Hi guys,
Just a reminder that for ease of browsing the forums please be descriptive in your thread titles!

"iDVD", "Safari", and "Keynote" don't say anything about what you may be experiencing with these applications - adding a few extra words: "Strange iDVD behaviour - broken", "Safari: bugginess and adobe problems" and "Keynote challenge - adding music to slides" is better than just one word titles. Plus it means that you will probably get responses sooner!

So please try and remember this in future, it's better for you!

also makes the info easier to search out if titles are spelled correctly and accurately descriptive.

Makes our lives easier so we don't waste time trying to decrypt (zing!) your thread and renaming the thread

dito to that!

^ watchmania? well If I had had the power I would have renamed it myself. however this can only be done by the thread starter and a moderator/admin type person.
So If you start a thread then if you see the title could be improved .. it is you who should fix it.

Sorry AusMac but "Mechanical watch lovefest" is almost perfectly named (it is a Mechanical watch lovefest). I agree that "watchmania" may have worked but it is not that specifically descriptive really as it would then encompass other sorts of timepieces with non-mechanical insides.

I have to endorse Goodbyes comment; a poorly thought out title can be the thread 'kiss of death' which makes it all kind of pointless really.

When I start topics I don't want to fill up the topic heading with too much info and spam the recent topics bar with a multi-line topic.

Would it be possible to code something into the site here where you hover your mouse over the topic in the recent topics thing and it tells you which forum the thread is in? And could the Help forum perhaps be shifted away from its focus on new users? "Help - Switchers and New Mac Users" Because some of us who aren't new to Mac might be new to some of the apps or some of the features, but don't want to be grouped with the new lot.

That way someone says in their completely unhelpful way "Safari" and you hover your mouse over it and you find out it's in the help forum so you know it's a problem and not a rant or asking about plugins or the like.

Just an idea that I didn't actually think through. But I'm posting it anyway cos I wouldn't like to think I wasted all this time typing this.

Well..

Also, in the iPhone forums where people post stuff about safari and we think they are using macs b/c its on the sidebar of course. (Damn that sidebar)

Nobody looks where the topic is located :P

I'm afraid you slightly misread me

Decryption changed the title .. it was his thread in the beginning so I was happy with that.. but as I said .. If it had been my thread i would have either titled it that way in the first place or altered it as the thread evolved.. Nothing wrong with the altered title at all.

watchmania was merely my description of my derailments. So as to make sure that you could still find the same thread with that search. Which I found useless unless I chose the first word of the title.. so it could be "Watches.. a mechanical lovefest" or "watch mania .. a mechanical lovefest". .. for ease if, people wanted to be looking for "watches" or something other than "Mechanical"

Though "watch" still works in a search but "watch mania" does not.. "Mechanical" brings up only one thread .. whereas "watch" brings up eight threads.. Thus It follows that order of preference for the most important words of the title should be 123.

I'm not suggesting changing of the title of the thread I have merely used as an example. For it has been made sticky and therefore does not need searching.

What should be obvious from my comments is that when choosing a thread title, one should think of people who may want to search for the same thread.

Only thing that bugs me about thread titles are ones like "New Mac Pro" which implies news of a long awaited update. A simple question mark would alleviate that confusion. ie New Mac Pro?

True - it's only really been since the iPhone came along, and all these questions have sprung up that sound Mac-ish but infact are iPhone-ory, that I've taken to paying a bit more attention about where a thread has come from...

I personally hate it when people add a question mark to the end of a statement. I always think it is an announcement only to realise it's only a question. What's wrong with wording the question properly? For example "When will the new Mac Pro be released?" A couple of extra words can go a long way.

I thought this was just how Australians talked?

Original thought there, after my posts in another thread which YOU deleted, said exactly the same thing!

Dave

iDVD ~ how can I stop it opening?
Safari ~ why does it give me a beachball?

Worded this way it will come up in any search for iDVD or Safari and the search page will have a list of questions that have been asked and answered about that application.

It can't be simpler to write it in the rules.