Date: February 28th, 2007 5:15 AM Author: Impressive magenta heaven sweet tailpipe
For a second, I thought that you meant an IP signature--which actually might be good, if the IP were scrambled.
I'd like a signature line, but I think that I would be the only one who uses it--nobody seems to use the email tag for email, so the signature line would be mostly redundant.
Date: February 28th, 2007 10:56 AM Author: Marvelous burgundy library
I say no. Main reason is that this board's format (unlike e.g. VBB) is not really suited for signatures. Sig lines would more or less double the length of each post and make long threads even harder to wade through (as it is, I already find threads hard to read after more than 30 posts or so).
I think the email tagline works well. Get rid of the email link so I can actually have a working link to my blog or something. Also if people do want an email link (or have a private message function), you can embed the link with the poster's name so people could just click on that and contact the poster directly.
Date: February 28th, 2007 11:05 AM Author: Marvelous burgundy library
Yes, it is a fortunate coincidence that it happens to be colored and italicized/underlined, to set it off from the rest of the header. But the fact that it's an email link is useless and confusing.
Date: February 28th, 2007 11:05 AM Author: Pink exhilarant generalized bond
Also agreed.
Additionally, there's a certain visual appeal in having a "sig" (i.e. the e-mail line) immediately to the right of a user's name, rather than at the bottom of every post. The fact that it's colored and italicized sets it off from the name, like a further commentary on the poster's personality. A little bit of insta-identity fashioning, if you will.
Date: February 28th, 2007 11:39 AM Author: arrogant circlehead
this sounds right. there's no reason to lengthen posts for a sig line when everyone uses the email field already, and i like the idea of embedding the email link in the moniker.
and an 'ignore poster' filter function would be phenomenal. no more aznazn posts.
Yeah, I literally just started trying to learn this stuff last week. Only played around with that "signature" stuff as an exercise to try to learn how thread.php and the db work.
We tried outsourcing and it was an absolutely horrible experience. Maybe I'll go dig up the demo those Indian programmers made for us and post a screenshot here.