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human
CMV: When a card is passed around an office, signing fifth is ideal.

We've been there- someone gets a card and it gets shipped around the office (or class or get-together or whatever) for everyone to sign. Maybe it's a "get well soon" card. Maybe it's a "sorry for your loss" card. Maybe it's a congratulatory card. Maybe it's a...you know what, it really doesn't matter.

In this example and for the purposes of discussion, I'm assuming an office setting of 20ish people and that I am not the purchaser of the card. Once the card is being swapped around, you should try to sign it fifth. Fifth is the ideal place in the card signing order.

First is too stressful. You really have to nail it if you're first. Too much room for error and literally nothing to go off of.

Second has all of the downsides of signing first, assuming the second signer is the first person signing who didn't actually buy the card.

Third doesn't have enough data to establish a signing trend and is left potentially vulnerable if a trend emerges later on.

Fourth is in the similar position as the third signer. Not enough context to recognize signing trends and too much empty space left on the card. White space. So much white space and not enough to guide a comment that doesn't stick out. You're caught in between writing something meaningful but if you take up too much space, you're an asshole.

Fifth. The wonderful fifth position. You have enough information to understand trends that might have emerges, but still have cover to take a new direction within reason that doesn't go too wild. There's plenty of precedent with regard to size of don't, spacing, detail of comments, and amount of genuineness. You maximize your card-writing safety AND amount of viable creativity. 

Everything after fifth has the same benefits as fifth with less white space on the card to actually do anything. Diminishing returns after fifth.

Change my mind.
gpt
>First is too stressful. You really have to nail it if you're first.

when you sign cards like this don't people sign in random locations.  Nobody, expect the second person to sign, would know that you signed first.

Where is the stress in that?