Waltzing With My Tilde

Why not sign your name like this -- isn't it more stylish? ~ WaldenMathews

I kinda like that, but Ward has a semi-official standard of space-double-dash-space. -- LikeThis

double-dash-space, of course, is the standard signature separator in email.

plus, we wouldn't want to suffer the same fate when the squatter sends down the troopers.

Monkey. see: Monkey do. "Standard Shmandard." No "buts" about it. Do what you want to do.

A tilde is often used in a filename to indicate a temporary or backup file, so count me in favour of the TildeSig temporarily.<-~-~~ CarstenKlapp

I use both. Perhaps a standard will evolve where

• --WikiName is for serious comments.
• ~WikiName is for quips, OffTopic comments, and anything the author feels is transitory in nature. It sure is easier than putting OpenAuthor after each sig.

~SeanOleary

The tilde can be used to mean "approximately", as in "pi ~= 4" (For sufficiently small values of 4 :-)

It is also standard unix shorthand for a home directory.

The tilde also combines with an n in Spanish to form the "eñe", as in "Mañana". But can the ñ be used in a WikiÑame? HastaMa?ñana? Sadly, no, it can't.

I like it better for a short sig. Not so much for a long one. ~ Pete