The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #84182   Message #1569195
Posted By: The Shambles
23-Sep-05 - 10:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: Opening threads - a debate.
Subject: RE: BS: Opening threads - a debate.
Humans sometimes need a tiny bit of guidance to do the correct thing.

Was that quote from some alien like Mr Spock? Why does it now sound so sinister?

We have ways of making you do the right thing.

Can anononymously imposing a change without the originator's knowledge or permission on our forum really be described as "a tiny bit of guidance"?

If five posters were asked to come-up the most informative thread title for the same subject - there would probably be five different suggestions. Given enough prefixes to choose from - they may even disagree on the choice of these....?

The matter-of-taste argument is completely wrong here.

There is no right thing in the respect of thread titles no more than there is in the contents of a post. The fact that must be faced - is that whatever you may think - is that it will always remain a matter of personal taste. Perhaps the thread's title can now also be left to personal tastes of the thread's originator and only changed - with their agreement?

What other posters choose to post and in what form they choose to post it - no matter how unhelpful or irritating you may find it - is not a matter for any other poster to judge, try to control or for you to 'guide' them to do what you consider to be the right thing. The choice is only for ALL fellow posters to respond to what they are trying to say - or just ignore it.

Those of us who may judge others wanting (the the choice of titles or anything else) but always judge that they do the right thing - are able to exert the only control they have on our forum - over their own postings and thread titles. Hopefully others may agree and choose freely to follow this example.