Post Title

July 31, 2007 8:41 PM

Would it be a huge inconvenience to actually have Post Titles heading posts on the blue? Yea, I understand the face of the blue is tried and true, however, some, if not all, posts need "Headlines". Why even have them if they only show up AFTER you check into the post/thread? (not complaining, I love Mefi!)
posted by snsranch to Feature Requests at 8:41 PM (27 comments total)

It seems posters often put a jokey, vague or generic title; a scroll-over many of the posts on the front page confirms this. So why bother putting them on the front page?
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 9:12 PM on July 31, 2007 [1 favorite]

Well, to be fair, I think people use a jokey/vague/generic title because it doesn't appear on the front page.
posted by winston at 9:15 PM on July 31, 2007

What would this add, other than a vague summary of the question?
posted by unixrat at 9:25 PM on July 31, 2007

unixrat: Excellent. It adds to anyones ability to quickly scroll through the blue to find a particular post.

It's been my experience that using the various search methods suck. Especially for posts that are only a few days old. It's much easier to scroll through and find the "headline".
As least it would be.
posted by snsranch at 9:36 PM on July 31, 2007

Sounds to me like you're complaining. Cortex, delete him.
posted by CRM114 at 9:40 PM on July 31, 2007

Mefi Titles 2
posted by blue_beetle at 9:44 PM on July 31, 2007

Better would be for posters to stop obfuscating posts in the first place.
posted by Mitheral at 10:01 PM on July 31, 2007 [3 favorites]

You don't like when people link every damn letter?
posted by ALongDecember at 10:11 PM on July 31, 2007

Tech solution to a human problem. I don't think we'd get anything but a bit of extra clutter out of it, snsranch.

As a hackaround (other than Mefi Titles, natch), you might subscribe to the mefi feed in a Google Reader or whatever and use that to skim titles.
posted by cortex (staff) at 10:15 PM on July 31, 2007

Sounds to me like you're complaining. Cortex, delete him.

NO!! If snsranch is gone, total comments at MeFiMusic are gonna go down by a third, at least!

So I'd like to take this opportunity to give a BIG SHOUTOUT to snsranch, MeFi Music's biggest friend and supporter. Thanks, sns! Love ya!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 11:44 PM on July 31, 2007

You don't like when people link every damn letter?

I'm waiting for somebody to start making links out of individual punctuation and spaces. Then you'll see some dislikery.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 3:47 AM on August 1, 2007

And then I notice that AD made a link out of that question mark.

Even though I like the linked subject, I am taking a serious dislike to Along December. Don't expect a Christmas card, bud.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 3:49 AM on August 1, 2007

I don't get it. Isn't the title now part of the URL? Just hover your mouse over the word "comments" and you can see the title. Am I missing something?
posted by grateful at 4:50 AM on August 1, 2007

Begin the dislikery.
posted by ourobouros at 6:26 AM on August 1, 2007

Oh, I do dislike that, even though he forgot to make all his spaces links (to something about space?)
posted by Kirth Gerson at 7:25 AM on August 1, 2007

WHONGA WHONGA WHONGA
posted by shmegegge at 8:09 AM on August 1, 2007

My understanding (though I came late to it) is that titles exist for users who read the site via feed, and for searches. Until I knew that, I used jokey titles. Once I understood that they had some utility, I made an effort to make my titles indicate something about the post content.

But I agree that this is rather inscrutable.
posted by Miko at 8:36 AM on August 1, 2007

If we're going to have something on the front page to make it clear what posts are about, I would rather have the tags.
posted by teleskiving at 9:18 AM on August 1, 2007

Hold on, we're thinking of putting something on the front page that makes it clear what the posts are about? That's not the Metafilter I know.
posted by Help, I can't stop talking! at 10:17 AM on August 1, 2007

Some links about space.

That's just weird.
posted by quin at 11:17 AM on August 1, 2007

That's right, quin, get it all out.
posted by ourobouros at 11:37 AM on August 1, 2007

Miko writes "I made an effort to make my titles indicate something about the post content."

omg i wish everyone would do this.
posted by PugAchev at 12:12 PM on August 1, 2007

That's right, quin, get it all out.

Ok, here are a couple more.
posted by quin at 12:43 PM on August 1, 2007

... I made an effort to make my titles indicate something about the post content.
Where's the fun in that?
posted by dg at 3:08 PM on August 1, 2007

Thanks folks, for the feedback, I didn't realize there were so many other ways to get around that. (scroll-over, duh.)

I never even thought about effing around with my titles. Hmm, next time.

flapjacks at midnight, 本当にありがとう。
posted by snsranch at 4:32 PM on August 1, 2007

snsranch: Boy, din'tchew go ta school er nuthin'? That ain't how ta spell flapjax or midnite! ;-)
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:44 PM on August 1, 2007

Thanks a lot, AlongDecember, now I have agreed to go to Turkey to meet the "I kiss you" guy.

No, not really, but you have to admit you were all thinking "Turkey mefi meetup!" there for a minute
posted by misha at 9:26 PM on August 1, 2007