# A nitpicky question about titles of threads moved to MPSIMS **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 7, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nitpicky-question-about-titles-of-threads-moved-to-mpsims/307348 "2005-06-07T20:08:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nitpicky-question-about-titles-of-threads-moved-to-mpsims/307348/1 "2005-06-07T20:08:12Z")
First off, let me say I appreciate the moving of MPSIMS-type threads from the Pit to that forum. The boundaries had been getting blurrier, it seemed to me, over the last year or two. A campfire-level rant really shouldn’t be cluttering up the place where volcanoes go to erupt, just because someone swears in it. [This is the latest thread to be moved](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=320131). Given the type of responses it’s been getting, yeh, it’s MPSIMS material. I notice, though, that “fucking” has been left in the title. So I’d ask for a clarification: What along those lines is acceptable for MPSIMS? For titles, for posts? There’s a wide gray area between an obscenity-laced tirade and one wholly free of naughty words. Can we get some guidance on this, or is it like pornography – you know it when you see it? ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nitpicky-question-about-titles-of-threads-moved-to-mpsims/307348/2 "2005-06-07T20:50:18Z")
Not that this has official bearing on anything, but [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=261015) contains many Dopers’ opinions of swearing & thread titles. AFAIK, colorful language has always been welcome, though not particularly encouraged, outside of the Pit, as long as it’s not gratuitous. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nitpicky-question-about-titles-of-threads-moved-to-mpsims/307348/3 "2005-06-07T21:16:20Z")
Thanks for the link! I seem to recall another Pit thread about obscenities in thread titles that ran its course a few months ago – have to search for it when I get a chance. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nitpicky-question-about-titles-of-threads-moved-to-mpsims/307348/4 "2005-06-09T11:41:11Z")
Zebra writes an IMHO thread yesterday entitled: [Are ESPN Classic writers high?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=320251) regarding _The Top 25 Blunders In Sports_ on ESPN. 8 Posters contributed to the poll giving their opinions on what was the worst/est(?) blooper. 10 posts down, without so much as one harsh word posted, [Czarcasm moved if to the pit](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6240575&postcount=11). Either the OP privately requested it be moved or the soft forum moderators picked an inoffensive to thread volley back to the pit because page 1 real easte vanishes so quickly. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nitpicky-question-about-titles-of-threads-moved-to-mpsims/307348/5 "2005-06-09T11:43:39Z")
Never mind, it’s in MPSIMS, now known as Miscellaneous Island ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nitpicky-question-about-titles-of-threads-moved-to-mpsims/307348/6 "2005-06-09T23:46:13Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > What along those lines is acceptable for MPSIMS? For titles, for posts? There’s a wide gray area between an obscenity-laced tirade and one wholly free of naughty words. > > Can we get some guidance on this, or is it like pornography – you know it when you see it? Heh, when you find out let me know. My take has been that some swearing in MPSIMS is OK, but a full-blown cussing screed is probably too harsh. So far, there’s only been one Pit thread that needed to be moved but which was simply too colorful for Cafe Society, so I closed it and suggested the OP start a new one. There are definitely limits – I don’t want to move threads titled “I broke a goddamn motherfucking goat-felching nail!” to other forums. However, as far as I know there’s no official consensus on how much swearing is OK outside the Pit. Maybe some older, wiser and probably hairier mods/admins can chime in and educate my innocent and naive self. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nitpicky-question-about-titles-of-threads-moved-to-mpsims/307348/7 "2005-06-10T01:44:54Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Maybe some older, wiser and probably hairier mods/admins can chime in and educate my innocent and naive self. Hairier? Don’t men get balder as they get older? :dubious: Or are you one of those poor guys (like my father) who starts developing more face to wash as early as high school? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nitpicky-question-about-titles-of-threads-moved-to-mpsims/307348/8 "2005-06-10T01:56:53Z")
> [@JohnBckWLD](#): > > Never mind, it’s in MPSIMS, now known as Miscellaneous Island I was hoping for something in Great Debates or maybe Chelsea. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nitpicky-question-about-titles-of-threads-moved-to-mpsims/307348/9 "2005-06-10T03:42:20Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Hairier? Don’t men get balder as they get older? :dubious: Nah. The hair just moves around a little. It ceases to grow where they want it and it sprouts in areas they never imagined. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nitpicky-question-about-titles-of-threads-moved-to-mpsims/307348/10 "2005-06-10T04:57:39Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > Nah. The hair just moves around a little. It ceases to grow where they want it and it sprouts in areas they never imagined. Do severe cases lead to the dread [Combover Syndrome](http://www.combover.com/050a5f80.jpg)[sup]TM[/sup] ? ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2005, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nitpicky-question-about-titles-of-threads-moved-to-mpsims/307348/11 "2005-06-11T04:12:24Z")
Oh. My. EverLovin. Gawd. That’s just…scary. Please tell me that you had to search the internet for hours to find that morsel. And to answer your question, in Mr. Ruby’s case, no, he’s not a victim of COS[sup]TM[/sup]. He does suffer, however, from the dread Fuzzy Ears Syndrome[sup]TM[/sup]. He gets rather annoyed at the rapid rate the hair can regenerate, too. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2005, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nitpicky-question-about-titles-of-threads-moved-to-mpsims/307348/12 "2005-06-11T05:03:59Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > Oh. My. EverLovin. Gawd. > > That’s just…scary. > > Please tell me that you had to search the internet for hours to find that morsel. Naw, I just typed “combover” into my Googlebar and up popped [this site.](http://www.combover.com/) One has to wonder how many of [these guys](http://www.gotmullet.com/) will someday join The Combover Cabal[sup]TM[/sup] ? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2005, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nitpicky-question-about-titles-of-threads-moved-to-mpsims/307348/13 "2005-06-11T05:05:06Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > I was hoping for something in Great Debates or maybe Chelsea. Sorry, not even East Boston.