Ban on intentionally generic thread titles?

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I don't open any threads unless the title describes the content. So i save myself a lot of bother but the titles still fill up the forums and waste space on my netbook viewing area.
 
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=167088
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=166951
These are getting extremley annoying. Please ban these type of threads.
 
They aren't welcome, of course. If you see them, just report them and the staff will take care of it.
 
We can't really ban somebody for not being specific enough in their thread titles. I'd say the most we can do is edit them when we see them.
 
The irony is that this thread title is generic... I thought the OP was banned because he had generic thread titles...
 
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We can't really ban somebody for not being specific enough in their thread titles. I'd say the most we can do is edit them when we see them.
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I mean ban the thread titles not the people who make them. It would be like double-posting or duplicate threads. Not to much of a big deal just don't do it again is the kind of infraction it would be.
Maybe a thread warning people in the GT5 forum would be handy as only a minority seem to look at the site feedback.
 
I don't think it's worth it. If we see a generic thread title, we can just edit it accordingly. Warnings and infractions can only be issued for violations of the AUP. And it's not written anywhere in the AUP that you cannot be vague or generic.
 
Is it not knowingly misleading in some sense? Or very close to at least, seeing as the thread titles could often suggest any number of things it is a form of misinformation. It's not a thing that particularly irritates me, but this thread caught my eye.
 
Dragonistic
Is it not knowingly misleading in some sense? Or very close to at least, seeing as the thread titles could often suggest any number of things it is a form of misinformation. It's not a thing that particularly irritates me, but this thread caught my eye.
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It's just a thread title. Annoying, yes, but ambiguous thread titles don't qualify as misleading people with false information. Unless of course it actually does state false information as fact.

The areas of the site I stick to aren't afflicted with this problem, though it happens occasionally. It seems to happen all the time in the GT forums with people trying to gather as many views as they can. Is posting on an internet forum really a popularity contest?
 
On my computer, if I hold the cursor over the thread title for a moment, the first line of the original post appears as a little preview. Is this not the case for everyone?
 
Apparently not, I view this forum on my phone so I have to actually look in the thread, so having non-generic thread titles definetely does help.
 
That Auto preview is excellent.
But it doesn't stop the disease of generic titles on the forum. It's spam. And has the effect of making the website forum appearing... I can't think of the right word.
But imagine opening a newspaper and seeing every headline of each article having meaningless words or catchphrases on it that gave no indication of the story, the paper would go straight on the fire or in the bin and never be purchased again.
Thankfully it's not too frequent. Still, one is enough to be annoyed by.
 
I wholeheartedly agree. That's why I never look into the GT5 Marketplace. I just put the cars I'm looking for right there in my signature, and then handle the haggling processes through PMs. 👍
 
I've probably used ambiguous thread titles before, as most of us long-timers have. I don't appreciate misleading titles, nor do most members. But the woefully generic ones get edited (I think I've edited about 100 of them as a full-moderator), but most people naturally want their thread to stand out for some reason or another. I think in order for a thread to have any sort of merit, it ought to have a unique title while getting straight to the point.

We usually don't ban these types of offenders; but an ahem... "distributed force" usually works wonders with people who just don't get it after continually and intentionally slipping up.

Of course, someone's going to find a double-meaning to the title of any thread. Or just not understand it at all...that's just natural, we are not all on the same wavelength at all times.
 
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I've probably used ambiguous thread titles before, as most of us long-timers have.
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I don't believe I've ever used an ambiguous thread title. :dunce::sly:

But yeah, I generally tend to ignore threads with a title like "Have you ever..." or some such. I may check it out a couple days later if it's up to page three, though. Except in the GT5 forum, where I suspect you could post anything at all and it would be up to page three in a matter of hours.
 

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