Should the tilde symbol (~) be used to sign your name? It seems quite commonplace on Internet forums but I don't believe I've ever seen it used in books.
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The hyphen, standing in a for a dash, is the more-common punctuation for signing and attributing quotes. - The Raven |
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In Wikipedia, four tildes are used to sign a post. This character sequence will be recognised by the software and turned into the user name and a date stamp. This does not mean that a tilde is a valid character to sign your name elsewhere, web or paper. |
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@and#. The user isn't always in full control on the web. Do you have any examples? – Grant Thomas Apr 30 '11 at 19:52