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Brian-E · 2012-04-16, 12:02

Just a small plea to the mods here, which I nevertheless want to soften with considerable praise and appreciation for your hard work and the way you all make sure this forum remains a friendly and interesting place to be...

Altering titles of threads can indeed be funny.

BUT... when the joke wears off (after a few days, I would suggest), could the titles be returned to things which reflect the threads' contents? That way we can all find old threads easily which we want to re-read.

Would be enormously appreciated.

xilman · 2012-04-16, 15:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian-E

Just a small plea to the mods here, which I nevertheless want to soften with considerable praise and appreciation for your hard work and the way you all make sure this forum remains a friendly and interesting place to be...

Altering titles of threads can indeed be funny.

BUT... when the joke wears off (after a few days, I would suggest), could the titles be returned to things which reflect the threads' contents? That way we can all find old threads easily which we want to re-read.

Would be enormously appreciated.

Sorry, but the opportunity was just too good to miss.

However, the title now does indeed reflect the contents of the thread, so I claim it is an improvement.

Brian-E · 2012-04-16, 22:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by xilman

Sorry, but the opportunity was just too good to miss.

However, the title now does indeed reflect the contents of the thread, so I claim it is an improvement.

Ah, of course, it's all coming back to me now.

I have to agree with you.

science_man_88 · 2012-04-17, 00:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian-E

Just a small plea to the mods here, which I nevertheless want to soften with considerable praise and appreciation for your hard work and the way you all make sure this forum remains a friendly and interesting place to be...

Altering titles of threads can indeed be funny.

BUT... when the joke wears off (after a few days, I would suggest), could the titles be returned to things which reflect the threads' contents? That way we can all find old threads easily which we want to re-read.

Would be enormously appreciated.

I can still make words out of almost everything but the first set of letters:

daerht the of tnetnoc the reflects title $#!+

Dubslow · 2012-04-17, 00:17

daerht eht fo tnetnoc eht stcelfer eltit sihT
This title reflects the content of the thread

What was the original title?

science_man_88 · 2012-04-17, 00:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dubslow

daerht eht fo tnetnoc eht stcelfer eltit sihT
This title reflects the content of the thread

What was the original title?

you make it seem too simple to miss.

BigBrother · 2012-04-17, 07:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian-E

Just a small plea to the mods here, which I nevertheless want to soften with considerable praise and appreciation for your hard work and the way you all make sure this forum remains a friendly and interesting place to be...

Altering titles of threads can indeed be funny.

BUT... when the joke wears off (after a few days, I would suggest), could the titles be returned to things which reflect the threads' contents? That way we can all find old threads easily which we want to re-read.

Would be enormously appreciated.

+1

Brian-E · 2012-04-17, 09:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dubslow

daerht eht fo tnetnoc eht stcelfer eltit sihT
This title reflects the content of the thread

What was the original title?

It was as the second line in your post gives it.

Now a confession:

I knew perfectly well that the title of this thread was especially vulnerable to being meddled with, given my implied criticism, so I tried to pre-empt any moderator attentions by making the title slightly thought-provoking already, intending to out-smart the mods so that they couldn't make it funnier. Almost immediately after I posted, the title was changed to what you write in the first line of your post. And I thought: hah! They're out of humorous ideas, can't think of anything clever to do with it. And I went to work. And only when I came home and read Paul's post did I realise that he had indeed out-smarted me and I just hadn't seen the point. Judging by how quickly the title was changed, that took him no effort at all.

xilman · 2012-04-17, 10:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian-E

It was as the second line in your post gives it.

Now a confession:

I knew perfectly well that the title of this thread was especially vulnerable to being meddled with, given my implied criticism, so I tried to pre-empt any moderator attentions by making the title slightly thought-provoking already, intending to out-smart the mods so that they couldn't make it funnier. Almost immediately after I posted, the title was changed to what you write in the first line of your post. And I thought: hah! They're out of humorous ideas, can't think of anything clever to do with it. And I went to work. And only when I came home and read Paul's post did I realise that he had indeed out-smarted me and I just hadn't seen the point. Judging by how quickly the title was changed, that took him no effort at all.

I've a great love of wordplay, especially that which employs self-reference (and particularly implicit self-reference), ambiguity, punning(*) and over-literal interpretation. As soon as I saw the word "reflects" I spotted the ambiguity and saw how to augment your explicit self-reference with an element of implicit self-reference merely by reflecting the title end-to-end.

Paul

(*) A good pun is its own reword.

Dubslow · 2012-08-22, 19:52

Please change more thread titles! They are intellectually stimulating and a pile of fun!

Dubslow · 2012-08-25, 02:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dubslow

Please change more thread titles! They are intellectually stimulating and a pile of fun!

Please stop.

2012-04-16, 12:02	#1
Brian-E "Brian" Jul 2007 The Netherlands 3269₁₀ Posts	pɐǝɹɥʇ ǝɥʇ ɟo ʇuǝʇuoɔ ǝɥʇ sʇɔǝןɟǝɹ ǝןʇıʇ sıɥʇ Just a small plea to the mods here, which I nevertheless want to soften with considerable praise and appreciation for your hard work and the way you all make sure this forum remains a friendly and interesting place to be... Altering titles of threads can indeed be funny. BUT... when the joke wears off (after a few days, I would suggest), could the titles be returned to things which reflect the threads' contents? That way we can all find old threads easily which we want to re-read. Would be enormously appreciated.

2012-04-17, 00:17	#5
Dubslow Basketry That Evening! "Bunslow the Bold" Jun 2011 40<A<43 -89<O<-88 16065₈ Posts	daerht eht fo tnetnoc eht stcelfer eltit sihT This title reflects the content of the thread What was the original title?

2012-08-22, 19:52	#10
Dubslow Basketry That Evening! "Bunslow the Bold" Jun 2011 40<A<43 -89<O<-88 3·29·83 Posts	Please change more thread titles! They are intellectually stimulating and a pile of fun!