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KaleidoscopicMagpie
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22 Feb 2022, 9:26 am

Hi,

How do you decide what to put in your signature? I'm thinking of sharing a little more info about me there, but I don't know what to put or how to put it or whether I should or should not. I'd like to become more active here and I find that having 'something' there makes it more likely that I will recognise a user if they post in different places. Also the avatars, I'll work on that.


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22 Feb 2022, 9:34 am

Don't put any personal information----like your actual full name or last name, address, village or part of a city, things like that.

You would probably be safe saying you live in a certain city in a certain country.



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22 Feb 2022, 10:50 am

I put information that I need other members to know. What people know about you can dictate what kind of reply they write to your threads and it'd save me from having to keep repeating the same information every time I write a post.

I mean I need people to know that I'm a woman (yes I regret having Joe90 as my username :roll: ), and I need people to know that I live in the UK, as there's nothing worse than getting replies with advice aimed for people in the US.

Oh and I included my average empathy score because I don't like other Aspies doubting my empathy abilities just because I'm on the spectrum.


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22 Feb 2022, 6:48 pm

Joe90 wrote:
I put information that I need other members to know. What people know about you can dictate what kind of reply they write to your threads and it'd save me from having to keep repeating the same information every time I write a post.

I mean I need people to know that I'm a woman (yes I regret having Joe90 as my username :roll: ), and I need people to know that I live in the UK, as there's nothing worse than getting replies with advice aimed for people in the US.

Oh and I included my average empathy score because I don't like other Aspies doubting my empathy abilities just because I'm on the spectrum.


How did you find out your empathy score?


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22 Feb 2022, 8:22 pm

Include links to information interesting to you and that you want to share.

For example . . .


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22 Feb 2022, 9:04 pm

Joe90 wrote:
I mean I need people to know that I'm a woman (yes I regret having Joe90 as my username :roll: ),


I enjoy you having that screen name since I recognize the sci-fi property it is.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062573/
Knowing that, the only thoughts I had about the person behind the forum name were that they knew about the program and liked it.

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and I need people to know that I live in the UK, as there's nothing worse than getting replies with advice aimed for people in the US.

Yep, that would be an issue!


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22 Feb 2022, 9:07 pm

KaleidoscopicMagpie wrote:
How do you decide what to put in your signature?

Even though I obviously did decide, there isn't anything remaining in memory about how it was done.


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23 Feb 2022, 8:57 pm

Something that stood out to me as very fitting for me. So fitting that I haven’t changed it in all the years I’ve been here, I can never bring myself to delete it.

And sick and tired of people making false assumptions regarding me.

Occasionally I’ve added a line after what I currently have with something I wanted others to know right away, I changed that as seemed appropriate, don’t presently have anything that wouldn’t be too long to add.


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23 Feb 2022, 10:53 pm

I stick in something that amuses me, and then forget to turn it on for a year or so, until I think of another one. Let's see what it is now:


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