Re: Jokes, ad-hominem attacks, and sensitivity

You can't avoid offending all of the people all of the time. But I'd just like to ask, when people do want to take a thread abruptly off-topic, could they please change the title? I think there was an interesting discussion buried in this thread, but damned if I can find it.

Polonius

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Re^2: Jokes, ad-hominem attacks, and sensitivity (retitling) by tye (Sage) on Aug 21, 2006 at 19:28 UTC
...and whenever you change titles mid-thread, please always leave part of the original title intact, including the "Re^$x:" part. A complete title change when viewed from within the thread seems reasonable, but there are too many other places where titles are displayed (especially Newest Nodes and several different types of search results) where complete title changes are particularly annoying. I like title changes (and almost always make them even when not going completely off-topic) but when someone completely drops the context from the new title it almost always disrupts my ability to determine much about the node from the title. So I usually visit the node, find the title quite lacking (covering mostly the difference between the node and what it is in reply to and so not covering the topic of the node well at all), and usually either /msg the author (if I'm not feeling less-than eloquent) or just down-vote the node. - tye	[reply]

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Re^2: Jokes, ad-hominem attacks, and sensitivity (retitling)
by tye (Sage) on Aug 21, 2006 at 19:28 UTC

...and whenever you change titles mid-thread, please always leave part of the original title intact, including the "Re^$x:" part.

A complete title change when viewed from within the thread seems reasonable, but there are too many other places where titles are displayed (especially Newest Nodes and several different types of search results) where complete title changes are particularly annoying. I like title changes (and almost always make them even when not going completely off-topic) but when someone completely drops the context from the new title it almost always disrupts my ability to determine much about the node from the title.

So I usually visit the node, find the title quite lacking (covering mostly the difference between the node and what it is in reply to and so not covering the topic of the node well at all), and usually either /msg the author (if I'm not feeling less-than eloquent) or just down-vote the node.

- tye

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