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Annoying footers on posts these days

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  • 11-06-2015 11:08am
    #1
    Goat Paddock
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 84 ✭✭


    What is it with these footers on peoples posts these days?_

    Distracting and annoying
    This is my really annoying footer.

    "Including my lame quote"


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    #2
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,250 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Goat Paddock wrote: »
    What is it with these footers on peoples posts these days?_

    Distracting and annoying
    This is my really annoying footer.

    "Including my lame quote"

    They're called signatures Mr MS word 2003


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    #3
    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    They are called Signatures. Welcome to the Digital Age where this is how Internet Forums are.


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    #4
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    They're all headers sure...


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    #5
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,155 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    You can disable them. I've always had them disabled.


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    #6
    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    I can't see anyone's sig and don't have one myself. Not really interested in reading the same thing over and over so cba trying to figure out how to switch them on.


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    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,250 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Samaris wrote: »
    I can't see anyone's sig and don't have one myself. Not really interested in reading the same thing over and over so cba trying to figure out how to switch them on.

    But my one is awesome!

    Everyone, look at my awesome signature!


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    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    Akrasia wrote: »
    But my one is awesome!

    Everyone, look at my awesome signature!

    *looks at blank bit at the bottom of post* Right on! :D


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    #9
    Hoop66
    Registered Users Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    I'm the same, never seen a single sig.

    How do you switch them on?


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    #10
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Why would you want to?


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    #11
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    cordially,
    Dickhead.


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    #12
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,176 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    The signature facility goes way back to the early 1980s and Usenet. It's intended as a plain-text sign-off to save you from going:

    --
    Thanks&&Regards,
    JG.

    ...every time.


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    #13
    Hoop66
    Registered Users Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    catallus wrote: »
    Why would you want to?

    Well, obviously, so that I can put something unbelievably offensive in there.

    I quite often go with Gerry Sadowitz's joke about Jill Dando.


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    #14
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Hoop66 wrote: »
    I quite often go with Gerry Sadowitz's joke about Jill Dando.

    Tell me it.


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    Hoop66
    Registered Users Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    catallus wrote: »
    Tell me it.
    If I'd known Jill Dando was going to be killed that Friday, I'd have raped her on the Thursday...


    instead of on the Sunday.


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    #16
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    I see.

    Yeah, you should leave it turned off.


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    #17
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    The best is when overly self important knobheads sign off with. Eg. Sheep Lover. Or SL

    Bellends, your name is on the top of the post. You're not that important that we need it twice.


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    #18
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Sheep Lover wrote: »
    Bellends, your name is on the top of the post. You're not that important that we need it twice.

    Thanks for the heads up.


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    #19
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    They must have been very strange people who used those usenet groups.


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    #20
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,176 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    catallus wrote: »
    They must have been very strange people who used those usenet groups.

    They were. :D


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    #21
    Reoil
    Registered Users Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭Reoil


    Or, they're also called "adverts". :-0


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    #22
    Goat Paddock
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 84 ✭✭Goat Paddock


    Thanks for the feedback.

    This is not my first account on boards. The other one I did not see all these silly signatures. It obviously has only been visible by default more recently.

    I am very disappointed in the whole thing


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