Pet peeve: Non-descript subject lines

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by tbarr60, Oct 16, 2006.

  1. #1
    It kind of bugs me when I see subject lines like "This is a doozy", "I need help on this one", or "problem with Google". On the other hand as I scroll through the posts to find something of interest I can't eliminate those ones so I find my self clicking into the thread. Bad practice.

    Do you find yourself clicking into these or do you have more discipline and principles than me?
     
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    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    #2
    Hover over the subject to see the first line of text pop up. If that's crap too, they don't deserve your/my attention so I skip them.

    And yes, I find it pretty lame as well, especially considering it explicitly says when you start a new thread, that you need to think of a good subject.
     
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    timsdd Peon

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    I will answer you in the form of thread titles:

    "Interesting" "How Many Of You Pee In A Bottle?" "Be honest" "Oh damn .."
     
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    tbarr60 Notable Member

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    The bottle one was pretty clear but I haven't bother to click into that one.
     
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    Don't even bother! it's closed - such a shame :p

    to your original point, you'd think it WOULD make sense to try and be as specific as possible to help people out.
    I bet some people do it (being vague) on purpose to just get views!
     
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    Vague-for-views is one way to see it but from the vague threads I've bothered to read aren't a ploy but rather they were thinking out loud and leading with "I'm going crazy" or whatever that first though was.

    I should remember to do the hover thing Tops30 mentioned.
     
    tbarr60, Oct 16, 2006 IP