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El Dudarino
Q: Why should I not make thread titles obscure?
I freely admit that I'm just feeling a tad ornery because I'm home alone, drinking far too many beers, but dammit, I'm going to opine.
Thread etiquette:
1) For the love of L. Ron Hubbard, post to existing threads rather than starting your own.
2) Please, please, please resist the temptation to ever use an ellipsis in your thread title. If your title ends in three periods, you're doing it wrong. There is no exception to this rule.
3) We all browse thread thread titles. Ones that obliquely hint to what the post may be about, or worse, are designed to leave the reader wondering, are a pain in the ass. You aren't clever. No one likes that.
4) If you choose to ignore rule 1, please, for the sake of those here, at least have the decency to make your thread title clear. Titles like "I should have known", "What do you think?" etc, suck. If not for the annoyance of clicking on a thread that one has no interest in, the sheer lack of creativity and disclosure is appalling.
I realise that starting a thread to address this has a certain amount of hypocritic irony attached. I also admit that this might be a niggling complaint to others but my wife is out of town, I'm left with a case of beer and this is my social interaction.
Perhaps I'm just a mean internet drunk... Now, I'm off to tell those who play warcraft that they'll die virgins. :r
I freely admit that I'm just feeling a tad ornery because I'm home alone, drinking far too many beers, but dammit, I'm going to opine.
Thread etiquette:
1) For the love of L. Ron Hubbard, post to existing threads rather than starting your own.
2) Please, please, please resist the temptation to ever use an ellipsis in your thread title. If your title ends in three periods, you're doing it wrong. There is no exception to this rule.
3) We all browse thread thread titles. Ones that obliquely hint to what the post may be about, or worse, are designed to leave the reader wondering, are a pain in the ass. You aren't clever. No one likes that.
4) If you choose to ignore rule 1, please, for the sake of those here, at least have the decency to make your thread title clear. Titles like "I should have known", "What do you think?" etc, suck. If not for the annoyance of clicking on a thread that one has no interest in, the sheer lack of creativity and disclosure is appalling.
I realise that starting a thread to address this has a certain amount of hypocritic irony attached. I also admit that this might be a niggling complaint to others but my wife is out of town, I'm left with a case of beer and this is my social interaction.
Perhaps I'm just a mean internet drunk... Now, I'm off to tell those who play warcraft that they'll die virgins. :r
