Changing a post subject Mid-stream

tc35dforme · Jan 14, 2004

Am I the only one who finds this annoying ?? Is there good reason why a post subject needs to be changed by a reply poster ? If you want to change the subject, shouldn't you start a new post ?

Thank you for the opportunity to rant /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Okay wise guys...go ahead and make multiple subject changes to this post ... just because..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

MikePA · Jan 14, 2004

Am I the only one who finds this annoying ?? 
No.

 Is there good reason why a post subject needs to be changed by a reply poster ? 
No.

 If you want to change the subject, shouldn't you start a new post ? 
Yes.

This is particularly annoying when I am rushed and can't spend a lot of time on TBN. I look at the last post column (right most column) to see if a thread I was interested in was updated. (Yes, I know there are other ways to do this. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif) If someone changes the Subject...

If I were king, I would not allow this. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

hazmat · Jan 14, 2004

If I were king, I would not allow this 

If I were king alot of things would be different - including this. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

A recent thread I started went from "women dig me, snow FEARS me" to "mines bigger" to "airport runways" /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Golfgar4 · Jan 14, 2004

I'm with you!

There have been numerous comments about this very thing in the past, so the "annoyed club" isn't as small as you might have thought.

DocHeb · Jan 14, 2004

I almost posted a flame-off with the change from "Concealed Carry - Good of Bad" to "National Carry Law".

BillG_in_TX · Jan 14, 2004

I don't like it either. I think the subject line should be fixed. How about a sub-title line for those posters who want to take the thread in another direction (aka "hijack")?

Harv · Jan 14, 2004

I gotta admit -- it throws me off a little, too. Especially since I browse in "Past 24 Hours" mode. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

higgy · Jan 14, 2004

I'm with you guys, I use the 24 hr mode as well and this makes it frustrating to follow a thread.

I like the idea of a hijack sub line.

Dane

tc35dforme · Jan 14, 2004

Well, for once I'm not the idiot standing out in the rain !!!

I was really thinking I'd get bashed for whining about that, but I guess many of us have issue with it.

Hey Muhammad, when you get a minute /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif Is this something that should be looked into ???

Muhammad · Jan 14, 2004

And the nays have it.

Done.

BillG_in_TX · Jan 14, 2004

Wow! If only everything in life was that easy.

Gatorboy will be pleased. I know he has commented on this subject many times. All it took was someone starting a new thread about it, and "walla".

JerryG · Jan 14, 2004

[color:blue]I'm with you!

There have been numerous comments about this very thing in the past, so the "annoyed club" isn't as small as you might have thought. [/color]
Gary,
You got it, I also think that a lot of people are in the annoyed club. A day or two ago, someone changed one and I thought about pulling a Gatorboy, but didn't :grin:

Junkman · Jan 14, 2004

Now I know what happened to the "quote" and "color" feature. You make one change and it changes a whole lot of other things along with it. Sort of like when you change the point opening gap on an engine, you have to reset the timing also. See I can change direction as easily as a[color:green] chameleon [/color] can change color....

:grin: :smirk:

:shocked:

Now I see that the little funny faces isn't working either..

tc35dforme · Jan 14, 2004

Hey Muhammad, while I'm on a roll, can you do something about the Federal Income Tax...That's annoying too !!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Thanks for the response !!

KubotaSteve · Jan 14, 2004

Well at least I know that I am not crazy. I didn't know what was going on and was getting confused!!!
/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Mrwurm · Jan 14, 2004

I'm with you guys on this. Thanks for the change Muhammad.

DIYGuy · Jan 14, 2004

It never changed to "mines bigger". That was an editorial comment appended to the end. Sorry if the humor annoyed you, but at the very least report factual information.

DIYGuy (MarkS)

hazmat · Jan 14, 2004

Sorry if the humor annoyed you 

I appreciated the joke. No offense taken, just a recent example of thread subjects changing.

PS the pictures you posted of the blower in action helped inspire me to get the blower.

Trev · Jan 14, 2004

It's kind of funny.. everybody seems to hate it when the title of a thread is changed.. and yet there must be people here who are doing this routinely for it to have become an issue. They're conspicuously silent. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Having said that, I admit that I may have been guilty of this.. although I can't remember specifically having done it on these forums. Having the option to do it made me think it was okay, accepted, etc. Sometimes a thread wanders way off the initial topic, and I guess I naively thought that this was when using that option to change a threads title would be appropriate.. in that people would see the message and know what it was *really* about rather than merely seeing what it *used* to be about. I see I was wrong, and I apologize if I've been one of the culprits...

Bob

Gatorboy · Jan 14, 2004

( Gatorboy will be pleased )

I'm grinnin' /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I used to change the subject headings only to correct TYPE-O's, but that was only a rare event -- now no more jumping into a thread I think is NEW only to find it was an older thread just with new clothes. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif