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kanaka Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 916 Location: roaming...	Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:26 pm    Post subject: Is that really you?!   Something I've noticed about forum posters all over the web. In every single one of their posts, be it a one-worder or fifteen paragraphs, they always sign their name at the end of the post. That's the part that baffles me. Why do you feel the need to sign your name? Do you live with gremlins, who periodically hijack your computer and run around the web posting under your hijacked identity? So when you finally regain control of your computer you have to let everyone know that it is really you posting now and not the gremlins. Is that it? Look at the top left block of any of your posts. There, just to the left of the "posted:" field and above the "joined:" field, is that not your nick? I've been seeing it so much over the years that I catch even myself ending a post with a "K" once in a while. Granted, it's nothing like the full user-ID signature that most of these gremlin co-habitants use, but it still irks me nonetheless whenever I notice myself doing it. Unless we are on a board where we publish, as posts, emails to each other, I honestly don't see why anyone has to both start the post with their username and end it with the same. It's a slow news day, what can I say. ~Nofsdad P.S. This was honestly NOT directed at any single individual. It's just something that I thought I'd posted a long time ago and recently realised that I had not.
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sleK Administrator Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Posts: 1010 Location: over yonder	Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:34 pm    Post subject:   Tis especially odd in forums that have the signature feature enabled.
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stillthere Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 1378	Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:47 pm    Post subject:   I do it when I want to punctuate a thought that I'm being very sincere about. .....stillthere
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kanaka Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 916 Location: roaming...	Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:56 pm    Post subject:   hmmm... sign for sincerety you say, eh? sincere more sincere even more sincere extremely sincere [Dennis Wolfberg face on] really REALLY extremely sincere [Dennis Wolfberg face off] ~GoodFella
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stillthere Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 1378	Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 10:20 pm    Post subject:   love it! .......stillthere
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GoodFella Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 2205 Location: A little bit sideways!	Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 11:53 pm    Post subject:   Nice K. ~GoodFella
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vernos Joined: 18 Nov 2003 Posts: 323 Location: Birmingham, Alabama	Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:07 am    Post subject:   I sign mine because my first post on the "rw" site, probably thru my own ignorance, ended up credited to someone else. Also, I'm waiting to see if anyone else knows what the "#30" means. #30 Vernos
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Nofsdad Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 7090 Location: Central CA	Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:44 am    Post subject:   I don't think there's a definitive answer but it's an old journalism term usually used to signify the end of a story. As Professor Pat Heilman indicates in the story cited below, it was probably used as an instruction for the typesetter to insert 30-point slugline as spacing between end of one story and beginning of next headline on a newspaper page. Other explanations include... http://www.saila.com/journalism/thirty.shtml Quote: While no one’s sure why 30 was used as an end sign, there is no shortage of ideas. The Writer’s Market Web site offers a number of plausible explanations, with 30 coming from, alternatively: * a Roman numeral translation of the XXX symbol put at the end of “very early, handwritten news items” (and also put, according to another source, at the end of telegraphed articles); * the 30 story quota the Associated Press writers once had (writers would allegedly number their stories with 30 being the last); * a reporter adding his name, Thirtee, to the a news piece sent via telegraph which was then translated as 30; * or an early typesetting mark used 30 to indicate the end of a line. But, according to the Writer’s Market, the “most popular” tale is 30 originated during the U.S. Civil War: …when news was transmitted by telegraph. The first message sent to a press association in the U.S. contained thirty words, and so its sender, as was the practice, indicated this with the number 30 at the end. The 30 was retained for all telegraphed news, and eventually, for news stories in general.
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kanaka Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 916 Location: roaming...	Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:51 pm    Post subject:   #30 vernos. Thirty. Hmm... He's... 30 years old. He's held 30 different positions at Sears. The number of people who think he looks like Clark Gable. 30 people who think he looks like a Clark BAR. The number of his souvenir shot glasses that he's collected in his travels. The number, in thousands, of his Sears shares owned. His favorite summer temperature, in celcius. ... ^ a slightly modified list from "You've got mail". Okay, I give in, what does it mean? (unless Nofs is correct )
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Nofsdad Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 7090 Location: Central CA	Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:01 pm    Post subject:   As an ex-journalism student I just went with one of the few things I remember from all those years ago.
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CSisback Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 829	Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:25 am    Post subject:   I can't stop myself. CS There is a story behind it though. Remember?
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BlindFury Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 80	Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 7:51 pm    Post subject:   I do it because my sig thing was one of the first things I made with the program I used, which i taught myself and was so proud of it, I had to show it off like a parent would paper their refrigerator with the kids drawings and stuff...... Plus I've gone on to make a few of these things for others be it in these forums or in other places on the net in game places.....I like it cause it makes me feel good doing it, especially if I've had a hard day at work (which I'm going thru right now but won't say why...)
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