Why sign your posts?

[JohnnyYanks]

I'm curious why some of you posters, mostly gents, feel the need to sign off at the bottom of your post. We know it's you (alias you anyway) - we see your avatar - so it's not like other readers think someone else wrote the passage.

So, I've thought on it and come up empty. I don't get it.

So, please, put me out of my misery. Tell me - what's the point?

[Mokoa]

One reason may be that by signing the post you provide a way to search for all your posts using text from the signature as one or more of the search keywords. This would allow you to search for all of your posts that refer to a particular item.

[Bob McV]

Dear Mr. Yanks

I believe the usage of a signature to close out a post harkens back to a time when formal letter writing was not only a skill you were taught as a child, but something you practiced over many years with friends, family, and that odd pen pal from Russia that you stayed in weekly contact with until one of you hit puberty.

Sincerely,
Bob

[Chuck10]

Their probably doing it so you will start a thread about why....lol.....Why ask why...just drink Bud Dry ...lol

Seriously it does probably go to what Bob alluded to above ...senior moments ...lol

[FootLong]

Well girls do it because often their name is not the same as their handle. Other than that it is probably what Bob said.

[Doglegg]

OP,

It is done solely to continue your misery.

And of course what Bob said.

Dogg

[JohnnyYanks]

Thank you, Bob.

Your answer seems as reasonable an explanation as any.

Originally Posted by Bob McV

Dear Mr. Yanks

I believe the usage of a signature to close out a post harkens back to a time when formal letter writing was not only a skill you were taught as a child, but something you practiced over many years with friends, family, and that odd pen pal from Russia that you stayed in weekly contact with until one of you hit puberty.

Sincerely,
Bob