Comment Signatures

February 12, 2006

A few weeks ago, Alex King had a post trying out different email signatures in response to Scott’s post about leveraging email signatures. In my response to which signature layout looked best, I ended with “What’s next? Blog signatures?” and put in a signature that I have been using in various forums:

– Matt Smith –
MyHomePoint - Powering the Modern Family
SwoofWare - It’s only work if somebody makes you do it

I initially said it as somewhat of a joke and it was also another opportunity to drop a link to MyHomePoint. However, I’ve been mulling it over since then, and I really don’t see why you wouldn’t want to incorporate a signature into your blog comments. Sure, you usually have the option to leave a URL which is linked to your name, but really, what are the odds that you’ll click a link to Matt Smith? Wouldn’t it be so much nicer to provide a little more context about yourself?

I’ve done it a couple times here and there since my original post, but I was getting tired of typing it in and or locating the text to copy and paste. What I really wanted was some easy mechanism to pick the appropriate signature (HTML, UBB, TextPattern, etc.) and quickly drop it into the comment I am working on. Well, guess what I found tonight? I was reading Scoble’s post on Firefox extensions and he listed off several from Mack Male’s notes from Northern Voice and one of the ones mentioned was Signature. Bingo! This is exactly what I was looking for. I now have the ability to right-click in any textarea and quickly and easily drop a signature in any of the formats that I define.

I’m sure that there are a number of people that will frown on such an approach and consider it another form of spamming. I don’t necessarily consider it spamming since it would be accompanied with relevant comments and the links wouldn’t be about p0rn, \/iagra, p0k3r, etc. Plus, if you can do it in email and forums, why not blog comments?

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  1. Brian on February 13th, 2006 3:01 pm

    Great idea!

    –Brian Moeskau–
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