• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Haha wow, my initial thought after reading your post was “signatures went away”, but then I figured I’m biased towards that being significant, because I recently was on an ancient forum that still had them.

    So, instead I tried to formulate the more abstract development. I had read about it a long time ago, so I did not pull that whole comment out of my arse just then, thankfully.

    But that it is then precisely signatures which elicit a reaction, that’s hilarious. 😅

    And yeah, I do not miss signatures. Within minutes of reading on that forum, I had grown a disdain for some users, because they’d respond with half a sentence and then a distracting GIF in their signature. And of course, they would respond multiple times to a topic, so you could get 10+ instances of that same GIF on one page.

    Unfortunately, this does mean I now need to demonstrate that by including a shitty signature:


    I’m not a signature, I just clean here. GIF of an emoticon wiping the floor.

    The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu

    Flashy GIF of some anime character blasting a gun towards the viewer. Don't ask me what it is, I literally just searched for "forum signature gif".