So, what I mean by that, is that forum posts had signatures, big profile pictures, as well as typically some additional information about the user, like “Rank: Lord Supreme – Joined: March 2005 – Posts: 3 trillion”.
Oh, the decline of signatures is a good one. Those were definitely a thing in a number of environments.
Haha wow, my initial thought after reading your post was “signatures went away”, but then I figured I’m biased towards that being significant, because I recently was on an ancient forum that still had them.
So, instead I tried to formulate the more abstract development. I had read about it a long time ago, so I did not pull that whole comment out of my arse just then, thankfully.
But that it is then precisely signatures which elicit a reaction, that’s hilarious. 😅
And yeah, I do not miss signatures. Within minutes of reading on that forum, I had grown a disdain for some users, because they’d respond with half a sentence and then a distracting GIF in their signature. And of course, they would respond multiple times to a topic, so you could get 10+ instances of that same GIF on one page.
Unfortunately, this does mean I now need to demonstrate that by including a shitty signature:
I’m not a signature, I just clean here.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu
Oh, the decline of signatures is a good one. Those were definitely a thing in a number of environments.
Haha wow, my initial thought after reading your post was “signatures went away”, but then I figured I’m biased towards that being significant, because I recently was on an ancient forum that still had them.
So, instead I tried to formulate the more abstract development. I had read about it a long time ago, so I did not pull that whole comment out of my arse just then, thankfully.
But that it is then precisely signatures which elicit a reaction, that’s hilarious. 😅
And yeah, I do not miss signatures. Within minutes of reading on that forum, I had grown a disdain for some users, because they’d respond with half a sentence and then a distracting GIF in their signature. And of course, they would respond multiple times to a topic, so you could get 10+ instances of that same GIF on one page.
Unfortunately, this does mean I now need to demonstrate that by including a shitty signature:
I’m not a signature, I just clean here.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu