not quite random curiosity

[ratcreature]

The object of today's curiosity is signatures added to blog and journal posts. In particular the practice I've encountered in some blogs (mostly non-fandom) to include random religious scripture excerpts at the bottom of every post, even if the blog itself has no obvious religious content or otherwise preachy slant or anything like that. I tend to find this vaguely annoying, and usually won't subscribe then, even if I otherwise might have. Case in point, just now I came across one of those "a painting a day" blogs, and the art looked nice enough, but I find signature quotes that are unrelated to the content of the post annoying more often than not in general (especially the picture sigs on some message boards, I'd actually take preachy ones over those), but these seem even more obnoxious to me.

I understand that for some faiths there exists some sort of obligation to spread their words or something like that -- I vaguely remember that from confirmation classes at least -- but does it have to be in your art blog posts? It's not like I'm about to be converted by these. So now I'm curious: Do others like/dislike this kind of thing? Are indifferent? Maybe you overlook them, like with ad-blindness? Thus a poll:

Poll #2288 religious signatures?

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 40

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What is your reaction to religious quotes as blog signatures?

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I like them.
0 (0.0%)

I like them only if they are from my religion.
0 (0.0%)

I don't mind them/just overlook them.
10 (25.0%)

I dislike them.
28 (70.0%)

Your radio buttons are oppressing me.
2 (5.0%)

Comments

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Can't vote since the poll's on dw, but I usually overlook them. If it's just a quote at the end of the content and not a constant theme in the content itself. In fact, I just posted about buying the Tae Bo Inspirational workout exercise tape at a library sale, and there's a five minute speech about how the instructor found God before the exercise starts, and I just fast forward through it.

For some people, their religion is a big part of their lives. A scripture quote on an art blog...well, it's not that much different to me, than having a fannish icon on a RL post, something important to them that they automatically add.

[ratcreature]

Sorry about the poll, I've decided to consolidate polls there, rather than to repost the code anew, which is a pain with editing the crosspost. You can respond to polls with Open ID too, so no need for a DW account, though I admit that logging in if you don't usually use a site is a bit more effort.

I dislike sigs on blog post in general because I find them jarring no matter the content, and I somehow can't develop the equivalent to ad blindness to them, and the scripture parts are not even entertaining or funny like a clever quote might be. I dislike "inspirational" quotes that are not technically religious as well. I have actually not subscribed to some LJs because I disliked their icons too much. I vaguely remember that some years ago I even killfiled someone because I did not want to see their icon when they were posting to a community that was on my flist, so that their posts would be selectively removed.