Re: (bbfu) (kudra's method) Re3: Modify your subject lines when appropriate ( Or keep it the same, and some comments )

I see the (username) prefix as excessive vanity now. It was cool at the time when we didn't have reference-by-node-number, and no searching-by-user. But we've added both of those since. No point now to have a unique name of an article, so putting your username out there just makes me think you're vain, and it wastes valuable communication space.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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(kudra: not entirely without purpose) Re: Re: (bbfu) (kudra's method) by kudra (Vicar) on Sep 29, 2001 at 11:37 UTC
I find it useful because search results still don't return the name of the author. Searching by user isn't exactly the same, because I might not have a specific user in mind, but still prefer to read an answer by someone I know gives good answers over the 52 answers by anon monk. For what it's worth, I consider adding my name a work-around and would much rather have that extra bit of search information returned and leave off my name. As for original topic v. new topic, I like to have both pieces of information. My ideal solution, of course, would be to have search return 'in reply to' and 'in thread' (and possibly 'nesting depth') so that the title would only need to convey the topic of the message, not additional historic information. (These could be super-search checkboxes or user settings to keep results simple when desired.)	[reply]

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(kudra: not entirely without purpose) Re: Re: (bbfu) (kudra's method)
by kudra (Vicar) on Sep 29, 2001 at 11:37 UTC

For what it's worth, I consider adding my name a work-around and would much rather have that extra bit of search information returned and leave off my name.

As for original topic v. new topic, I like to have both pieces of information. My ideal solution, of course, would be to have search return 'in reply to' and 'in thread' (and possibly 'nesting depth') so that the title would only need to convey the topic of the message, not additional historic information. (These could be super-search checkboxes or user settings to keep results simple when desired.)

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