-advice/312809/28 "2005-07-16T19:11:31Z")
> [@fubbleskag](#): > > you can disable viewing other’s sigs in CP people. It would be nice if you could disable individual sigs. I like seeing ones that are clever and sparsely used, and don’t want to turn them off altogether because one or two people have stupid, ugly and huge ones that they append to a dozen posts in the thread. Thank god we don’t have the [img] tag enabled. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-peter-files-a-word-of-advice/312809/29 "2005-07-16T19:20:49Z")
> [@The Peter Files](#): > > For example, any Chicagoans in this group. Affirmatives only need reply. _points at her location field_ ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-peter-files-a-word-of-advice/312809/30 "2005-07-16T22:03:45Z")
> [@The Peter Files](#): > > I did not know that the one who commented was a moderator, did not identify himself as such. > > I asked the moderator to close the duplicate post and assumed that the second one was closed before he read the request to close the other one, or that they were closed by two different moderators, so I moved the thread over here to avoid confusion. > > Did not realize I was on thin ice. I haven’t gotten into trouble enough to know who the moderators are unless they say that they are a moderator in their post. Maybe they did and I missed it. > > Mainly I wanted to get the information out and wanted to avoid re-linking everything, for some reason, the linking feature here is not the same as my blog and it confuses me, I know I must sound like a dunce but I had to try 3 times to get the one link straight without erasing everything and had several working links on my page to copy. > > Naturally, I want some flow to my blog, but I will watch out for too much self plugging in the future. > > Is it going to far to have a link in my signature? > > See example. > > Inquiring minds want to know. **The Peter Files** , use your sig only ONE TIME in each thread. Put that link in your Homepage area in your user CP. Do not post simply to draw people to your blog. And, incidentally, that blog crashed my browser a couple of times. Lynn Administrator (since you don’t seem to be able to read status fields) For the Straight Dope ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2005, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-peter-files-a-word-of-advice/312809/31 "2005-07-16T22:44:31Z")
In the immortalk words of my teenage self’s friends: Oooooooh! Buuuuusteeeeed! ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-peter-files-a-word-of-advice/312809/32 "2005-07-17T03:22:54Z")
> [@The Peter Files](#): > > I did not know that the one who commented was a moderator, did not identify himself as such. > > . I did not know you were a “member” until you identified yourself as such. 🙂🆒 :mad: 😕☹😛 ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-peter-files-a-word-of-advice/312809/33 "2005-07-17T07:16:36Z")
ZERE ARE ZE RULES, UND YOU MUST COMPLY VIT ZEE RULES! YOU MUST READ ZEM COMPLETELY, UND BE ABLE TO RECITE ZEM! OR YOU VILL BE ELIMINATED! Plus, nobody makes any cash off you promoting your site, dude. And besides, that sig is only funny once, more than that, sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-peter-files-a-word-of-advice/312809/34 "2005-07-17T09:57:16Z")
Once again I thank fortune that I had the foresight to turn off viewing sigs for my account. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-peter-files-a-word-of-advice/312809/35 "2005-07-17T15:42:20Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > Once per thread is enough; if people really want to visit your site, they can click on your profile and get to your blog from there. My Gosh can’t you read? :rolleyes: Once during a thread is enough of that sig and you keep posting it. Do you know that you can turn it off? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![PETERFI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PETERFI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PETERFI)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-peter-files-a-word-of-advice/312809/36 "2005-07-17T18:04:18Z")
> [@Lynn Bodoni](#): > > **The Peter Files** , use your sig only ONE TIME in each thread. Thread? Thread? THREAD! OMG. I get it now. Thread not post. Ohhhhhh, so mortifyingly sorry. Once each thread. right. Now I am truly humbled. Really truly mortified and humbled. Years from now I will look back on this thread and squirm in misery at how I could have been dense for so long. And I have made this mistake over and over and over. To quote lurch, ooooouuuuuugggggghhhhhh. By the way Lynn, most of the confusion was that I had not seen the posts from SKip that everyone else had seen when I started reading this thread. If I had the whole darn thread would not have happen. But it probably had to just to get my attention on the thread/post distinction. Once again, sorry. ☹ Peter ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-peter-files-a-word-of-advice/312809/37 "2005-07-17T18:17:15Z")
> [@The Peter Files](#): > > OMG. I get it now. Thread not post. Yeah, those jerks that check the “display sig” box more than once for a single post _really_ put a hair up my ass. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-peter-files-a-word-of-advice/312809/38 "2005-07-17T18:44:14Z")
> [@](#): > > Ohhhhhh, so mortifyingly sorry. Don’t be sorry. Just don’t do it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-peter-files-a-word-of-advice/312809.md?page=1)