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Old 01-25-2014 , 08:22   [WHY T0] Make Descriptive Topic Titles
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New To Forum ?.. How about you give 2 minutes to read this page ?
https://forums.alliedmods.net/misc.php?do=showrules

Lets start with whats the need ?


Straight and Simple answer is
"It helps people who are looking for information on something specific enormously if the topic title is descriptive of what the discussion's about, as well as people just browsing new topics to decide if they want to read the topic. Moreover If you are lucky enough someone knowledgeable about your problem can decide to help you if he can"

What creates a problem ?

Using Topic titles like this



doesnt help a bit

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Originally Posted by devicenull View Post
"a plugin", "cool plugin", etc are not good topic names.
How Descriptive titles help various people ?

Makes a hell lot of easy life for "NEWBIES" like me who traverse through the titles to find something they can learn from.
Bad title will result in ageing and it will eventually go down and down and lost and no useful replies to your question by those who are actually here help "The KNOWLEDGEABLE CODERS".
It only takes a moment to think about using a descriptive title rather than a trash and senseless one, and doing so will save both you and "MODERATORS" time.
First thing a moderator suggests is SEARCH .. a gud titles will pop up easily in search results thereby avoiding similar problems to be asked again and again by "PEOPLE"

LAST REQUEST

Please Never Do this. [Changing your title to Solved]

Instead Doing this is Much Appreciated. [Append Solved to the existing title]


Okay Connor's suggestion can be useful for many newbies to forum.. Lets start with this post Extension..

How To Edit The Post Title [Pictorial representation might be good]

So Here is one of my old post.. and there you see the EDIT button



Click that Beautiful EDIT button

Okay So here we go with a new window..




So What could possibly be in Advanced version of Post ? *Curiousness*
How about we click and see [[CLICK]]

Oh My GoD .. Here is the Edit Title Option *Ding*




Lets Append [Solved] to the title ..
and Save ..




Optionally you can give the Reason for Editing as you can see Just above the Title Editing Block..
As i just edited my post for extension .. I gave the Reason of editing as "Extension" .. See under my post Signature

Give It a Try on your Existing Solved Post.

Good Luck .. Have Fun.
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Old 01-25-2014 , 09:02   Re: [WHY T0] Make Descriptive Topic Titles
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n1ce code, oh noo what code?

Ps. Off topic LOL add it on tutorial too
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Old 01-25-2014 , 09:53   Re: [WHY T0] Make Descriptive Topic Titles
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Originally Posted by ^SmileY View Post
n1ce code, oh noo what code?

Ps. Off topic LOL add it on tutorial too
LoL Wasnt sure where to post this .. So i just posted it here..
If this is wrong sub forum .. Sorry for that .. Hopefully Moderators will shift it to correct one ..
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Old 01-25-2014 , 10:34   Re: [WHY T0] Make Descriptive Topic Titles
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You may want to explain people how to enter in extended edition mod in order to edit title
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Old 01-25-2014 , 11:54   Re: [WHY T0] Make Descriptive Topic Titles
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You may want to explain people how to enter in extended edition mod in order to edit title
You may also show how to reach this page : Rules
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Old 01-25-2014 , 11:54   Re: [WHY T0] Make Descriptive Topic Titles
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You may want to explain people how to enter in extended edition mod in order to edit title
Done Added.. Useful Suggestion.

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You may also show how to reach this page : Rules
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Old 01-25-2014 , 13:28   Re: [WHY T0] Make Descriptive Topic Titles
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if they are blind and can't read a sticky, how the hell will they find your tutorial. it's a problem of a bugged brain conception, acting like this is "normal" for them (to be "normal" means to be compliant with the overwhelming majority, and dosen't mean to be right).

and what ? what's this Search Bar Alternative you attributed to me ?! your signature reminds me the no-steam social group, I was among the three leaders set by the group owner (ANTICHRISTUS: auto-explanatory) .
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Old 01-25-2014 , 15:10   Re: [WHY T0] Make Descriptive Topic Titles
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What is a "modest helper"?
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Old 01-26-2014 , 11:59   Re: [WHY T0] Make Descriptive Topic Titles
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Originally Posted by ANTICHRISTUS View Post
if they are blind and can't read a sticky, how the hell will they find your tutorial. it's a problem of a bugged brain conception, acting like this is "normal" for them (to be "normal" means to be compliant with the overwhelming majority, and dosen't mean to be right).

and what ? what's this Search Bar Alternative you attributed to me ?! your signature reminds me the no-steam social group, I was among the three leaders set by the group owner (ANTICHRISTUS: auto-explanatory) .
+1.. Good Point .. Thats the problem .. They know lots of people are here do their work and as a result they are not even ready to try searching for what they want ..
xD That Search Bar Alternative is what comes to my mind when i traverse through the posts Most of your comments are Search for *this *That .. this*+that* .. I really like that instead of spoonfeeding you just give them the direction of "what to search for" .. NICE !

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What is a "modest helper"?
First i was about to write "Furien MOD Fan - Kia" .. You always comment on the post related to Furien MOD NVM .. Modest(Humble) Helper .. You helped me with my noob questions like more than 15-20 times
Much Appreciated.
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Old 01-26-2014 , 17:11   Re: [WHY T0] Make Descriptive Topic Titles
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Originally Posted by devilicioux View Post
+1..
please avoid to repeat this insult, it's +2 or -2 nothing else !!
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Most of your comments are Search for *this *That .. this*+that* .. I really like that
I know this method in windows since a long time, just tried it here and it worked . really comforting to read such comments .
Quote:
instead of spoonfeeding you just give them the direction of "what to search for" .. NICE !
yes, I remember when I was posting directly a group of links, or threads titles. now, I just put some keywords or correct titles, it's better than to search for people. because when someone searches for something, he/she may find more than what he/she was asking for.
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