Forum - View topicSignature Question
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Kid Ryan
 Posts: 508 Location: Sacramento, California |
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Why are we not allowed to have Signatures?
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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Signatures were disabled to keep the forum clean and tidy. A professional look, I suppose you could say.
But hush, don't tell anyone; we ARE allowed to have signatures. They just have to be in word form (so no pictures) and pretty short (like two words maximum). You'll have to write them out each time; there is no option to automatically include them. If a Moderator tries to tell you off for making one, you just point them (politely of course) to the posts of abunai (a Moderator) and tempest (the ANN Editor-in-Chief for crying out loud). Both of them sign off every post with a short signature. I know of a couple of regular users who also use signatures and never get in trouble. So there you have it. Hope it helps. Last edited by dtm42 on Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:02 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
 Posts: 3817 Location: Montreal |
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Because signatures are about stoking one's ego, and this forum is about (hopefully) meaningful discussion. It's all about keeping the signal-to-noise ratio high.
While I don't understand why Tempest and abunai put their name at the bottom of every post (it's already at the left of the post, so what's the point?) those are signatures in the original sense of the word, i.e. signing your name at the bottom of a letter. Not the flashy self-promotion that usually passes as "signatures" on the web. |
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Kid Ryan
Posts: 508 Location: Sacramento, California |
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Would this be an "acceptable signature"?
My Anime DVD Collection | My Anime DVD Wish List |
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sailorsarah08
 Posts: 471 Location: Houston, Texas |
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Just put that in your website slot, so if anyone wants to know they can click the "www" button beneath your post.
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Kid Ryan
Posts: 508 Location: Sacramento, California |
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oh, never mind then, I already have my myanimelist profile listed as my "website". |
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abunai
Old Regular
 Posts: 5463 Location: 露命 |
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Well, both Tempest and I used signatures before the rule was implemented, and I will steadfastly argue that we are continuing under a "grandfather clause". But as for the reasons why, I do it because it allows me to include deliberate or semi-deliberate postscripts. The art of letter-writing may be dying, but nevertheless.... a postscript is originally a later addition to a written letter, appended after the signature because it represents an afterthought, and often marked by a "P.S." (for post scriptum). As the art of letters became more sophisticated, deliberate postscripts became part of the form, added to represent a less-formal sidebar to the original letter. When I write posts, they always end in my signature, and anything that appears thereafter is either an afterthought (a genuine postscript) or an informal comment/remark on the content of the post, in the form of brief and wry or offhand note. If the latter, they're always typographically marked by altered font size or italics. Getting back to the original question: if you're going to "sneak" a signature past a moderator, it has to be a real signature. That is, nothing but your name or username. I can't speak for other moderators, but I wouldn't react to that. If you start adding self-promotion or fannish kerfuffle, you're going to get moderated. - abunai See that, up there? That's my signature. And this? This is a self-referentially wry remark. |
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daxomni
 Posts: 2650 Location: Somewhere else. |
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I think Dan really nails it right on the head there. |
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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Hey man, don't go insulting tempest like that. He's a cool guy. Wait, what is that you're saying, you were taking a swipe at abunai instead? Oh, okay, carry on then. You don't need a signature to make a snide remark by way of a postscript. Just saying. {...and neither you nor daxomni need a signature to stoke your grotesquely swollen egos.- abunai} Last edited by dtm42 on Fri Mar 26, 2010 4:46 pm; edited 4 times in total |
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littlegreenwolf
 Posts: 4796 Location: Seattle, WA |
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Eh, I always used them to just show up my current favorite comic/book/anime/whatever. But I understand how it could get out of hand. |
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 7595 Location: Wales |
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To understand means to have visited a forum where signatures fill the whole screen, where single lines/words/smileys of the actual posts are lost in the confusion.
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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Jeez, if that's what you are like when I belittle daxomni, I'd hate to see what you're like when I make fun of you. The snide remark was towards daxomni, for the record. Maybe I should have used a [/sarcasm] tag. Or perhaps I should just never stick up for your ungrateful arse in the future. Yeah, that's safer. |
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