[Erin Rapacki]

Ok, so I’m not a person who’s known for standing up on soapboxes and making speeches… but I have a pet peeve here:

Every day, I take a look at the portal on CD to see if any interesting discussion is taking place. Now, my time is very limited (and I mean, very), so I only look at the threads that are applicable to my specific interests.

It gets very frustrating when I have to open up a thread to see what it’s about; that I have absolutely no clue what to expect, in regards to content, by looking at the only the title. Because of this, I would like to suggest some guidelines:

- Please refrain from titling threads with emotions, verbs, or demands (ex: Shocking!, Quick Question?, Take a look at this..., Help?, I’m looking for something, Please read, etc...).
- Nouns are your friends
- Please try to put in specifics (ex. Instead of ‘pneumatics help,’ title it as ‘I put lightening holes in my pneumatic pistons, why won’t they work?’)

I think the titles of threads should read more as a table of contents. It’s difficult to know what threads you’d want to take the time to respond to when you have to ‘read and weed.’

Thanks for listening.

ByE

erin