@mjog There's no intention to shame anyone. As I said, it's fine to use it if you know what you're doing. As a maintainer I'd still appreciate it as an indicator that I should be extra careful when reviewing a change set.
Even if you're extra careful, who knows what has happened to your changes between reviewing them and typing "git commit -a". Knowing that someone manually signed off each hunk gives me a bit of extra confidence. That's all.