Why do you sign your posts?

mikemac · 28-12-2010 05:37AM #1

Why?

Well firstly I won't call out DeVore who does this as I don't want a site ban :eek:
Oops, the damage may be done

But realy, I see your username by your post, why do you sign it?
Is it attention seeking? I already know your username and I know the top posters in several forums. Signing it makes no difference

Regards

feelingstressed

Balfie · 28-12-2010 05:41AM

Not everyone does it in fairness.

Regards

Balfie

mikemac · 28-12-2010 05:44AM

True enough, not everyone but a sizable minority do

I'd like to read their reasons why

Regards

feelingstressed

Degag · 28-12-2010 05:44AM

I don't know.

mikemac · 28-12-2010 05:45AM

Excellent contribution there ^^^

I also do not know so started this thread

Degag · 28-12-2010 05:48AM

feelingstressed wrote: »

True enough, not everyone but a sizable minority do

I'd like to read their reasons why

Regards

feelingstressed

Ya know, it wasn't funny the first time.

strobe · 28-12-2010 05:50AM

I always presumed it was just a habit maintained by the older posters. Apparently it was quite the done thing in the long long ago, in an age when people were known to make markings, not by typing but by scratching symbols, by applying some form of pigment or dye containing liquid, on a type of dried cellulose pulp. Apparently back in this somewhat forgotten time, usernames as we know them, were not automatically generated on posts, and so, it was considered necessary to conclude a pigment cellulose post by manually adding ones username to the post script to identify oneself. Such is my understanding.

mikemac · 28-12-2010 05:50AM

Degag wrote: »

Ya know, it wasn't funny the first time.

If this thread was started before I'm happy for a mod to lock it.

I'm not trying to be funny, admittedly I am not funny at all but it's a decent thread for AH I reckon

Degag · 28-12-2010 05:50AM

feelingstressed wrote: »

Excellent contribution there ^^^

I also do not know so started this thread

Well smartarse, since you signed 2 of your 3 posts in this thread, perhaps you could tell us?

mikemac · 28-12-2010 05:53AM

Nothing smartarse about my above post, I don't know the reason so started a thread.

If you've no interest you can flame the OP or you know, you can read threads you do have an interest in

Balfie · 28-12-2010 05:55AM

Jaysus ya leave for 5 mins an this turns into beirut.. Calm down people..

Degag · 28-12-2010 05:56AM

feelingstressed wrote: »

Nothing smartarse about my above post, I don't know the reason so started a thread.

If you've no interest you can flame the OP or you know, you can read threads you do have an interest in

I give up.:rolleyes:

mikemac · 28-12-2010 05:57AM

A rolleyes, fair play and thank you for your quality contribution

Me, I don't know everything on every subject so I post on the threads I have an interest in

OutlawPete · 28-12-2010 06:01AM

I don't do it on Boards, but sometimes I will out my Christian name at the end of a text I send, to people who know me. Does feel weird, but still I do it from time to time.

Degag · 28-12-2010 06:05AM

feelingstressed wrote: »

A rolleyes, fair play and thank you for your quality contribution

Me, I don't know everything on every subject so I post on the threads I have an interest in

Jaysus, i don't know what's wrong. You asked why people signed their name to their posts while signing your own username to your post twice. I said it wasn't very funny - which it wasn't - to which you replied it wasn't supposed to be funny. That would suggest to me that you normally sign your username to your posts and hence should be able to answer your own question - and of course you were being a smartarse - which is fine, this is AH, you're supposed to be a smartarse:)

mikemac · 28-12-2010 06:07AM

Degag wrote: »

Accepted

Sisko · 28-12-2010 06:21AM

Jaysus.:pac:

Degag, obviously his signing of his name in this thread was meant as a joke. Stop trollin the guy, sure he said it wasnt a funny joke, but he also meant his thread was not meant to be a joke. He was talking about the thread not the actual sig.:)

What a random thread that would be.. someone who regularly posts a signature at the end of his posts starting a thread asking why people do it.

Mental. :pac:

I too wonder why people sign their names at the end of their posts, can come off as pretentious.

Sisko · 28-12-2010 06:27AM

I couldnt help it, I hate when threads quickly dive into a flamewar and end up locked before any decent discussion goes on, all due to a simple misunderstanding.

Buts thats the nature of online communication.

mikemac · 28-12-2010 06:28AM

Thank you Sisko, I could not have summed it up better

Degag wrote: »

that would suggest to me that you normally sign your username to your posts and hence should be able to answer your own question

If I normally signed my posts I would not have started this thread

Degag wrote: »

and of course you were being a smartarse - which is fine, this is AH, you're supposed to be a smartarse:)

Not my intention but if it seems that way, so be it

Sisko · 28-12-2010 06:30AM

ok this makes no sense but some how your post I was replying to has appeared below mine

Now it looks like I'm replying to myself :P

mikemac · 28-12-2010 06:32AM

No, you are blameless Sisko

I deleted my post, tidied it up for spelling then posted it again, you just posted again before I did

I'm the weirdo, not you

Sisko · 28-12-2010 06:35AM

The hell? Just edit it next time

Or let me guess, you hate it when that 'this post was last edited on bla bla' crap appears under your post is it?

mikemac · 28-12-2010 06:37AM

I do, I hate having the edited text under my posts

I usually delete and post again, even for a simple spelling mistake

Sisko · 28-12-2010 06:57AM

:eek:

That's future serial killer talk, feck I wouldnt mess with this guy Degag.

They start off deleting their own posts, only a few steps more till they're deleting people!