Dear SDMB users who sign your posts with some form of your username,
Are you morons? Do you not realize that your name is RIGHT FUCKING THERE at the top of your post? In GIANT FUCKING LETTERS, even! Do you think everyone is going to somehow **forget **that the post was made by you between the time they looked at the header and the time they reached the end of your three fucking sentences? If they do, guess what–they can just look back at the GIANT FUCKING LETTERS in the post’s header to remember that you wrote it.
The rule I’ve always followed is that unless I’m composing a very informal note, as opposed to a formal letter or memo, that after the salutation, a colon is more appropriate rather than a comma.
Also, my preference is to use bold instead of the CAPS LOCK for emphasis. A little more punch, eh? And use it just for the impact words, thusly:
“giant fucking letters”
Again, just my own preferences, I’m pretty sure no one really gives a flying baboon’s ass about nitpicky things like that enough to bet riled up over them.
This clearly is styled as a personal letter, rather than a business one. Or do you normally sign off your business letters with “Love”?
**Also, my preference is to use bold instead of the CAPS LOCK for emphasis.
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If you note, I’ve used both. And I’m talking about GIANT FUCKING LETTERS, and capital letters are larger than lowercase ones. Ah, I do note that I forgot to go back and reformat “right fucking there”–mea culpa.
All of your suggestions serve a purpose, however; signing posts is redundant, which makes it stupid.
So if a poster that never says anything worth reading ends his posts with a salutation, does that make it doubly redundant? 'Cause the redundancies would cancel out, see?
When I was in first grade (? I think) our teacher had us write letters to the President. The only letters I’d ever written till then had been to grandparents, aunts & uncles, etc. that I always signed with “Love”. Of course I signed my letter to President Johnson,
Good point, I somehow missed the bolding you included.
Business letters rarely get “Love”. Depends on the business.
But on a slightly serious note, if I send a letter out on letterhead, or even an e-mail with a signature or logo (or both) at the bottom, then sign it, is that redundant as well?
My work e-mail signature line has my full name, title and contact info, yet usually at the bottom of the text, I either include my first name, or full name, depending on who the recipient is.
Look, while I agree in principle with the OP (and with the many past OPs on the subject), it’s not worth the fight. They’re just not going to stop, you can’t make them, and the fight can only go on for so long before it just gets really petty.
A message board is a different format from a letter, whether physical or in email form. You wouldn’t end a phone conversation with your name, and you wouldn’t end an instant message with one, either.
Yeah, but I get to bitch about it, which is cathartic. Plus, there’s a chance that one of them might drop by and actually make a compelling argument for why it’s *not *a deeply stupid thing to do.
Oh, and can anyone explain to me how this gets around the “use your signature once per thread, max” rule? I swear I’ve seen people sign every single post they make in a thread with their name, which would seem to violate the rule in spirit, if not in the very letter.
So if I were to pick something I wanted as a signature, and use it at the end of every post, but not actually set it up in my profile as a signature, the mods couldn’t do anything to me? :rolleyes:
I thought someone had made an official ruling that you can only “sign” a post once per thread also? Sign as in, to put your signature in the actual post section and not signature section.
It was probably in the last Pit thread we had about this.
Hey, it’s me. How ya doin’? I just called to say that a message board is not a telephone, so the same rules don’t apply. Hold on, that’s my other line.
I’ve been the recipient of Shodan’s regards so many times now, it’s like it doesn’t mean anything. Which is a shame, considering the guileless manner in which they’re offered.