in reply to Collapsing Re:'s in Titles.

No doubt some people will be upset, but I hope most people will like it, certainly a lot of folks do something like this themselves.
If some people will be upset, why is there no option to preserve the old behavior?

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Re: Collapsing "Re"s in titles (If you can predict the future, code for it :)
by tye (Sage) on Jun 02, 2004 at 22:59 UTC

    The option for the old behavior is the same option that was already there. You can put the "Re:"s back in by hand. q-:

    Are you upset or are you asking more of a rhetorical question? I'd hope the level of outrage is low enough that the effort to support multiple options isn't required and we can have consistency. Part of the point of the patch was that several people were getting tired of the wide variations.

    As for my personal preference, I'd prefer to be able to have a clue what a node is in reference to when I see the title out of context of viewing the thread that it is in. So I'd prefer you retitle replies to still start "Re" and to preserve some part of the original title (or some other representation of what the thread is about), not just summarize your particular contribution to the thread.

    Your current retitling style makes sense when viewed in a thread, but makes no sense (IMO) outside of the thread.

    - tye        

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      Are you upset or are you asking more of a rhetorical question? I'd hope the level of outrage is low enough that the effort to support multiple options isn't required and we can have consistency.
      It's more rhetorical. I don't think there is any outrage as to which style of Re prefixes to adopt.
      So I'd prefer .... Your current retitling style makes sense when viewed in a thread, but makes no sense (IMO) outside of the thread.
      One or two monks has mentioned that to me, and no, it's not supposed to make sense outside of the thread. An editor even edited my node once to restore the Re: (I changed it back). All I can say is tough noogies (my note titles are my own). If you ask me, a better idea would be to either disallow editing of node titles on replies (notes) or track node depth independently (and perhaps represent [id://359839] as My notes title is my own3 ).

      MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
      I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
      ** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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