as the creator of the 'trolling sig' as in a sig with a message i think you shouldnt ban them, mods getting bees in there bonnets just need to relaax its only a sentence on a post, and if it tilts you that bad then you need a long look at your life and what your doing with it

keep on truckin 8-)

jay b

Very good post Lee

Can we please change the title of this thread to "If you use a signature on 2p2, please post here!"

Thanks for posting JB! Your contribution is duly noted and this way I didn't have to wait to notice your sig in the wild to ignore you.

Lee's post was good and is probably the reason a simple name or Regards, Name isn't annoying.

- WalterS

"You mark that frame an 8, and you're entering a world of pain. A world of pain. [shouting] Has the whole world gone crazy? Am I the only one around here who gives a **** about the rules? Mark it zero! Mark it zero! You think I'm ****ing around here? Mark it zero!

It's a league game, Smokey"

lol join date mar 2012 posts 157?

come on bro just leave it yeah

Signed,
FYP

Can't say I blame you.

that is true. one of choc's rare sober moments.

Mocking people also results in massive derailments of the thread in which the mocking occurs.

Obviously this isn't an issue in forums like 4L or BBV, where mocking and derailments are part of the fun and often result in the best threads, but it's much more a problem in forums like NVG.

Regards,
Buttsecks Mod

the solution?

Nah, people care and sigs are annoying. It just turns out that more is being done than I knew apparently.

My other account is in just fine standing and well respected, I started this one so I could A) post about the forums like here without feeling like a huge nerd and B) share more personal information anonymously like this: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34...e-her-1179882/


Exactly. I'm glad to learn that more is being done about sigs than I previously thought. Can you share if you warned tompakee or did his signature not cross the line in your eyes? It definitely caused a derail.

Too bad this doesn't work for the derails.

There's been enough truckin at this point.

Cease all truckin.

Sincerely,
R Crumb

I PMed tompakee to ask him to consider not using (or changing) his signature, but I think he already left the FTP thread. And I was very specific in letting him know that he was not in violation of any rules, and that ultimately if he did not want to change his signature he didn't have to.

In my eyes, the signature did not cause the derail. People bitching about the signature in an inappropriate place caused the derail. However, I don't think anyone was infracted, I just deleted a bunch of stuff.

I find it ironic that some of the say people who complain (a lot) about moderator actions and freedom of speech are some of the same people who complained about the signature. Apparently freedom of speech only applies if you personally are not annoyed by it.

That's not aimed at you, OP, just a general observation.

I've run across that tompakee signature a few times and its annoying as hell. Its like there's no separation between his signature and the end of his post, so I get tricked into reading that bulls--t every time.

I hope you're family situation has gotten better.

*your


- NMHU.

Much much better, thanks! Rough week there though.

I think people might appreciate signatures if they were entertaining. -- something like classic movie quotes, especially if they're not the ones usually trotted out.

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"You're wearing your **********!"

-- Sohphie Zawitowski (Meryl Streep), "Sophie's Choice"

Of course, the profanity filter hurts. Sophie meant to say seersucker, so that shouldn't count as profanity.

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"You're going to look pretty funny trying to eat corn on the cob with no ****ing teeth!"

Tucker McElroy (Charles Napier), "The Blues Brothers"

This. People love this.




-monkeylumpNMHU

"Drop that zero and get with the hero.". -Vanilla Ice (Cool as Ice)

Let's NOT ban signatures!



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Keep on truckin'

You forgot the all-important "8-)". Without that sideways smiley, the true meaning is lost.

OK



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Keep on tracking

i'm about to blow your mind

keep on truckin'

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8-)

Reading this thread reminded me of a "poem" from a play titled, The Psychoed

As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd go away.






A reasonable explanation and viewpoint. I especially like the comment in the last paragraph. Simple signatures are a quirk or an atavistic twitch that at most is mildly esoteric, hardly annoying, and much ado about nothing. Adding more than that however enters into another realm. A curb on that type of activity by posters may be justified depending on intent. Trying to implement such a curb on verbose signatures however will surely be much more difficult than most here realize. Shooting or hanging come to mind but that as yet can’t be done effectively by the exchange of ether waves through the internet.

Perhaps all should consider it a test of stoicism. Those that have none lose out and must suffer horribly; wailing in the darkness, yelling at clouds, eyes bulging from their sockets to the point of exploding, and finally having their minds melt into complete pools of mush. So all in all this is a good thing I think.

-Zeno

Keep on truckin' o-)



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The Cyclope

Just wanna try this on, see how it fits.

-uFO