[Why?] are there brackets around all the thread titles

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paul_soccer12: Jan 5, 2020; by Fluffdaddy

# ? Jan 31, 2021 09:10

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# ? May 3, 2024 08:27

Frumply: Dec 7, 2004

close all the threads and delete cspam

# ? Jan 31, 2021 09:27

lumpentroll: Mar 4, 2020

paul_soccer12 posted:

# ? Jan 31, 2021 09:29

lumpentroll: Mar 4, 2020

[gently caress you]

# ? Jan 31, 2021 09:33

Thump!: Nov 25, 2007; Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!

Homeless Friend posted:

im pro brackets. im beyond humor now. no more jokes bitch

Now? Come on we've all read your posts.

# ? Jan 31, 2021 09:41

Flavius Aetass: Mar 30, 2011

it sucks imo

the brackets themselves are fine but if you open the threads they're all filled with just total garbage

# ? Jan 31, 2021 11:27

Mr. Lobe: Feb 23, 2007; ... Dry bones...

Flavius Aetass posted:

it sucks imo

the brackets themselves are fine but if you open the threads they're all filled with just total garbage

# ? Jan 31, 2021 11:31

Flavius Aetass: Mar 30, 2011

Mr. Lobe posted:

people who listen to ska live like this

# ? Jan 31, 2021 11:36

Mr. Lobe: Feb 23, 2007; ... Dry bones...

Flavius Aetass posted:

people who listen to ska live like this

strange, you'd think when they saw the garbage, that they'd pick it up pick it up pick it up

# ? Jan 31, 2021 11:38

Hodgepodge: Jan 29, 2006; Can't post for 237 days!

Flavius Aetass posted:

people who listen to ska live like this

that's one way to say you like ska i guess

# ? Jan 31, 2021 11:38

Flavius Aetass: Mar 30, 2011

Mr. Lobe posted:

strange, you'd think when they saw the garbage, that they'd pick it up pick it up pick it up

# ? Jan 31, 2021 11:42

Mr. Lobe: Feb 23, 2007; ... Dry bones...

Flavius Aetass posted:

that joke was based on the one (1) thing I know about ska, you've been a wonderful audience, thank you very much

# ? Jan 31, 2021 11:43

Crazypoops: Jul 17, 2017

Should randomly change the word that bracketed daily

# ? Jan 31, 2021 15:35

dex_sda: Oct 11, 2012

paul_soccer12 posted:

# ? Jan 31, 2021 15:42

Archduke Frantz Fanon: Sep 7, 2004

(((the succ zone)))

# ? Jan 31, 2021 16:26

biceps crimes: Apr 12, 2008

standardize deez nuts

# ? Jan 31, 2021 17:16

Mandoric: Mar 15, 2003

It's loving with me because the exact opposite used to be a common format, with timely bracketed tags for newcomers crammed around a stable, searchable name for regulars. Not "[Succ] Where's my $2000 you fuckers" but "[$2000] Succ Zone Sector #310 [Adventure Time Cosplay Station]".

for obvious reasons modern VB doesn't need tiny threads with sequence numbers, so searchability isn't quite as important as it used to be then, but I do think it's nice to be able to have more permanent personality in a thread name, and avoid situations where mods have to actively watch and rename threads because the topic drifts or a new thread on a related topic also catches on (just searching [History] is going to break if modern spins back out or the one guy talking about an ideological split actually does it and it actually works, [Gaming] would need changes if we collectively went on a tabletop wargaming kick, the obvious [Skub] Skub sucks! vs. [Skub] Skub rules! situation)

Graveyard in the op for old tags in this format, with page ranges listed, would also be really nice for finding old conversations.

# ? Jan 31, 2021 19:28

twoday: May 4, 2005; C-SPAM Times best-selling author

aw cmon, I just renamed them, I'm not gonna go switch them all out again

One thing that was happening before was that people in a thread would often rename the title as an injoke that only people in that thread would understand, and I think it was discouraging new people from clicking on it because they had no idea what was going on in there, hopefully this will make it easier for people to browse around and engage more with threads they don't normally post in

Threads having a unique identity is fine, the names don't have to be dry and boring and descriptive, Doomsday Economics still has its name, and if the weed and cats thread wants to change their tag to Weedcat Sector or whatever then why not, but having a more or less clear tag makes it easier to navigate the list of threads at a glance I think

As for renaming threads, it is a pain in the rear end to keep up with them and actively try to figure out new titles for them, but that's one thing that having a ton of IKs is good for, they often change them. Also people often file reports for posts that would make a good title and say "make this the new thread title" and that makes it pretty easy for anyone to suggest a change and have the mods see it

twoday has issued a correction as of 20:00 on Jan 31, 2021

# ? Jan 31, 2021 19:57

Mandoric: Mar 15, 2003

Yeah, definitely not going "rename them all again right now". Just as a mostly-lurker's suggestion for the next cleanup run in however many weeks or months when some threads have drifted, some have welled back up from earlier than you went back to, and some new ones have started.

Fixed title/floating tags could also replace the "make this quote the title" thing with "we're bored of tag x, replace it with tag y".

# ? Jan 31, 2021 20:19

Victory Position: Mar 16, 2004

if you use underline tags around your words but inside of the brackets, it make it look like your words are in a [box]

# ? Jan 31, 2021 20:27

Crazypoops: Jul 17, 2017

Victory Position posted:

if you use underline tags around your words but inside of the brackets, it make it look like your words are in a [box]

There's a cat in that box

# ? Jan 31, 2021 21:18

Homeless Friend: Jul 16, 2007

Thump! posted:

Now? Come on we've all read your posts.

once [humor] tags are implemented, i will go back and edit my old post. so that you can understand

# ? Jan 31, 2021 21:26

Ramrod Hotshot: May 30, 2003

I don't like it, only babies need literal thread descriptions to understand what they're about

# ? Feb 1, 2021 00:06

Minera: Sep 26, 2007; All your friends and foes,
they thought they knew ya,
but look who's in your heart now.

perhaps. instead of brackets we can have small image thumbnails relevant to thread topic, thoughts.?

# ? Feb 1, 2021 00:41

Elephanthead: Sep 11, 2008; Toilet Rascal

twoday posted:

aw cmon, I just renamed them, I'm not gonna go switch them all out again

One thing that was happening before was that people in a thread would often rename the title as an injoke that only people in that thread would understand, and I think it was discouraging new people from clicking on it because they had no idea what was going on in there, hopefully this will make it easier for people to browse around and engage more with threads they don't normally post in

Threads having a unique identity is fine, the names don't have to be dry and boring and descriptive, Doomsday Economics still has its name, and if the weed and cats thread wants to change their tag to Weedcat Sector or whatever then why not, but having a more or less clear tag makes it easier to navigate the list of threads at a glance I think

As for renaming threads, it is a pain in the rear end to keep up with them and actively try to figure out new titles for them, but that's one thing that having a ton of IKs is good for, they often change them. Also people often file reports for posts that would make a good title and say "make this the new thread title" and that makes it pretty easy for anyone to suggest a change and have the mods see it

You should not be encouraging new people to read this garbage

# ? Feb 1, 2021 01:58

DarkEuphoria: Nov 7, 2012

Elephanthead posted:

You should not be encouraging new people to read this garbage

no one reads anything, regardless of title brackets :justpost:

# ? Feb 1, 2021 03:04

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

it helps people who use the forums in the proper way (ie not usercp perverts) and for that i'm grateful

# ? Feb 1, 2021 05:20

Bored Online: May 25, 2009; We don't need Rome telling us what to do.

i am indifferent to the brackets thanks for reading

# ? Feb 1, 2021 05:53

Flavius Aetass: Mar 30, 2011

[feedback] they're good!

# ? Feb 1, 2021 05:54

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

exmarx posted:

it helps people who use the forums in the proper way (ie not usercp perverts) and for that i'm grateful

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# ? Feb 1, 2021 06:04

El Mero Mero: Oct 13, 2001

[[[organized]]]

# ? Feb 1, 2021 08:01

Hodgepodge: Jan 29, 2006; Can't post for 237 days!

you're conventional twoday. but you get results.

# ? Feb 1, 2021 12:45

Breakfast All Day: Oct 21, 2004

this is some wikipedia editor cop poo poo

# ? Feb 1, 2021 16:45

a Loving Dog: May 12, 2001; more like a Barking Dog, woof!

[Dumb, stupid] The mods are bad.

# ? Feb 1, 2021 19:04

a Loving Dog: May 12, 2001; more like a Barking Dog, woof!

lmao of course it was a twoday idea. batting 1000 there dude

# ? Feb 1, 2021 19:05

Fleetwood: Mar 26, 2010; biggest hochul head in china

change all the brackets to triple parenthesis

# ? Feb 1, 2021 20:30

frankenfreak: Feb 16, 2007; I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade

[Nostalgia] ITT, post funny politics poo poo you suddenly remember

Why? What information does this add that isn't already easily grasped from the thread title itself?

# ? Feb 1, 2021 21:25

Peanut President: Nov 5, 2008; by Athanatos
(and can't post for 17 hours!)

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# ? Feb 1, 2021 21:27

Persiflagist: Mar 7, 2013

idk op. maybe its for some reason?

# ? Feb 1, 2021 21:30

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Muscle Wizard: Jul 28, 2011; by sebmojo

twoday posted:

aw cmon, I just renamed them, I'm not gonna go switch them all out again

One thing that was happening before was that people in a thread would often rename the title as an injoke that only people in that thread would understand, and I think it was discouraging new people from clicking on it because they had no idea what was going on in there, hopefully this will make it easier for people to browse around and engage more with threads they don't normally post in

Threads having a unique identity is fine, the names don't have to be dry and boring and descriptive, Doomsday Economics still has its name, and if the weed and cats thread wants to change their tag to Weedcat Sector or whatever then why not, but having a more or less clear tag makes it easier to navigate the list of threads at a glance I think

As for renaming threads, it is a pain in the rear end to keep up with them and actively try to figure out new titles for them, but that's one thing that having a ton of IKs is good for, they often change them. Also people often file reports for posts that would make a good title and say "make this the new thread title" and that makes it pretty easy for anyone to suggest a change and have the mods see it

this is fail and cringe

# ? Feb 1, 2021 21:34

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