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09/25/2006 03:59:57 PM · #1 |
I ask mostly for my own edification, but why is it that people select subjects that give little or no information about what the thread should be about?
Do people think that people will be more curious, and therefore view a thread they would otherwise skip if they knew a priori it's subject? (Even so, how likely would this benefit the initial poster by receiving a reply?)
(Am I the only person that notices that subjects often give no insight into the thread's topic? For instance, I'm willing to assume that a large portion of the threads, possibly the majority, open with a quesiton about something--the subject "A question" doesn't really indicate anything). |
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09/25/2006 04:06:31 PM · #2 |
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09/25/2006 04:33:46 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by m:
...why is it that people select subjects that give little or no information about what the thread should be about?
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Do people think that people will be more curious...?
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(Am I the only person that notices that subjects often give no insight into the thread's topic? |
It seems some people title threads the same way some people title their challenge entries....
;-)
Seriously, no, you're not alone. I have often noticed the same issue and wonder if we need a tutorial on this topic.
Edit to add: I find that looking at the "section" a topic is posted in helps mitigate the problem. "Help!!!" in the hardware/software section means something quite different that it does in the rant section. :)
Message edited by author 2006-09-25 16:36:58. |
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09/25/2006 04:42:58 PM · #4 |
From the title, I had thought that this thread was about subject matter that was uninformative, not the titles people choose for threads. It would be better titled:
"re: Uninformative Thread Titles/Headings"
;-p
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09/27/2006 11:04:11 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by legalbeagle:
From the title, I had thought that this thread was about subject matter that was uninformative, not the titles people choose for threads. It would be better titled:
"re: Uninformative Thread Titles/Headings"
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Hahaa.. So did I..
But I do agree.. these topic titles are so vague and imprecise that it could be about a grandmother beating up gangsters or hardware trouble.. No idea!
That's also why so many threads are repeated.. People don't realize that the threads before them were in any way relevent to their problems..
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