Please put the game title first when making a new thread

[Bulgakov]

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.

I think I disagree here. The shock value of the first sentence, as well as the question it creates in the reader's mind ("What game is Jbear making a joke about?") seems invaluable to a skilled humorist. The question posed by the inverted title is "Why did you write a second sentence after the first one, I already know everything I need to know?" Putting the game first in this case not only elminiates the need for the joke, it also eliminates the opportunity for the reader to make the mental connection themselves and thus rob them of the satisfaction that understanding the humor brings.

Full disclosure: when I constructed jokes as a youth, I deeply valued the setup-punchline structure to which Jbear ascribes. As I age I find my appetite for melba toast waxing as my ability to live with creativity wanes. It's entirely possible I no longer know what is funny.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

No they can’t

 

[Johnny Unusual]

I think I disagree here. The shock value of the first sentence, as well as the question it creates in the reader's mind ("What game is Jbear making a joke about?") seems invaluable to a skilled humorist. The question posed by the inverted title is "Why did you write a second sentence after the first one, I already know everything I need to know?" Putting the game first in this case not only elminiates the need for the joke, it also eliminates the opportunity for the reader to make the mental connection themselves and thus rob them of the satisfaction that understanding the humor brings.

Full disclosure: when I constructed jokes as a youth, I deeply valued the setup-punchline structure to which Jbear ascribes. As I age I find my appetite for melba toast waxing as my ability to live with creativity wanes. It's entirely possible I no longer know what is funny.

Pretty much. I feel like as long as the title is there I can use search and find and get what I need. so title first means little to me.

 

[WisteriaHysteria]

Using search takes longer and is more effort than just visually scrolling thru the first page if I know a thread is likely still on the first page, which is normally pretty instantaneous. But that visual scrolling becomes exponentially longer if people make silly and obfuscating titles. I appreciate a joke as much as the next guy, but jokes that inconvenience - even in the mildest sense of the word - isn't worth it. Accessibility should always be the #1 consideration when planning how to get people into whatever you're making.

 

[MetManMas]

Using search takes longer and is more effort than just visually scrolling thru the first page if I know a thread is likely still on the first page, which is normally pretty instantaneous. But that visual scrolling becomes exponentially longer if people make silly and obfuscating titles. I appreciate a joke as much as the next guy, but jokes that inconvenience - even in the mildest sense of the word - isn't worth it. Accessibility should always be the #1 consideration when planning how to get people into whatever you're making.

This. Accessibility is exactly why I prioritize putting game titles first when making a thread.

 

[Adrenaline]

It is both correct that putting the game title second often makes for better joke construction and that joke construction is less important than people being able to find a thread

 

[Lokii]

I also believe thread titles should be built for maximum accessibility. That's why every thread should be labeled "[GAME TITLE]: Thread. Click here to read thread."

Seriously though, this isn't about "accessibility" (whatever that word is supposed to mean in this context). It's about convenience. Specifically the convenience of people browsing on a mobile device and the second half of the title being cut off. It might be more convenient to them to see a the thread's subject first without having to scroll slightly to the right or turn their phone on its side, but I think that's a far too small a justification for laying down a style guide of how thread titles should be.

 

[Falselogic]

It's mostly moot at this point. This place is mostly dead. What with Discords mostly replacing the forum and no source of new members.

 

[JBear]

Accessibility is important, and matters, which is why it shouldn't be used as a bludgeon to win an argument about something as inane as personal preference in forum thread titles. This is a video game discussion forum, not a library.

 

[RT-55J]

It's mostly moot at this point. This place is mostly dead. What with Discords mostly replacing the forum

Counterpoint: Discord sucks.

Real-time communication is a mistake.

 

[Falselogic]

Counterpoint: Discord sucks.

Real-time communication is a mistake.

I'm with you. But, we are clearly in the minority.

 

[gogglebob]

It's mostly moot at this point. This place is mostly dead. What with Discords mostly replacing the forum and no source of new members.

Maybe I have less experience with this, but I am familiar with dead forums, and this forum seems more active than many I have seen "die" in the past. Yes, the community is involved with communication elsewhere, but I feel like this very thread's ongoing debate on the nature of conflict and thread naming proves that you are REMAINDER OF POST DELETED DUE TO INSULTING REFERENCE TO HULK GENITALIA

 

[Violentvixen]

Counterpoint: Discord sucks.

Real-time communication is a mistake.

 

[WisteriaHysteria]

I've made it a point to avoid the TT discord specifically because I prefer this, find discord inherently toxic, and consider it a bad outlet for a lot of what I appreciate about this community.

 

[zonetrope]

I don't have any preference re: the debate in this thread, but another vote for "the pace of the current board is fine, and I have no need in my life for an always-online version of it."

 

[RT-55J]

I am on a few Discord servers that I think are genuinely nice places, but I can rarely keep up with the pace and density of conversation in even a modestly sized community there. I like slower paced conversations with more effortposts.

 

[Regulus]

I use both. They're both cool for different reasons. And the boards are toxic sometimes all on their own, too.

 

[Kirin]

I have an OCD need to keep up with all the back-posts in any threads/channels I follow and that is a fool's errand on Discord when there's any significant amount of people involved. It's more like an IRC thing than a forum substitute, and I just don't have a lot of space for that in my life at this point.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

This is a video game discussion forum, not a library.

Then why did I send Bongo all those late fee payments?

 

[Bongo]

Then why did I send Bongo all those late fee payments?

Because of the blackmail.

 

[MetManMas]

I use both. They're both cool for different reasons. And the boards are toxic sometimes all on their own, too.

Same.

 

[Paul le Fou]

Discord generally moves too fast to keep up with, and has so many channels I usually only get around to checking the few I actually read every few days. Except when I want to talk about Elden Ring and post in the Elden Ring thread and then it's not remotely fast enough!!