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Anyone noticed a surplus of "help", "strange", "weird", "this problem is driving me nuts" topic titles lately?
I mean, they're useless. They might as well put the title as "This is a post in this forum".
Like, look at the title of this thread. It's a quick overview of the content.
Can everybody just agree to most meaningfull topic titles from now on?
[/stupid pet peeve]
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Sometimes I change titles. But only if I have time... the golden rule is: if the title is undescriptive, why are you wasting time looking at it?
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You do have a point there, I have been guiltly in one thread(sorry), of I vow to try and make my topic lines slightly more meaningful
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What I find most irritating is people who complain about such silly little things.
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rofl
I would have to agree with Adosorken on this one...
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Quote:What I find most irritating is people who complain about such silly little things.
Suit yourself. Feel free to leave the thread anytime.
Oracle: It's not that serious a problem, indeed, but sometimes those threads house very interesting topics, or questions to be answered. If there are 10 posts, each with non-descriptive titles, and you have limited time, you might end up looking at one about how someone just reached their 45th post, or one discussing a new-found bug in the error-handling of LINK. :normal:
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The other big deal is when a person is needing information on 1 subject such as (example)
How do you use PRINT
compared to
??HELP??
it would make it easier to know what is there....
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Isnt there a mod for checking the subject? For example we can ban certain usernames similarly we could ban certain subjects like "Please help!!!", "Help!!!!",.... but it should be intelligent enough to recognise "Help!" == "HELP!!!" == "help!!"
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Quote:Isnt there a mod for checking the subject? For example we can ban certain usernames similarly we could ban certain subjects like "Please help!!!", "Help!!!!",.... but it should be intelligent enough to recognise "Help!" == "HELP!!!" == "help!!"
"I need help with page flipping"
--I'm sorry. This subject title is not allowed--
.................no................
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Quote:TheBigBasicQ Wrote:Isnt there a mod for checking the subject? For example we can ban certain usernames similarly we could ban certain subjects like "Please help!!!", "Help!!!!",.... but it should be intelligent enough to recognise "Help!" == "HELP!!!" == "help!!"
"I need help with page flipping"
--I'm sorry. This subject title is not allowed--
.................no................
Good point. Perhaps it should simply be mentioned in forum rules?
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