The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #83090   Message #1526154
Posted By: The Shambles
23-Jul-05 - 07:55 AM
Thread Name: In the UK......? (thread title change complaint)
Subject: RE: In the UK..............?
When I saw the original title, I immediately (in my provincial thinking) figured some Southern Baptist minister had finally seen the light. Boy, was I wrong!

Ivan - you must have been very quick indeed to see the original title. The title change by one of our unkown number of anonymous volunteers was imposed almost instantly. But your point is taken.

Although I share your concern regarding the PEL business, I doubt that all Mudcatters do, and there's no reason to "lure" the uninterested in with a less than clear thread title.

There are no grounds for this suspicion. The suggestion that there was any attempt by me to lure anyone (by the ommission of UK) has no foundation. I gave the title a lot of thought and was happy with it - but not with any intention of misleading anyone - for what would be the point of this?

There is no way that a thread title (given the limited space available to lesser posters) can ever be always clear to everyone or meet agreement from everybody. No more than the thread's contents will ever meet with agreement from everyone. But part of the fun (especially for B/S threads) is the imaginitive titles that folk think up. For that reason alone - I would suggest that all titles are left to the originator and only changed with their agreement.

I await to see any sound reason given here so far - as to why it is really so desirable for anonymous volunteers - now as a matter of routine - to impose any change at any time to a thread title - without first obtaining the originator's permission.