# Vox? Valete? Globos meos lambe **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 20, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103 "2008-12-20T19:27:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103/41 "2008-12-21T02:25:11Z")
> [@Apex\_Rogers](#): > > It’s like an annoying child who sits in the back seat asking their parents every five minutes, “Are we there, yet?” The constant droning of repeated content adds nothing to the discussion and only serves to annoy other posters. Yes yes! This is exactly what it’s like! > [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#): > > And several people who have sigs. don’t repeat their username, they add their real name. That’s different information. Er, yeah. But why is that information relevant to every damn post they make? I mean, there is a lot of “different information” I could include in every post, but it wouldn’t serve to add anything to the conversation. XOXOXOXO, Green Bean real name: Elizabeth hair color: red shoe size: 8.5 favorite drummer: Keith Moon ate for lunch: tuna fish sandwich ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103/42 "2008-12-21T02:29:25Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > So why is it not being enforced? Sans snark – why _isn’t_ it being enforced? I’m not suggesting mass bannings, but some mod-hat-on reminders would be appreciated. If we flag, will you remind? ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103/43 "2008-12-21T02:30:48Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Good evening, > I’m not particularly upset by it, but I do find it silly to preface or postface posts like they were emails or letters. > > Regards, > Your friend in Dopery, > > - Kobal the second. Kobal2 Post 10599314 Thread 498459 [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb) The Internet 21 December 2008 Dear Sir I agree! Hoping this finds you well and with best wishes for the Holiday Season, Regards, **Cazzle** _“Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103/44 "2008-12-21T03:01:36Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > What I do not understand is whether the thread title falls under the new “misleading” category. The mods need to circle their wagons, learn Latin and issue a warning about something or other (no thread titles in Latin?). Weirdly, there is sort-of a rule like that: threads have to be in English–there was a brief period where a bunch of posters were posting in non-English and the consensus (rightly, IMO) was that mods don’t have the time to Babelfish every post in a thread. I don’t think thread titles alone trigger that rule though. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103/45 "2008-12-21T03:08:25Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Wow, a very interesting history! I’ve been doing it since logging onto the Forbidden Zone BBS back in the late eighties or early nineties, and have been doing so on this board since my first post in 1999, and have been doing so on every messageboard I log onto on the net. I do so because it’s how I sign emails, and it’s helpful to me when others do so, since I have a tendency to read over text in fonts other than the message font; having someone put their name in the body of their message makes it stand out more for me. > > I think folks who get their knickers in a twist about it are keen. Really. > > Daniel Fuck off, Darryl Lict ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103/46 "2008-12-21T03:32:32Z")
[QUOTE=Starving Artist] Perhaps people wouldn’t feel the need to post signature like comments after their posts if their signatures weren’t limited to the first post in a thread. Changing that limitation would allow them to say whatever they want in the way of a sig-like closing whenever they post, and it would allow those who don’t want to see them to block them. Win-win it looks like to me, and it would save the “Enjoy, Stephen” types a lot of typing. [/QUOTE] Yes, this is why I do it. I want to include the signoff in every post, but I am prohibited from posting my entire signature more than once per thread. I don’t know why it bugs people; I always thought the posters using it looked much classier. Valete, Vox Imperatoris ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103/47 "2008-12-21T03:34:28Z")
> [@CircleofWillis](#): > > "..and the murderer is… page 146.. \… the butler. Jesus buddy the Spoiler tag exists for a reason :mad: Is Mise le m’ass, An Gadaí ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103/48 "2008-12-21T03:35:42Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > The weird thing about yours, you must admit, is that you freak out when you’re called “Daniel”. > > Drink more lactose, > Marsha I needn’t admit that. All I’ll admit to is that years ago, you were creeping me out by adopting what I thought was an unwarranted over-friendly tone with me, and I made one single post asking you to call me by another name, explaining that I’d totally understand if you didn’t want to do so–and years later you’re still on about it. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103/49 "2008-12-21T03:46:58Z")
Think that’ll leave a mark? _ **fisha** _ ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103/50 "2008-12-21T03:53:08Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > You know why the snakes \*really \*left Ireland? Why stay? The weather. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103/51 "2008-12-21T03:53:21Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > You sign emails? I hardly ever do, unless the person to whom I’m replying signs their email and I sense that they expect a reciprocal formality. Why sign an email when it’s obvious who it’s coming from? As noted not all of us use our names in the email address and if so it might be a full name, rather than your normal address. For example my first name is Nikola, but I usually sign “Nick” or “Nick _last name_” because that is what I go by in all but the most formal of circumstances. I don’t always bother with close friends anymore, but I always sign my name if responding to strangers or quasi-strangers, like say someone e-mailing me that I only know from the SDMB and haven’t interacted with in flesh-space. But ALSO, that’s how I was trained to end letters when I was in High School, damnit! I’ve finally abandoned signing my posts on this board as I slowly inch into the 21rst century, simply because it seems to drive people bugfuck and I’m nothing if not accomodating. Mr. Accomodation they call me. But for the longest time I thought that is what you were _supposed_ to do. Seems to me it was rather more common when I first got on the net back in the Dark Ages ( mid to late '90’s ). Gradually it has appeared to have become obsolete. But forgive some of us lagging behind the pack. I only got my first cell phone two years ago. Finally moving to HDTV this Chirstmas. And I have yet to embrace 5.1 or larger - it’s still two-channel stereo for at least another year! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103/52 "2008-12-21T04:09:36Z")
I just wanted to pop in and say that this whole thread makes me giggle. Regards, Most Sincerely, Your Humble Servant, Who Never Until Now Realized That He Ought Rightly To Be So Farcically Annoyed By Honorary Signature Lines, Who Furthermore Never Considered Using One Himself Until He Realized How Farcically Annoying Certain Other Persons Find Them, Who Regardless Will Not Make Use Of Them In The Future Because He Knows What Is Good For Him, Who Also Derives A Perverse Enjoyment From Capitalizing Every Word In A Sentence When He Can Get Away With It, and Who Finally Should Stop Tacking On Extra Clauses To This Now Implausibly Long Signature, In Peace And Love And All That Jazz, ~ **Stealth Potato** ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103/53 "2008-12-21T04:21:21Z")
> [@Vox\_Imperatoris](#): > > Yes, this is why I do it. I want to include the signoff in every post, but I am prohibited from posting my entire signature more than once per thread. Why do you want to include the “Valete/Vox Imperatoris” with every post? I’m honestly curious. > [@](#): > > I don’t know why it bugs people; 😕 Haven’t you read this thread and the other one? > [@](#): > > I always thought the posters using it looked much classier. They don’t. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103/54 "2008-12-21T04:28:54Z")
Just as an example of how ridiculous it looks, take a look at the first five posts of this thread.[this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=498513). 3 of the first 5 posts are from **Vox Imperatoris**. They’re all one-line posts. And he uses his little sig conceit in every one of them! ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103/55 "2008-12-21T04:43:39Z")
I’m struck by the fact that I just saw a poster today say that she wants to see more people post with differing viewpoints. If people can’t even tolerate something as simple as a sig. without forcing others to conform, I think it’s pretty doubtful that people with widely differing viewpoints would be very welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103/56 "2008-12-21T04:44:28Z")
You know, I really like the name **Stealth Potato**. Peace out. Kat ---
**Author:** ![CircleofWillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@CircleofWillis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CircleofWillis)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103/57 "2008-12-21T04:48:14Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > Just as an example of how ridiculous it looks, take a look at the first five posts of this thread.[this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=498513). 3 of the first 5 posts are from **Vox Imperatoris**. They’re all one-line posts. And he uses his little sig conceit in every one of them! Looked.. still don’t get it from a pragmatic standpoint. I could easily… easily.. parse out the sig part and read the meat of the post. Didn’t get a brain cramp; my head didn’t asplode; didn’t hear the baby jesus weep from all the non-sig sigs. :shrug: Apparently the quote feature was not working for a short time or somesuch… Fuck you all, CircleofWillis ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103/58 "2008-12-21T04:48:18Z")
> [@Vox\_Imperatoris](#): > > Yes, this is why I do it. I want to include the signoff in every post, but I am prohibited from posting my entire signature more than once per thread. I don’t know why it bugs people; I always thought the posters using it looked much classier. > > Valete, > Vox Imperatoris Moderator Note]As has already been noted [before](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10599417&postcount=27), what you are doing is considered a signature. Please use said signature once per thread. Thank you.[/Moderator Note] ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103/59 "2008-12-21T04:49:00Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > Why do you want to include the “Valete/Vox Imperatoris” with every post?I’m honestly curious. Because I think it both looks better and makes me distinctive. > [@](#): > > 😕 Haven’t you read this thread and the other one? I have read how this signoff has made you feel. I have no idea why you feel that way, though. > [@](#): > > They don’t. Sorry. I disagree. **Heffalump and Roo** , yes, that. Valete, Vox Imperatoris ETA: Fine. But only because you forced me to. ---
**Author:** ![CircleofWillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@CircleofWillis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CircleofWillis)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103/60 "2008-12-21T04:50:13Z")
> [@fisha](#): > > I really wish I would have thought of **Circle of Willis** sig first. Props, yo. > Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi. > > _ **fisha** _ You are welcome to it once the non-sig sig kerfluffle dies down. Fuck you all, CircleofWillis [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vox-valete-globos-meos-lambe/478103.md?page=4)