Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.

[ckeaton]

Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#0

Posted: 3/3/05 at 10:23am

In fairness to your fellow message board posters, please title your threads (using the Subject: field) with a description of the post you are about to submit.

If a post is about your bad haircut consider calling it "My Bad Haircut" instead of "OMG I am so mad!"

If a post is about your mother grounding you consider calling it "Being Grounded isn't fun" instead of "I'm gonna kill her".

This message is a personal plea, on behalf of myself and many members old and young, new and experienced.

Yours for more coherent message board posting,
Chris.

Hamlet's father.

[JailyardGuy]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#1

Posted: 3/3/05 at 10:24am

I'll drink to that.

Then again, I'll drink to the opening of an envelope.

Suzanne: I never use catalogs. I'd rather go in the store and see all the salespeople groveling and sucking up to you. Julia: Pardon me, I never knew they were so solicitous at the K-Mart.

[Unknown User]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#2

Posted: 3/3/05 at 10:30am

Thanks, CK - I've often thought about this very thing.

[ckeaton]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#3

Posted: 3/3/05 at 10:40am

It's important to advocate higher standards in web publishing. I don't think the majority of people take their authorship of an infinite document that can be read anywhere on earth as seriously as they should.

Hamlet's father.

[PB ENT.]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#4

Posted: 3/3/05 at 10:42am

AND those who don't will be deleted...and have to "start a new board"... Sorry, sometimes even I can't resist.

PENNY$%^&*

www.pbentertainmentinc.com BWW regional writer "Philadelphia/South Jersey"

[ckeaton]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#5

Posted: 3/3/05 at 10:44am

Um... Touche'?

Hamlet's father.

[joeyjoe]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#6

Posted: 3/3/05 at 11:33am

ck, where is the petition? i'll definitely sign!!!

[ckeaton]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#7

Posted: 3/3/05 at 11:34am

You just did, my friend.

Hamlet's father.

[paradox_error]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#8

Posted: 3/3/05 at 11:38am

So you mean I can't just start title's like "Sex Here" and "Idina is coming back to Wicked" for the fun of it?

[Unknown User]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#9

Posted: 3/3/05 at 11:40am

paradox - you can only if you include your home telephone number

[ckeaton]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#10

Posted: 3/3/05 at 11:42am

Well... If your "Sex Here" thread is really about getting help with your History Essay and it's not about Bill Clinton... then no.

The Idina example is a bit murky... if it's in parody, and a legit Wicked parody thread is contained, then it's acceptable.

Hamlet's father.

[paradox_error]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#11

Posted: 3/3/05 at 11:43am

hahahahahahahaha DGrant!

How are the flights to Poland at the moment?

[ckeaton]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#12

Posted: 3/3/05 at 12:04pm

I hate it when I miss a joke. Was it in a thread with a good title?

Viva Polska, or some such.

Hamlet's father.

[paradox_error]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#13

Posted: 3/3/05 at 12:10pm

Polska Bialo Czerwoni!!!!!!

DGrant was just responding to my suggestion of "Sex Here"

[ckeaton]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#14

Posted: 3/3/05 at 12:12pm

I thought you were an Aussie. You're Polish? Is the Polish "curse" true?

Hamlet's father.

[paradox_error]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#15

Posted: 3/3/05 at 12:37pm

I'm an Aussie living in Poland!

What's the Polish "curse"?!?!?!?!? Do I want to know?

I once heard polish men had long and thick weenies...I hope this is the "curse"!

[JailyardGuy]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#16

Posted: 3/3/05 at 12:39pm

All the Poles I've ever have had...erm...poles.

Be my field research agent, will you, and report back to me so I can determine whether this is indicative of the native population, or I am just one damn lucky boy. :)

Suzanne: I never use catalogs. I'd rather go in the store and see all the salespeople groveling and sucking up to you. Julia: Pardon me, I never knew they were so solicitous at the K-Mart.

[ckeaton]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#17

Posted: 3/3/05 at 12:42pm

That is the precise curse I've heard reference to. I've only seen 2 and they concur. Good luck with your research.

Hamlet's father.

[BSoBW2]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#18

Posted: 3/3/05 at 12:44pm

Well, wouldn't "Sex Here" on a B'way mssg board refer to Idina...

[Mister Matt]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#19

Posted: 3/3/05 at 12:49pm

The Polish should be more appropriately named Log-ish.

And I heartily agree with the original subject.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[ckeaton]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#20

Posted: 3/3/05 at 12:52pm

Thank you Matt.
We're back on topic again...

Sign here, for more literate message board post titling.

Hamlet's father.

[paradox_error]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#21

Posted: 3/3/05 at 12:55pm

wotz a litterrat?

[ckeaton]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#22

Posted: 3/3/05 at 3:17pm

Strangely I can hear that in an aussi accent.

I think today has been a good day for "Subjects". Only one or two threads fell through the cracks of bad naming.

Are there any old "famous" threads that were poorly named? Certainly not "Welcome Eddie Varley" or "papalovesmambo is hot"...

Hamlet's father.

[elphieisperky]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#23

Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:12pm

Makes sense. Thanks!

[munkustrap178]

re: Please Create Thread Titles That Describe the Post You are Making.#24

Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:30pm

Yes - THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for posting this. I have bene meaning to for a while. My biggest pet peeves are the threads titled like this:

"What would you.............."

or

"Does anyone know if........."

It makes my blood boil.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson