Maybe, but if I participated on a Board where many many people expressed annoyance at my use of “they” as a gender-indeterminate single pronoun I would not use it. I am not so attached to my gender indeterminate single pronouns that I would choose to annoy people. I would think they are goofy but I would stop. I personally think minor spelling errors and typos are acceptable (though fun to make fun of sometimes) but people jumped on me enough about it so I started spell checking.*
I guess I would take into account how many came down on each side and how much it it bothered some people. But the critical factor for me is where the board moderators came down on the issue. A sig is a petty affectation, why the gnashing of teeth over not being allowed to include it? Even if you think the complaints are petty isn’t this turning into a battle of pettiness? I mean most of us will always append the “Daniel” to the end of all your posts anyway. If I were you I would be pissed at Vox, everything was going swimmingly with the occasional swipe at Shodan, until Vox came along.
Looking for examples, I noticed I actually add the Jim to the end far less often than I thought or use to. Usually for longer posts and rarely more than once per thread.
Because four lines of text is not a signature, it is an additional paragraph that pretty much adds nothing to the conversation. Hell, three lines is too many.
As for why I’m worried about it: I know I’ll violate it unintentionally, since it’ll mean undoing 2 decades of habits, and it irritates me to be put in that situation for what I see as an absurdly trifling reason.
Well it looks like I have been getting out of the habit, but why in hell does it bug you. Especially in Left Hand of Dorkness’s case where it is only 2 extra lines? I can’t imagine how it impacts your reading of the board.
Well, yours changes. It’s the static ones that bug me. And the ones that have a tone that’s incongruous with that of the post as often happens with Regards and Enjoy. I just don’t understand why those who wish to keep the same message every time can’t just put it in the sig file. But whatever.
I dunno. The enjoy one adds a nice bit of irony to flames. See for example:
Your mother is the whore that fucked a baboon to produce someone as ugly as you you smelly rotten ass licker
Enjoy,
tao
I believe that any blank lines in the signature count against the four-line limit. I just tested this and was successfully able to record a signature consisting entirely of:
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
On the contrary. I work as a customer service representative, and my client is one the five largest retailers in the country. The behavior in this thread is easily on par with some of the idiots I have to deal with daily, both colleagues and customers alike.
