I pass up many posts because the titles are so vague

Olliejunkie · Dec 9, 2020

I dont read every post. Only the ones that the title interest me. I know I have made some vague titles too but I usually try to make them descriptive. Do you all like like the titles that leave you guessing?

SVcummins · Dec 9, 2020

It used to be a long title wouldn’t work with modern screw and
classic so I began shortening them up .

Bruce from Can. · Dec 9, 2020

I find it takes very little time or effort to click a button
and move on if a story doesn’t catch my interest.
Sometimes the topic title will clue you in that it will
or will not interest me. I like to give everyone the
opportunity.

Bob Bancroft · Dec 9, 2020

Makes no difference to me. I agree with Bruce, I'll take a look, and proceed accordingly. I can quite often guess based on who is posting. Pictures are always wonderful. I very much appreciate the effort.

showcrop · Dec 9, 2020

This is a huge problem for me!!!! In fact it rates number 2,456,792 on my list of daily problems to solve!!!

Butch(OH) · Dec 9, 2020

LOL, thought it was just me?

gtractorfan · Dec 9, 2020

A clue for me is seeing a large "crowd" gathered at a post and I wonder what the attraction is.

rossow (mn) · Dec 9, 2020

I'd much rather see a title that gives at least a clue of the content. A bigger peeve (about which I've whined unrepentantly on this board many times) are posts about weather, laws, auction outcomes, crop conditions, fish biting, plagues, earthquakes, etc., that only list locations as "here." Geography is kinda important for context. A weather comment that fails to tell where "here" is loses most of its usefulness. (See? Another whine about it.)

SHALER · Dec 9, 2020

Olliejunkie, well said! I certainly hope there are larger issues in the scheme of our lives than this problem... BUT - are these topics not searchable? I am always kind of
disappointed (Im simply making up an example here to prove point) when someone titles a post "Pump Broke". Upon reading the post you find out the poster has an old JD
4020 and the hydraulic pump coupler broke. All the guys on this site that are so knowledgable give their suggestions on how to fix it. Since the title just says "pump
broke", whenever someone DOES have a coupler break on a 4020, this thread will never be found to help them out. Am I correct or am i correct? I personally try to be descriptive at least to the make and model of the machine I am posting about.

Traditional Farmer · Dec 9, 2020

I guess it boils down to people that post can post what they want and the people that read can read what they want.

SDE · Dec 9, 2020

I found some very useful information in a post that I had pasted over the first time I went thru the site.
You are a 100 percent correct, but you have to let everyone be who they want to be. For example, I will answer a post on Tractor Talk and then find that the same person has posted it on the Farmall site and five people have already answered it. OH well.
Or they post OT on Tractor Talk, when Tractor Tales has OT after the title, and that is where it belongs. You have let the people be who they want to be, after all, you get to be who you want to be, Right?

Olliejunkie · Dec 9, 2020

It's not a problem for me. It probably saves me time if anything as I just skip over the vague titles normally.. if I do click on them many times it's not something i can ad to anyway.

Bob Bancroft · Dec 9, 2020

It's snowing here. Oops! Spelling is my peeve. To, too, two. There, their, they're. Needs fixed. Needs repaired. What happened to "needs to be repaired"? You get the idea.

bc · Dec 9, 2020

Ditto. But I found that you can hover the mouse over a topic and it will show the first line. I do a lot of searching in the archives usually before asking a question and model # with something else such as hydraulics, valves, etc. to pinpoint the issue. "Won't Start" doesn't help archive searches. I can pull up a 1000 topics easy with a search and then maybe 1/10 will have a topic name that is worth clicking on. Starting the topic subject with the first sentence doesn't work and usually ends up with a subject that is to long so the replies come up separately.

DoubleO7 · Dec 9, 2020

(quoted from post at 06:31:20 12/09/20) It used to be a long title wouldn t work with modern screw and
classic so I began shortening them up .

Still is.
A title with more than 60 characters (spaces included in count)
Causes all responses to be entered as a new thread.

Not a post/response to the original.

1948CaseVAI · Dec 9, 2020

If you hover over the title you generally can read the first line of the post.

redtom · Dec 9, 2020

I'm guilty of posting "OT" on tractor talk. Sometimes I do it because I know Tractor Talk has a bigger audience and I may get more feedback or I'm hoping Tractor crowd might might understand my question more than Talers.

grizz02 · Dec 9, 2020

Brian G. NY · Dec 9, 2020

(quoted from post at 18:19:56 12/09/20)
If you hover over the title you generally can read the first line of the post.

Yep, works well with "modern" view.....don't know about "classic" view.

NY 986 · Dec 9, 2020

I just go with the flow. Once I know the personality behind the person it is not hard to know if I want to open a thread or not if the title does not directly convey the
point. Just like any community life is not perfect but this is a fairly easy board to deal with in terms of personalities. It can be hard to understand other people if we
have not lived the lives of others when it comes to experiences. This often manifests itself in one person telling another person that they are full of baloney.

SVcummins · Dec 9, 2020

Only the cool kids are allowed on tales they shun the outsiders

SVcummins · Dec 9, 2020

Didn’t realize this was 7th grad English class

grizz02 · Dec 9, 2020

speak police on patrol LOL

Bob Bancroft · Dec 9, 2020

Maybe closer to 4th?

Copperhead don't play · Dec 9, 2020

There are a lot of appeal between " brakes" and "Ford 3000 gas burner with brake problem".

Pitch · Dec 10, 2020

I don't get my nnalert in a twist over the interweb. Forums are a nice resource, and I have gleaned a good bit of knowledge and help from the discussions.
That being said I managed the first 40 some years of my life without forum advice,and I am sure that I could get along in the future without.
I may be wrong, but this is entertainment and a time filler,very rarely anything more.
I don't see the need for the hall monitors and the discipline moguls.

"Lighten up Francis!"

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