| Posted: 26 August 2009 at 7:18am | IP Logged | 1
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Since I started poking around message boards, lo these many years ago, one of the things that has struck me as somewhat odd are the Sig Lines and other such things that people install in their posts. I guess I could almost understand such things if they changed from post to post, or if they appeared only in the first post in a thread, or some other such tweaking, but I wonder at the point when basically they become the kind of overkill we see in just about any thread. Joe Blow and Sam Snow get into a hot debate, posts bouncing back and forth, sometimes long, sometimes short and pithy, and EVERY ONE has the same sig line and/or graphic, over and over and over and over and over… Why? I have yet to see a message board in which the poster's name is not automatically tagged to the post, as here, on the left. Most people use some kind of graphic avatar, too. Isn't that enough? And, I have to say, it becomes more than a little comical when sig lines produce something like… .. Well, you're all a bunch of assholes and should go fuck yourselves! Cheers! Sam .. Hmm. Intent muted? As you probably know, I keep all the bells and whistles turned off, so I don't see avatars and sig lines and graphics, but every so often I log-off and peruse the board just to see what things look like. Usually I find something silly, or annoying. Or rude -- as this morning, when viewing sig lines showed me at least one poster who has been ignoring the Forum rule against self-promotion. A word to some of you --- maybe you should rein it in a notch or twelve?
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