- Great_Pretender
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I've actually got a script that checks Bungie.net every day to see if there's a post about people using signatures in their posts. Then I come and post something like:
yeah lol i hate people who use signatures
-tgp-
because that seems to be the most logical joke to make in a thread like this.
Instead of doing that, I'll just make a proper argument: why exactly is it attention whoring? When I started doing it it was because I noticed everyone calling me "GP" or "Pretender" and crap like that, which for the former clashes with other user names like God's Prophet, and the latter sounds stupid. So I started putting -TGP- at the end of my posts as a subtle way to get people to call me something less stupid.
Of course, at the time I didn't know it was an often used term to define a particular type of -blam!- site, but whatever. In any case, I did it for a reason, and while the reason pretty much went out the window about a year into posting, it turned into habit and ritual and something I didn't feel like stopping.
In any case, it's not "attention whoring". I'm sure no one who has seen me post in the last ~7 years I've been here even notices I'm putting it there. I'd get more attention if I stopped now.
Of course I'm known as "the guy who puts a signature at the end of his post" and I'm mentioned in every one of these stupid threads, but I bet less people would've noticed if I wasn't a mod as well.
In any case, no, I'm not stopping.
-TGP-