"WTF" Title Filter?


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Is it possible to filter out "WFT" in the thread titles? Neowin is a great community and seeing thread after thread with that in it really cheapens it for me, and seeing the threads that are just titles "WTF" drives me crazy... I just get tired of seeing some immature kid putting "WTF" because they are not smart enough to think of real words or a decent title for a thread that actually matches its subject... Anyways, my little question / problem / suggestion.

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I agree... some titles are...

"I have a problem"

"can't solve this"

"WTF"

"help me please"

"read this"

i find that immature too...

just write a topic title that match the subject

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Titling has always been a problem here. Just look at Bulletin Board Support. In the invision subforum, almost every other of the first weeks threads is titled "IPDynamic Lite" with no further description. It is annoying, I won't deny it, but you can't really do much about it except for continually asking people to clarify themselves more.

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Titling has always been a problem here. Just look at Bulletin Board Support. In the invision subforum, almost every other of the first weeks threads is titled "IPDynamic Lite" with no further description. It is annoying, I won't deny it, but you can't really do much about it except for continually asking people to clarify themselves more.

Thats what I was going to say, the only way to combat this is to enforce a new way of acceptable titles at Neowin which would only work if all the moderators agreed this was something worth moderating.

Thankfully the forums are split down enough so that even topics that at first glance don't seem to have a clear title actually 'fit'in the forum its posted in ie:

Help me!

in the Network troubleshooting forum will no doubt be a request for help for a network related issue.

I agree we may have to enforce a no WTF in titles, because well that just isn't needed as others and the thread starter already commented.

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Thats what I was going to say, the only way to combat this is to enforce a new way of acceptable titles at Neowin which would only work if all the moderators agreed this was something worth moderating.

Thankfully the forums are split down enough so that even topics that at first glance don't seem to have a clear title actually 'fit'in the forum its posted in ie:

Help me!

in the Network troubleshooting forum will no doubt be a request for help for a network related issue.

I agree we may have to enforce a no WTF in titles, because well that just isn't needed as others and the thread starter already commented.

unless its a n00b who needs help with a network card, then it would go in HH :laugh: :p

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Thats what I was going to say, the only way to combat this is to enforce a new way of acceptable titles at Neowin which would only work if all the moderators agreed this was something worth moderating.

Thankfully the forums are split down enough so that even topics that at first glance don't seem to have a clear title actually 'fit'in the forum its posted in ie:

Help me!

in the Network troubleshooting forum will no doubt be a request for help for a network related issue.

I agree we may have to enforce a no WTF in titles, because well that just isn't needed as others and the thread starter already commented.

# Posts in a particular forum need to stay on topic. If you want to talk about something that is drastically removed from the topic of a forum, please take it to General Discussion. General Discussion was set up and designed for members to discuss issues not related to a specific forum section. We welcome most general conversation in the General Discussion, but discourage it from other forums.

Use a title that describes the content of your post. Don't use all caps or special characters to draw attention.

I'm for it. :yes:

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I agree that this kind of titles aren't very good. Expressing anger in post won't get much help as those who ask politely.

*in mischief* Maybe the author was just try to say Woot! That's Fun! (joking. hehe :p )

Cheers :D,

user_plex

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*in mischief* Maybe the author was just try to say Woot! That's Fun! (joking. hehe :p )

Cheers :D,

user_plex

I want to believe that :D

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Outlaw all acronyms and abbreviations. If you are too pressed for time or too lazy to type out what you are trying to say, then chances are you need not be typing at all.

Go facism!

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Outlaw all acronyms and abbreviations.  If you are too pressed for time or too lazy to type out what you are trying to say, then chances are you need not be typing at all.

Go facism!

Hell, outlaw all words, period! If you can't get your point across by typing gibberish, you are obviously not 1337 enough for this forum! :laugh:

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Hell, outlaw all words, period! If you can't get your point across by typing gibberish, you are obviously not 1337 enough for this forum! :laugh:

Three cheers. (Y)

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I assure you this problem is not just isolated to neowin. I work at TXU and I help manage an e-mail inbox used by most of the call centre staff when they have special queries that require specialists from our team. Anyway, you need to see some screenshots of the garbage subject titles. 200+ e-mails with the subject "Problem". Or my favorite, instead of not specifying the problem in the subject, they put the entire body of the e-mail in the subject and leave the body of the e-mail empty.

Anyway, little work-rant aside, I agree that enforcing more intelligent titles in neowin would be great. Kudos to username for bringing this up. (Y)

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Outlaw all acronyms and abbreviations. If you are too pressed for time or too lazy to type out what you are trying to say, then chances are you need not be typing at all.

Go facism!

LOL... I find this funny. He says "Outlaw all abbreviations" yet, his user name is omgomgwtf... :laugh:

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