Current Events > Why is sigless used as an insult here?

(+) Yeah! (+)

It's not like having a sig is a badge of honor that makes you better than other people
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It is though. But there will always be exceptions
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The internet isn't exactly known for being logical.
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Text-only sig user topic
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it's sort of a pointless insult because on the other hand there are people who will insult you based on what's in your sig

People who create new alts and then don't bother making a sig because they know the account won't last long

They may not be the actual reason, but it makes some sense to me
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Not having a sig is like not having a brain.
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On the other hand most posts used to dismiss an argument are shitty anyway.

"u mad"

"Your jimmies are rustled!"

"lol"

*shrugs*
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

People who create new alts and then don't bother making a sig because they know the account won't last long

They may not be the actual reason, but it makes some sense to me

this is part of it
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See sig for answer
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If you dont have a sig, I dont trust you
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Kaname_Madoka posted...

UnholyMudcrab posted...

People who create new alts and then don't bother making a sig because they know the account won't last long

They may not be the actual reason, but it makes some sense to me

this is part of it

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Genocet_10-325 posted...

having a sig is a badge of honor that makes you better than other people

this guy gets it.
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Because @UnfairRepresent wanted to see if he could control people.

Turns out he's pretty good at it.
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Anyone can literally get anything to catch on if they just keep repeating it. Its a matter of repetition.
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Thats stupid. I don't have a sig because I'm not 14 anymore and I don't know what to put there without it being cringey or silly

Look at the Sig's in the topic. In order of people above me (post 13)
-nonsensical robot ai talking to each other with errors and typos, not really funny or cool or noteworthy
-cringey quote
-generic not changing sig until x
-link to cartoonish picture
-bunch of oddly named gamehandles? Idk
-guy claiming he's the devourer of topics

Cause they're new accounts
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

People who create new alts and then don't bother making a sig because they know the account won't last long

They may not be the actual reason, but it makes some sense to me

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not__shawn__z posted...

Thats stupid. I don't have a sig because I'm not 14 anymore and I don't know what to put there without it being cringey or silly

Look at the Sig's in the topic. In order of people above me (post 13)
-nonsensical robot ai talking to each other with errors and typos, not really funny or cool or noteworthy
-cringey quote
-generic not changing sig until x
-link to cartoonish picture
-bunch of oddly named gamehandles? Idk
-guy claiming he's the devourer of topics

Rekt
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FvP posted...

Cause they're new accounts

Zikten

Member Since June 12th, 2002 (15 years ago)

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.
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Insult? I always take it as a compliment. Sigless > sigs

What's a sig?

UnfairRepresent posted...

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.

dude chilll lmao
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UnfairRepresent posted...

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.

having a sig is annoying to me. I tried it and I didn't like it. I prefer just having a blank space to type in

I'll also say that if a user doesn't have a sig, I'll sometimes skip the bottom part of their post because I think it's a sig, but I guess that's a pretty minor problem
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Remember when the sig was part of the Post New Message box?
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

I'll also say that if a user doesn't have a sig, I'll sometimes skip the bottom part of their post because I think it's a sig, but I guess that's a pretty minor problem

This too can be confusing.

Especially when scrolling through a topic
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gnomefromnome posted...

Remember when the sig was part of the Post New Message box?

Better days
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UnfairRepresent posted...

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?

Actually I'm doing the opposite. I have to do work to make a sig. I have to go out of my way to make one. Being sigless is the default option

UnfairRepresent posted...

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.

You care too much about this.

Genocet_10-325 posted...

not__shawn__z posted...

Thats stupid. I don't have a sig because I'm not 14 anymore and I don't know what to put there without it being cringey or silly

Look at the Sig's in the topic. In order of people above me (post 13)
-nonsensical robot ai talking to each other with errors and typos, not really funny or cool or noteworthy
-cringey quote
-generic not changing sig until x
-link to cartoonish picture
-bunch of oddly named gamehandles? Idk
-guy claiming he's the devourer of topics

Rekt

i guess.... im triggered

http://gifimgs.com/res/0916/57ebaeea6c7a9047727112.gif
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UnfairRepresent posted...

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.

Wrong. I'm not so obbsessed with gamefaqs that I think about it 24/7.

And the point is proven.
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JE19426 posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

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.

Wrong. I'm not so obbsessed with gamefaqs that I think about it 24/7.

Not be to mean but yea, this. I didn't even realize this stigma existed. And now that I do I just think it's hilarious. Look at what you're saying. "They look like horrible people", lmao. What the fuck.

Genocet_10-325 posted...

not__shawn__z posted...

Thats stupid. I don't have a sig because I'm not 14 anymore and I don't know what to put there without it being cringey or silly

Look at the Sig's in the topic. In order of people above me (post 13)
-nonsensical robot ai talking to each other with errors and typos, not really funny or cool or noteworthy
-cringey quote
-generic not changing sig until x
-link to cartoonish picture
-bunch of oddly named gamehandles? Idk
-guy claiming he's the devourer of topics

Rekt

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Kaname_Madoka posted...

UnholyMudcrab posted...

People who create new alts and then don't bother making a sig because they know the account won't last long

They may not be the actual reason, but it makes some sense to me

this is part of it

Pretty much. It's more of an indictment on throwaway alt accounts used solely for trolling than it is on the fact that someone doesn't have a sig. If you've been posting regularly on that same account for years and don't have a sig, I don't see a problem. But a week-old sigless account is a pretty obvious sign of a throwaway trolling alt.
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Dragonblade01 posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

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.

You care too much about this.

Look at my Sig, and tell me it is not a badge of honor. Go ahead, I dare you!
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I got a sig since UnfairRepresent was being loony about it in topics other than this one
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Trickfinger posted...

Genocet_10-325 posted...

not__shawn__z posted...

Thats stupid. I don't have a sig because I'm not 14 anymore and I don't know what to put there without it being cringey or silly

Look at the Sig's in the topic. In order of people above me (post 13)
-nonsensical robot ai talking to each other with errors and typos, not really funny or cool or noteworthy
-cringey quote
-generic not changing sig until x
-link to cartoonish picture
-bunch of oddly named gamehandles? Idk
-guy claiming he's the devourer of topics

Rekt

It's not. Only one who uses it unironically is Unfair and he's a joke to begin with

Zikten posted...

FvP posted...

Cause they're new accounts

Zikten

Member Since June 12th, 2002 (15 years ago)

they're also accounts that do nothing but shitpost
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thronedfire2 posted...

Zikten posted...

FvP posted...

Cause they're new accounts

Zikten

Member Since June 12th, 2002 (15 years ago)

they're also accounts that do nothing but shitpost

Or they're normal people with normal accounts and you're a bigot for assuming otherwise
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Genocet_10-325 posted...

not__shawn__z posted...

Thats stupid. I don't have a sig because I'm not 14 anymore and I don't know what to put there without it being cringey or silly

Look at the Sig's in the topic. In order of people above me (post 13)
-nonsensical robot ai talking to each other with errors and typos, not really funny or cool or noteworthy
-cringey quote
-generic not changing sig until x
-link to cartoonish picture
-bunch of oddly named gamehandles? Idk
-guy claiming he's the devourer of topics

Rekt

Not really.
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https://imgur.com/a/li0cy

None of you have sigs

Conflict posted...

This dude typed an essay on the importance of sigs on a video game message board. Holy shit, you need to get a life