Because it’s annoying?
Be it known that Vox Imperatoris speaks not for My imperial person.
If the poster is in violation of board rules, did you report him? If so, good. If not, then you’re a whiner.
He does not appear to be violating any board rules according to another recent pit thread on this subject.
No, they didn’t. They mostly had the pseudo-superior tone of a 15-year-old who’s just discovered Ayn Rand, because that’s what THEY ARE! I generally dislike generalizing due to age here, but watching people engage him seriously when he starts up the Objectivist/liberarian crap, as if he’s actually speaking through the lens of experience rather than through the overconfidence of youth, was driving me crazy.
Ah. Right, then.
No one ever expects the Style Inquisition!
(Oh, come on, I had to do it.)
Just to provide the cite: FAQ - Rules for Posting at the Straight Dope Message Boards, post 14
Ed sums it up as follows:
Yes, OK, but shouldn’t it be OK in the SIGNATURE? That way we can block it. (Of course, you can block the entire posts by poster… just saying…)
Apparently the signature feature puts a larger burden on the server so sign-offs are actually friendlier to the hamsters even if they annoy some posters.
My conjecture on the burden is that the signatures are in another file and so if a user used his signature in every post that adds up to a lot of extra file lookups. We still do not have a well tune database and are possibly running into some size issues with MySql. This is really outside my programming area though so remember I said conjecture.
Who died and made him emperor, anyway?
Ah yes, my boy, a piffle. It’s illuminating, inspiring, intellectual, even insightful, if you will. It literally brings a tear to my eye every time I see. I can see how that may seem annoying, but it’s a simple matter of being prepared. May I suggest a box of tissues next to your keyboard and a plastic keyboard protector to reduce the risk of saltifying your Enter key?
I can’t even comprehend being such a weenie that this kind of thing gets your undies in a bunch. But, hey, whine away!
Pretty much this. I really don’t understand what the big deal about this is. “But it’s annoying!” I find the weekly threads bitching about it even moreso. Get the fuck over it.
Not many people know this, but I am the rightful emperor of China. (My reign-name is Dong Hang Lo. Of the Wang Dynasty.)
Symbolism. The word you’re looking for is symbolism.
At that age all I did was ejaculate my own body weight. Fair play to him for being precociously thoughtful and not just obsessed with boobs and asses.
Yep. Very recently and for many pages - Vox? Valete? Globos meos lambe - The BBQ Pit - Straight Dope Message Board
Although I do not usually use one myself, I actually rather like the one- or two-line simple signoffs that some posters include. Certainly, intelligent people can disagree on this issue.
As pointed out above, they are not a rules violation.
I had not weighed in on this before, but I am doing so now on the chance, no matter how negligable, that this is coming up time and time again because I had not yet offered my opinion on the subject.
Commodo planto is subsisto,
Borborygmi
True dat. And really, I wish my life was carefree enough that stuff this inconsequential fit on my “things that bother me” list. Unfortunately, there’s a long waiting list for that one.
Buena suerte, y vaya con dios,
Cisco