Thats a rather inflammatory comment, considering i did not attack you in anyway.

What makes you ask that? My wife and son are very curious.

I must disagree. With the empires in GC2 sigs in posts made speading the word of your empire much easier. Gaining new mebers is not an eay thing, and the advertising that the banners give for your empire...or as in the case fopr Demigod, your Clan may very well help gian more players for you to be associated with.

Though, that being said, i don't think siga are needed, just that they can be helpful, if folks dont like em, i dont have issue with that.

See above...

Again as above...this thread is borked for me and i had no idea this page was here.

I can see a small banner or something being ok, but the problem is that it won't stop there.  I'm sure we've seen some of the sigs that people are manually putting into their posts.  Some are small and unobtrusive, but there are those that can get annoying the first time you see them.  Huge fonts and pictures in the sig with little content in the post.  Some of these posts just have a single smiley and the huge spam signature.  Over and over.  Pointless.

BTW speaking of forum issues, what's up with this thread?

When viewed from at least the GalCiv2 site this thread is currently listed as having only 3 replies. When you click on the thread it's obvious that there's more than three replies but only the first page is shown and there is no link to see the second page.

In order to see the second page I had to manually append /page/2 to the threads url.

This is the first I've seen of this problem and given that this reply is on the 2nd page I'm not even sure that it's even been seen.

I'll check to see if the same thing is occuring from other sites and if so I'll open up another forum issue thread regarding the problem.

Problem is known, and has been reported in the same topic that announced the forum updates (which obviously went a bit wrong). Sadly that topic itself has the problem and I saw no reply for a day, then suddenly there were 4 pages of posts in it, including about 4 of the same posts of mine.

Paying for a piece of software does not constitute paying for the user site that happens to accompany and support it. We’ve all paid for software of one kind or another but I for one realize that these forums are not something that we pay for or have any right to demand, they are simply something that Stardock provides out of the goodness of their heart.

Perhaps Brad might have a comment or two about what it is that you pay for and what it is that you don't. From my experience he's happily refunded money to folks that seem to think something is *owed* to them.

See what I mean about people with a different disposition. I'm sure that you are not representative of the typical WC denizen since I'm sure most are perfectly reasonable and pleasant people. However there are enough like you that cause the forum cross posting experience to be less than desirable. That’s why folks from *all* sites; JU, WC, GC2, Sins, Demigod, Elemental, etc. have expressed the desire to limit cross site posting. However, again this is something that we have no right to demand and it’s been made clear that this is something that will continue and so I will continue to respectfully request in appropriate topics for some means of identifying the site from which someone posts.

However in your case no further identification is necessary since you’ve clearly identified yourself as an asshole, suitable only to be ignored.

Doesn't exactly stack up to 'asshole,' though.

where I grew up it meant that I don't care what your interests are. But then again, I didn't take the short bus to school so I understand you not being able to read and comprehend.

Mmm, back to the topic.

I don't think that a banner telling users where someone had come from would reduce flaming by any measurable amount. The fact is, some people are assholes and get their kicks off of acting as such.

Also, I think we all know that if signatures are given, you will see this within a few minutes of implementation.

*_1*~~~*!! SpAmMeR'sNaMeHerE))!+!+_!+ ~~~~!!!!&******

Just imagine that on every post. Every. Single. Post.

He understood perfectly.  You wished to establish yourself as an asshole and you've exceeded your goal.  Well done.

Oh, and here's a smiley for you.  Evidently, that makes it all better. 

The topic is pretty well beaten to death at this point. Some people favor it and some don’t, it’s no big deal in either case. Everyone is welcomed to their opinion. It's only when certain folks feel the need to denigrate others simply because their opinion is different that the above stuff happens.

Any reasonable person can make their own judgment as to who first instigated the personal attacks. I feel no compelling need to argue the semantics of the meaning of what someone said nor do I feel any need to prove my reading comprehension. Like I said, any reasonable person has already made their judgment as to who the asshole is and who is merely responding in righteous indignation. I know I have.

To bastardize a quote from Mark Twain, "Between the two of us it seems that we know everything there is to know. You seem to know everything there is to know except that you're an asshole, and I know that."

I thought the same but apparently being an ass and posting a sig just to irk others isn't an act of assness to you because he is a friend of yours.

I treat punks like punks.