A rant about people who don't complete their thread titles.

[benmoran]

One thing that has always bothered me on forums are threads with incomplete titles. Such as:

"Does anyone know how to........."
"I'm having trouble fixing......"

I mean, what's the point? To cater to people's curiosity? I just think it's terribly annoying, and 90% of the time I don't click on those threads. Am I the only one? I can't help but think that people are actually decreasing the number of views to the thread, more often than not.

/rant

[andymorton]

My opinion on this is...........:lolflag:

[GlazedDonut]

Im not really annoyed by it, but I am less likely to click on threads like that, especially threads with one word titles.

[ronnielsen1]

My opinion on this is..........

:lol:

I usually hover the mouse over it which well show you more of the post. What gets me more is the ones that don't acknowledge anything. You might have given them exactly what they asked for and they never reply back. It makes you wonder if they even read it.

And another thing . . .

[t0p]

What annoys me is when people use the title as part of the post. For instance, the title might be "HP Deskjet D2660 and Ubuntu" and the body of the post simply says "Can anyone help?". That really gets my goat (which might explain why I haven't seen my goat for a couple of days).

I also don't like rants. In fact I might hijack this thread and make it an anti-rant rant. Anyone want to help? All you need to do is rant about rants.

[MooPi]

Not really that annoying but slightly. My annoyance is the one post thread, where they come in with a problem then disappear. No [solved], no thnx for the help, no anything, just vapor. But that isn't very annoying either. Now that you mention it I've lost my goat.

[rollin]

What annoys me is when people use the title as part of the post. For instance, the title might be "HP Deskjet D2660 and Ubuntu" and the body of the post simply says "Can anyone help?". That really gets my goat (which might explain why I haven't seen my goat for a couple of days).

I also don't like rants. In fact I might hijack this thread and make it an anti-rant rant. Anyone want to help? All you need to do is rant about rants.

Ah the infinite loop :D

I agree with the OP that incomplete titles are frustrating but IMO not as much as people who can just about be bothered to string together 4 words correctly... "Ubunut error pls help" which means everything and nothing, especially as it shows the level of commitment they are likely to give when you are helping them. Even more strange if these people are too lazy to use Google, complete thread titles or spell them correctly how the hell did they find the forum??

[corrytonapple]

They always seem to be easy problems though.

[benmoran]

Yeah, that's another one. Seriously, it's a million times faster to look for an answer on Google than it is to create a post and hope for a reply.

[donkyhotay]

Im not really annoyed by it, but I am less likely to click on threads like that, especially threads with one word titles.

Same here, those people usually just end up hurting themselves. At one point there was a mod who had a copy/paste script he would put into those types of posts explaining what information is needed to help fix a problem. Haven't seen those posts in awhile though.

[Naiki Muliaina]

I don't get annoyed by them but I do give a sigh and rarely read them.

I also sigh when I see a first post in a thread that just has a link to an article followed by the word 'Discuss'. If the OP doesn't want to discuss it, why should I? :P:P:P

[MasterNetra]

I don't get annoyed by them but I do give a sigh and rarely read them.

I also sigh when I see a first post in a thread that just has a link to an article followed by the word 'Discuss'. If the OP doesn't want to discuss it, why should I? :P:P:P

You didn't seemed annoyed with this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1489891

:p

While granted that thread title went ... because the last word was well less then acceptable on this forum.

[Naiki Muliaina]

I don't get annoyed by them

I don't get annoyed at it. Also. Thread title had some description of content and and you did not just post a link followed by 'Discuss' :P

[MasterNetra]

I don't get annoyed at it. Also. Thread title had some description of content and and you did not just post a link followed by 'Discuss' :P

hmm I should edit that in then. :p

Besides the whole trailing thing is meant to draw interest and often succeeds, provided its done right.

[Naiki Muliaina]

Harr! Now ya just pushin it! Change that title and I will flounce... ;)

[MasterNetra]

Harr! Now ya just pushin it! Change that title and I will flounce... ;)

I was talking about the post, reducing it to a link and the word discuss. :p
Too late to change the title really, well it could be I suppose but the title shown among the threads won't change at this point.

[Naiki Muliaina]

Change it and I will unleashed the attached creature upon thee. :evil:

Spent quite a bit of time living on un moderated forums the last 6 months. The only things that provoke anything more than a sigh from me now on the intertubes is hypocrisy of mods / admin and things unsuitable for whatever forum community I am in. As in porn on family forums. Time and a place for everything and all that. :)

[koenn]

At one point there was a mod who had a copy/paste script he would put into those types of posts explaining what information is needed to help fix a problem. Haven't seen those posts in awhile though.
if you're talking about who i think you are talking about:
he wasn't a mod, and he's not around anymore (unless he changed his name)

[koenn]

I also don't like rants. In fact I might hijack this thread and make it an anti-rant rant. Anyone want to help? All you need to do is rant about rants.
I really hate anti-rant rants.
Does that help ?

[MasterNetra]

Change it and I will unleashed the attached creature upon thee. :evil:

...

Oh yea thats nothing to my attached creature. :twisted:

I call him bobo.

[jfreak_]

Oh yea thats nothing to my attached creature. :twisted:

I call him bobo.


And which part of the universe does that... thing... come from? :popcorn:

[FuturePilot]

...what I did there? :twisted:

[Perfect Storm]

...what I did there? :twisted:

...and now to the punishment.
:popcorn:

[FuturePilot]

...and now to the punishment.
:popcorn:

/me runs

[Naiki Muliaina]

*unleashes puppy of death onto FuturePilot*

[lisati]

/me considers starting a thread with a non-question in the title, the sort where someone says something like "Having trouble installing?" when the poster wants help with installation (or whatever). I'm sometimes tempted to put in a simple "yes" or "no" answer and leaving it at that.

[fatality_uk]

But what happens when a thread begins...

[corrytonapple]

/me considers starting a thread with a non-question in the title, the sort where someone says something like "Having trouble installing?" when the poster wants help with installation (or whatever). I'm sometimes tempted to put in a simple "yes" or "no" answer and leaving it at that.
These are my types of mods!:D:popcorn::KS

[mikewhatever]

Let's face it, most thread titles are either incomplete annoying or stupid, and there is nothing we can do about it. I've tried telling people before, but moved on. What's the point?