Why do people sign their posts even though their name and icon is right next to it?

[Spooner]

I've seen this done a bunch of times and don't get it.

-- Spooner

 

[Keego]

viper does that.. I'm too lazy to type it

 

[StageLeft]

Dunno! Weird isn't it...

Skoorb

 

[SaltBoy]

Don't know...

-Saltboy

 

[Spooner]

<< viper does that.. I'm too lazy to type it >>


heheheh... he was actually one of the main reasons for this question.

Viper (and others) -- what's the dilly?

 

[AdamDuritz99]

 

[loup garou]

It's almost as obnoxious as people who have their little "thing." You know...like dennil had his songs. Others have a "thing" that they do at the end of every post to try and seem creative.

 

[AdamDuritz99]

i have never in my life signed a post!

peace
sean

 

[Burnt]

Maybe they think it's like writing a letter or email?

--Burnt

 

[Keego]

well for email, it's either

Thanks,
Kyle Murdoch


or
-Love Kyle

so I doubt those will work here, Skoorb will start coming on to me or something :Q

 

[Bluga]

Don't know

-Bluga

 

[thebestMAX]

It the same reason people wear nametags - So they can look when they dont remember their own names!

 

[Maetryx]

Maetryx here,

I noticed that too.

 

[StageLeft]

<< so I doubt those will work here, Skoorb will start coming on to me or something :Q >>

Only if you make the first move, cutie

 

[Zenmervolt]

Because we get into the habit of writing E-mails and professional letters and leaving a signature at the bottom seems second nature. It doesn't bother me when people don't sign a forum post, but it always strikes me as bad form when people don't bother to format an E-mail or a letter, and I guess the habit I have of signing everything else just got carried over.

ZV

 

[iamwiz82]

<< It's almost as obnoxious as people who have their little "thing." You know...like dennil had his songs. Others have a "thing" that they do at the end of every post to try and seem creative. >>



is this a subtle jab at someone?

 

[DannyLove]

dont know.

danny~!

 

[loup garou]

<<

<< It's almost as obnoxious as people who have their little "thing." You know...like dennil had his songs. Others have a "thing" that they do at the end of every post to try and seem creative. >>



is this a subtle jab at someone? >>



Not anyone in particular. Lots of people do it. I figured as long as we were pointing out things people do in their posts that we don't understand, I might as well point that out.

 

[Swag1138]

Ive never signed anything, email, post, or whatnot. At the end of every email I send out, I send the line "Enquiring Gnomes Want To Mine", as I have for the past several years.


This thread makes me want to try signing it just once though, so.....


-J.Swag


hmm......not as fun as I thought it would be.

 

[TheBlondOne]

I sign with my real name so people know me as more than "TheBlondOne."

And I like to personalize the posts I write.

--Sarah

 

[eplebnista]

It is a matter of etiquette for me. To me, if I do not sign, it is like hanging up at the end of a conversation without saying the usual goodbye or similar sign-off. I have not signed a few posts here and there though.

eplebnista

 

[jjones]

i'm clueless. it's one of the mysteries of life. ask moonbeam; he might know.

 

[Viper GTS]

I've done it from day one. Every post.

I sign PM's with my first name, too.

Viper GTS

 

[ViperMagic]

I did it at first, and I was thinking today, that thats one of teh reasons I know Viper GTS's posts alot, so I'm going to do it again
-ViperMagic

 

[Electric Amish]

'cuz it's my thing.

amish