# WHY THE FUCK ARE THE TITLES OF THE THREADS GETTING LONGER AND LONGER AND WHY THE FUCK **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 22, 2000, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438 "2000-07-22T04:24:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sneevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@Sneevil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sneevil)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2000, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438/1 "2000-07-22T04:24:38Z")
ARE YOU FUCKING FELCHERS USING ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME. First, it was just a couple of words, just to get your attention, then it went into full sentences. Now it’s up to two or three lines, just for the title. It’s starting to piss me off. So stop it. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2000, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438/2 "2000-07-22T05:05:28Z")
HOW’S THAT? ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438/3 "2000-07-22T05:27:31Z")
Samples, give us samples! Sheesh! ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2000, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438/4 "2000-07-22T06:08:25Z")
Yep. No ranting about the board, anyone on the board, or any post/thread therein without links. ---
**Author:** ![speakeasy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@speakeasy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/speakeasy)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2000, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438/5 "2000-07-22T06:33:14Z")
Besides, what if we want to piss you off? What if this is all a plot that the rest of us are all in on, to drive you completely insane? What if it was working and you’re about halfway there already? Would you be able to tell? It’s not paranoia if we really are out to get you. BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!! ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2000, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438/6 "2000-07-22T06:47:04Z")
YOU ASKED FOR THIS. REALLY. MAYBE WE SHOULD DECLARE SATURDAY “ALL CAPS” DAY JUST FOR YOU. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2000, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438/7 "2000-07-22T16:44:18Z")
Well, duh, the title are all caps because the OPs are SHOUTING. And the titles are longer because the OPs are SO FURIOUS THAT THEIR RAGE HAS EFFECTED THEIR EDITING ABILITY and they cannot shorten the title in that state. ---
**Author:** ![tiggeril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggeril/32/7234_2.png) [@tiggeril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiggeril)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2000, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438/8 "2000-07-22T17:02:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kat \* > \*\*Well, duh, the title are all caps because the OPs are SHOUTING. And the titles are longer because the OPs are SO FURIOUS THAT THEIR RAGE HAS EFFECTED THEIR EDITING ABILITY and they cannot shorten the title in that state. \*\* It’s “affected” ::flees:: ---
**Author:** ![Myrr21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Myrr21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrr21)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2000, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438/9 "2000-07-22T18:02:36Z")
Damn tiggeril, you beat me to it. However, you forgot one important point: IT’S “AFFECTED”. ::also flees, taking a different route than tiggeril, so any pursuit can only follow one person:: ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438/10 "2000-07-22T19:05:30Z")
The one’s I could do without are the ones that give you no clue what they’re about. Like list (which seemed so generic I haven’t opened them): \*\*This sucks ass What is this? I know I will get blasted for this but oh well Women, let’s hear what you think of this! HELLO… hello… I might burn in hell for this … how do you… Very vaguely creepy. \*\* I used to bite on these teasers, but they seldom pan out. The only result was that I wished they had longer titles so I could have skipped them entirely. ---
**Author:** ![Myrr21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Myrr21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrr21)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438/11 "2000-07-22T20:51:51Z")
To be fair (::smack::–promised friends I would smack myself everytime I said that), very vaguely creepy is pretty much the explanation of the thread–about things that are, well, vaguely creepy. That’s about it. The others, though… ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438/12 "2000-07-23T05:42:29Z")
I stand corrected. (Now that I’ve read it, though, I still wish I’d skipped it entirely. Maybe I’m too jaded, but rubber gloves don’t seem even vaguely creepy. Except at the proctologist’s.) ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438/13 "2000-07-23T05:44:29Z")
Hey, one of those was mine. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438/14 "2000-07-23T07:19:42Z")
> [@](#): > > Very vaguely creepy. WHERE THE FUCKITY FUCK FUCK DO YOU GET FUCKING OFF ON FUCKING MAKING FUCKING FUN OF MY FUCKING TITLE YOU FUCKING FUCCCKkkkkerr… ::collapses in pool of drool and shakes violently:: fuuuckrrr… fuu… ::whimpers:: fuuuuck… –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438/15 "2000-07-23T07:21:35Z")
::is wheeled in by ER nurses:: Hey, man, rubber gloves behind your dad’s keyboard when he has no earthly reason to have them, and I know he keeps porn on that specific computer, is creepy as hell. ::quickly wheeled out again:: –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438/16 "2000-07-23T19:27:34Z")
Is this rant about the titles of threads being too long, or about them being in caps, or what? (P.S. The rubber gloves are because there’s a short in the monitor and it gives you a shock every time you reach around to turn it off. Rubber gloves are cheaper than a new monitor.) ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438/17 "2000-07-24T15:49:34Z")
> [@](#): > > WHY THE FUCK ARE THE TITLES OF THE THREADS GETTING LONGER AND LONGER I can’t find the link, but I think Cecil covered this in one of his articles. Basically, it’s because all the short titles have been used already. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438/18 "2000-07-24T17:04:38Z")
(DDG) > [@](#): > > Rubber gloves are cheaper than a new monitor. This is a good answer to so many questions. picmr ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438/19 "2000-07-25T02:28:39Z")
Myrr, as a slight hijack, where’d you get that quote from Concrete? He was one of my favorite posters, he was uncanny, off the wall, and funny as shit. Sadly, he is no more. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Myrr21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Myrr21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrr21)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-fuck-are-the-titles-of-the-threads-getting-longer-and-longer-and-why-the-fuck/26438/20 "2000-07-25T02:33:36Z")
Damn I need to find a new sig; I keep getting asked that. The Concrete I’m referring to is Paul Chadwick’s \* Concrete, \* a very brilliant comic. In it, Concrete–well–eats a reporter’s tape recorder. It’s worth reading–very plot and thought-oriented.