Why do people sign their posts with the same name twice?

[alexkp]

I have noticed a number of people seem to sign their posts twice. Why? We can see your name from in the margin. Why put it again at the end of everything you say?

Is is only me tht finds it mildly irritating? I am quite prepared to accept that it is just me...

[Einion Yrth]

Can't say that I find it particularly irritating, but I share your befuddlement as to why they do it.

[a911dom]

anonymous said:

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Yeah Me too!!!

A911DOM ....Doh

[speedychrissie]

i have always done it and i guess it is just habit from signing off thousands of emails and texts in the same way.

chris
see i just did it again!

[pulsatingstar]

Sometimes ill do it with my proper name, as opposed to people just thinking its Pulsatingstar or whatever.

Lee

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

anonymous said:

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I actually find it quite endearing. Somehow or other it seems to make the post more personal.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

....alexp, you must spend a fair slice of your life irritated, if this is an example of what bugs you!!!!

[alexkp]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

....alexp, you must spend a fair slice of your life irritated, if this is an example of what bugs you!!!!

That's a fair comment. I am often irritated by many things...

Right now the heavy woollen undergarments are chafing quite badly...

[blindswelledrat]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

It's not just you. I was honestly intending to post this exact thread!

[Jaglover]

blindswelledrat said:

It's not just you. I was honestly intending to post this exact thread!

Annoys me sometimes as well, a waste of typing and space.

[benyeats]

I always sign with my christian name as it is less formal than my sign on name which is a portmantau of my christian and last names. Since I feel I am among friends here I can be more casual.

Just to please the author of this thread I will not sign this post

[Cotty]

Dont know what your on about

Paul

[yertis]

You people can't have much to worry about if this kind of thing gets under your skin.

[ICSD]

yertis said:

You people can't have much to worry about if this kind of thing gets under your skin.

Here here - blimey get over it!

Iain (sorry I had to do it!)

[shaw-cross shark]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

I actually find it quite endearing. Somehow or other it seems to make the post more personal.

Same here. I do it occasionally and normally on a topic that has touched me in some way (ill kids/parents and the like) and use my christian name to try and show the face and person behind the login.

[Plotloss]

I have no idea what you're talking about

Mandy.

[up-the-dubs]

Brian.

[FourWheelDrift]

I quite agree.

Yours sincerely
Disgusted from Tunbridge Wells.

[xm5er]

ICSD said:

yertis said: You people can't have much to worry about if this kind of thing gets under your skin. Here here - blimey get over it! Iain (sorry I had to do it!)

Its a full moon again

Xm5eR, xM5Er.

[jaytee368]

This place is the best...
I now know what portmantau means, I think!

Many thanks,

Gertrude.