Re^2: subject line changing (was Re^4: blandness is the problem, not plagarism)

I think it's actually the opposite: People who change the title every time they post are very often noobs, as can be told by the titles they choose: "That's not what I said", "Solved!", "Try Java", and similar completely worthless titles. That is why they get nag messages.

I do not do that, and I have never done that, and yet I definitely have received nag messages.

My impression is that you guys like the subject line to stay the same because you don't have a good way to display threading in your search results.

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Re^3: subject line changing (threaded results)
by tye (Sage) on Mar 24, 2009 at 14:32 UTC

My impression is that you guys like the subject line to stay the same because you don't have a good way to display threading in your search results.

Yes, we could change every place that lists nodes (doom's writeups, super search, newest nodes, best nodes, worst nodes, etc.) to separately list: the title of the node, the depth of the node, the title of the parent to the node, and the title of the root of the thread so that 99.8% of nodes end up being displayed like:

(Re^4)Re^4: assosiating .pl files with perl on linux (re Re^3: assosiating .pl files with perl on linux in assosiating .pl files with perl on linux)

But I don't see how that would be "a good way to display threading". If only there were some better way to represent "the summary of the subject of this node and the context" that would combine that information into one compact string, like just "Re^4: associating .pl files with perl on linux" or, in the case of a significant subject change, something like "Re^2: subject line changing (was Re^4: blandness is the problem, not plagarism)". That would be ideal.

- tye

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