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Subject: Do you pay attention to signatures anymore?

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I just felt like getting some opinions on this. Back in the day (before The New Hawtness), signatures were hard to miss, because they were under all of the posts.

Now that the signatures have been hidden, do any of you actually take the time to look at them when you see other members post?

  • 05.22.2007 12:56 PM PDT
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Sometimes, to be honest.

  • 05.22.2007 12:59 PM PDT

Posted by: WolfmanMaverick
You people have just sent my sides into orbit. A bunch of MLG try hards sucking the dick of some supposed pro half the thread hasn't even heard of. Classic.

Sometimes I do but only if the person who posted made a post that caught my eye.

  • 05.22.2007 1:09 PM PDT

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Nope, and I don't miss them either.

  • 05.22.2007 1:19 PM PDT

Posted by: Achilles1108
Sometimes I do but only if the person who posted made a post that caught my eye.


Don't think I don't notice the way you undress my avatar with your eyes.

  • 05.22.2007 1:19 PM PDT
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Granted, I've only been a part of this forum community for a very short while, so take that into consideration, but I've never paid attention to anyone's signature.

Frankly, I don't think I'm missing much. If someone makes a really good post, then I'll remember the post, not the signature. Signatures really just take up more page space for off-topic, non-unique text. Other than using them as one more way to identify the author of the post at a glance, I don't see them as having a whole lot of use--though I'll acknowledge that they are sometimes fun.

  • 05.22.2007 1:27 PM PDT

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Posted by: je110
Frankly, I don't think I'm missing much. If someone makes a really good post, then I'll remember the post, not the signature. Signatures really just take up more page space for off-topic, non-unique text. Other than using them as one more way to identify the author of the post at a glance, I don't see them as having a whole lot of use--though I'll acknowledge that they are sometimes fun.

Signatures can be important. For example, some moderators will provide contact information in their signatures, so they can be reachable if one ever needs them.

In addition, signatures used to be one of the main ways for online chapters to advertise themselves.

  • 05.22.2007 1:31 PM PDT
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Posted by: je110
Frankly, I don't think I'm missing much. If someone makes a really good post, then I'll remember the post, not the signature. Signatures really just take up more page space for off-topic, non-unique text. Other than using them as one more way to identify the author of the post at a glance, I don't see them as having a whole lot of use--though I'll acknowledge that they are sometimes fun.

I have to strongly disagree with you there, je110. Putting simple quotes in your signature may be somewhat useless, but many people use their signature to "advertise." For example, I use my signature to highlight two of the Community projects that I help to run.

I suggest that you use your signature to link people to something interesting or something that you want people to see, and then try to make helpful, contributive posts that stand out so that people wonder who you are and put their mouse over your avatar to find out. You will find that the signatures become much more useful then.

That said, I typically only look at signatures when a person makes either a great post or a very bad post that will likely result in a locked thread or a blacklist. Of course, the reasons that I look at each are very different.

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  • 05.22.2007 2:46 PM PDT

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Ever since they hid them i dont.

The last bit of being an individual died.

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Posted by: Achilles1108
Sometimes I do but only if the person who posted made a post that caught my eye.


Spot on.

Normally, I don't pay attention to signatures anyway. I think those kinda things (and Halo 2 emblems, for example) are more for personal enjoyment than sharing with the world for their amusement.

  • 05.22.2007 4:01 PM PDT
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Never, unless someone makes a thead like this, and I then just have to scroll over everyone's avatar that's posted so far...

  • 05.22.2007 4:15 PM PDT
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I do on rare occasion, just to check that no one's hiding pr0n in their sig.

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Every now and then I'll hover my mouse over a user's avatar to see if their signature has the same degree of... insanity as their posting.

  • 05.22.2007 6:13 PM PDT
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I've never payed attention to people's sigs in the first place. Occasionally there'd be a funny quote that I'd notice but I never took the time to read through more than one at any time.

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As i scroll down reading threads, I have my mouse on the very left of the page. After I read the users post I hover over their avatar to see the sig. If you start to make it a habit, it wont be so different then it was before the new hawtness.

  • 05.22.2007 6:47 PM PDT

I do from time to time.

  • 05.22.2007 7:08 PM PDT

I remember when I used this space to put cool looking links to my chapters back in the day. I don't even know why I'm using it now. Why are you even reading this? You must be interested in me. Still reading?

Posted by: Thing1
As i scroll down reading threads, I have my mouse on the very left of the page. After I read the users post I hover over their avatar to see the sig. If you start to make it a habit, it wont be so different then it was before the new hawtness.
I think the B.net member card is a great feature. But I don't understand why you can post like 500 Chracters and it only shows maybe 350 of the characters. Like some people I see, I'm reading their sig and it is just cut off at the bottom.

I think the New Hawtness sig method is better and makes it more user-friendly and makes it easier to read posts.

  • 05.22.2007 7:50 PM PDT
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Now that you've taken the time to look at my sig, I actually regret not providing you with something more worthwhile.

I haven't read a sig since the site update, much like the majority of the people on the site. I miss sigs. They're like a comatose grandmother now. Sure, it's there, but everything that made Grandma special is gone. Pull the plug.

  • 05.22.2007 11:14 PM PDT
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Not as much as I used to, which wasn't that much anyway...

  • 05.23.2007 3:31 AM PDT
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SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

I think I need to look at them more than I do. As TGP said, we're supposed to be making sure people's sigs conform to the rules of this site, and of course checking them is a necessary part of doing that. I simply don't do it often, because from time to time I actually forget about them. I'll check them when I remember they exist, and if I'm not busy doing other pressing things.

Although, usually if a user has something bad in their sig, another concerned user will PM me letting me know about the violation. I'd like to thank everyone who has done that for me again because I have to admit, I need some help with that lately.

More on topic, aside from ninja tasks, I never really payed attention to any one's sigs anyway. They were usually annoying eyesores.

  • 05.23.2007 5:43 AM PDT

Strange evolution how people have come to believe
That we are it's greatest achievement
We're barely, we're just a collection of cells
Overrating themselves

What signatures? I dont see any.

  • 05.23.2007 8:25 AM PDT

You say tomato; I say potato.

Sometimes I go on a sig reading spree. When I not doing that, I look at the sigs of people I know and posts that stand out. This method is how I find groups.

[Edited on 05.23.2007 8:57 AM PDT]

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I am now pretty familiar with a lot of the groups at B.net, so I don't read them anymore to find out about interesting groups. I don't read them anymore.

  • 05.23.2007 9:30 AM PDT

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