# Test thread: \[del\]can you do strike-thru in thread titles?\[/del\] **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 23, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-del-can-you-do-strike-thru-in-thread-titles-del/568620 "2011-01-23T02:29:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-del-can-you-do-strike-thru-in-thread-titles-del/568620/21 "2011-01-24T04:05:53Z")
**Finally got it! [del]does this looks less tricksy[/del]** * * * Wow, that was hard but I did it! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-del-can-you-do-strike-thru-in-thread-titles-del/568620/22 "2011-01-24T04:41:03Z")
**Let’s see if this works [del]now with a longer line, and lower font size.[/del]** * * * Does it? ETA: Apparently not. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-del-can-you-do-strike-thru-in-thread-titles-del/568620/23 "2011-01-24T23:02:58Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I think the reason coding in general is disabled in titles is that it’d make a mess of things if anyone ever tried to put a link in a title (since the titles themselves are links, on the forum page). Well, that’s one reason (and a good one, actually) but not the only reason. Also the board would look pretty bad if every other title was in\* italics\*, **bolded** , in a different color, in a different font, underlined, [del]struckthrough[/del], etc. Well, maybe not underlined, since they’re already underlined, but hopefully you get the point. It would make the forums look worse than a late lamented geocities page. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-del-can-you-do-strike-thru-in-thread-titles-del/568620/24 "2011-01-24T23:44:43Z")
True, but then, you can do all of those things in threads, too, and yet most of us here are mature enough not to abuse them. I don’t see any reason to think that coding in titles would get any more out of hand than in threads. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-del-can-you-do-strike-thru-in-thread-titles-del/568620/25 "2011-01-25T19:04:59Z")
The mods can always spank people who do abuse it. Still, I was just curious, due to something someone posted in another ATMB thread. I don’t think it’s important or useful enough to bother implementing. I won’t be whining for TPTB to make it possible, anytime soon. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-del-can-you-do-strike-thru-in-thread-titles-del/568620/26 "2011-01-27T23:48:58Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > True, but then, you can do all of those things in threads, too, and yet most of us here are mature enough not to abuse them. I don’t see any reason to think that coding in titles would get any more out of hand than in threads. > [@Cheshire\_Human](#): > > The mods can always spank people who do abuse it. Still, I was just curious, due to something someone posted in another ATMB thread. I don’t think it’s important or useful enough to bother implementing. I won’t be whining for TPTB to make it possible, anytime soon. 😉 I was speaking more of why its not done with vBulletin or message boards in general than the Dope specifically, I agree, here it would be less likely to be horrifically abused. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-del-can-you-do-strike-thru-in-thread-titles-del/568620.md?page=1)