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FRIDAY@GOTTADEAL.COM seems to me to be an ad...but thats beside the point...its the visual NOISE factor thats the problem, and if im supossed to become blind to them over time (which, unfortunately, im cogenitally unable to do) why bother? People's threshold for noise both audio and visual is so high now and Im not so sure the "frog in the warming pot of water and doesnt know the temp is slowly rising and so will boil to death" method of "getting used to it" is the way to go. Start a new thread or whatever with clever bon mots and ugly pictures in it, i come to the forums to TALK hopefully without having to wade through what is nothing less than personal egocentrism that smacks of self aggrandizement. All these clever sayings, if they appeared once would be an alright thing, but everytime you pop into a forum, there it is again (some of us are new and want to read all the previous posts, thats what makes it particularly Hotash Slayish)...Id call that a type advertising...someone trying to advertise how clever they are to use someone else's saying (just from the bloody repetition!). As I say, if these clever "sigs" (and some of them are quite clever, and in fact I'm glad I've seen some of them, yours Avatar, in fact, is my favorite. But I only needed to see it Once. Just Once was necessary)appeared in the profile I'd dig it.
And note! Im not the only one who dislikes (see many other postings), quite a few others dislike them too...The reasons arnt just aesthetic either, as was noted by me but failed to be acknowledged by Avatar, was the fact that it is HARD TO READ with the sigs to begin with, but in addition, and here are some caps to make this clear (dont misread as shouting now),
FOR SOME PEOPLE WITH VISUAL PROBLEMS AND SOME PEOPLE WITH ATTTENTION ISSUES AND OR DISLEXIA IT IS A REAL DRAG
...to deal with what is basically whimsical for sig lovers. When the sigs are bigger than the message most of the time, its time to review policy. Further all you RPG nerds who have advanced computers and dont even know the meaning of the word 'dial' and have generated these whole personae and clogged up the site with self representitive slogans and symbols, (and just to REPEAT, so you can get a feel for what I, and others, go through ) THAT APPEAR EACH AND EVERYTIME YOU POST A RESPONSE, it slows down many many others without your sleek fast machine and/or DSL.
PLEASE, have some consideration and lets have forums for what they are meant to be: places of discussion.
PS As for the statement that this is how other message boards are...firstly, RHANYHYN MUFFINS! Most that I go to arnt filled with all that repetitive stuff and futhermore, even if they were, its short sighted and insensitive and I dont think its "ok". So despite the fact that that is how all the kids are doing it these days, or so you say, I submit it should stop.
Maybe there should be a poll...cept i dont know if i could trust the nerds not to load the poll...acch, what does it matter, Im 40 years old and NO ONE ever listens to those people who are negatively impacted by others behavior, especially if the others are "just having fun".
I strongly predict that ths will be argued with only on its merits, meanwhile the people who are miserable will continue to suffer and those "just having fun" with their sigs and symbols will doubtfully ever appreciate the MEANING of the argument, ie that others are unhappy with what amounts to a wee bit of fun on yer part. Oh well, bye Kevins Watch, great site cept for the very interesting but clogged with trash forums
PSS...and someone just said here that if your sig is so important to have each and every time you post, then TYPE it in EACH and EVERY time.
Yes Im pissy about this, I feel like you dismissed my point of view, Avatar, without really adressing the points I raised. Its not about what I like or you like, its about functional use of a site, people are having problems with the sigs, your reply that you like them is irrelevent to my point, as is my personal feelings about them...its about functional use
Maybe a request to keep sigs simple or one line...
