# Uninformative thread titles **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 23, 2020, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uninformative-thread-titles/848387 "2020-02-23T05:56:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uninformative-thread-titles/848387/61 "2020-02-23T23:36:32Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I feel bad for **Beck** that this ever became an issue and I hope she knows that her contributions are appreciated and that I for one – and I’m sure many others – hope she continues posting as she always has. Oh, Old Granny Hawkins is a tough nut, and I’m sure she ain’t gonna fret over this at all. In fact, I suspect she secretly _thrives_ on the attention. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2020, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uninformative-thread-titles/848387/62 "2020-02-23T23:43:00Z")
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**Author:** ![Tinker\_Grey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tinker_grey/32/8136_2.png) [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uninformative-thread-titles/848387/63 "2020-02-24T00:01:49Z")
Screw thread titles. Let’s have a rule about descriptive titles for youtube links. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uninformative-thread-titles/848387/64 "2020-02-24T00:09:44Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > Seems to me that any poster who hasn’t yet discovered that floating the mouse pointer over the thread title brings up a short preview of the OP contents has no business demanding that everyone else conform to their own level of tech competency. Use the float preview to get an idea of the thread contents because THAT’S WHY IT EXISTS. Try that with the “I saw your” thread. You won’t have a clue. I still don’t. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uninformative-thread-titles/848387/65 "2020-02-24T01:19:14Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Do we really have to clench our sphincters over every little thing? Where have you been? It’s 2020, the clench is the default condition. If the Mods prefer to give a broader leeway on the specific forum for the “Mundane and Pointless”, I’m chill with that. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uninformative-thread-titles/848387/66 "2020-02-24T01:30:23Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Try that with the “I saw your” thread. You won’t have a clue. I still don’t. That was a rare outlier and not a thread title issue – it was a completely silly thread that made no sense to me all, but no big deal. But most of her threads have clever teaser titles that lead to stories of amusing domestic incidents – like ecountering Trooper Meanypants twice within days under almost exactly identical conditions! 😃 There’s no shortage of other threads from other posters that could strictly be construed as not really being “informative”: [Too clever for his own good](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=890230) – about an adopted stray dog who turned out to be very smart [Electrical Botaneers Unite…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=890274) – about getting small amounts of electrical current from an aloe vera plant No one complained about those. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uninformative-thread-titles/848387/67 "2020-02-24T01:34:37Z")
Report threads whose titles seem ambiguous. Public call outs or Jr Modding is not necessary. If the mods think it’s a problem they’ll act and if enough people think it’s a problem they’ll get the message. Now can we talk about more descriptive YouTube links? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uninformative-thread-titles/848387/68 "2020-02-24T03:37:27Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > It is interesting though how emotive some of the replies have been. Rules lawyering and nitpicking over trivial matters gets really annoying. I think people are responding in an “emotive” fashion because they are fucking sick of whiny whiners whining in ATMB because some minor thing on the board isn’t exactly to their liking. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uninformative-thread-titles/848387/69 "2020-02-24T05:22:30Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Try that with the “I saw your” thread. You won’t have a clue. I still don’t. I know exactly what it is about. Maybe its not for ‘you’. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uninformative-thread-titles/848387/70 "2020-02-24T05:35:15Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > Will that apply to everybody? Let’s go down to the quarry and throw stuff in there. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uninformative-thread-titles/848387/71 "2020-02-24T05:58:39Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > Rules lawyering and nitpicking over trivial matters gets really annoying. I think people are responding in an “emotive” fashion because they are fucking sick of whiny whiners whining in ATMB because some minor thing on the board isn’t exactly to their liking. This. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uninformative-thread-titles/848387/72 "2020-02-24T08:18:39Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > Rules lawyering and nitpicking over trivial matters gets really annoying. I think people are responding in an “emotive” fashion because they are fucking sick of whiny whiners whining in ATMB because some minor thing on the board isn’t exactly to their liking. Thank you for calling me a whiny whiner in ATMB, I appreciate it. ---
**Author:** ![Razncain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@Razncain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Razncain)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uninformative-thread-titles/848387/73 "2020-02-24T12:24:21Z")
Let it go. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uninformative-thread-titles/848387/74 "2020-02-24T14:53:45Z")
Since both forum mods have stated their policy, the poster in question has agreed to make her titles more descriptive, and this thread has now descended into pointless bickering, I think it’s time to close it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uninformative-thread-titles/848387.md?page=3)