What do you get out of signatures?

[Nifft]

As for the second quote, that's kind of an up-front encapsulation of my beliefs about D&D as well as a tribute to Gary.

I'd like to think there's a better way to remember Gary than trying to provoke an edition war, every time one posts.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Stormonu]

That reminds me - I need to update mine.

And the quote probably doesn't mean what you think. It's a personal reminder (and a play off the Arnold quote from Predator) that when you stat something out, you're inviting players to break it, kill it, abuse it or otherwise do things with it you probably didn't intend. Some things are probably best left without stats.

And, uh no - you won't find it in Hackmaster anywhere. That's part of the joke.

 

[Woas]

Just doing my part in the war against Ear-Bananas.

By the way,

Did you get the bananas out of your ears?

 

[Dandu]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPAJ9I7AIAs"]Put a banana in your ear.[/ame]

 

[Dice4Hire]

I blocked sigs in my preferences soon after I joined the board, so I don't know waht ANY of your signatures are.

As for my non DDI thing, that is because a year ago I was being told in every other post to try out DDI. Putting that line in there helped a lot.

 

[malraux]

My user title is an inside joke from high school that doesn't have to do with hotels, although I have stayed at a howard johnson before.

My grammar isn't great, and for some reason I have always spelled their thier, it's like selective dyslexia or something.

Here is the particular signature that inspired me to stat this thread, just to show you what I mean.

"life is blond"
"stirges suck"
"so do vampires"
"in other games you get to fight... broccoli?"

What do you get out of putting 4 random, silly, out of context quotes at the end of everyone of your posts?

To me at least, this is like wearing a "Git-r-done" t-shirt, or having multiple singing fish mounted in your living room... am I the only one out there who feels this way? Surely not. Come on, seriously..... come on.... you're honestly telling me that in any other converstation you would be defending bumper stickers and those who stick them. or anyone with a git-r-done t-shirt?

Wait, your username as an inside joke is clearly acceptable, but someone's inside joke as a sig line is over the line?

Personally, long sig lines, overwide images or anything with an animated gif really annoys me. Beyond that, I really just don't care.

 

[Wayside]

My sig is to remind people to shut their stupid damn mouths if they don't know what they're talking about. It rarely works, but I'm fighting the good fight.

Mine is to remind me not to bother responding to these same people. Before Heraclitus I had something from Chaim Perelman's Treatise on Argumentation, and before that something from Aristotle's Rhetoric, that said substantially the same thing: don't waste your time.

 

[Squizzle]

I blocked sigs in my preferences soon after I joined the board, so I don't know waht ANY of your signatures are.

The deactivation of signatures, avatars, etc. is one of the first things I do when I register for a board. I do my level best to trim out as much as possible that is not user-name and message body. If I spent any amount of time greater than the incidental at the board, I end up deploying Adblock Anything, Remove It Permanently, and NoScript to the ends of dismantling its layout extensively, culling it down to barest necessary navigation, and messages. It ends up doing great violence to the visual appeal of any site, but it streamlines the experience a lot.

Here's my view of this thread, scrolled right to the top of the page:

If you intend to spend any amount of time on a site, and there are elements of it that you dislike, it is incumbent on you to use the tools you have available to alter or remove those elements. This isn't television, where your ability to modify the experience the first time you have it is limited. You have control over your own browsing experience, and the burden of rendering it palatable falls, within certain boundaries, mostly on you.

 

[JustKim]

I don't use signatures on any message board I've posted on. I think I tried them briefly when I was a teenager using EZ Boards. I also made websites with custom cursors and 20 animated GIFs on a page. I ignore your signatures, all of them. I would turn off signatures, but sometimes I read a person's creative ideas and I want to see if they have a link to a website or some interesting thread they started.

Luckily there aren't too many bad sigs here on Enworld.

Jay, I respectfully disagree. I believe this is like saying there aren't too many bad axe murders.

 

[The Shaman]

My sig includes a quote I like about weird fantasy artwork, a link to my campaign wiki, and links to the American Cancer Society and the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

If my signature offends anyone's delicate sensibilities, please be assured that I don't care in the least.