Topic awaiting preservation: Text sigs?

So If you have a text sig like:
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I'm a neato ass-kicker

or any other unusual line of text.
Is it considered ripping to take that
line of text and use it as your own?

I would say yes if this is a personal text, otherwise if this a quote from a politician or someone else I would say no.

Silence is another speech. -Me

Ok, It was that I saw an line of text
used at another forum. It was the exactly
the same line of text that a user at this
forum has.

Well I think it's lame and unorignal even
though it's not 'illegal'.




[This message has been edited by OlssonE (edited 02-24-2003).]

OlssonE: Apart from the it-isn't-very-important factor have you considered the fact that they might be the same person with different usernames?

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

^ yah... what emps said.


FAQs n' Bits: Michael

Or that perhaps the text in use was a quote, and both people simply happen to have chosen the same quote?

Or that perhaps the text used was so vague and unimportant that two people happened to think of the same thing?

Or....

or... what emps said.


FAQs n' Bits: Michael

or... what DL said

or someone saw someone else's comment and lacking in originality themselves thought it worth lifting in a crude attempt to come up with something which might impress some other weak-minded people into thinking they were:

a) cool or:
b) interesting

While I am mildly interested in who it is so we can point and mutter comments behind their back this is so amazing trivial that the true mind-numbing triviality is only just dawning on me. The fact that it has taken some of the greatest minds in the Asylum (and Michael) a number of posts to point this out demonstrates that it is a Slow News Day around these parts.

So here is my advice:

1. Email the person who's sig has cuaght your attention and let them know that you know. Or:

2. Contact the person whos sig has been lifted. If they were bothered by this it would prove that they also were a fool.

Now can we move on to something else? I propose that everyone have a dig around in their belly buttons/navels and post pictures of what they find in there.

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

yah... what emps said.


FAQs n' Bits: Michael

*sniff*

I must admit.... that it is I of which you speak..

Some horrible, terrible man calling himself Dante plundered the delicate etchings of my sig and ruthlessly plastered them whereupon only the gaze of wicked men may tread..

*sobbing*


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Emps.
Yepp, checked profile!

Michael.
Check under 'Emperor.'

DL-44.
Thought of that too!
But the text line it self
is so abnorm and strange
that I hardly would think that.

Michael.
Check under 'Emperor.' (above)

Emperor.
Ahh! Ok I admit It has been a
slow news day to me too. Well
I feel dumb... No more stupid
threads today! (but there is always
another day tomorrow )

Michael.
Check under 'Emperor.' (above)

Petskull.
aaaaaaaaaaaa....tooooo baaaaad but.......Noooooooo


and to all of you including me -> <-

o O

"Freedom of speech is by no means freedom to insult others" from the Razorart goodbye letter.

^^^^^^^^^^^
Original Ripped Text i stole all by my self...

"Freedom of speech is by no means freedom to insult others" from the Razorart goodbye letter.

*slaps Rinswind with his silly circles...*


Is that ('o O') from the anti-drug information
campain?

*looks around and wonders if anybody got it*

Well that's a joke someone posted a while ago.
I found a similar joke here: http://www.frog.co.nz/jokes/joke07.html

I thought somebody would remember it but I guess it just to tasteless
for your delicate minds...

hehe... I thinkt this is relevant. http://www.frog.co.nz/jokes/joke28.html

[This message has been edited by OlssonE (edited 02-24-2003).]

So...after all that nonsense....is there actually a point now?

Are we going to share this text that has so enraptured you? Are you going to contact this person? Are you going to forget this ever happened?

I know I am losing sleep already....

Petskull: I wasn´t going to make a fuss about it, but since you asked:

*sings* I GOT IT, I GOT IT !!!!

DL.
maybe.... I'm going to sleep now ZZzzzzzzzzz

You can look at the naked God Zues while waiting for me to get up http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=45728

I have literally stolen a quote from this site just to add it to my one-page website at wwwdotvioldotcom. BUT, before I did that, I made sure that the quote was well-known all over the Internet (the quote itself has the name of the guy that originally said the quote). So, actually, I didn't steal the quote itself but rather the work of someone that had created the .png file with that quote. I could easily create a similar file, with the same quote, but I didn't. Shame on me.

Well, it seems obvious to me which 'text sig' you are referring to, and that is indeed a quote - from a song.

However, one person quoted it correctly, the other person did not

So no, there's no issue whatsoever here....other than the bad habit of using song lyrics as a sig.

words are for nerds.

twitch^: Amen.

And even through I still haven't a clue what anyone is talking about I can't really see too much a problem - its only text after all

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quote:

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words are for nerds.

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Wow, that did hurt.

Hmm, let's hope Suho doesn't see that

Well, I don't know... Might be kind of interesting to see if the pen is mightier than the paintbrush...


-- Unoriginal Cell 693 --

Words are for nerds and pics are for *****. Or some such thing

. . : slicePuzzle

Bugs: Pos. "hicks"?

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Whatever.

___________________
I stole this tagline from someone equally unoriginal.

Well, look at the text under my sig and as my sig....

I also used to have this too as my text sig: ^..^___)

(top half of a wolf with his tail in the air...)



The programmer's national anthem is 'AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH''

Wolfen's Sig Site

okay, for those that don't know me, my comment, "words are for nerds," was meant in a mocking sense.

You see, I study linguistics and composition of language. I love words. Words give me erections. So, bugger off.

I find a lot easier to have erections with pictures...

Uhhhh...Okaaay.


Peacepipe, anyone? *Puff, puff*

Ahhh...pretty colors...


WebShaman

I don't see any point to this thread at all.

Silence is another speech. -Me
FAQs n' Bits: Michael

If there´s a peacepipe being passed around, that´s point enough for me.

well since there is no point to this thread. . . I just love it that twitch^ is coming around more

Damn you guys are funny. DL, is your big toe still itching?

Later,

C:\


~Binary is best~

hmmm... i really don't see much of a point to stealing text sigs.


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Emps

I couldn't agree less.

=)

yah... what michael said.


FAQs n' Bits: Michael

Silence is another speech. -Me
FAQs n' Bits: Michael

Lets go ahead and talk about something else now. I got tired of this thread a long, long time ago.

So...who wants pie?

Me! can I have some?

twitch^: Yep it never really got going. What kind of pie?

WebShaman

*Slaps emps*

Hehe...

Pie?

turkey pie.

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