[Closed] Why do some people keep putting there name at the bottom of every post???

Herman_Shake - have a look at allthegears profile and the links on there.

ww-as-was.

I've just noticed the "???" in the title. Multiple exclamations and question marks grind my goat, but then something else distracts me and I move on.

Rachel.

it bloody annoys me when people misspell my name too

Rachael

*reluctantly [s]stalks[/s] looks at profile*

Rachel/allthegear, that's a lot of info you've shared there! It's worth breaking up your email at least with "AT" or "DOT" to prevent it being scanned and I'm not sure it's wise to have so much in one easy-to-google place.

Maybe I'm paranoid? Now where did I put my tin foil hat...???

While we are having a really pointless argument can I moan about Maroon ****ing 5?

I just think it helps people think of me as a person as opposed to some sort of generic entity. I think that is a good thing?

I thought STW was just a huge AI experiment?

You're now telling me there are real people in here....

OP, stop whining !

pussy

+1 best regards.

Banks

Sent from my iPhone 9

In answer to your question Allthegear; no idea.

Morning folks.

Sent from my bedroom

Herman shake & wwaswas (which is autocorrect end to weasels btw) -

So far as I know, there's only FB and twitter links there, right???

yes, that's all. I can't see it's some huge security thing for you, tbh.

A short history of identifying yourself in communications...

Cavemen did it...

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Pre-industrial societies did it...

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Your parents did it...

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We all used to do it...

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So why shouldn't Rachel be able to do it here? 🙄

So far as I know, there's only FB and twitter links there, right???

Edit - unless that hat in your pic has a tinfoil liner I guess you may not care (some people on here are more paranoid than others about publicising the location of their millions of quids worth of bike, etc)

I don't know what's wrong with it. It is certainly much better than either those forums (thankfully not here) where people sign off every post with some utter new-age drivel about their guardian angel or somesuch, or even worse think that a single letter can represent three (eg "u" somehow represents "you").

Lord Bathplug of Rhubarb

My guardian angel is always watching u

This made me laugh...

allthegear - Member
Maybe I will try to change my habit somehow.

Derek

Edit - and no, before anyone speculates, it wasn't...

Never bothered me, to be honest.

I'm going to make like a bread truck and haul buns.
camo

I like it, keep doing it.

Oliver

Sent from my ZX Spectrum

I like the way this is going.

Brian

[i]Never drive faster than your angels can jog.[/i]

[b]My garage[/b] 1992 Kona Explosif, 1993 Kirk Reloution, 2016 Prototype S-Works, A dead mouse, My neighbour's wife.

[b]I'm looking for[/b] Mint Sauce stuff, White Porcupines & my trousers.

I am out of the office in meetings on 4 April with no access to email.

If you require an urgent response please contact Rachel on 0891 811 8181.

Your email address is there and I guess it's not like you've put your pin code etc up but it wouldn't take much for someone who got some info (unshredded statement etc) to google you to find out more. I wouldn't have Twitter and FB links as you can see so much before you friend or follow someone but then I probably lean toward the [s]paranoid[/s] cautious side of things.

I'm not meaning to weird you out, my mum had her identity nicked and lots of cash taken from her account. She has no internet presence and is quite particular about her info being shared but still got done by some horrible person. It's made me extra cautious about easy to find info, but then again I still haven't asked 192.com to delete my info yet. Must get round to that.

Once you've got someone's full name and location 192.com can help you find out more alarmingly, extra info from there increases vulnerability. You can ask to remove you. Now I'm off on a tangent but there you have it.

It's a bit like having the anonymous radius from your house on Strava, the less available to strangers the better. Especially with all the creepy bike thefts aboot at the moment.

Don't trust no-one anytime (apart from some people sometimes).

Oh, and the OP put "there" instead of "their".

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[i]This made me laugh...[/i]

I smiled and blew air out of my nose 🙂

Thanks guys. I'm pretty careful about what information I actually share, though I am happy to use my real name on things like Facebook.

Tbh just typing my name into google returns results pointing to me on the front page for some reason - I'm not that exciting!!

Rachel. (Who keeps her bikes very secure - in the living room!)

There is no argument. This is an internet forum, not a political campaign.

So signs off some dude on Bike Radar. Nice.

It was a bit odd.

Sent from the Future.

I agree that's its a bit odd. But most forums have a signiture anyway.

sent from my nondescript 5th generation fruit based phone that you can't afford.

I agree
Ian

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unklehomered - Member
Yeah I never got that.

Sent from Tapatalk2 on my Galaxy Nexus.

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Shibboleth - Member
Probably some poor misguided vestige of a bygone era when people used to attach their real name to communications to show sincerity and that they were willing to stand by what they said.
I think it's more a case of people wanting their forum persona to become a brand. Although perhaps not in the case of Rachel...

TTFN®
Shibboleth.com ®

You can't beat the real thang®

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Pik n Mix - Member
On here I don't suppose it makes a jot of difference but I once got burnt from doing the signing off with my name thing on another forum.

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pussywillow - Member
allthegear - Member
It's the only way I can differentiate myself from the STW cliché of a 42 year old, VAG driving, FS riding, male, IT worker...
Sorry if it offends. I don't do it *all* the time...
Rachel
POSTED 31 MINUTES AGO # REPORT-POST

No lovey, u ain't offended me!
Just that if yer posting all the time, doesn't it get tedious? Anyways, I bet yer a REET nice bird in real life!
Pussy.

wwaswas - Member
Of everyone on here I've only noticed allthegear doing it and I thought that was for a specific reason.
ww-as-was
POSTED 27 MINUTES AGO # REPORT-POST
No there some Dr dude who does it too.

Pussy.

POSTED 1 HOUR AGO #
swavis - Member
You'll all go to hell....

Your's,

Beelzebub xxxx

POSTED 1 HOUR AGO #
bearnecessities - Member
Your's,
My pedant-chip just expoloded, which is probably a good thing.

POSTED 1 HOUR AGO #
piemonster - Member
Hi

Best Regards
Shaun

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swavis - Member
My pedant-chip just expoloded, which is probably a good thing.
Ahh, my work is done!

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allthegear - Member
No, it's not an extra effort, really. Often,I'll use my name in an initial post and then not bother for the rest. I just think it helps people think of me as a person as opposed to some sort of generic entity. I think that is a good thing?

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Herman Shake - Member
I really hope allthegear's name is Nigel or something and the Rachel at the end is just a peculiar habit.

Puss, it's a good sign if this is the tip of the irritation iceberg. Unless you're so at the end of your tether this is all it takes for you to snap...

Rachel.

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wwaswas - Member
Herman_Shake - have a look at allthegears profile and the links on there.

ww-as-was.

POSTED 1 HOUR AGO #
Herman Shake - Member
I've just noticed the "???" in the title. Multiple exclamations and question marks grind my goat, but then something else distracts me and I move on.

Rachel.

POSTED 1 HOUR AGO #
nbt - Member
it bloody annoys me when people misspell my name too

Rachael

POSTED 1 HOUR AGO #
Herman Shake - Member
*reluctantly stalks looks at profile*

Rachel/allthegear, that's a lot of info you've shared there! It's worth breaking up your email at least with "AT" or "DOT" to prevent it being scanned and I'm not sure it's wise to have so much in one easy-to-google place.

Maybe I'm paranoid? Now where did I put my tin foil hat...???

POSTED 1 HOUR AGO #
zippykona - Member
While we are having a really pointless argument can I moan about Maroon **** 5?

POSTED 50 MINUTES AGO #
footflaps - Member
I just think it helps people think of me as a person as opposed to some sort of generic entity. I think that is a good thing?
I thought STW was just a huge AI experiment?

You're now telling me there are real people in here....

POSTED 48 MINUTES AGO #
scaredypants - Member
OP, stop whining !

pussy

POSTED 42 MINUTES AGO #
banks - Member
+1 best regards.

Banks

Sent from my iPhone 9

POSTED 36 MINUTES AGO #
BigJohn - Member
In answer to your question Allthegear; no idea.

POSTED 27 MINUTES AGO #
molgrips - Member
Morning folks.

Sent from my bedroom

POSTED 26 MINUTES AGO #
allthegear - Member

Herman shake & wwaswas (which is autocorrect end to weasels btw) -

So far as I know, there's only FB and twitter links there, right???

POSTED 26 MINUTES AGO #
wwaswas - Member
yes, that's all. I can't see it's some huge security thing for you, tbh.

POSTED 23 MINUTES AGO #
perthmtb - Member
A short history of identifying yourself in communications...

Cavemen did it...

Pre-industrial societies did it...

Your parents did it...

We all used to do it...

So why shouldn't Rachel be able to do it here?

POSTED 22 MINUTES AGO #
scaredypants - Member
So far as I know, there's only FB and twitter links there, right???
... yeah, and what seems to be your real name and location - though you could be either making those bits up, or not worried about it
Edit - unless that hat in your pic has a tinfoil liner I guess you may not care (some people on here are more paranoid than others about publicising the location of their millions of quids worth of bike, etc)

POSTED 21 MINUTES AGO #
ononeorange - Member
I don't know what's wrong with it. It is certainly much better than either those forums (thankfully not here) where people sign off every post with some utter new-age drivel about their guardian angel or somesuch, or even worse think that a single letter can represent three (eg "u" somehow represents "you").

Lord Bathplug of Rhubarb

My guardian angel is always watching u

POSTED 18 MINUTES AGO #
Rickos - Member
This made me laugh...

allthegear - Member
Maybe I will try to change my habit somehow.
Derek

Edit - and no, before anyone speculates, it wasn't...

POSTED 14 MINUTES AGO #
camo16 - Member
Never bothered me, to be honest.

I'm going to make like a bread truck and haul buns.
camo

POSTED 13 MINUTES AGO #
rewski - Member
I like it, keep doing it.

Oliver

Sent from my ZX Spectrum

POSTED 13 MINUTES AGO #
bearnecessities - Member
I like the way this is going.

Brian

Never drive faster than your angels can jog.

My garage 1992 Kona Explosif, 1993 Kirk Reloution, 2016 Prototype S-Works, A dead mouse, My neighbour's wife.

I'm looking for Mint Sauce stuff, White Porcupines & my trousers.

POSTED 6 MINUTES AGO #
peterfile - Member
I am out of the office in meetings on 4 April with no access to email.

If you require an urgent response please contact Rachel on 0891 811 8181.

POSTED 5 MINUTES AGO #
Herman Shake - Member
Your email address is there and I guess it's not like you've put your pin code etc up but it wouldn't take much for someone who got some info (unshredded statement etc) to google you to find out more. I wouldn't have Twitter and FB links as you can see so much before you friend or follow someone but then I probably lean toward the paranoid cautious side of things.

I'm not meaning to weird you out, my mum had her identity nicked and lots of cash taken from her account. She has no internet presence and is quite particular about her info being shared but still got done by some horrible person. It's made me extra cautious about easy to find info, but then again I still haven't asked 192.com to delete my info yet. Must get round to that.

Once you've got someone's full name and location 192.com can help you find out more alarmingly, extra info from there increases vulnerability. You can ask to remove you. Now I'm off on a tangent but there you have it.

It's a bit like having the anonymous radius from your house on Strava, the less available to strangers the better. Especially with all the creepy bike thefts aboot at the moment.

Don't trust no-one anytime (apart from some people sometimes).

Oh, and the OP put "there" instead of "their".

POSTED 3 MINUTES AGO #
wwaswas - Member
This made me laugh...

I smiled and blew air out of my nose

POSTED 1 MINUTE AGO #

I smiled and blew hair out of my nose

FTFY

How remarkably unambitious of you, Ian

It used to annoy me too, but now this has turned into one of the theads of the year I don't think it will bother me any longer. I like the idea of everyone signing all their posts off as Rachel.

Rachel

Sent from my lunch break.

It's not really a thread of the year yet, IMHO it still needs that little something.

Unk.

Sent from my Rachel.

As long as it is informal, it is fine by me.
Rach.

It's not really a thread of the year yet, IMHO it still needs that little something.

Octopus porn Rachel?

I'm not reading all of this crap ^

Rachel the Spider

Ooh, ooh, I have a question!

Is it worse that DrP does it - but signs the same name as his username??

Derek
(yes, it was)

I'm not reading all of this crap ^

Me neither. Anything interesting happened? Did someone mention porn?
[b]
TTFN
rachel@shibboleth.com[/b]
[i]
Always judge a book by it's cover. I fly in the woodpile is worth a bird with a bush.[/i]

Sent of a woman.

Of course what we really need is a sig gif

Dez
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Dear Andy,

I think you're right.

Yours sincerely,

Simon

"Yours [i]faithfully."
[/i]
HTH.

Cougar - Moderator

Dear Andy,

I think you're right.

Yours sincerely,

Simon

"Yours faithfully."

HTH.

Cougar, as the 'letter' did not start with Sir/Madam and Simon is adressinng Andy by name, should it not in fact be "Sincerely"?

(I may regret not checking this fact on Google first, long time since I wrote a letter!)

No - to be fair, "Yours Sincerely" was correct if he stated the name of the recipient. "Yours Faithfully" when the name of the recipient is not known.

Mind you, I failed my O-Level English Language the first time around so what do I know?

Rachel ( who now feels like she *has* to sign-off or people will comment )

Rachel is correct - it is yours sincerely.

Rachel

Dear Sir = yours faithfully
Dear Name = yours sincerely

Rachel

Bumcakes, I knew that as well.

I really hate people who make schoolboy errors in their haste to try and be clever. Muphry's Law in action.

Dear Cougar,

In your face!

Hugs and kisses,

Simon

I realy like the fact that some people on here do this. Too shy to do it with my own somewhat unique name so from now on i too am.....

Rachel