The Online Signature of a Hypocrite
May 28, 2007
A signature is something that you leave at the end of something you do, in order to mark it in a unique way. It is a common practice to have a signature on today’s online communities, allowing you to leave that signature with every post you make.
With each online community different in its own unique way, every signature can be different, even if you are using the same name on every forum. There are some voices that feel I am a hypocrite because I do not allow certain organizations in one’s signature, because I have links in my signature on other forums.
Every forum has their own set of rules and policies that they see fit. The difference is what some forums are willing to allow and what others are not.
As an example, I have PNW Riders in my signature on CycleForums. The responsibility falls on the administrators and moderators of that forum to determine if I am doing something that they do not agree with and if that is the case, they would have no problem telling me to remove it. I think this is allowed because PNW Riders is a regional forum and CycleForums is a global forum so the two communities do not interfere with one another.
By that same token, I have been on certain Kawasaki Forums, and they have asked me to remove any mention of other Kawasaki Forums out of my signature. They never mention the PNW Riders in my signature, just the other communities that interfere with the exact same topic of discussion that there community was designed for.
I am on many forums, and my signature varies on every forum. It varies because I respect the similarities of interfering links and because those forum’s moderators have no problem telling me to remove them.
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