Editing the titles of threads?

[lemonadesoda]

Its a great idea. Especially if an item is [FS]. The OP can change that to [SOLD].

 

[Solaris17]

Im pretty sure we already do last time i treid it worked i bealive you can for the first 5min after the initial thread post.

 

[farlex85]

Who's the rebel?....

 

[Thermopylae_480]

Put thought into thread titles, and use proper grammar the first time. I don't see why that can't accomplished in one try. Many muss up titles grammatically out of ignorance of grammatical rules anyway, that'll only be fixed as English language skills improve. That might take months, years or never in some cases.

We'll see thread titles go from, "helps me my is moboz is broked!!!!" to "helps me my is moboz is broked!!!! helpz me fast now sumbodys."

 

[UnkAsn93]

Put thought into thread titles, and use proper grammar the first time. I don't see why that can't accomplished in one try. Many muss up titles grammatically out of ignorance of grammatical rules anyway, that'll only be fixed as English language skills improve. That might take months, years or never in some cases.

We'll see thread titles go from, "helps me my is moboz is broked!!!!" to "helps me my is moboz is broked!!!! helpz me fast now sumbodys."

I must agree with BP here, as it would be a helpful tool. My Abit AT7 problem, back when I had it, I couldn't edit the title, to inform people that I got my issue resolved, and not everyone reads threads to see "issue resolved" in the OP or the post or anything.

Just my 0.02..

and Polaris, what's your MSN? I enjoy long grammatical debates. (jk)

 

[erocker]

It's all about patience. Take deep breaths, and think of a good title in proper english that all of the english speaking world or otherwise, can understand. I think most bad titles are written in haste, but of course there are exceptions, of which any moderator would be happy to assist with.

 

[Joshmcmillan]

lol erocker, I saw your display picture in an eBay listing for some reason.

 

[btarunr]

The thread starter should not oly be able to edit thread title but also close the thread. Hey, I start a thread I should be able to close it. Many times it so happens that a person starts a thread, his problem is solved in the first one or two posts and then the thread goes on into grade A1 nonsense. There's plenty of examples in the forum archives. This feature can also help the thread starter resolve potential flame-wars by simply closing the thread he started.

The alternatives we already know, of being careful when naming a thread and of being polite and not reply to a thread if the porblem is solved.

 

[Polaris573]

No. The original poster should not be able to close their thread. If it's closed and something needs to be added later then it can't be done.

 

[jbunch07]

never really had to edit a title of a thread and even if i did its not that hard to ask a mod to do it.
as far as closing goes, im sure if the moderators will close a thread if needed.

just dont get in such a hurry when posting new threads proof reading is your friend.

 

[btarunr]

No. The original poster should not be able to close their thread. If it's closed and something needs to be added later then it can't be done.

I'm talking in case of those threads where the first few posts answer the thread-starter's question(s) and the rest of the thread ends up in pointless junk. This would also help in buy/sell/trade threads where when the deal is done, all I have to do as the OP is Thread tools>Moderation>Close thread.

There also are countless threads where flamewars erupted when the OP was offline and then the OP comes back to "wtf how did all this happen? it shouldn't have happened".

 

[Deleted member 3]

We'll see thread titles go from, "helps me my is moboz is broked!!!!" to "helps me my is moboz is broked!!!! helpz me fast now sumbodys."

Suddenly the word "eated" comes to mind. Odd.

 

[Black Panther]

The issue of spelling mistakes is secondary actually. I'm sure nobody really minds spelling as long as the title gets understood. Though obviously good spelling in the thread titles will give a better impression of the forum to visitors.

However as others pointed out, it's handy in changing a FS thread to a SOLD one, for putting in "Issue Resolved" rather than having someone pick up the thread a week later and re-attempt to solve the OP's solved problem. This eliminates waste of time.

Also in certain cases (speaking from my experience here) often I get a pc symptom and googling leads me nowhere, so for example I post saying that I've got issue X. Two posts later I understand that it's all because of hardware Y. However I miss out having the experts of hardware Y to help me since my thread title is misleading.

I would like to know the reasons why 4 people voted against.
I haven't as yet seen a post saying the disadvantages which there might be for allowing the thread creator only to change the title.
After all everyone can edit their own post even a week or two later, so why not the title?

 

[jbunch07]

read my post
#35

im not saying its a bad idea but if you want the title changed all you have to do is ask a mod.
but i see what your saying, it would be that bad of an idea.

 

[Black Panther]

read my post
#35

im not saying its a bad idea but if you want the title changed all you have to do is ask a mod.
but i see what your saying, it would be that bad of an idea.

Exactly, but since when is shelving off some work from the mods not good?

If this were implemented no one has any choice except to do it responsibly, as I pointed out before no OP will hijack his own thread by abusing in title change, for obvious reasons.

 

[jbunch07]

good point.

 

[Wile E]

I think it's a good idea. There are quite a few times I wished I could change my thread title to something better, or more useful. Sometimes a good title idea just doesn't come to you when are are posting a thread. Then later, a more fitting title pops into your head.

 

[Hayder_Master]

that's right my friend the word "butter" come back to me so am try hard to change but nothing i can do

 

[Deleted member 3]

The issue of spelling mistakes is secondary actually. I'm sure nobody really minds spelling as long as the title gets understood. Though obviously good spelling in the thread titles will give a better impression of the forum to visitors.

People who don't bother to use punctuation or correct spelling don't motivate me to even read their post, let alone help them out.

Sure not everyone speaks fluent English, however the English used by some of our UK and US members is something to cry about. And leaving out punctuation is not an excuse when English isn't your native language. It's plain laziness, and if you're too lazy to write a decent sentence, why would anyone spend energy on helping you?
Basically someone who makes a 100 word sentence that could crash a spellcorrector says "I'm to lazy to do anything, you solve my problems. Don't expect any decent input for me"

To put it in some perspective: Your friend/family/whatever asks you if you could help paint the house. You gladly help out but this friend/family/whatever sits on his/her arse doing nothing all day long. Sure, it's fun to help.

However as others pointed out, it's handy in changing a FS thread to a SOLD one, for putting in "Issue Resolved" rather than having someone pick up the thread a week later and re-attempt to solve the OP's solved problem. This eliminates waste of time.

Be honest, how many people here would actually bother to change their thread title to "solved" or whatever? I've been a mod here quite a while; and trust me, people won't bother.

 

[HTC]

This post is a good example: i was preparing to answer saying that there's no way, to my knowledge, to format a portion of an HDD ... when the dude was referring to a partition.

Ofc, i miss read the word "and" right before "portion" which help with the confusion.

I have made quite a few editions to some of my topic titles, be it due to miss spellings or due to corrections for a better explanation (as much as one can be, in a topic).

I think it's a good idea. There are quite a few times I wished I could change my thread title to something better, or more useful. Sometimes a good title idea just doesn't come to you when are are posting a thread. Then later, a more fitting title pops into your head.

So true!

 

[Deleted member 3]

Originally Posted by Wile E View Post
I think it's a good idea. There are quite a few times I wished I could change my thread title to something better, or more useful. Sometimes a good title idea just doesn't come to you when are are posting a thread. Then later, a more fitting title pops into your head.

So true!

I disagree here. The situation in which this is true is:

-Install Windows
-Error
-Make a thread


While the right order should be
-Install Windows
-Error
-Actually read the error, think about what could cause it
-Try to solve
-Google for additional causes/solutions
-Make a thread

By the time you got to making a thread you should have come up with a title. People are far too hasty to make threads to ask simple questions. And because of that haste they often manage to give no details about the problem, this is also because they don't know any details since they haven't tried anything.

 

[Black Panther]

I disagree here. The situation in which this is true is:

-Install Windows
-Error
-Make a thread


While the right order should be
-Install Windows
-Error
-Actually read the error, think about what could cause it
-Try to solve
-Google for additional causes/solutions
-Solve the issue
-Make no thread

Fixed that for you (pls don't be mad at me!)
But I'm sure that if when someone has a problem and uses google in 90% of the cases they'd find the answers in other forums/websites, and we won't be having 2% of the threads we have now, resulting in an uninformative forum.

I'm not saying we shouldn't use google but googling shouldn't replace the discussion here...

 

[Deleted member 3]

Fixed that for you (pls don't be mad at me!)
But I'm sure that if when someone has a problem and uses google in 90% of the cases they'd find the answers in other forums/websites, and we won't be having 2% of the threads we have now, resulting in an uninformative forum.

I'm not saying we shouldn't use google but googling shouldn't replace the discussion here...

I should ban you for fixing me! (my native language isn't English, I have no clue what I actually said there)

And again I disagree. If people use Google more, real issues are easier to find, making the forum more informative. Currently 90% of the threads (just copying your number, it most likely isn't 90%) are copies of the same trivial questions. They clutter the forum so the other 10% doesn't get the attention it deserves.

Of course it works both way, there should be a decent balance. It's close to impossible to influence it though.

 

[lemonadesoda]

We'll see thread titles go from, "helps me my is moboz is broked!!!!" to "helps me my is moboz is broked!!!! helpz me fast now sumbodys."

You're giving an example of a useless title going to an equally useless title. IMO, the change makes no difference. The thread is not posted to and it quickly goes to the bottom.

The majority of situations where someone would like to change the title, IMO, will be +ve, if its a TPU user with a few stars and thanks. We cant treat all forum posters as completely incompetent. If someone abuses the title change... then you mods can enjoy getting your banstick out.

I think the ability for the OP to "close" the thread in some way, like "SOLD" or "SOLVED" is very helpful. For mods I think it would be helpful to. How many times do you think "that title fails the forum rules"... but what can you do? Now you can post saying "fix that title to something more useful or I'll close this thread".

The net net is that titles will get better AND follow TPU guidelines more often.

 

[Black Panther]

Be honest, how many people here would actually bother to change their thread title to "solved" or whatever? I've been a mod here quite a while; and trust me, people won't bother.

No one can know... not even a mod.
Because it was never possible to do.

I've had problems solved, I would amend the title to include (solved), but I don't have the guts to pm a mod every time I get a problem solved here...
(Believe me if I start doing that I'm sure all the mods here would suddenly agree to let members change the title of their thread!!)