A change in general NS signature attitude.

[Samil]

is this sig good enough?

[Val Halla]

I can't say that I have really seen any change. Some people like bright colours, some don't. No real steadfast trend

Well, at least sigs no longer have every single condition a posters has. There was a trend. Or the ''I'm this or that. If you don't like it, deal'' trend.

Well I guess people have to deal with my being a girl. :3

A lot less colour. I feel like I'm in a skittles factory.

Taste the rainbow, motherfuckers!

It's a dark place, NSG, where gangster ponies are hired by sweet companies to have awful signatures

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Well, at least sigs no longer have every single condition a posters has. There was a trend. Or the ''I'm this or that. If you don't like it, deal'' trend.

Well I guess people have to deal with my being a girl. :3

Sure, but you're not telling the forum that you're ''autistic, a Communist, a sociopath, went to the moon, like to be rude and if you don't like that, FU, deal''. That's what I was referring to.

[Ifreann]

Well, at least sigs no longer have every single condition a posters has. There was a trend. Or the ''I'm this or that. If you don't like it, deal'' trend.

Well I guess people have to deal with my being a girl. :3

Deal with girls? I don't think NSG is qualified.

Taste the rainbow, motherfuckers!

It's a dark place, NSG, where gangster ponies are hired by sweet companies to have awful signatures

No greater hive of colourful scum and pony villainy.

[Gim]

is this sig good enough?

Uh.....

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

TBH, the ''I'm a girl''/please use certain pronouns when addressing me'' is something that, although I don't care about, serves a purpose. I see the logic in that.

[Gim]

TBH, the ''I'm a girl''/please use certain pronouns when addressing me'' is something that, although I don't care about, serves a purpose. I see the logic in that.

Yeah, I saw that with USS Monitor: Use apppropriate pronouns, since I am a ship.

[Val Halla]

Well I guess people have to deal with my being a girl. :3

Sure, but you're not telling the forum that you're ''autistic, a Communist, a sociopath, went to the moon, like to be rude and if you don't like that, FU, deal''. That's what I was referring to.

Not yet anyway.

Well I guess people have to deal with my being a girl. :3

Deal with girls? I don't think NSG is qualified.

It's a dark place, NSG, where gangster ponies are hired by sweet companies to have awful signatures

No greater hive of colourful scum and pony villainy.

It's clearly all Barry Max's fault

[The Serbian Empire]

It's more that some would consider a sig as garish for example and thus remove the garish parts.


You mean Tumblr Syndrome occurred in sigs?

Oh my, yes. You don't recall, Marisa? I think you were around for it.

I remember it and it at the same time we had a boatload of libertarians who were Ron Paul 2008/2012 remnants.

[Ifreann]

TBH, the ''I'm a girl''/please use certain pronouns when addressing me'' is something that, although I don't care about, serves a purpose. I see the logic in that.

But what if people don't realise you're a cat?

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

TBH, the ''I'm a girl''/please use certain pronouns when addressing me'' is something that, although I don't care about, serves a purpose. I see the logic in that.

But what if people don't realise you're a cat?

Better still. They won't see my world domination scheme until it's too late.

[Olthar]

TBH, the ''I'm a girl''/please use certain pronouns when addressing me'' is something that, although I don't care about, serves a purpose. I see the logic in that.

Meh. I just bitch at people when they get it wrong. Makes me feel better when they get all awkward and embarrassed.

[Kaidou]

Signatures with lots of content are overrated, anyway.

[Forsher]

I've noticed that I the last few months people have made their signatures much more plain. There is less color, less strange motifs, less pompous statements....

What does mean? Is what I ask nsg on this day. Why have people's signatures become so humble?

Perhaps this a sign that the world is becoming a nice and harmonious place!

May we all look forward to that glorious day when all signatures lack red (so I can scroll through threads and not mistakenly think that someone's been subjected to mod action).

Or, you know, you could disable signatures.

See, I know what you think.

k


Also, I've noticed that in the last few months people have started a lot of irrelevant threads.

Daft threads are one thing but the moronic and/or deceptive habit of writing your OP's opinion in a box or a quote, thus making it appear as though it's a quote from sort of link, is what is actually annoying. Daft threads are simply resolved by not posting in them. The box quotes actually create ambiguity as to the origin of the written material...

You're presupposing that the purpose of the box/quotes is to reduce ambiguity...

You know, that's exactly what NSG needs more of, pseudo-intellectualism.

I think when historians look back on this era in 100 years, before anything else they will comment about how humble and unassuming the signatures had become on NationStates General.

You say that like a joke. Have you read what historians write? Seriously, it can be very narrowly focussed indeed...

Yeah, but usually it's very narrowly focussed on some aspect of something people find important. For instance, commentary on the use of humour in the Protectorate as resistance during WWII.

Are you suggesting that historians in the future won't think, provided they have access to places like this, exploring how people reacted to the existence of the internet and the possible implications of various functionalities (e.g. signatures) on things like, say, identity?

Surely that'd be more marketers?

How do you market to people who were writing 100 years in the past? Time-travel?

You don't need sources for everything.

When you're trying to make a meaningful OP, yes, you do.

It depends on what you're trying to do. A typical OP will have more sources than a typical thread post by the simple fact that a lot of OPs are generally little more than "X happens in/to Y" such as, for current examples, X = 12 Year Old Texan Girl, Y = Has to Write Thing That God's Not Real, or X = United States, Y = "To Send Destroyer to..." That is, it invites people to write their points of views on some current event. A lot of other OP's want to discuss some sort of idea. Some of those are more predisposed to have links, e.g. Scottish Independence or Evolution threads might have some link to past threads or Wikipedia pages... basically anything to help the OP provide some sort of point to ground the thread. But, you don't necessarily need a link to make such a thread meaningful. With something like this, though, which starts from an initial premise which is questionable, having some sort of evidence is, perhaps, useful. On the other hand, that evidence doesn't really exist. In fact, you could conceive this thread as simply being something which goes a way to establishing this because you will have, in one place, many different points of view on that premise, from which you establish the credentials of that signature.

Hang on, weren't you doing some really annoying thing where you answer the points your comments raise yourself thus creating a theoretically entirely self contained conversation?

Yes, but this particular paragraph was so exhaustive there was, in fact, nothing that could possibly be added except variants of ^ this.

Hi, Greg.

I think a lot of older accounts that took advantage of signature space have CTE'd or retired from NSG, and the newer accounts either aren't used to bbcode or treat forums like they would more modern forms of social media. (There are no signatures on twitter and facebook.)

To be honest, the only signatures I really pay attention to are mine and I keep it the same because it means I can identify my posts coming and going, as it were, and those that belong to people whose names (or perhaps, in the context of your post I should say handles) I don't recognise and, possibly, find some reason to know more about the person (see, for instance, that homecoming thread, which I never got around to replying to again). But, if I were to accept the premise, I think that this is a pretty logical (and, in my forum variety rose tinted glasses, depressing) explanation for what is going on, which is perhaps ironic given that my own signature is somewhat notorious (if you understand German, it's gobbledegook and if you don't understand German it's Greek... now it's got you coming and going). I also have to point out that some former long term posters were also extremely anti-BB code competency (or, at least, demonstrating one's competency in it).

Doesn't that middle bit say you come from New Zealand?

Yeah, okay, nearly complete nonsense but other than that.

I've been thinking that my sig's a bit flamboyant of late. I might go for something plainer.

Was it you or someone else that had Yoot's "Twats love flags" comment? Those are fun signatures... i.e. one's with amusing quotes from the forum itself.

I can't say that I have really seen any change. Some people like bright colours, some don't. No real steadfast trend

Well, at least sigs no longer have every single condition a posters has. There was a trend. Or the ''I'm this or that. If you don't like it, deal'' trend.

Now, I can't remember... was the backlash against that signature or post based?

I think, potentially, the disappearance of the above is related to the relative absence of people questioning the person immediately rather than the content of the post. At least, it makes sense. If there's a risk you as a person will be raised in connection with your point, if you point out you conditions (which had a tendency to, probably self-diagnosed, psychological ones) that sort of pre-empts the commentary.*

*Hopefully now everyone wonders whether or not I read the entire thread first and then went through and replied to it now that there's suddenly some thread relevant purpose to have started to try and guess what the logical response to what I said would be.

You mean Tumblr Syndrome occurred in sigs?

How did you not notice? Your nation's only a few months younger than Forsher...

is this sig good enough?

Watch The Missing.

Well I guess people have to deal with my being a girl. :3

Deal with girls? I don't think NSG is qualified.

Some of my best friends are girls.

TBH, the ''I'm a girl''/please use certain pronouns when addressing me'' is something that, although I don't care about, serves a purpose. I see the logic in that.

Yeah, I saw that with USS Monitor: Use apppropriate pronouns, since I am a ship.

That's a parody one, though. Or a play on conventions. Or both.

This is, incidentally, why my flag is what my flag is and why the middle paragraph is what the middle paragraph is.

Signatures with lots of content are overrated, anyway.

Nah, posts with lots of quotes are overrated and people don't even read them anyway.

No, this is ironic.

Although, seriously, if you read nothing else in this post, read the "no" link, it's the closest thing I know of to a past post discussing the purpose of signatures on NS(G).

[Nazgur]

bull dust.

lets all be misaaannnnnthhhhhrrrooooppppeeesssss!

[The Republic of Lanos]

USER WAS DEATED IN REAL LIFE BECAUSE SOMEBODY COMPLAINED ABOUT SIGNATURES.

[The Blaatschapen]

Sigs are sigs. Some things tend to be trending, sometimes things go out of fashion *shrug*

Within the rules you can do whatever you want with your sig. It's not really a discussion.

I lock.

The Blaatschapen - Nationstates Moderator