the etiquette and/or aesthetics of titling threads

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i suspect am quite bad it: certainly i prefer to be oblique if not worse, and i am (subconsciously) very resistant to the idea of being helpful or clear or identificatory

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

i mean, i know why being helpful/clear etc is a good thing, it's just that i don't usually think of such things till way after i've started

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

The geezaesthetics of titling threads! ("Fancy A Pint?")*

I like obliquity as a reader. I also like tags - META: or ADMIN: for instance.

*my most geezaesthetic ILX titling was when I went through my one-word-thread-titles phase on ILM, except in the end I did a one-letter thread title and could go no further.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)

(case in point: i seriously toyed for a moment w.using the madey-uppy contraction "aesthethics" up there)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)

mark are you Yosemite Sam?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Like me writing conclusions for papers in school daze, I tend to stink at it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 16:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I like to be pretty forthright, but I there was a time when I would put extreme devil's advocatish positions in them to make people respond (cf Why Are All French Films Shit)

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Those one-word title threads were grebt Tom!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Devil's advocat = key ingredient in Snowball In Hell.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

there's no cosey in kesterson.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

the words "aesthethics" actually demonstrates why it was so hard to answer that "yr politics vs yr aesthetics" thread before!

mark s i believe your aesthethics are somewhat akin to a tabloid headline writer's

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Titles are important, I have posted some threads because I couldn't think of a title. I thought the "missionary position" was going to be about someone thinking about becoming a missionary, I was quite disappointed when it was sex after all.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 17:45 (twenty-three years ago)

It's my inability to think of a decent title that often keeps me from posting threads (except when I need help finding information and therefore do not care about being interesting).

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 18:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I understand if people don't want to be descriptive. One or two word oblique titles might stop me thinking to click on a thread, though (you may see this as a boon).

The only titles that really annoy me are the 'i've just thought of something'. 'hey look at this', semantically void type. Partly cause they are impossible to remember the titles of, should I ever want to find them again.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 18:48 (twenty-three years ago)

it appears that the search function gives priority to titles. this may have influence on my choice of title descript0rZ.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 18:52 (twenty-three years ago)

It's only when I'm searching that I regret oblique titles. Mine tend to be boringly straightforward, but that's more to do with lack of imagination rather than a philosophy.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 19:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I was going to start a thread titled "Vaginal Fisting" and ask a completely unrelated question, but I couldn't think of an innocuous-enough question.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I am still reading this as "tilting threads", i.e. a new design of threadage installed at huge cost which doesn't actually work (viz the Advanced Passenger Train in the mid 80s).

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 23:25 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/guide/tilting.gif

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 23:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I like to make sure my threads have periods at the end of the titles.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 00:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought this read: "The aesthetics...of tilting threads. I wast confused.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 00:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I think we're all seeing the tilting thing.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 00:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan is seeing "the etiquette and/or aesthetics of titty threads".

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I have to confess I was also seeing that a bit.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I mean, I know we've all decided that parody threads are a bad idea, but c'mon, you know you're tempted.

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:30 (twenty-three years ago)

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― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh I get it now. Nevermind about the 'going outside' thing Nick.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:51 (twenty-three years ago)

the etiquette and/or aesthetics of titillating threads...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 03:58 (twenty-three years ago)

That's just salt in the wound, Jody Beth Rosen.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 04:45 (twenty-three years ago)

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