Thread: No sig lines means no sig lines

No, no, no: liberal reactionary - and you'd have known that if only I had a signature line

Originally Posted by Jimbo7

More than one middle name?! communist!

What?
Over here it usually means royalty

same thing

Originally Posted by Birnando

What?
Over here it usually means royalty

Originally Posted by Bruno

Did you perchance miss the post where I say we are looking into the name thing?
Instead of shouting at us for for not getting everything 100% right first try while at the same time fullfilling mutually exclusive requirements, you could at least try to a) have patience while we discuss the issues, b) accept that not everything will be 100% ideal, c) understand that we are doing all this in our free time, or d) all of the above.

Bruno; No matter what you do some people will %itch about it! You and all the Mods are doing a great job. THANK YOU

I'll say it before anyone else says it about me. "KISS A--"

Guys, let's not pile up on the mods over this. They're trying to make the site more readable and easier to navigate for all of us. Please, let's give them the chance to have a fair crack at it.

Originally Posted by gugi

I think comments and complaints are good. But at some point they can get counterproductive.

Let's imagine somebody spends their time organizing a meeting for other like minded people to come together talk about shaving. And they have found a fine establishment where attendees can purchase say yuengling and everybody's happy. Except that at meeting number 10 the tap is switched to budlite and certain fraction of the attendees start complaining that the greatness of the gathering has diminished immensely and they are not even allowed to bring in their own yuengling but are forced to just suck it up. It's pretty easy something like this to grow out of proportion and kill something that everybody enjoyed.

That is all good unless you don't like Bud Light. Why not serve both?

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

As I previously noted, how important is it ? But it is the principle of the thing you say ..... sounds too familiar ..... sort of like the house and senate.

I do not bitch because it is not important to me. I did not say that. Excuse me, but that is a lame reasoin.

Originally Posted by Bruno

What I have seen on other forums where use of a real name was mandatory (for legal reasons) was that the user profil had a custom field 'Real name' which the user had to fill in. This was then displayed with the user info like number of posts, thanks, etc.
In our case we would make the field optional, and if it was filled in, it would be displayed.

Hypothetically of course.
I am looking into making the custom field, and I have asked the devs to see how easy it would be to display that field.
Work in progress.

Of course, the main thing why we are here is straight razor shaving, right?
Sig lines and other trivia are only marginally significant compared to that.

I will take you to task on the legality of using real names. There is no legal reason to do so.

Originally Posted by Bruno

The dollar is plummeting, the economy is in the tank, thousands are homeless, and you're talking about revolution over a sig line.
This must be the internet

What else do we have left?

Originally Posted by paco

Bruno; No matter what you do some people will %itch about it! You and all the Mods are doing a great job. THANK YOU

I'll say it before anyone else says it about me. "KISS A--"

Your not a kiss ass, you make a very important point. Now, back to the original point. What was the reason for the removal of the sig lines? Does someone care to provide a valid reason? I'm interested to know but I don't think I'll be getting an answer anytime soon.

If you scroll back a page or several, Bruno did exactly that. It comes down to reducing the amount of unnecessary page scrolling we need to do to get through each page.
While a witty one line sig does no harm people frequently won't stick to that and insist on using large graphics and multi line quotes that add nothing to the conversation but force readers to scroll past fat sigs to get to the actual conversation.

Yet there is 2 inches of blank space in your post. Mine also. I could not find any post that indicates it is a space issue. I have found one that indicates that it is not a space issue.

If I recall from one of Jimmy's responses, the decision to remove the sig lines was a consensus between the moderators, developers, and administration of SRP as a whole, not just one person. One person delivered the news...don't kill the messenger. As "members" of this forum, we are not always privy to the behind the scenes information on what decisions are made and for what reasons. If you interested in the "Why" then you may want to look into what is required to become a moderator on the forum and then you may be in the know. Once again to quote Bruno, "It's just a sig line."

Originally Posted by Bruno

Yeah, but otoh, the way you've shown here, you have a 1 line post with a 4 line sig (including the empty lines).
And that's the clutter we wanted to get rid of.

Anyway, for now please don't do this. ...snip

Post #9 in this thread made it fairly clear, to me at least, that adding clutter to the page was the issue being addressed. Some one asked if this was a storage issue, and the answer to that was no. Then there was a reference to the 50% decrease in space when scrolling in threads after the new policy (see post 18). It almost takes willful disregard for the explanations given to not see that point.