# Users Who End Posts with Their Names **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 25, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940 "2009-06-25T15:42:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940/21 "2009-06-25T16:57:43Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Dear SDMB users who sign your posts with some form of your username, > > Are you morons? > > … > > Love, > SFG People who make this joke bug me. Yer pal, Satan. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940/22 "2009-06-25T16:59:32Z")
> [@Gfactor](#): > > I guess I don’t see your point. What part of this rule has a “spirit” that is getting violated? Ah, I guess I just remembered the “one sig per thread” rule and not the inexplicable “but this kind of sig in every single post is fine” exception. So, I retract–it isn’t against the rules, just really stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940/23 "2009-06-25T17:06:26Z")
Aw jeez, not this shit again. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940/24 "2009-06-25T17:08:42Z")
I like the sigs at the end of posts because I don’t read the headers, unless I’m curious who would say such a thing. It is convenient for me to come to the end and not have to look back up. Also I want to note that I have stolen Shodan’s ‘regards’ as my sign off for my business emails just for the plethora of meaning that he uses it to imply. Thanks for introducing me to that. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940/25 "2009-06-25T17:09:54Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Damn, I Googled it first, but I didn’t turn anything up. Link, please? Search for: \*\*Regards, Shodan \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940/26 "2009-06-25T17:14:39Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Ah, I guess I just remembered the “one sig per thread” rule and not the inexplicable “but this kind of sig in every single post is fine” exception. > > So, I retract–it isn’t against the rules, just really stupid. That’s right. To be fair, that’s a relatively recent change. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940/27 "2009-06-25T17:24:49Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > I like the sigs at the end of posts because I don’t read the headers, unless I’m curious who would say such a thing. How do you form any impressions about users as people, then, if you never read who’s saying what? And how could it mean anything to you to know who’s writing a particular post, since you’ll have no idea what else they’ve written? Also, how do you make yourself \*\*not \*\*read the header? Don’t you just kind of absorb the text as you skim by it on the way from the previous post? ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940/28 "2009-06-25T17:30:18Z")
Here is a past thread on the issue: [Valete, Vox Imperatoris](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10733562#post10733562) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940/29 "2009-06-25T17:34:15Z")
If we banned redundancy, this place would be a wasteland. And the OP would never have happened. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940/30 "2009-06-25T17:36:50Z")
Redundantly yours, Chimera ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940/31 "2009-06-25T17:46:49Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > If we banned redundancy, this place would be a wasteland. And the OP would never have happened. Exactly the same thing would happen if we disallowed repetition, too. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940/32 "2009-06-25T17:48:11Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Exactly the same thing would happen if we disallowed repetition, too. And don’t get me started on duplication! ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940/33 "2009-06-25T18:02:18Z")
Can someone help me out here? I’ve just installed the [FoxReplace](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6510) add-on. It allows me to replace “Regards.” with “I am a retard”. I actually want to replace “Regards,\\”. Now I’m under the impression that a \r or a will allow this but I can’t get it to work. Does anyone know how to get this to work? It does however work on the “Regards,”, and I find this oddly satisfying. Also, thank god that twit Valete, Vox Imperatoris has stopped posting. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940/34 "2009-06-25T18:04:02Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > See what I did there? Man, am I waiting for this to go away. From either side, it’s getting very tiresome. About the OP, you don’t like it, you think it’s stupid, don’t do it. I like it, for about the same reason as Oredigger, and some others. Personally, I think it’s usually fun, and it’s an individual thing, like wearing a particular hairstyle, or a pattern of speech or voice, that helps to identify someone. It’s one of the ways people get to be themselves, which is usually a pretty good thing. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940/35 "2009-06-25T18:13:18Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Search for: > > \*\*Regards, > Shodan \*\* Are you _trying_ to kill the hamsters?? ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940/36 "2009-06-25T18:15:49Z")
> [@thirdwarning](#): > > Man, am I waiting for this to go away. From either side, it’s getting very tiresome. Hrm, a little bit like sign-offs at the end of forum posts, wouldn’t you say? _ **See what I did there?** _ > [@](#): > > About the OP, you don’t like it, you think it’s stupid, don’t do it. I like it, for about the same reason as Oredigger, and some others. Personally, I think it’s usually fun, and it’s an individual thing, like wearing a particular hairstyle, or a pattern of speech or voice, that helps to identify someone. It’s one of the ways people get to be themselves, which is usually a pretty good thing. Yeah, there are plenty of annoying ways to distinguish yourself, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t stop when it’s pointed out that most people find it stupid and annoying. The problem is the way that the human brain works. If _everyone’s_ post contained a sign-off, you could skim past it. If \*everyone \*were forced to (logically) put their sign-off in their signature, people could choose to enable or disable it. But instead, you have a handful of people posting a signature that cannot be turned off, which is distracting, because it’s completely against the format of a typical forum post. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940/37 "2009-06-25T18:20:28Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > The problem is the way that the human brain works. Or doesn’t. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940/38 "2009-06-25T18:28:05Z")
> [@Gfactor](#): > > Here is a past thread on the issue: [Valete, Vox Imperatoris](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10733562#post10733562) And here’s the one before that: [Vox? Valete? Globos meos lambe - The BBQ Pit - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=498459) I used to do it. I started doing it because it’s how I was taught to end correspondence back in the Middle Ages when I went to school and IMHO a message board is more a series of correspondences that a real time conversation. When I first began posting on message boards in the 1990’s I’m fairly certain it was rather more common ( though granted, hardly universal and not necessarily ironclad convention ). I stopped doing it because it inexplicably ( to me ) seemed to drive people bonkers, it does seem to have become much more rare and I eventually decided it wasn’t a fight I really cared enough about to bother with. It’s trivial, really. But I still don’t think there is anything wrong with it :). ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940/39 "2009-06-25T18:31:30Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Search for: > > \*\*Regards, > Shodan \*\* Awesomest post ever. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940/40 "2009-06-25T18:35:16Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Or doesn’t. > > Regards, > Shodan Exactly! The brains of people who sign off at the end of their posts _don’t work_, which is why they do it. I’m so glad you have this understanding of your own inadequacy. Of course, taking this into consideration, perhaps I should stop mocking you for it–you can’t blame people for working to the best of their limited capacities, after all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/users-who-end-posts-with-their-names/500940.md?page=3)