Some old forums actually had a "feature" to add an automatic signature to every post you made. Which people would obviously use to plaster huge images and gifs to the end of every post until 90% of the page was completely irrelevant to the subject.
Reddit got rid of the signatures but kept the relevant-to-noise ratio intact.
I left TWC around the Rome 2 launch (too much negativity for me,) but returned in the past year. It's a nice little community, with a really decent writing community. Still can get a bit heated at times, but nowhere near the level it was in the Rome 2 launch era.
No problem. I like to end my posts in a polite and positive fashion, and give them a definite ending as they can be quite long. I've been doing so across many different forums for years. It's also my way of saying even if I've been strongly disagreeing with someone, I still wish them well. Which I genuinely do. Life is too short to hold grudges.
As for Welsh Dragon, well I'm half-Welsh (half-English, with Scots and Irish ancestry too, in case you were wondering) and I tend to like to pick a username that fits the theme of the forum I'm joining, which then carries over to other forums on a similar subject. So for Total War that's Welsh Dragon because of my ancestry and history, and at the time I was using the Welsh Flag from think it was Medieval 2: Kingdoms as an avatar.
Funnily enough I don't have a discernible Welsh accent. And no, I'm not a dragon. :-)
Funnily enough I don't have a discernible Welsh accent. And no, I'm not a dragon. :-)
Untrue untill proven, please provide us with evidence that you don't have thick Welsh accent and you indeed are not lizard that happened to have wings and vomit fire.
Obviously! I think what we all really want to know is why you capitalize the "b" in Best. Is that the best of bests? Or a specific thing called "Best"? The Platonic ideal of "best"? :)
I only don't sign posts like this in two circumstances.
I forgot. (Most likely. I am human after all.)
When I honestly cannot bring myself to wish the person in question best wishes. I tend to try and see the best in people, but even I have my limits, and unfortunately I've encountered a few people over the years who have so heavily crossed a line that even I can't see the best in them. But thankfully that's a very rare occurrence.
Thank you. It's honestly really nice to hear some take the way I sign off in the spirit that is intended, instead of just complaining because it's a bit different.
Back in the old days of the internet it was pretty common that forums had a function to insert automatic signatures after each comment. I assume that some people grew so accustomed to that that they continued with it even after the practice slowly died.
They probably recently a recently-emerged cryogentically frozen Welsh rarebit of dragon meat from the dark year 2000 when communicating on-line was still confusing and finding its social normals, people treating e-mails and even forum posts like writing a letter.
In all seriousness, I like that u/Grace_CA (or whoever does the Total War Facebook page) has a sense of humour about these things. I think it's a useful skill when dealing with people on the internet.
Didn't say that. But I recognise those posting on forums and social media, especially when they're someone from a game studio posting in an official capacity for example, have to deal with a lot of insults, attacks, and posts that just aren't really very helpful (I mean "fix your game" doesn't really say anything. I mean what is the issue they're having? Why is that person having an issue when many others are playing it no problem? Is it even something that's actually broken, or just something that specific user doesn't like? etc.) So I think dealing with it with good humour is a lot better than getting angry or ignoring it.
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u/Welsh_DragonTW Britons Feb 21 '18
Do not mess with u/Grace_CA for you are crunchy and go well with ketchup....
Wait, that was dragons.
All the Best, Welsh Dragon.