This is utterly trivial, and I am merely curious.
Sometimes I see posts well down in a thread where the post has duplicated the title from the OP, right down to original odd spellings and punctuation. I realize the poster might have just re-typed the title, but the exact reproduction makes me wonder.
Here is an example from today.
Is there a way of starting a post in a thread where it automatically picks up the title from the OP?
I wouldn’t say automatically, but it is possible a later poster just copies and pastes the title into their posts. That would account for odd spelling and punctuation being reproduced exactly.
It’s a feature of Tapatalk - if you post in a thread without replying to an existing post, it repeats the thread title as the post subject.
More precisely, it’s a feature of some versions of Tapatalk on some devices. Tapatalk on both my WinPhone and my Android phone do not do that.
Thanks for the info. Curiosity salved.
**Posts in thread picking up OP’s title?
When I do this, I copy and paste the title into my post. Most of the time I fail to go back and edit my own text, which has picked up the bolding from that which I copied.
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Why would you choose to restate the title of the thread within your post? All posts in a thread can be assumed to be more or less about the same subject as the OP.
If someone wanted to launch a hijack it’d be sort-of sensible to state a fresh title to call attention to your new direction. But reinforcing the default topic seems pointless.
People often do things that seem pointless. I’ve given up figuring people out.
I write up a reply, hit “Go Advanced”, and this gives me a “Title” space where I sometimes copy/paste the thread title. I do this typically when I want to make a smartass ironic response to that title.
That’s the same for me as well. If I have some smartass comeback, joke, comment about the spelling or grammar of the title or something else specifically related to the title and the thread has enough posts that people aren’t going to remember it at that point. So just posting "You’re gonna what me in the where??? isn’t going to make sense, but it will it you recall the typo in thread title 40 posts back, I’ll repost it.
Or, for that matter, if I want to actually answer the question asked in the title but maybe not addressed in the OP, so it’s not picked up by quoting.
Yep
ETA: not sure where Bryan Ekers gets off implying I’m a smartass, though.
EETA: I mean, ironic, sure, I’m down with that.
It’s also an excellent way to signal that my reply is to the Original Post, i.e. the basic query that was the basis for the thread, and not some side-comment or thread hijack that may have been running for a while.
Indeed. I’m likely to cite the title if my post is largely the first thing that came to mind after reading that title, regardless of what discussion the original post overall may have sparked . If I happen to be the first (or at least among the first) respondents, it may not seem necessary.
One occasion I didn’t cite the title but normally would have
For me it due to using Tapatalk. Wish I could turn it off but I just can’t find a setting for that in this version