Lame Post Titles Nowadays

[Enchanter]

Do you all notice that most new questions asked here have been given lame titles, like "Help!", "Newbie Question", and such? Why can't they be more specific and simply state something about their problem in the title? I've grown tired at looking at these titles and have actually not bothered to look at some of the questions. Just posting my thoughts. Anyone else feels like voicing their opinion too? :)

[cheftaz]

Enchanter
Got to agree with you! You see the same old titles over & over & over. I must admit though when I see a title such as "HELP" I will have a look just because I am curious, but when I open it, it is the same questions over & over. When I see titles like "tmpg help" I don't look any more because I find they are always the same probs that have been covered over & over. People should learn to use the search first and THEN if they can't find an answer post a thread with their specific prob. That is my 2cents

[UncasMS]

we should simply ignore those postings completely!

people should either express themselves properly (that goes even more for the content of their postings) or should NOT expect any help!

[Enchanter]

Not to mention double-posting, let alone quadruple-posting. :evilaugh:

p.s. Perhaps an admin can post a sticky or some kind of rule that tells everyone to properly name their thread titles. Even then, I doubt everyone will bother to read the rules. :)

[UncasMS]

as far as i'm concerned, i close crossposting wherever i can.

and stickys, well who the **** cares??
noones even read the BEGINNERS START HERE posting and we find stupid questions from lazy users toooo often in recent days!

i mean we all started once, but i remember reading forums for WEEKS and trying everything that sounded like a possible solution.

looking at postings today, i'd simply like to ban some idiots from browsing a forum like this!

some users dont even seem to use their brain.
they download some crap from p2p-networks and flood forums like this with questions, that have been answered a dozen times or they could have found precise guidance in some of the tutorials, that have been pointed out in the BEGINNERS START HERE.

i'm fed up with this behaviour and in case i get the impression, that someone's question could have been solved by simply spending some time reading this forum, this lazyness annoys me and i'm not willing to spend my time when the user himself is not willing to spend his!

thus, all i do is replying that a question like *how to split/merge avis* or similar stuff every guide explains in detail has been answered/explained in this forum and the user should take this time READING.

:smashead:

i can only ask all of you to do the same or otherwise we will spend ALL our time answering these kind of *stupid* questions.

we will hardly find time for proper questions/real problems and the quality level will decrease in no time at all!!!

[Batman]

Most of the folks with "help" or "please help" are desperate guys, so I help 'em under the good samaritan law. There's also a bunch of lazy people in the world and on the cyber world .

I don't like cross-posting, it gets annoying. A more descriptive subject would be nice like instead of "software" you could say "TMPGEnc floating decimal error", sorta easier for us people.

Many question are easily answered by the begginers post, and people should spend some time looking for answers, and they'll find them.

[hacker_on_fire]

now my turn to release some anger....

its really piss taking when u answer a question, then never to hear of the person again + they dont even say thanx.


whats goin on!!

people should be grateful for us helping them. also these newbies who come once and disaapear never take advice 'cos its too hard/long'. also i hate people who rip to shows off. whats the f'in point.

breate in, breate out, breathe in, breathe........

[Batman]

I hate that, I really like to know if my "solution" worked or not---it gives me some assurances. But most guys here, get their questions answered, then zoom away on their porsches, never to be seen or heard from again, 'tis sad, if they only dropped a post telling us that it worked or didn't. Maybe people oughta learn some ettiquite (however you spell that).

[hacker_on_fire]

its net-ettique, i think

its not hard to learn. they take but never give. when they have what they came for they never say 'safe' or 'thanks' etc..

common, how long does it take to type 'thanks m8'. not long. our time and care spent giving quality answers should be recoginesed and appreciated. we post message from the good our hearts (most of us! :evilaugh: ) we could be doing better stuff (e.g. ripping :D ) but we help others.

the worst thing is writing a long reply with care then not knowing the outcome.

uncasms i thinks u should add a few more forum rules about what we've been discussing, not that anyone would porbably read them. But they should be penelities like not being able to post measages for a certain time period or being permanently banned. i'm not trying to tell you your job, but they are just some suggestions, i'm sure you like many of us has got a (social) life outside of computers.

oh well back to nandub....

[UncasMS]

Originally posted by hacker_on_fire
uncasms i thinks u should add a few more forum rules about what we've been discussing, not that anyone would porbably read them. But they should be penelities like not being able to post measages for a certain time period or being permanently banned.


that is NOT up 2 me it IS admin business!

on the other hand, however, it is up to all of us user to make sure we *teach* new user certain ideas of nettiquete or guide them towards a community where it should NOT be asked toooo much to at least let us know if an proposal worked out or failed!

[Enchanter]

Perhaps I could do something with my signature, like I did back in the user age poll. Not very effective still, but more likely to be read.

[Enchanter]

Anyone knows how I can make the description simply a link, leading to the given URL? I'm not good at this.

[UncasMS]

you should find examples in the user cp

[hacker_on_fire]

Enchanter below is the code needed to do a signature like me:

URL=http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8303]Description[/URL
URL=http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25]Description[/URL

to make it work u need to add a open and close square bracket to the beginning and end of 'url'. i couldnt added it for u cos it would just show the result not the code.

Its great idea, i hope u dont mind me adopting it as if more people use this type of signature the faster the message will spread.

[admin]

Thanks for the suggestions about adding some new rules.

I've made some changes the rules, and now all forums have an annoucement post at the top about following the rules.

Let me know if there are any other rules which you'd like me to add to the rules page.

[UncasMS]

thanx


one more thing, though:

could you turn it into a link, so the user can click it right away?

some ppl will even be too lazy to copy&paste the link!

[admin]

Done ... :-)

[Enchanter]

Thanks for the guide, hacker_on_fire. :)

Great, admin. Every single little thing we do will count to something.

[hacker_on_fire]

admin, where should we post messages like this thread, so we know you'll see it or should we just send a private message?

also techno no problem.

[hacker_on_fire]

i just seen what admins done. its so cool.
so our voices have been heard. hopefully things will get better.

admin has total power and control.

the force if definetly with him :D

[cheftaz]

Thanx admin
Hopefully people will actually look at, read and follow the rules

[admin]

If you need to contact me regarding the forum, you can find my email addresses here :

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(just choose any one of the email addresses)

You can also use the "report this post to moderator" option underneath every post, to make sure I and other mods get the message.

[Enchanter]

Glad I started this thread. :)

BTW, I noticed that UncasMS has become very active in replying to posts too. :) Pretty much my opposite, since I've been very busy lately (Noticed my short replies recently? :evilaugh: )

[UncasMS]

still i'm not willing to 'waste' my time on postings, when my impression is, a user is not even willing to spend some 5min writing it :smashead:

[hacker_on_fire]

i hope all you people heard that!

[Batman]

I hear it loud and clear :)

[Glanz]

i read the begginners start here thread

[CoWbOyPoEt]

Thousands of people enter this site for two reasons. The first is because they need help. This is a great forum to receive this help.
The second reason, is to help someone else. We all are in need of help at times, and we could all do our best to pass our knowledge on to others.
Since there are so many people logging on here, its should be ok, if once in a while, a questin isnt posted correctly, or a question is posted more than once..

Just my thoughts...:)

[Enchanter]

Things have gotten better since I posted this thread though. At the time of this thread posting, nearly all the new thread titles looked exactly like what I described. :mad:

Let's hope this keeps up and only gets better. ;)

[hacker_on_fire]

I totally agree.
this is a strong thread...its still going...

[SKD_Tech]

I must say my first couple post I could've serched the forum and got answers sorry guys but it won't happen any more

[paradox22]

You know if you are a computer genius, what you guys have posted here might be fine but when you are a newbie to even downloading a dvdrip, and want to try something new, like convert to mpg and have no clue if it can even be done you get a little desperate . So when I was up till 3 in the morning searching all over the place to find a way to convert my most excellent rip to a mpeg for the TV, and I stumbled on this form and saw that people might actually be able to rescue me from my frenzied surfing and my stubbornness to not quit, I posted one of those... much hated by you, not titled good enough, help me out posts. Well excuse me for wanting to learn how to do something new and for mistakenly thinking that knowledgeable folks like yourselves would mind giving me a hand. And it is hard to search for something when you don't even know what you are looking for! I fail to see how typing a reply " search the form for converting" or whatever is such a hard task. I didn't even know if it was possible to convert these files. Until some sweetheart told me it was and I could find all the info in the forms. So don't be so quick to fly of at us who are newbies! I have to agree some maybe to lazy to search the forms in some cases but you shouldn't put everyone in the same category.:newbie:

[Enchanter]

Originally posted by paradox22
to find a way to convert my most excellent rip to a mpeg for the TV
Then putting that as the post title will do well enough. Titles like "newbies need help", "help" and such hardly give hints on what the proposed problem in the given thread might be.

This is the main point of my thread. I ask for nothing more, nothing less. ;)

[onynx]

i guess you could draw a line.. say, after 10 posts, there should be no more bad-titled-no-search-lazy-hopless posts :)
before that, one is still not aware of all that this place has to offer, so patience is a welcome sympathy.

hey, wait a sec. that puts me above the line.. D'OH:biggrin:

[techno]

Originally posted by admin

Let me know if there are any other rules which you'd like me to add to the rules page.

yeh, there should be free food given to everyone who have answered a correct question and also who have given the most help :P lol

:) only kidding