Signing post/comments

From forum #45163

Currently signing you name to post/comments if frowned upon but not stated as a rule anywhere.

I think even though it is rare this would be a useful update to the howto:comment part of the wiki.

Something like:

Signatures/Name

Please do not sign your comments/posts with your name or other signature. We know who you are and it adds nothing to the discussion.

Ehhh..... I'm not so sure about that.

Are we really going to make this a list of every internet faux-pas ever? It'll be a real long list, and that just means nobody reads it. It's already a bit too long for my taste, and I co-wrote the damn thing.

Can't we just ask people not to do it? I know it ended up with kind of a miniature shitstorm in that particular example, but that has to be the exception, right?

Thinking about it, 99% of people I've seen who sign their posts, outside of a regular forum signature (which we obviously don't have) are total twats anyway.

And yes, it will always cause a shitstorm, but I still don't know if its worth explicitly writing out.

I'm not sure if we should add it either. I think we should have just a few base rules, leaving stuff like signing your posts to the "use your common sense; don't be annoying" department, and then handling them on an individual basis.

Or maybe we could have two lists: one being as concise as possible about the ground rules, and one for some of the more extraneus rules. Obviously, only people who'd really be arsed to do so would read the more-complete list of rules -- but they'd at least be there.

スラッシュ said: Can't we just ask people not to do it? I know it ended up with kind of a miniature shitstorm in that particular example, but that has to be the exception, right?

My feelings as well. Really not important enough for a rule.

I'm not entirely against Bapabooiee's suggestion of writing a howto:advanced_commenting_netiquette or whatever. That way we could even move some of the more advanced instructions there (like the "don't write funny pretend-dialog" point), and that would hopefully make the basic howto:comment a lot cleaner and shorter. It's my feeling that it's long enough that people's eyes just glaze over upon seeing it.

I'm not sure if splitting the howtos is the best way to go. Any decent member would have read them entirely, while dumbasses won't read anything unless if you threaten physical beatings. Squirreling away advanced instructions within a list of bullets would give the dumbasses a convenient excuse to misinterpret them and give them the excuse, "o i dun't knoe thar wuz anuter pag lololol."

I wouldn't really put it as "squirreling away", Moose.

It'd be more along the lines of: "here are the ground rules. It basically says 'use common sense and don't be a dope'. This should be sufficient enough in most cases, but here's a more-complete list so that you can't say no such rules were in place later-on. They were there; and it's too bad you either didn't read them, or didn't display enough common sense to not break them."

Here's what I believe is a good example of this.

Bapabooiee said:

It'd be more along the lines of: "here are the ground rules. It basically says 'use common sense and don't be a dope'. This should be sufficient enough in most cases, but here's a more-complete list so that (...)."

I think the most important point about possible advanced netiquette guides would be advising intelligent, grown-up newbies who come from an entirely different cultural context.

Considering the popularity of anime and manga, there may be people aged over 20 for whom Danbooru is the first hobby-related English-language way of using the World Wide Web in their whole lives. Such people will base their judgments of good conduct on whatever similar media they have used before, and the results can be quite unexpected.