Finishing a post with your username at the bottom

Vanilla · 16 Dec 2006 at 23:49

I'll give you my opinion as to why it is annoying.

It's annoying because as a forum user for as long as they existed (dial up bbs anyone?) I can tell you that a forum is supposed to have a more conversational approach to it. i.e a chat board. Signing off your name kinda spoils this and goes against the whole point of informal chat.

An email is signed off normally as email replaces letters as a formal method of communication.

Therefore that is how I find it annoying. It would appear that some people don't care or arnt bothered - I just feel it's poor communication - it doesn't need to be there, no one is going to think 'who wrote those two sentences??'.

penski · 16 Dec 2006 at 23:52

Vanilla said:
It's annoying because as a forum user for as long as they existed (dial up bbs anyone?) I can tell you that a forum is supposed to have a more conversational approach to it. i.e a chat board. Signing off your name kinda spoils this and goes against the whole point of informal chat.

Don't be such a pretentious oik.

I've been signing posts, emails, Usenet posts and everything else with '*n' for over a decade. I'll keep doing it.

Bite me.

*n

Van Hellseek · 16 Dec 2006 at 23:55

penski said:
Don't be such a pretentious oik.

pot. kettle. black.

Vanilla · 16 Dec 2006 at 23:56

.edited

kefkef · 16 Dec 2006 at 23:57

You could say this about quite a few things. I mean, why have a sig telling every man and his dog what kind of PC you have, does everyone else really care? Why tell us how many folding/seti units you have crunched? Why have a sig with a certain birds body parts in it? It's all presonal preference and it's what makes the world interesting in that everbody has their own view point on certain things.

For me, i only usually sign a post with my name if i am asking a question or thanking someone for an answer.

Zefan · 16 Dec 2006 at 23:57

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

NO!

All of you stop it.

Stellios · 16 Dec 2006 at 23:59

Zefan said:
All of you stop it.

Stop what?

Stell

penski · 17 Dec 2006 at 00:00

seek said:
pot. kettle. black.

No pretentions here, boyo

In person I am exactly as I come across on here; ask those who have met me.

Vanilla said:
Hey, I said I was giving my opinion.

Nice ninja edit

Of course you're giving an opinion. As "a forum user for as long as they existed", you of all people should know that any post is opinion...Obviously excluding posts such as:

2x3=6

Or should that be...

2x3=6

*n

*n

kefkef · 17 Dec 2006 at 00:03

Zefan said:
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

NO!

All of you stop it.

Sorry, couldn't tell who this post was as it wasn't signed!

Digital Punk · 17 Dec 2006 at 00:04

seek said:
pot. kettle. black.

ROFL.

**DP**

Van Hellseek · 17 Dec 2006 at 00:05

penski said:
No pretentions here, boyo

In person I am exactly as I come across on here; ask those who have met me.

how you act outside of here has nothing to do with it.

pretentious : Characterized by an exaggerated show of dignity or self-importance.

So all you're saying above is that you're just as pretentious outside the forums as you are here.

Mr Gimp · 17 Dec 2006 at 00:19

I only put my real name at the bottom of my posts if I feel the need to connect on a more personal level. Putting your forum name is a bit pointless IMO.

James07 · 17 Dec 2006 at 00:21

Plus-44 said:
Quite clearly the person who started this thread!

+44

lol

Joe42 · 17 Dec 2006 at 00:39

Hello and good evening everyone on this wonderful day 17th December 2006, i hope you're all enjoying yourselves.

meh. Hate people who sign off every post with their real names. Its even more annoying when people make up a wierd and wonderful forum name and then stick their real name at the bottom of every post.
Do they all manually type these signoffs in every post or is there a forum feature that does it for you?

Thankyou for reading this original and thoughtful post brought to you by Joe42. Goodbye and Godbless, please enjoy your day.

Al Vallario · 17 Dec 2006 at 00:40

Joe42 said:
you're all enjoying yourselves.

HOW DID YOU KNOW?! :eek:

*av

Joe42 · 17 Dec 2006 at 00:42

Al Vallario said:
HOW DID YOU KNOW?!

*av

Hello and good evening everyone on this wonderful day 17th December 2006, i hope you're all enjoying yourselves.

My psychic powers. Why wouldn't you be enjoying yourself, you've just read one of my posts. What more could you want?

Thankyou for reading this original and thoughtful post brought to you by Joe42. Goodbye and Godbless, please enjoy your day.

Vanilla · 17 Dec 2006 at 00:54

penski said:
Nice ninja edit

I actually edited twice. First thing it said was

"It's my nose, i've been picking it for 10 years and i'm going to keep picking it"

Inquisitor · 17 Dec 2006 at 01:03

I don't really find it annoying, just bizarre. What's wrong with the signature? :confused:

pinkacidbootson · 17 Dec 2006 at 01:19

I've never tried it before.

Simon.

Angus-Higgins · 17 Dec 2006 at 01:25

I started doing it because someone complemented someone else on a forum I used for doing some form of witty signing off. I wanted to become a respected member of the community so I thought it was a good idea, and I began. After I began it became a habit, now I hate to post without signing off, it is almost as bad as leaving a bracket open. Leaving brackets open is a really bad thing in my opinion, I hate it a lot; also leaving tags open in HTML, etc. it makes me feel the document goes on forever.

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Angus Higgins