# What were you THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6787
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2026, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6787 "2026-03-14T18:52:24Z")
Since I’ve been legitimately brought to task (for the second time no less!) about the overly-general title of this thread, feel free to read this post in the most recent spin-off: > [@Driving Thread {Posts pulled from What were you thinking thread}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driving-thread-posts-pulled-from-what-were-you-thinking-thread/1028444/80): > > So, I’m being mindful that I’m probably defensive over my title choice - I think I’m balancing for bias, but I’m also probably going to give all benefit of the doubt. So feel free to consider my position partisan in all this! First, you’re not the first to take me to task on this! So the title was a compromise, and was initially with the assumption (which for many of us should be a big WARNING sign) that most of the posters would be posters who were frequent users of the Trolls thread … Where I invited posters to suggest what they felt would be workable new titles that preserved the intent, or added a modified clause to make it more clear to any getting dragged into side-tracks. Ideally, still with an emphasis to keeping the title “clean” enough to allow back-linking. Or to just say “meh, it’s good enough” or “No, now it’s a tradition”. Or you can just throw a flame at me for creating the SNAFU as a brain-dead poster. It’s the Pit after all. And of course, if you want to call me out as a bad Mod, you’re going to have to take that to ATMB. 🥲 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532)._