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Subject: Signing your own posts -- necessary?

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.

I may just start signing my posts just to piss you people off even more.

  • 12.12.2012 7:42 AM PDT

Posted by: The Kangol Kid
It was then that I decided he really is like semen(everywhere) and I gave up on life.


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Posted by: Achilles1108
I may just start signing my posts just to piss you people off even more.
Such a rebel.

  • 12.12.2012 7:51 AM PDT

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Posted by: CamCamm
Posted by: Achilles1108
I may just start signing my posts just to piss you people off even more.
Such a rebel.
I imagine by now he's running out of ideas.

  • 12.12.2012 8:08 AM PDT

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The only reason I sign my posts is in remembrance of Beserker Barrage. Taken away from us way too early in life.

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  • 12.12.2012 8:40 AM PDT

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I'm gonna make a sig now.


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damn that's fancy.



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[Edited on 12.12.2012 8:45 AM PST]

  • 12.12.2012 8:43 AM PDT
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I feel as if I'm the only one who isn't bothered by signatures...

  • 12.12.2012 8:46 AM PDT

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Butter my ass, turn around, spread open my butt cheeks, and say "Right here mutha-blam!-a!!"

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I don't really like the single character signatures
*stares at crazzysnipe*
just because they waste an entire line for a single character.
yorkie doesn't bother me because I'm so accustomed to it and it's at least 6 letters.

  • 12.12.2012 8:48 AM PDT

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Posted by: nerd
I feel as if I'm the only one who isn't bothered by signatures...
Shut up nerd, no one cares what you think.

  • 12.12.2012 8:48 AM PDT

It's simply for attention-seeking and trying and stand out.

  • 12.12.2012 8:58 AM PDT

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who honestly cares

  • 12.12.2012 9:18 AM PDT

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Signatures are pointless and moronic. So are the people who use them.

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  • 12.12.2012 9:24 AM PDT
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Posted by: American Recoil
Since we still have nothing to talk about still, I began thinking about something most of us have an opinion on; signing posts. Is signing a post really necessary? What is supposed to symbolize?

I've seen many members over the years who always signed their name or a shortened version of their name, such as TGP or Hawkeye, but I've always kind of seen it as being a useless way to waste a few extra seconds of your day. It is always necessary to sign a birthday card, a letter, and checks and receipts. When you use a signature it is a way of formally finishing a transaction or a personal message or letter to another individual. Participating in a group discussion on a web forum doesn't really require a personal signature, in my opinion.

Before you read this post, you probably noticed my avatar, maybe the Mythic title bar, the topic obviously caught your attention as well (whether it be for the sake of a new thread in the Septagon for a change, or you have an opinion on the matter as well), but one thing I can comfortably accuse all of you of is that you probably looked to see who made this post before you read it. That is the natural order of contributing to a forum, right?

Read topic title> note author of the topic> read body of thread> decide whether or not you want to reply/read other responses> respond yourself/leave with responding, right?

To me, signing your post is just an eye sore you slapped on my monitor while I am casually scrolling through. I personally feel it is an attempt to single yourself out from the crowd, maybe get some attention. I don't like it.

One scenario in which I feel it is necessary is if someone where to edit a post that was originally posted by someone else. Then it would be okay to maybe sign the bottom and include a reason for the edit. But then again, the edit time stamp does include the individuals name if it wasn't the original poster....

How do you feel?

And go ahead, I am expecting 80% of the replies to include signatures.
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  • 12.12.2012 9:28 AM PDT
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Posted by: Achilles1108
I may just start signing my posts just to piss you people off even more.
And on that note

  • 12.12.2012 9:34 AM PDT

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I could understand why people did it back when accounts got deleted but now days there is no need for it.

  • 12.12.2012 10:17 AM PDT

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Posted by: edableshoe
I'm gonna make a sig now.


~$høê


damn that's fancy.



~$høê
I think I'll use this one:

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  • 12.12.2012 10:33 AM PDT

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I find them pompous.

  • 12.12.2012 11:29 AM PDT

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they said "You're gonna get banned and your member title'll be bare!"

I feel like some people who adopted it early did it well, but others have tried to pick it up as a way to stand out.

I will say, however, I do miss seeing B.B. at the end of posts. Very much so.

  • 12.12.2012 11:33 AM PDT

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It's unnecessary, but only one person can do it without me frowning upon them. Yorkie can do it. Everyone else makes me frown.

  • 12.12.2012 11:52 AM PDT

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  • 12.12.2012 11:56 AM PDT

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It bothers me a bit, but I don't let it get to me unless I'm in a bad mood and am just looking for something to rage at. One good argument I've heard to support signatures is that when an account is deleted (not anymore), you can still read the sig, thus knowing who made that specific post back in 2002.

  • 12.12.2012 12:01 PM PDT

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I don't know why but everytime someone signs their name it makes me rage. It's the most pointless thing in the world, your name is at the top of the post, why put it again at the bottom? It also causes me to scroll longer until I can read the next post. It's just a few seconds that I had to waste reading your damn name again.

  • 12.12.2012 12:18 PM PDT
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I don't sign my posts, but it doesn't bother me whatsoever when other users do. Each to his own is my way of looking at it.

  • 12.12.2012 12:23 PM PDT

Ugh...

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The way I see it, people who sign their posts want to be known by something else. For example, a user with the username: HawkSniperNinjaXx23753, would probably want to be known by something else. So they sign their posts HawkSnipe. If this person posts frequently enough, I will refer to that person as HawkSnipe instead of losing them in the sea of members.

  • 12.12.2012 12:32 PM PDT
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I used to sign my posts after people complained that my coup made it really hard to see my username. I don't do it any more though, as I don't bother making myself a coup.

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  • 12.12.2012 12:42 PM PDT

Who am I?

mah twitter


Posted by: POKEY CLYDE
The way I see it, people who sign their posts want to be known by something else. For example, a user with the username: HawkSniperNinjaXx23753, would probably want to be known by something else. So they sign their posts HawkSnipe. If this person posts frequently enough, I will refer to that person as HawkSnipe instead of losing them in the sea of members.
So in other words, it's just to get known. Which in my opinion is pretty pointless on an internet forum.

  • 12.12.2012 12:54 PM PDT