Subject lines---would anyone else find them to be more helpful if they were longer such as the one I'm posting now? I'm continuing to type here in the subject line just to give us all a feel for how much room we have on a title line for a new topic.
02-27-2011, 10:54 AM
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I'm not advocating a subject line as long as the one I used here! I just did it to test the character capacity our title line.
But...would anyone else appreciate posters beginning their threads with...well, 'meatier', subject lines?
We have such a large, active forum that I feel that I'm missing posts I might want to view at times. Sometimes the title for the post is just too vague and I skip over the thread for one where I have a better idea of the content. At other times (when I have more time) I do read a thread with a very short title and am so glad I did.
But...would anyone else appreciate posters beginning their threads with...well, 'meatier', subject lines?
We have such a large, active forum that I feel that I'm missing posts I might want to view at times. Sometimes the title for the post is just too vague and I skip over the thread for one where I have a better idea of the content. At other times (when I have more time) I do read a thread with a very short title and am so glad I did.
02-27-2011, 11:04 AM
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AHhhhhh but sometimes the titles make us curious and we have to go in. Better titles is good when they are vague like....Do you? or IS this???? WE all have our own ways but might get more lookers if we did. Good post.
02-27-2011, 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by olmphoto2
Sometimes the title for the post is just too vague and I skip over the thread for one where I have a better idea of the content.
As the title is totally user controlled, the length isn't going to make anyone be more coherent or specific - if they're not doing it now.
Sort of like seeing yet another thread with the title of "What is OBW?"
I certainly understand someone not knowing what OBW is short for.
Fine.
I have no patience, however, for not bothering to to use the "search" function.
Because, really, if someone found their way to this board (any board), managed to figure out how to register, and how to start a thread, then knowing that the SEARCH function exists isn't an unreasonable expectation.
<rant off> ;-)
It is what it is. :roll:
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