LogFAQs > #893540788

Because it's like wearing a Balaclava in a crowded shopping mall.

Sure it doesn't make you a bad person instrinsically by default, but nearly everyone who does it is a bad person so why are you intentionally going out of your way to look like one?

Go to any topic where you have people saying really stupid things, praising hurting other people, defending rapists or murderers, making weird poorly written comments, arguing with nonsense or insults, wildly defending bizarre or monsterous stances and odds are always good it's coming from a sigless user.

There is rarely a topic where a sigless user posting inside it aren't the worst/among the worst or at least the least productive users in the entire topic.

That's where the stigma boils from.

Why the correlation between stupid/horrible person and not creating a sig? Who knows.

Maybe if you're so unispired that you can't think of anything to say it means you're more likely to be disgusting?
Maybe as mentioned it means you're likely to be a lazy alt of someone who is frequently banned?

But the bottom line is it takes less than 7 seconds to get a sig, so every single sigless user is conciously aware of the fact they look just like horrible people and every second of every day they fierely determine that they want to be viewed like that.

Hence the generalizations.