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Please put the game title first when making a new thread

Have you ever put the joke before the game title in a thread about a game?

  • YES, and now I can only dream of crime and ruin

    Votes: 16 55.2%
  • NO, I choose society over chaos and filth

    Votes: 13 44.8%

  • Total voters
    29

Bongo

excused from moderation duty
(he/him)
Staff member
Put the title of the game at or near the start of the title of the thread, so that when it gets cut off, there is still some indication of what's being discussed. Please. I beg of you. Enough is enough.
 

Falselogic

Lapsed Threadcromancer
(they/them)
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Threads exist solely for the purpose of creating joke titles for them!
 

Vaeran

(GRUNTING)
(he/him)
My loyalty is, as it has always been, to the joke. I will craft whatever thread title best suits it, consequences be damned.
 

q 3

here to eat fish and erase the universe
(they/them)
Is this the thread for the award winning game Please?
 

conchobhar

What's Shenmue?
I don't think the placement of the game name matters as long as the title is still distinct. Just don't make deliberately confusing thread titles.
 

Peklo

Oh! Create!
(they/them, she/her)
Forum search with the "search titles only" function has never let me down so long as what I'm looking for is included in the thread title, so this is a complete non-issue except for enforcing some kind of style guide for thread titles, of all things.
 

Bongo

excused from moderation duty
(he/him)
Staff member
Please understand that no enforcement is intended. I appeal to you as a fellow user to stop making the front page say "All aboard the vore express!..."
 

Bongo

excused from moderation duty
(he/him)
Staff member
I mean, this is my genuine opinion, but more importantly, I thought it would be fun to act hyperbolically self-righteous about it.

Edit: you animals
 

Paul le Fou

24/7 lofi hip hop man to study/relax to
(He)
I stand with order, reason, courtesy, and common sense against the dark forces of confusion and humor

Seriously though, put the title first you fucking barbarians
 

Johnny Unusual

(He/Him)
I'm up for whatever. I do the title first by popular request but title last often works better for punchlines. This is were my values align.
 

JBear

Internet's foremost Bertolli cosplayer
(He/Him)
Jokes typically flow better with the punchline at the end. I trust TT users to be able to read.

Please understand that no enforcement is intended. I appeal to you as a fellow user to stop making the front page say "All aboard the vore express!..."
Best thread title I've ever made. I want to frame it and hang it on my wall. I bet you've never even played Monster Train, yet the title of that thread lives rent-free in your head. Sounds like an effective thread title to me!
 

MCBanjoMike

Sudden chomper
(He/him)
Y'all can just turn your phones on their sides, 'cause I'm putting that game title wherever I feel like.
 

Purple

(She/Her)
Am the only one who really wants this thread renamed to something like

Pacman - Please put the game title first when making a new thread​

 

Sprite

(He/Him/His)
You can have the game title first and still put the joke in, good lord.

I’ve yet to see a joke thread title that’s improved by the game’s name coming after the joke.

I’ve made this mistake with thread titles in the past but I stopped when I realized how legitimately difficult it makes the forum to parse. I realize it’s never going to stop and my only option would be to just stop coming here but I truly hate how common it is.
 

q 3

here to eat fish and erase the universe
(they/them)
the lack of megathreads is finally fracturing our once whole community
 

Paul le Fou

24/7 lofi hip hop man to study/relax to
(He)
Jokes typically flow better with the punchline at the end. I trust TT users to be able to read.

Best thread title I've ever made. I want to frame it and hang it on my wall. I bet you've never even played Monster Train, yet the title of that thread lives rent-free in your head. Sounds like an effective thread title to me!
There is literally no reason that thread's title shouldn't be Monster Train! All aboard the vore express! It loses absolutely nothing. The original doesn't even follow your own logic. "Talking about Monster Train!" isn't a punchline, or part of the joke at all, it's the thread topic. "All aboard the vore express!" is its own joke and punchline.

Also, "I trust TT members to be able to read" as an argument is not just facile, sir, but fallacious when part of the problem is that by putting the title last, we often cannot read the title of the game at all!
 
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