Talking about those collage images we see after a users post.
I always found them annoying in the first place.
Back in the day when forums were mostly listservs, they made sense as the sig was where you stuck your finger info, so others could look you up.
But once things switched to real forums with user profiles, the original purpose was redundant as that information could be found linked to the username. So people started cluttering them with little digital billboards instead.
At that point, it served no real purpose and wasted data and (with the advent of mobile browsing) screen real estate.
But what if I want to brag about my computer components or car mods that I’ve done?? Where do I put that so people can see it on every post?!
They get really repetitive and don’t add much to the conversation.
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I debated adding a picture of my dog, but that felt like a bit much. Also, I never spent time on forums that allowed images in .sigs . They looked nightmarish.
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Cause they were annoying as shit, and only a small class of users even liked them in the first place.
Back in the 90s, a lot of forums would also ban your ass if you had an obnoxious signature to boot.
Because they’re redundant.
Because they’re redundant
Because people got tired of scrolling past the same giant dog image at the end of every other post
