I've seen a wide variety of signatures in my time here (mostly on blogs and/or comments). This is both a question and descripion.
Some are non-existant and/or very simple:
Thanks,
Annette
Others are more elaborate, and include a quote:
Annette
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." - Napoleon
or some such variation in font/postioning. Yet others appear to include thumbnail photos/images:
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Annette MacGregor |
And, of course, there are those that combine things.
My question is more (since many are always the same) how does one achieve the sameness? Store the "code" for the signature and paste it in? Or, key it in each time? Or, is there a way to register a signature and say when it is supposed to be added by BCTS?
Thanks - to any that respond.
Comments
Signatures
On your account page - edit tab, there is a box near the bottom for your signature. Whatever you put in there will show up at the bottom of all your comments. , Yes, you have to use html for effects - the whole picture thing is beyond my abilities, but that is where it would be done.
Joy,
Jan
Thanks
I got a similar suggestion from another via PM.
The qustion becomes then, (one I have to answer) what style of Signature would fit me? A simple one, one with a quote, one with my pic (like above) or who knows... *sighs*
Thanks for your help.
Annette
Hmmm
As you can see, I have a signature. I managed to get in to edit my account a couple of weeks ago but now, after successfully signing in (it tells me so), the system then informs me that I don't have the authority to access the edit function. Not a huge deal but puzzling none the less.
Remember - over 99% of the world's population has more than the average number of legs.
Geoff
Erin can tell you how to fix that...
I had an issue once before with My Account... Something to do with remembered login. You had to log out, close browser, clear cache and log back in... Or something like that, and it worked beautifully. :-)
Not Authorized...
If you get the "not authorized" message for something you know you are authorized for, it means either your own browser has lost your cookie or a bug in the system thinks the cookie doesn't match. Log out and log back in. If that doesn't work, log out, close the browser or empty the cache, and log back in. Or whatever gyration it takes to make the stupid thing give you a new cookie. I'm working on this bug because this happens to me at least three or four times a week.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Clearly ...
... you need to show the snivelling system just exactly who's the boss round here, Erin. I think the leather bra, thigh length stiletto-heeled boots, a whip and a superior snarl are what's needed. Or is that too stereotypical? :)
Thanks for the help. At least I know I'm not alone and it's a great comfort.
Remember - over 99% of the world's population has more than the average number of legs.
Geoff
I don't like pre-arranged "sigs"
They've always seemed to me something like telling the same clever story to everyone one meets, on the general principle of bumper stickers and tattoos.
To be fair, there are those who believe that a thing said once is worth saying a thousand times, but most of these are found going door-to-door with earnest expressions pasted on their faces and tracts in hand, their mouths filled with platitudes.
I enjoy a good quote, because it may connect one to the great sea of literature, or place one's own words in an individual context, but placing them should be an individual decision, neither a rote performance nor the random spin of a lottery wheel.
In general, I try to avoid doing things without thinking about them, and a predefined "sig" requires no thought at all when in use.
Puddin'
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A fanatic is one who can't change his
mind and won't change the subject.
--- Winston Churchill
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
Everyone is allowed their opinions Puddin'
I love your last line...
"...a predefined "sig" requires no thought at all when in use."
Not for the one who uses it, the thought came when they first wrote it. It does mean something to them, I know mine means something to me. I'll point out that those reading it, especially for the first time that it does require thought.
Angel
"Be Your-Self, So Easy to Say, So Hard to Live!"
Here's mine Puddin' requires no thought you say? Giggle, giggle...
"Be Your-Self, So Easy to Say, So Hard to Live!"
Not to mention
If your sig has a message or quote it is more likely to be seen by more people if it is posted in a lot of places as opposed to once or twice on a random blog. The more it is spread around the more people are likely to THINK about whatever it says :)
Hugs
Frank
Repetition...
>> The more it is spread around the more people are likely to THINK about whatever it says
If that were true, we'd all be Jehovah's Witnesses, never squeeze the Charmin, and there'd be a Ford in our Future.
Sometimes repetition is just irritating, sometimes it makes us think about setting the dogs on the bearers of "good news" or "good advice" (if only we had a few snarling mastiffs handy -- alas, all I have ready to hand is a somewhat elderly cat, unlikely to frighten off anything larger than a mouse), and sometimes it's merely inappropriate.
Puddin'
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Better things for better living through chemistry.
--- Dupont Chemicals advertising slogan
There's a tragic irony in that slogan, given what we now know about the impact of artificial chemicals on our environment and our own bodies, so much so that most chemical companies these days operate everything through poorly-capitalised subsidiaries (the better to avoid paying out on massive lawsuits when things go wrong) and intricate patterns of ownership and control designed to obfuscate who's actually responsible when things go badly, as they so very often do.
The trouble with slogans is that they never capture reality, which can only be hinted at through successive approximations, but pretend to, a self-referential hubris which inevitably lays them low.
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
Love your line...
>> I love your last line...
>> "...a predefined "sig" requires no thought at all when in use."
Feel quite free to use it as a sig line....
Cheers,
Puddin'
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
LOL...I'll never use that because it's a lie...
We old folks can be so damned stubborn in our own beliefs no one else can say anything to change anything. Your stand on the use of "sigs" is a prime example. LOL...
You keep referring to corporate slogans, bumper stickers and the like, a sig is different in a lot of ways. Here at the Big C they aren't used to make money or sell a product. To you writing is a product, to most of us writing is much more and has nothing to do with making money or selling anything.
I don't know anyone that caught a disease from a "sig" Puddin'...
Maybe we just aren't as smart or intellectually gifted as you are, but the simpler things in life mean much more and we aren't so hard to please.
My simple mind loves to read the sigs of others and they do make me think. Maybe that makes me a simpleton, but I'm a very happy simpleton...LOL...
Hugs Puddin'
Angel
"Be Your-Self, So Easy to Say, So Hard to Live!"
"Be Your-Self, So Easy to Say, So Hard to Live!"
Okay, I understand your
Okay, I understand your reluctance with canned signatures. So I went looking for random signatures. This is the result of that.
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May the Stars Light Your Path
Maid Joy
Well mine is my own ...
... not a famous quotation and directly related to personal experience. It does actually mean something to me. However, as I mentioned above, I have been unable to change it and couldn't be bothered to delete it on each post.
Remember - over 99% of the world's population has more than the average number of legs.
Geoff
Testing my new sig with a picture....
Wow, it worked! And, I now know how to change colors and fonts thanks to Holly!
"Be Your-Self, So Easy to Say, So Hard to Live!"
My pic
Requested Picture.eml (580KB)
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
The old signature thing.
You can learn enough HTML to figure out how to make your signature as fancy as you want to.
However, please do not put a picture of yourself up. Those who are pretty and get duped into posting their photo, just cause a lot of hurt and jealousy. It is best not to go down that road.
Gwendolyn
Hi Gwen, about pictures, how many are truly the person they...
...are supposed to represent? Most were taken years ago if they are real, and anyway, you are what you are and no picture will change that fact. I have a gallery on my computer of many of those I have contacted over the years and some I have even met.
There are no BAD pictures! You are you and that is that! What are you really asking Gwen? If you're cute then don't show your self? Who is the judge? Jealousy is just what?
Myself, no picture will make me like you or dislike you, no picture will make me judge you, I need to get to know you! A picture is just a representation of your shell, the body is a tool nothing more. You pay a lot more for pretty tools, but the plain looking and even basic tools usually work much better.
It's what is inside that counts Gwen, no picture should make you or anyone else jealous or hurt because what really counts in this world is what is inside that shell!
Huggles Gwen
Angel
"Be Your-Self, So Easy to Say, So Hard to Live!"
"Be Your-Self, So Easy to Say, So Hard to Live!"
We can get to know each other.
That would be nice.
Still, my note sprang out of personal experience and hurt.
When I first came out, I was too blissfully ignorant to realize just how much one can be hurt. Many people thought that I was more than 20 years younger than my actual age. I knew how to actually make my eyes sparkle; knew to keep my brows raised; how to set my head correctly; could do a really great job on "normal, career girl" makeup. I passed all the time. My only problem was stupidly disclosing myself to people who never even suspected. Somebody kick the girl hard.
Four years down the road, two cases of pneumonia, living in toxic chemicals, an e-coli infection in my bladder, getting the usual heartbreak from family and the "righteous", eating food from the garbage, worry, and the usual run of the mill crap that trans folk have to put up with. Well, it has take its toll. I think that religion is just too painful to deal with. Almost all the pain I suffer comes from the religious.
I now look in the mirror and see a tired fucking old tranny who can no longer bury her feelings. No I won't kill myself but the spark of hope is gone.
Gwendolyn
SCREW RELIGIONS! All they do is cause pain and heartbreak!
The biggest most hypocritical collection of human beings can be found in church's every weekend! They talk the talk but never walk the walk! Oh sure there are the exceptional few, very few that practice what is preached, but they are so rare it isn't funny!
Let go and let God is the biggest cop out in the universe...
History teaches us that the cruelest human beings doing the most hurtful things to other human beings are done in the name of religion by the religious!
You don't need religion to love, to give of your self and to help others from your heart. One thing that makes the religious crumble is when they are faced with a situation they can't handle!
They are against abortion until one of their own young children gets pregnant.
They are against the death penalty until one of their own is murdered.
They make a big deal out of whatever they do for others and make sure everyone knows they have done it. How else can they get the credit due them in the eyes of their fellow parishioners? LOL...
Religions use people they don't help people!
The biggest joke line I've ever heard is..."I've been saved!" LOL...
How about when some dogooder walks up to you and asks..."Have you been saved?" And then hands you some stupid propaganda booklet that condemns every other religion and way of life save their own! LOL...
The King and Queens of Judgment are the religious, they just love to judge and condemn others. I mean, hell, it's expected of them because they've been saved!...LOL...
Remember now, their are a few exceptions based on an individual basis, but as religious groups and church's go, they all suck the proverbial big one!
This is just my humble opinion based on many years of real life experiences Gwen.
Can you really believe they practice what they preach? LOL...
Yeah right, how about this one they love to quote!
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." What a load of crap that one is!
Hugs Gwen
Angel
"Be Your-Self, So Easy to Say, So Hard to Live!"
It's not the RELIGIONS
It's people in them. As with most other things, people do all that horrible stuff. There ARE congregationsn that are very friendly and welcoming (at least in the majority). Many of the major denominationsn of christianity (the religion I have the most personal experience with) have very mixed messages to/for the LGBT community individually and as a whole. At least one, may well split over the related issues in the next 10-20 years. (Inclusion vs. Exclusion and such.)
So, in my opinion, your blanket condemnation of Religions is not fare. If you want to condem, condem those indivduals and leaders withing the Religous communities that USE the Religions for their own bigoted ends. *sighs*. It's so easy to react negatively to those that are (or have) attacked you or those near you. Perhaps easier when they attack using the tools of Religion.
And, to drag this back to the topic - your sig has a nice piece, worth thinking about.
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." - Napoleon