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It is funny and strangely comforting that despite such a wide variety of topics, forum culture is still the same. There is always a large segment of the forum p
by dfc 13y ago
It is funny and strangely comforting that despite such a wide variety of topics, forum culture is still the same. There is always a large segment of the forum population that derive some level of pride in listing their collection of X in their signature. Here we see posters list their "casios in rotation," on the spyderco it is lists of knives and ubuntu forums it is "rig specs" and version names. The puzzling thing is that--thankfully--this does not seem to happen on mailing lists.
- bodhi 13y agoThis is can actually be quite useful on "help me!"-style forums, like car forums. People often forget to give enough info about eg. their car year model, for others to help specifically. But if this info is in your sig, it's hard to forget (but also you forget to update it when it changes) > The puzzling thing I'd guess that this is because forums have forum-specific profiles, whereas mailing list are replied to from the one inbox. Also, people can probably manage to find the signature section of a forum profile, but not their (web)mail client!
- lkd 13y agoIt serves a technical purpose just as much as their ego. It makes it possible to search for someone with a specific make and/or model of product in order to ask for help or recommendations, or gauge someone's expertise/seniority/subfocus within the forum's focus during a discussion.