# You know your username goes at the top of every post, right?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 22, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255 "2011-02-22T18:14:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@BomTek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BomTek)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255/1 "2011-02-22T18:14:22Z")
Not sure if you knew this or not, **Shodan** , **Quasimodem** , \*\*Mean Mr. Mustard \*\*and others, but the SDMB actually puts your username right there at the top of every single post you make! It’s awesome! It saves you from having to type a little signature at the end. It’s like its own little signature, really.
I get annoyed to an irrational degree every time I see this. Not nearly enough to put this in the Pit, but annoyed just the same. I know that I’ll never change the habits of the people that have been doing this for possibly thousands of posts (and I know this has been covered before, but I can’t find a thread like this. It’d probably be good and dead, anyway), but it’s mundane, utterly pointless, and something I needed to get off my chest. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255/2 "2011-02-22T18:21:11Z")
> [@BomTek](#):
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> (and I know this has been covered before, but I can’t find a thread like this. It’d probably be good and dead, anyway)
Then surely you must also know the inevitable result of every thread that complains about user sign-offs.
Regards,
Rigamarole
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255/3 "2011-02-22T18:23:16Z")
I understand your annoyance but I think you’re fighting a losing battle.
Sincerely,
Wile E
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### Author:  [@BomTek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BomTek)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255/4 "2011-02-22T18:25:03Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#):
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> Then surely you must also know the inevitable result of every thread that complains about user sign-offs.
> Regards,
> Rigamarole
Yep.
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### Author:  [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255/5 "2011-02-22T18:27:41Z")
It’s a bit like emails. You know that your name and email address will display in most email readers, but you still sign it, “Regards, Giles”. (Or whatever your name is.)
(And I’ll resist the temptation.) 😃
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### Author:  [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255/6 "2011-02-22T18:28:43Z")
Every letter I’ve ever written has my name at the top, and my name and signature at the bottom. Does that bother you, also?
Respectfully yours,
Le Ministre de l’au-delà
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### Author:  [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255/7 "2011-02-22T18:30:53Z")
Curious, I have never signed here, and, now, all of a sudden, the urge to do so is nearly overwhelming . . . .
:eek:
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### Author:  [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255/8 "2011-02-22T18:50:41Z")
Guess what? There’s also this brand new thing called a _signature field!_ It’s absolutely fantastic. You can just type your signature in there once, and then the board will display it automatically at the bottom of your post every time! Best of all, users who don’t mind seeing signatures can keep this field visible, and those who are annoyed by them can turn if off! That way _no one gets annoyed._
But nooo, you can’t put your signature into that, because that would make _sense_.
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### Author:  [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255/9 "2011-02-22T18:56:49Z")
You’ll never win.
-Stranger
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255/10 "2011-02-22T18:58:36Z")
Will too.
DtC
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### Author:  [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255/11 "2011-02-22T19:27:54Z")
There are, in fact, other ways to identify yourself. A .sig file and a manual signature aren’t it – posting style works too.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255/12 "2011-02-22T19:34:05Z")
You sign a letter even though your name and address are on the envelope, right?
Later,
runner pat
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### Author:  [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255/13 "2011-02-22T19:40:20Z")
What annoys me more is the edit note. I don’t need to know someone edited their own post, and I sure as hell don’t need to know why.
But those names at the end of posts never bothered me a bit.
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255/14 "2011-02-22T19:42:25Z")
Enjoy,
Regards,
Hugs!
:eek:
MMM
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### Author:  [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255/15 "2011-02-22T19:42:36Z")
I work with a lady who makes the subject line of her e-mails “From Redundant Co-worker.” I know who the e-mail is from, assface!
Best,
M
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### Author:  [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255/16 "2011-02-22T19:45:52Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#):
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> Guess what? There’s also this brand new thing called a _signature field!_ It’s absolutely fantastic. You can just type your signature in there once, and then the board will display it automatically at the bottom of your post every time! Best of all, users who don’t mind seeing signatures can keep this field visible, and those who are annoyed by them can turn if off! That way _no one gets annoyed._
>
> But nooo, you can’t put your signature into that, because that would make _sense_.
This is the thing that baffles me the most. We’ve already got a way to attach a “signature” to each post, and in a way which allows the reader to determine whether that signature adds to the noise level of the board or not… and yet some posters insist on circumventing that nice, clean system so that we are forced to read that they, in fact, posted that message.
I really don’t understand why the mods have never enforced using signatures instead of signing posts.
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### Author:  [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255/17 "2011-02-22T19:46:06Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#):
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> Then surely you must also know the inevitable result of every thread that complains about user sign-offs…
The inevitable result of every thread like this is that at least the second poster–probably the third and fourth too–will gratuitously insert a user sign-off. Whether it will still be amusing after all these years is another question.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255/18 "2011-02-22T19:46:17Z")
I like the fact that by editing his post, **BomTek** effectively signed it.
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255/19 "2011-02-22T19:47:55Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#):
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> I work with a lady who makes the subject line of her e-mails “From Redundant Co-worker.” I know who the e-mail is from, assface!
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> Best,
> M
If her name is “assface”, I can see why she’d prefer to use “redundant co-worker”.
Many Happy Returns,
W E
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### Author:  [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-your-username-goes-at-the-top-of-every-post-right/572255/20 "2011-02-22T19:48:33Z")
We’re not _writing letters._ We’re _having a conversation._ I’m sorry, but if I was talking to someone and he had to _sign off_ every sentence, I would punch him in the face.
-Joe, do you want coffee?
-Sure. Cheers, Joe.
-Want sugar in that?
-Just a hint of cream, please. Cheers, Joe.
_SMACK!_
No, seriously, that \*is \*what you sound like.
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