Hydra's signing posts

[fferyllt]

I feel like my posting style is generally distinctive enough to make signing moot. When I think authorship isn't obvious, I usually do something to make sure other players can tell.

Even so, ometimes players do mix me up with my partner. That happened several times in a recent game where I was hydraing with Kazekirimaru iirc. I found the reactions to stuff people were misattributing was helpful in reading them.

One of my favorite things about hydraing is the ubiquity of the following interaction when my hydra is town.

"Did ffery make that post?"

"Yes"

"

Vote fferyhydra

"

[fferyllt]

That it helps you get reads is a much, much better reason than what I had in mind so I'm impressed. But why prefer "doing something to make sure other players can tell" over signing? And you used to sign posts in the past. Was there a moment of clarity where you decided "screw this. I will never sign a post again?"

It was a game where about 95-98% of the hydra posts were mine. That was the "screw this" moment.

When I think authorship is ambiguous, I prefer to weave the "signature" into the text, I guess.

[fferyllt]

It always makes me laugh when they do that.

[fferyllt]

True. I do read them differently. But, the posting head is usually pretty obvious. They don't troll the same way.