Re: threadiquette - thread etiquette

Since the conversations here are threaded there is no real reason you can't change your title. If readers want to know how nodes are connected they can use the threaded view. If your node is so significantly different as to deserve a different subject then it realy isn't any lose of information if it shows up on Newest Nodes without the original subject (as it IS a new subject). So I think you are fine and your node titles have been fine by me. I believe this is one of those topics where the minority wins out normaly just because they are more vocal about the issue. The fact is, if they want to see relationship between nodes on NN then they should patch it to use the meta-data available in other parts of the node (not the subject) to determine and display those relationships. (or use the handy Recent Threads which does exactly that)

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Re^2: threadiquette - thread etiquette
by doom (Deacon) on Apr 14, 2008 at 07:15 UTC

Since the conversations here are threaded there is no real reason you can't change your title. If readers want to know how nodes are connected they can use the threaded view.

Yes, I'm inclined to agree. I dropped in here -- as I presume you did -- because I just received a nag message from "jdporter" (which I suspect was automatically generated), and I'm trying to figure out what the issue is here, and I still don't get it. It would appear that the system is broken (at least from the point of view of people who track "newest nodes"), and rather than fix the system they would rather bitch at us clueless newbies.

If you guys want a particular type of subject renaming style you should write up a style guide -- you know, like a SYNOPSIS section -- don't make us hunt around for examples of the approved ways of doing it.

You also might want to ponder that for several decades netiquette has strongly recommended changing subject names to reflect the content of a posting.

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