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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8356574" data-attributes="member: 18">Oh I agree.I don't think there's a whole lot of point arguing about titles, but equally, this applies to the people who put inaccurate titles, and then spend time trying to (completely ineffectually) &quot;police&quot; their thread when it turns out no-one is posting what they wanted.It is worth pointing out an inaccurate or awful title at least once, though, because what I've seen here is that some posters just don't even realize that putting a totally different title and and thread topic is, well, a recipe for a thread about the title subject or even something entirely different lol. Like people genuinely haven't got it. And usually they're in the thread - which is often quite lively and interesting otherwise, trying to argue that people are &quot;Doing it wrong!!!!&quot;. It's like no, sorry, not how it works. Telling them once does add value, yes. Continuing the argument could add value if they didn't get it, but if they just disagree, it doesn't (of course good luck to all of us reliably determining if someone doesn't get it or just disagrees).I think you'd struggle to find many examples of me arguing that the title of a thread is wrong, rather I have argued that belated and ineffectual attempts to police threads because the title didn't match the OP are wrong, which is kind of the inverse of that.I.e. we're all happily discussing the real subject of the thread, and the OP comes along and says &quot;I want this thread to be about X!!!&quot; and it's like, well, too late for that buddy, maybe you should have said &quot;This is a thread about gardening in RPGs!&quot; not &quot;Tell me your stories of mighty battles and victories!&quot;, lol. He's the one not contributing there frankly. You don't own a thread. Eric does. Or rather Morrus. You just start it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8356574, member: 18"] Oh I agree. I don't think there's a whole lot of point arguing about titles, but equally, this applies to the people who put inaccurate titles, and then spend time trying to (completely ineffectually) "police" their thread when it turns out no-one is posting what they wanted. It is worth pointing out an inaccurate or awful title at least once, though, because what I've seen here is that some posters just don't even realize that putting a totally different title and and thread topic is, well, a recipe for a thread about the title subject or even something entirely different lol. Like people genuinely haven't got it. And usually they're in the thread - which is often quite lively and interesting otherwise, trying to argue that people are "Doing it wrong!!!!". It's like no, sorry, not how it works. Telling them once does add value, yes. Continuing the argument could add value if they didn't get it, but if they just disagree, it doesn't (of course good luck to all of us [I]reliably[/I] determining if someone doesn't get it or just disagrees). I think you'd struggle to find many examples of me arguing that the title of a thread is wrong, rather I have argued that belated and ineffectual attempts to police threads because the title didn't match the OP are wrong, which is kind of the inverse of that. I.e. we're all happily discussing the real subject of the thread, and the OP comes along and says "I want this thread to be about X!!!" and it's like, well, too late for that buddy, maybe you should have said "This is a thread about gardening in RPGs!" not "Tell me your stories of mighty battles and victories!", lol. He's the one not contributing there frankly. You don't own a thread. Eric does. Or rather Morrus. You just start it. [/QUOTE]

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