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Tommy can you hear me? Why is there no signature option?

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Rage has evolved baby

17:34 / 20.01.02

At a board with such a creative population, it is a puzzle that the sig option is not enabled. Is there something I'm missing?

Also, you can make those rules at the beginning of registration ("Due to the nature of these boards") say whatever you want.

Just my input. I use to run a UBB.

17:40 / 20.01.02

Sigs are really, really annoying.

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Rage has evolved baby

17:54 / 20.01.02

Good point, though I feel the interesting non-annoying sigs would outnumber the lame ones.

ONLY NICE THINGS

17:55 / 20.01.02

You have more faith than I do. Sigs are the royal road to wankitude. Fact.

[ 20-01-2002: Message edited by: The Haus under the Ocean ]

Regrettable Juvenilia

17:58 / 20.01.02

What he said. The fact that Barbelith doesn't allow sigs is one of my favourite things about it.

Anyhow, we've already got the 'location' and 'interests' bit for people to be wacky and funny and ker-aaazy! God, what was I thinking? A Blur lyric of all things... Then the wind changed and now I'm stuck like this...

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"Sigs are really, really annoying."
- BizCo

"The fact that Barbelith doesn't allow sigs is one of my favourite things about it."
- some dude, huh huh herr

"All Welsh people should be rounded up and put in death camps."
- Grant Morrison

"I like Peter Milligan so much, sometimes I forget to scoff!"
- Anon

[ 20-01-2002: Message edited by: Flyboy ]

The Return Of Rothkoid

18:06 / 20.01.02

Yeah, but where else are people gonna stick their Buffy quotes?

For all the evidence against sigs that you'll ever need, check out this LOTR fanboard, as linked previously.

Some twat with selection of his finest 900k animated gifs is what makes sigs unworkable and unnecessary. That, and the fact that they're shitbox. One line of "me too" and fifteen lines of drivel.

Much like this post.

Rage has evolved baby

18:08 / 20.01.02

What if we revolutionized sigs?

The Return Of Rothkoid

18:10 / 20.01.02

By not having them! Minimalism NOW!

Rage has evolved baby

18:12 / 20.01.02

Ahh, fuck it. My unpopular opinion is much too unpopular. My idea of changing the sig system for the better with wit and creativity is shite.

"Sigs suck." -the barbelith massitude

Rage has evolved baby

18:15 / 20.01.02

Pro-siggers please speak up! Voice your controversial stance with me! Let's make ourselves heard!

gentleman loser

18:32 / 20.01.02

They're a waste of bandwidth. Rothkoid makes a good point. One of the things that keeps me from reading most newsgroups is too many dorks who posts "me too" style comments and then add twenty line sig files.

Don't feel too bad about having your idea shot down. Lots of us have!

19:01 / 20.01.02

I can reassure some and horrify others that I have NO plans to introduce signatures on the site. They interfere with the flow of reading, they take up excess bandwidth, they're not necessary and they get pretty lame pretty quickly.

If I could (and I'm planning to), every extraneous piece of functionality would be systematically stripped from the UBB leaving it as a place that's only capable of being used for actual debate and discussion.

Matthew Fluxington

19:56 / 20.01.02

thank god. I hate signatures on message boards sooo much. there is a board that I occasionally look at, and there was a lapse that I didn't look at it for a while and when I returned, it was impossible to read threads without having to look at horrible lame signatures. I have no faith that this would be any better here, because by their very nature, the signatures are silly, extraneous, and tasteless.

If you want to have a little 'bumper sticker' sorta thing attached to your Barbelith suit, just put it in your profile and have it at that...

09:16 / 21.01.02

quote:Originally posted by The Return Of Rothkoid:
For all the evidence against sigs that you'll ever need, check out this LOTR fanboard, as linked previously.

Fatboard?

20:08 / 22.01.02

Ok, I see what you guys are saying. I don't see why we couldn't try it for a few days though, just to see how it would go. Is there really any harm in that?

ONLY NICE THINGS

09:32 / 23.01.02

What is your obsession with sigs, Rage? If you have an aphorism that needs to be shared every single time you pos, why not just type it out every time? It'll be just as irritating, and you'll get a real sense of achievement.

09:40 / 23.01.02

It's not so much of an obsession as an idea to try something new around here. It would be an interesting experience, if nothing else.

[ 23-01-2002: Message edited by: Rage has evolved baby ]

The Return Of Rothkoid

09:40 / 23.01.02

Trotting out quotes on every post one makes would be new and interesting how, though? It'd come down to the level of "Ah, I see you're familiar with author/band/film too!"

It's not like there's a lack of threads floating around for that sort of display. Why drag it into everything that's posted?

09:40 / 23.01.02

Please, please, no sigs. Even if they're funny or interesting the first time, they're dull as hell the next time. and the next...

The Sinister Haiku Bureau

09:40 / 23.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Ariadne:
Please, please, no sigs. Even if they're funny or interesting the first time, they're dull as hell the next time. and the next...

what would happen if you had a different one every time? Completely anihilating any concept of being a 'signiture', of course, but I'm sure, with enough imagination, this fairly obvious flaw could become a quirk, or even a 'feature'. It'd be an interesting excercise in imagination/humour/anally-retentive-media-referencing. And I know at least one person who's social philosophy has been irevocably altered by a sig he read on slashdot once....
I suggest that people who are THAT interested in having then have to ACTUALLY TYPE IN that chunk of buffy script each time they post, thereby forcing them to reconsider 'signing' each time. Just as a wee experiment. Maybe just in this thread. Or something.

"There are two types of people in this world: those who like to put people in arbitrary categories, and those who don't".

10:23 / 23.01.02

Some people have sigs, don't they? Like Zoom. Or is that something different.

Personally, I hate them. It's like having a conversation with someone who has a vocal tic. Or Jack Douglas.

"Wa-heyyyy!"
- Jack Douglas

The Sinister Haiku Bureau

11:41 / 23.01.02

of course, the idea of a sig is kinda irrelevant anyway, given that it'd erived from a method of showing that it was actually YOU who signed a document instead of someone else. but online, that makes no sense, given that the person's name and member number make a far less fakable identification system.

Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?

12:08 / 23.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Sax:
Some people have sigs, don't they? Like Zoom. Or is that something different.

Zoom chooses to type "Zoom" at the end of all his posts. That's motivation!

12:50 / 23.01.02

I think signatures work nicely on emails.

Not so nicely on messageboards though, as others have said.

Slightly different idea: the Sonic Youth board I banged about on few a few weeks had this thing where you could choose a little image which went underneath your name, so it kind of made things nice and colourful and gave some scope for invention, but didn't actually get in the way and was suprisingly not irritating.

Plus you're able to work out in seconds that someone with a football player or something next to their name obviously sucks ass, whilst someone who's got a Powerpuff Girl is obviously cool.

16:22 / 23.01.02

What if it's a picture of a Powerpuff girl sucking the ass of a football player?

pointless and uncalled for

16:31 / 23.01.02

I think that this should be mandatory for barbelith.

Everyone should be randomly assigned one of these pictures upon signing up and be automatically added to every post that they make.

13:26 / 24.01.02

I run an EZ board and I have a pile of image uploads on it.

They take up space and often look wank. If this was the sparkmatch or something I'd see the point, but really, who wants to see Wile-e-coyote several hundred times or that mouse that keeps running away?

14:09 / 24.01.02

fair point.

maybe I'm just a sucker for cartoons.

16:41 / 24.01.02

<twitching in agony/bliss>
No sig...is...a good...thing?
No sig..is..a good..thing?
No sig is a good thing.
No sig is a good thing!
</twitching>
Ah...enlightenment.

[Wait, no, it was only the demons messin' around in my head! Out foul beasts! Do not tempt me with your withered words of whiskied wisdom! I shall not accept your enlightenment truffle for it is no more than dung dug from the dirt of doubt!]

Love (for me and you),
7 - 6 = 1 (mod 5)

[ 25-01-2002: Message edited by: modfive ]

17:49 / 24.01.02

Should I stop posting "Zoom" at the end of my stuff? I didn't realize people might find it annoying.

(unsure of whether to put "Zoom" here now)

zoom

Less searchable M0rd4nt

18:15 / 24.01.02

But you don't have an auto-Zoom, you see. Therefore you have to actually think to yourself "to zoom or not to zoom?"

Plus, your zoom is unique to you. If everyone else could zoom, whoosh, or even kapwinggg at the touch of a button, that would be a whole different kettle of fish.

18:42 / 24.01.02

Agreed. I'm sorry modfive is stopping... but it's the choosing that's the thing, as Mordant says.

I also like when alas ends her posts with "alas."

19:11 / 24.01.02

I have to admit there are times that I wonder at the necessity of "Zoom"ing. But it's kind of my thing, so I'll stick with it.

Though a healthy "kapwing" could be fun too...

Zoo....kapwing.

(Nah.)

Less searchable M0rd4nt

19:58 / 24.01.02

Indeed. Zoom all you want, but leave the kapwinggging to.... (dah, dah dah dah dah dah DAHHH)

Stupendous Maaaan!

20:04 / 24.01.02

Didn't realise you were into scat, Mordant...

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