The Big Sig Debate Poll

[Masked Revenger]

So, it has recently been brought to my attention that more people that the three that voice off about it are annoyed (to the point of distraction, apparently) by the fact that I sign all my posts.

I don't understand why this would be, it's five letters, and in no way detracts from what I am saying. I can't imagine that it's more destracting than some people's bright and flashy banner sigs.

But, that's beside the point. I've decided to see just how many people are bugged by this.

So, I've made this anonymous poll. Should I ditch signing my name? Should I keep it? Do you just don't give a ****?

Tell me! It might not change anything, but I'm curious.

Chris

[Seadevil]

I don't care, really. If you want to sign your posts that way, more power to you.

[Vendel]

I'm somewhere between don't care and bugs me. Alas, there is no option for slightly annoyed ;)

Vendel

[iggy880]

I don't care, I do kinda lije how it annoys a few people....*cough*Wids*cough*

[Grae Knight]

Tell them to kiss your ass.

[Knightward]

I never minded. It's a small thing and, much like the rest of your posts I can just ignore it, :P

In all seriousness though it doesn't bother me in the slightest.

[Sir Serpa]

Tell them to kiss your ass.

QFT. It's not against the rules to sign your name... Go for it.

[Stalking Shadow]

It doesn't bother me, though I do find it odd. It's mainly the fact that it's unexplained, and not part of your actual "signature" field.

So if people complain about it, it's mainly the "nail sticking out" phenomenon. People don't like it when you don't conform. It snags their forum reading experience, or whatever.

And nails that stick out get hammered.

[WingedAvenger]

People who are bugged by something like that really need better and more important things to worry about.

[Stalking Shadow]

People who are bugged by something like that really need better and more important things to worry about.

Like AIDS. Or teen pregnancy. Or teen AIDS.

[Malibu Sally]

People who are bugged by something like that really need better and more important things to worry about.
Like what? The simultaneous presence of an off-topic AND a spam section in an online forum? :P

[D'Arkaine]

Screw 'em. You may have just started a new trend.

Donny

[WingedAvenger]

Like what? The simultaneous presence of an off-topic AND a spam section in an online forum? :P

Exactly! :cool:

[Sir Serpa]

Screw 'em. You may have just started a new trend.

Donny

What he said! Rebel!

Drew

Wait...that's conforming to a rebellious movement...****. Oh well.

Drew

[coldcut]

I always assumed it was so we could differentiate which one of your multiple personalities was dominant at the time you wrote your post.

Like SS, I find it a bit odd. I don't think there's many other avenues of communication where you'd sign your name after everything you write or say. Maybe ham radio? Still, it doesn't bother me enough to be starting threads or anything.

[Grae Knight]

Screw 'em. You may have just started a new trend.

Donny

Viva la resistance!!

Tim

[Meltman]

I picked the last one, but honestly, that's my solution to everything.

[Bitter Babe]

It doesn't bother me at all and I honestly don't see what the big deal is *shrug*

[Sebastian Kain]

Voted for the last two.

[thebluecanary]

I never did understand why people got upset over you adding your name. I would never do that, but that is just me.

And what with the trend with people removing all images from thier sig anyway?

[Sir Serpa]

Simplicity, my dear man. Less clutter. Looks good. Thumbs up to Grae (since I sort of copied his format >_> ).

Drew

[bpphantom]

I don't care one way or the other really.

Tony Danza

[Grae Knight]

Simplicity, my dear man. Less clutter. Looks good. Thumbs up to Grae (since I sort of copied his format >_> ).

Drew

Got to give credit to Switchblade, he started the trend.

[TheImperial]

Like AIDS. Or teen pregnancy. Or teen AIDS.

Or giving all the children of the world aides.

[Masked Revenger]

It doesn't bother me, though I do find it odd. It's mainly the fact that it's unexplained, and not part of your actual "signature" field.

So if people complain about it, it's mainly the "nail sticking out" phenomenon. People don't like it when you don't conform. It snags their forum reading experience, or whatever.

And nails that stick out get hammered.

That's just it, it's not unexplained... still, maybe people haven't read Wid's original post making fun of this, so I'll re-explain here.

Way back in the day, before there was an internet, those of us who used computers had to get together online via local Bultien Board Systems (BBS). I started on one here in San Diego, and the message boards on that system did not tell you who made what post, so we all used to sign either our name or handle. It just became a habbit, and that habbit traveled with me from BBS to internet email to internet message boards. And all that time, not a single person ever said a thing about it, until here.

So, I there you go. Explained. :)

Chris

[WingedAvenger]

Way back in the day, before there was an internet, those of us who used computers had to get together online via local Bultien Board Systems (BBS). I started on one here in San Diego, and the message boards on that system did not tell you who made what post, so we all used to sign either our name or handle. It just became a habbit, and that habbit traveled with me from BBS to internet email to internet message boards. And all that time, not a single person ever said a thing about it, until here.

Hey, I was a San Diego BBS rat too back in the day. I even started my own that ran for a couple of years (it was MST3K themed). :cool:

[Jade]

Erm, doesn't bother me any. I sign my name at the bottom of my posts too..

-Jade

[Scarf_Girl]

I sign Graes real names this way folks blame him for my antics

Tim

[The Widowed]

I'm somewhere between don't care and bugs me. Alas, there is no option for slightly annoyed ;)
Where's the option for "Was somewhat annoyed with 'Venge's unnecessary sign-off until Meltman started his crack-addled American Soul riff, so now 'Chris' doesn't look all that bad by comparison, and meanwhile Meltman has morphed into a demented crystal meth demon with an awful-looking chinbeard"? :P

I don't care, I do kinda lije how it annoys a few people....*cough*Wids*cough*
Hey, I like mockery and derision. Two of the finer things in life, right there. :p

People who are bugged by something like that really need better and more important things to worry about.
Liiiiike...the Paragon Party Place and Wikipedia? ZAP, biyatch! >:]

Edit: Beaten by Sally, damn it. I think so very much like the Pink One, it's scary. O_o

I sign Graes real names this way folks blame him for my antics

Tim
Good thinking, chica. :D

Scarf

[WingedAvenger]

Liiiiike...the Paragon Party Place and Wikipedia? ZAP, biyatch! >:]

:eyebrow: I don't have a problem with Wikipedia. I like Wikipedia.

[The Widowed]

:eyebrow: I don't have a problem with Wikipedia. I like Wikipedia.
*waits for the reference realization to sink in* :eyebrow:

Rumplestiltskin

[razoras]

This is a good example of why you can only dig at your friends about the same things over and over and over so often. A good friend knows when to shut up already.

[Dynamo-Man]

I ****ing hate it, Chris...or John, or Richard, or Dave...or whatever the hell you think your name is! What, you think people care enough about you to want to know your real name? You're just some faceless dweeb with too much time on his hands...just like the rest of us. Get over yourself, loser.

::SMACK, CRACK, POW, OOF::

Sorry, my evil twin came in there for a second there. He's under control now.

Chris

[Malibu Sally]

This is a good example of why you can only dig at your friends about the same things over and over and over so often. A good friend knows when to shut up already. \
You are so right!



Now don't you have some pictures to call fake or something? :D

[Blackbat]

Got to give credit to Switchblade, he started the trend.

It's been done ever since the game came out. I think we've all done it at some point. ;)

[Jade]

It's been done ever since the game came out. I think we've all done it at some point. ;)

I know that I did it long before switch came around these forums, and I stole it from someone else, lol.

-Jade

[Solos]

What i don't understand is why, when it says your name in size 20ish blue, underlined font just to the left of your post, do you have to remind people again that the person who wrote your post is indeed you? It doesn't keep me up all night or anything, it just seems really stupid.

Chris

[Masked Revenger]

What i don't understand is why, when it says your name in size 20ish blue, underlined font just to the left of your post, do you have to remind people again that the person who wrote your post is indeed you? It doesn't keep me up all night or anything, it just seems really stupid.

Chris

http://www.cohguru.com/forum/showpost.php?p=241799&postcount=25

Chris

[WingedAvenger]

I find it hilariously ironic that people with huge colorful sigs and listings of all their characters don't understand why someone would sign their name to every post.


*waits for the reference realization to sink in* :eyebrow:

*waits for the "oh-crap-I-meant-to-write-Asylum-not-Wikipedia-I-better-pretend-it-was-intentional" moment to sink in*

[Graphite]

F'EM
Finite Element Models that is.

[Joe Schmoe]

Er, just keep doing it. Its not a big deal, and if it bothers people so much, they can leave the internet. :lol:

[Sir Serpa]

Er, just keep doing it. Its not a big deal, and if it bothers people so much, they can leave the internet. :lol:

lol, that last part had me cracking up.:D

Edit: Forgot...

Drew

[Masked Revenger]

lol, that last part had me cracking up.:D

Yeah, same here. :D

Chris

[Bitter Babe]

Joe just has an amazing way with words lol

[Krypto]

Also children.

[Sebastian Kain]

Also children.

QFT.

[Poison]

...I thought this was about too large sigs. You know, it being The Big Sig Debate Poll and all.
But yeah, Chris, keep going.

[The Widowed]

This is a good example of why you can only dig at your friends about the same things over and over and over so often. A good friend knows when to shut up already.
Shush, you, before I Photoshop something and try to pass it off as real. :P

*waits for the "oh-crap-I-meant-to-write-Asylum-not-Wikipedia-I-better-pretend-it-was-intentional" moment to sink in*
No, not really.

*called shot to the left testicle with the Clue Bat +5* >:]


Rumplestiltskin

[Masked Revenger]

*waits for the "oh-crap-I-meant-to-write-Asylum-not-Wikipedia-I-better-pretend-it-was-intentional" moment to sink in*
No, not really.

*called shot to the left testicle with the Clue Bat +5* >:]


Rumplestiltskin

*waits for the two of you to take this to a different thread. The Rants area looks good from here.*

Chris

[The Widowed]

You want relevance? You got relevance. :p

*waits for the two of you to take this to a different thread. The Rants area looks good from here.*

Steve
FIGHT DA POWAH!!! >:]

[Masked Revenger]

You want relevance? You got relevance. :p


Meh, I don't care about relevance. I just want you two to take your problems elsewhere. This thread is for my problems. :P

Chris

[WingedAvenger]

I tried to drop it, but Wids keeps pulling me back in.

/Pacino off

[The Widowed]

Meh, I don't care about relevance. I just want you two to take your problems elsewhere. This thread is for my problems. :P

Chris
Speaking of your problems, Chrissy, MUDs are dead. Let 'em go, man. And that hairstyle of yours? A Chia pet could wear it better. Get thee to a hair salon, stat. :p

I tried to drop it, but Wids keeps pulling me back in.

/Pacino off
I like Al Pacino. :)

The point of the whole display being, of course, that we all obsess over some form of trivia or another. You do, I do, the girl who bags your groceries does. But you'll never catch me trying to forbid anyone else from obsessing over minutiae. If they want to obsess over Chris' unnecessary sign-off, let 'em. It's not like you're sinless enough to cast stones at the Chris-mockers, so to speak.

And if you do cast stones at the Chris mockers, well, you can expect to get summarily mocked over your "PPP forum is unnecessary because the Asylum exists, as I've stated in 15 other threads before" and "Wikipedia automatically makes you a cheater, so that makes it perfectly okay for me to be a complete goon to you" fixations. *** for tat, you know. :p

P.S. The language filter must die. **** "Rated PG" wholesomeness.

[Stalking Shadow]

The point of the whole display being, of course, that we all obsess over some form of trivia or another.


I don't.

[WingedAvenger]

If they want to obsess over Chris' unnecessary sign-off, let 'em. It's not like you're sinless enough to cast stones at the Chris-mockers, so to speak.

Obviously I can't control what other people obsess over (nor would I want to), but if it comes to a point where the people are causing a problem for Chris about it, then it becomes something else. Chris asked for opinions, he got mine, and many others. That's all this is.


And if you do cast stones at the Chris mockers, well, you can expect to get summarily mocked over your "PPP forum is unnecessary because the Asylum exists, as I've stated in 15 other threads before"

Oh no! You mean something that already happened earlier in this thread might happen to me? Did you catch the part where I rolled with it just fine? ;)


and "Wikipedia automatically makes you a cheater, so that makes it perfectly okay for me to be a complete goon to you" fixations. *** for tat, you know. :p

Getting into revisionist history now, eh? Anyone reviewing that thread can clearly see you unleashed your inner goon on me first, so don't go around pretending like you didn't get what you deserved. I'm surprised you're even bringing up that thread again, Wids, considering you lost the discussion.

Chris

[Nerfed]

The point of the whole display being, of course, that we all obsess over some form of trivia or another. You do, I do, the girl who bags your groceries does. But you'll never catch me trying to forbid anyone else from obsessing over minutiae. If they want to obsess over Chris' unnecessary sign-off, let 'em. It's not like you're sinless enough to cast stones at the Chris-mockers, so to speak.
Chris-mockers... somes like some sort of funky custom-tailored footwear.

[Krypto]

Keep it friendly, people.

[The Widowed]

Getting into revisionist history now, eh? Anyone reviewing that thread can clearly see you unleashed your inner goon on me first, so don't go around pretending like you didn't get what you deserved. I'm surprised you're even bringing up that thread again, Wids, considering you lost the discussion.
Oh, did I? And you talk about me being unable to drop things.... :grr:

I dropped the thread and let it die after you pretty much ruined it. Obviously that was a mistake on my part. Let me go back there and fix that right now. :grr:

[Krypto]

I think Chris has gotten the results he wants from this, no reason to keep this topic open since it's just degenerating to flames and arguments. :)