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Baroque Bloke |
Threads with ambiguous titles. There's one in The Lounge now (Jan 7) with the title: "So what would a pair of". I guess they do it as click bait. Correction: it's in Sig Pistols, rather than The Lounge. Thanks to Mustang-PaPa for catching my mistake. Edit: I should've said: threads with deliberately ambiguous titles. Serious about crackers | ||
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| My other Sig is a Steyr.  |
At least it wasn't another one about pistols and bears. | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
Mods must've whacked it, cuz I don't see it. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Firearms Enthusiast |
Its in the pistols section. | |||
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| Baroque Bloke |
You're right. Thanks for the correction. Serious about crackers | |||
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This Space for Rent |
Click Me if you Dare We will never know world peace, until three people can simultaneously look each other straight in the eye Liberals are like pussycats and Twitter is Trump's laser pointer to keep them busy while he takes care of business - Rey HRH. | |||
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Member |
Yup...I share your sentiment. I thought I read at one point that Para posted a thread prohibiting such abuse of thread titles, i.e., created to elicit a click or more commonly stated as "click bait". I would like to see a crackdown on this as well. "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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| Nullus Anxietas |
It's click bait and he did.
+1 I hate that crap, too. I wonder if a pair of cautions from the boss not to start threads with cutesy subjects would get the point across? (I nearly posted that ^^^^^ to that thread, btw.) "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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It is defined as "trolling" to have a title to a post which very ambiguous. I have seen that very many of the threads here have that type of title. Regards, arlen ====================== Some days, it's just not worth the effort of chewing through the leather straps. ====================== | |||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars  |
What more can be done other than para repeatedly saying not to do it? If members choose to ignore his instructions, there's nothing a post from you will do to motivate them. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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| In the yahd, not too fah from the cah  |
Agreed, it's no secret around here that misleading or uninformative thread titles piss him off. | |||
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| Never Go Full Retard  |
Well at least I *do not* need the help of forum moderators at Sigforum in order to stay alive. They don't think it be like it is, but it do. | |||
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| Nullus Anxietas |
It's ok if we bitch about people doing it, though, right? "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
I'm with you. On the other hand, I need to figure out how to come up with thread titles that don't stretch to two lines - before there are any responses, anyway. | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
How 'bout the maven who is an expert on everything. We have one or two of those. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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| Ignored facts still exist |
Luckily the kid who chimed in on every post seems to be gone. . | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
"So what do WE like for XYZ" "I don't know ANYTHING about XYZ, explain it ALL to me" (so I don't have to research anything) Then again, nothing really annoys me, I just think it's stupid and attention seeking. | |||
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| Nullus Anxietas |
Looks like the thread in question really is gone, now? Maybe the Boss has about had enough? "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| Firearms Enthusiast |
Probably had as much to do with its content. Posting links to active items for sale isn't well received either. | |||
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Member |
I'm with you. It's called Google. Narrow it down to a couple options and maybe ask members if they've used a certain brand. Or go to Amazon and read the reviews. Click baits are simple. Don't click. And if the curiosity is just too much for you, well, you were just sitting around playing on the web anyway. _____________________ Be careful what you tolerate. You are teaching people how to treat you. | |||
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