Big Sigs

[dr_mabeuse]

Does anyone else get irritated by signature lines that go on for ever?

Really, I don't mind having to scroll down through three or four paragraphs of what the author considers to be pithy and jocular excerpts from his favorite Star Wars movie or C&W song, because, really, I just never get enough of reading the same text over and over again, and it doesn't really sink in until about the 500th time I've read it.

And the rows and rows of dancing bananas and spinning hearts just really perk up my fucking day.

But some sigs add on a few pages of pics, links, and ads to the point where I actually dread seeing some people's posts come up, knowing that it's going to be a looooong way to the next one.

It isn't as bad here as it is on other boards, but I'd hate to see it get any worse.

---dr.M.

 

[MercyMia]

Hi dr_m,

Sometimes I turn off sig lines and AVs to hasten download time.

How are you doing today?

Mia

 

[oggbashan]

Variety is the spice of life.

I don't mind the occasional long signature, or the pictures, as long as they are changed frequently.

A long signature that stays the same for weeks does irritate. It puts me off what the post actually says, so I just scroll past the whole thing.

Og

 

[Guest]

ROFL

dr_m-

ah my dose of curmudgeon for the day!

i love your location. i don't know how long it has been such, but i just caught it. subtle and dry.

on topic: long sigs on posts get tiresome. they break up the pages and the flow of the posts. there are some great ones, occassionally, but usually i zip over them.


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[Octavian]

I agree with dr_mabeuse.

The ideal sig should be brief, profound or witty, and fresh.

Octavian

 

[Artina Heartflash]

If the sig lines are more than four sentences/links, I tend to be annoyed and race past them. They're like billboard litter on a cyber highway. However, there are quite a few folks who attract more interest with a sig quote or image than with what they say in their daily posts. Three-fourths of all my PM conversations have been initiated because a person's av has sparked my curiosity about him/her---and the second most inspiring conversation bits are the sig lines a person chooses.

So, sig lines are good to have---so long as they are not used in excess.

Doc, you never did state what kind of pills those are in your medicine bottle. Nor what the purple demon in that chemist's glass represents. (I like your mad dr. cartoon av better than the pill bottle.)

 

[MathGirl]

Does anyone else get irritated by signature lines that go on for ever?

Not me. I have them turned off and don't use one.
Misanthropically,
MG

 

[Chicklet]

I really hate when people have huge pictures in their sigs that take forever for my friggin' modem to load so that i can actually see the page!

 

[Just-Legal]

Heh, you've reminded me I need to use more up-to-date pics in mine *grins*

Seriously though, for those who can see it, is mine too long or take ages to d/l?

 

[dr_mabeuse]

U didn't know you could turn off sigs! No wonder I'm so cranky! How do you do it?

Naw, Just legal. You're fine. At least your pic is one of you (and a nice one too) It's these giant pictures of Chewbacca or someone that get to me. I know what Chewbacca looks like. I'm so glad that you like him, now get him out of my face.

Bridget: Yeah, I've noticed a definite lack of crankiness here lately. Ever since DurtGurl hit the big time, although I cranked up on Octavian a couple days ago. (Sorry, Octavian)

Artina, darling. Those are my happy pills of course, and I take one of those along with a glass of smiles and a whole lot of hugs and fucking sunshine every day. Seems to do the trick!

Even when you know that an Av has absolutely nothing to do with the person behind it, it has a real psychological effect on you, at least it does on me, and that chemist was just a little too cutesy for me. (Although it wasn't a bad likeness, was it?) I don't do cute well. I can't find an Av of a decent mad scientist or even a guy with a beard that I like, so the pills will have to do.

---dr.M.

 

[Artina Heartflash]

Artina, darling. Those are my happy pills of course, and I take one of those along with a glass of smiles and a whole lot of hugs and fucking sunshine every day. Seems to do the trick!

Even when you know that an Av has absolutely nothing to do with the person behind it, it has a real psychological effect on you, at least it does on me, and that chemist was just a little too cutesy for me. (Although it wasn't a bad likeness, was it?) I don't do cute well. I can't find an Av of a decent mad scientist or even a guy with a beard that I like, so the pills will have to do.

---dr.M.

So what kind of psychological effect does my av have on you? LOL!!!
Could you send me some of that *fucking* sunshine, please??? Thunderstorms and lightning very very frightening me... Too many tornados and earthquakes where I'm living.

I shall try to locate a new av for you...


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[MathGirl]

New AV

Dear Dr M,
Get a new AV like Ogg's. I'm sure you would look great with a cake on your head.
MG

 

[oggbashan]

Re: New AV

Dear Dr M,
Get a new AV like Ogg's. I'm sure you would look great with a cake on your head.
MG

My AV is copyright. It was taken by a professional from the press who did his best to make me look reasonable. I think my hat spoilt his efforts.

Og

 

[Artina Heartflash]

DOC---

Here's a guy with a beard I like. Why not use him for your av?

(Don't throw any vials of acid at me, okay? I'll remove the pic if you want... )

Doc OWNS the copyrights to this, folks.

 

[MathGirl]

Re: Re: New AV

Originally posted by oggbashan My AV is copyright. It was taken by a professional from the press who did his best to make me look reasonable.

Dear Og,
Nobody wearing a hat like that can possibly look anything but silly. I love it.

No silly hats, because I won't be around for the the graduation ceremony. Plan are to be somewhere way south of the equator at the first of June.
MG

 

[oggbashan]

Re: Re: Re: New AV

Dear Og,
Nobody wearing a hat like that can possibly look anything but silly. I love it.

No silly hats, because I won't be around for the the graduation ceremony. Plan are to be somewhere way south of the equator at the first of June.
MG

I'm so pleased that you like my titfer. I will try to get an alternative AV with some of my other headwear. I even have an Aussie "Diggers" hat somewhere.

Don't go too far south. Australia is down there somewhere and it is bigger than Texas.

Please stay in touch from wherever. We would miss the changing Avs and the erudite doctorial wit, not to mention your significant contributions to the DurtGurl oeuvre.

Og

 

[Artina Heartflash]

Re: DOC---

Here's a guy with a beard I like. Why not use him for your av?

(Don't throw any vials of acid at me, okay? I'll remove the pic if you want... )

AND DON'T THROW AWAY YOUR OTHER *OUTSIDER* FOLK ART, DOC!!! Send me more of those game spinners you've illustrated. I will glady pay you for them!

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I imagine no-one has forgotten my sig lines with HP-pics and blinking Gryffindor-logos... Were they too much?

 

[TheEarl]

Large signatures? Who would do such a horrible thing? <slinks away, glad that he doesn't still have the full Mr Flibble sig>

Sorry Dr M.

The Earl

 

[MathGirl]

Re: Re: Re: Re: New AV

not to mention your significant contributions to the DurtGurl oeuvre.

Now you're talking about eggs. I'm confused.
MG

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New AV

Now you're talking about eggs. I'm confused.
MG

Eggs are little oval objects that come out of the ass of birds and reptiles, MG. They come both in solid white or brown, and in different patterns.

Some eggs can taste quite good if you cook them right. If you don't cook them, they might hatch, and out crawls poisonous snakes, sharp-toothed crocodiles, or skinny, blind, squeaking baby birds.

These should preferebly NOT be cooked and eaten. At least not until they have grown a little more meat on their bones.

 

[MathGirl]

Confusion

Then what are those oeuvres Ogg was talking about?
MG

 

[Just-Legal]

*shrugs* I dunno.

Hey! You reminded me I have a few new pics and I need to make a new sig image...

**Hours Later**

Done!

This still ok? *grins*

 

[MathGirl]

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Mia

Dear Mercy Mia,
Have you heard from DFiant recently?
MG

 

[KillerMuffin]

I go with them off. I think that a few lines of text are appropriate and any pictures are just too irritating for words. If they flash, well, that's courting a seizure and I have no interest in such things.

So, no, big sigs don't bother me. I never see them.