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OK… but that is still an arbitrary judgement call, like it or not. It seems “to me” anyway.

CRX…. I am staying very cool thank you & expect you are also.

Having & stating an opinion, strongly even, does not denote anger or agitation. Only commitment & resolve. :+1:

Yeah… but what light was it?? :person_facepalming:

Is this the GT4 Thread??? :open_mouth: :smiley: . :smiley:

No wait…. FW3A !!!

It’s ready to ship isn’t it?? … jk

Of course…. We were never “not” friends. :+1: . :wink:
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Loved that movie!!

AWWW

I’m very late to this party, but if it’s not too late, I would like to purchase one of these lights.

You instigator…. :smiley: . :smiley: . :smiley: . :wink:

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Signatures are for other people to see, and optionally for other people to click on. There are other ways to keep personal bookmarks, like in the browser itself or in a separate thread for links one finds useful.

It’s also a good idea to keep in mind the effect signatures have on search engines. For example, if someone wants to list the lights they have, it’s typically better to make the list an image instead of doing it in text, because text tends to mislead the search engines. It ends up guiding people toward a signature about “X” instead of a thread about “X”.

Long signatures also have some unfortunate interactions with my interest-list update script, but that shouldn’t matter to anyone except me. Basically, the sig content trains the script to ignore any posts with long signatures, and when I’m viewing posts that way, the actual post content scrolls offscreen entirely and all I see is the signature, so I might miss requests which have a long sig afterward.

Yeah… Taking things to their logical extreme usually accomplishes nothing. It’s typically inflammatory but not productive. For example:

No one suggested this. This type of response is called a straw man fallacy, giving the impression of refuting an idea but actually refuting a different idea which nobody brought up. Specifically, this is a sub-category of that called reductio ad absurdum, or appeal to extremes. Like, if someone says “Walking across a busy highway tends to get people hurt… so don’t do that.”, and someone responds “If we restrict walking, we should just outlaw walking entirely.”

Hopefully it’s clear how this kind of thing can interfere with any meaningful or productive discussion. Most topics aren’t all-or-nothing, they have some sort of optimal point in the middle. Finding the sweet spot is a matter of nuance, subtle adjustments in pursuit of balance. Dismissing nuance in favor of logical extremes… doesn’t help. It tosses the baby out with the bath water.

This is how BLF celebrates CNY. :smiley:

At least we’re not debating the finer points of Joe Biden eating a sandwich. As Randall Munroe says, our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit. So during CNY when nothing is happening but the brain needs something to do, “nothing” starts to feel like “something” and we argue about nothing.

This is the last I will have to say on the subject.

It was suggested more than once that bandwidth needed to be conserved & saved.

It was suggested one way of doing this was eliminating “long signatures”.

The other ‘extremes’ I suggested were done so, as already stated; in a further effort to conserve bandwidth…. a lot of bandwidth really.

So, ’if’ the goal is truly to conserve bandwidth…. let’s really take all possible actions to conserve it…. rather than pick & choose.

Is there middle ground on this, personally I don’t think so unless we pick & choose. YMMV.

As far as my sig line…. anyone is more than welcome to click on anything there. Someone might find something helpful and/or interesting. Most probably will not however…… just like with every other BLF sig line containing links.
Most people probably never click a single link……

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Great! …and it’s not a straw man’s fallacy.

Yes, well, this almost makes me look forward to the endless slow/lost/damaged/ misdirected shipping posts yet to come.

Sounds like there is extensive interest in having a discussion about signature lines.

… but perhaps it would be better to have that discussion in a dedicated thread about the topic, rather than having it in the middle of the FW3A thread.

Of course it would, but these things happen on BLF.

/\… Well said CRX. :+1: … And according to my calculation ‘these things’ ended just over 23 hours ago. The exhortation came a bit late didn’t it? :wink:

Now we’re going to have a discussion about keeping threads on topic. :smiley:

And a lively discussion I am certain it will be…… :wink:

so any news when light will go in full production or are they still waiting for feedback on the few lights they sent out for testing ?

Now what makes you say that?