[Forum Request] Limit titles to a single line

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The title says it most.  Pretty much everyone heeds normal convention when making posts, but there are ridiculous titles popping up that are up to 4 lines long. That's a lot of real estate for trivial ego based posts.  We haven't needed enforcement of acceptable behavior when making posts.  Until now, that is. 

Can the titles be limited to one line or better yet, something like 64 characters?

Thanks in advance.

 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

all due to the one ... sad

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I say nay. Better that the moderators pay better attention to some of these posts and wipe them out. All of them.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Ryat, reply 2

I say nay. Better that the moderators pay better attention to some of these posts and wipe them out. All of them.

That would be a viable alternative.  But maybe a compromise might work too.  If a player wants to speak his or her mind, even if it's not a productive thread, I say go for it.  

That is, until it becomes disruptive.  Until now, it's been easy enough to ignore certain threads.  You could just look at the title or alias and not open it.  Now, the essence of the whole thread has been put into the title.  Harder to ignore.  They might have some entertainment value in a "look at the trainwreck" sort of way, but when it's the same train running off the same tracks, it gets old.  Limiting the titles to a single line could return us to a more user friendly environment.

 

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

A little moderation can go a long way, I don't think we need a hard limit, just some tastefully applied admonishment. 

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

We'll usually mention to someone that their title needs to be edited if it's too long. Of course ones might slip through, but there's not that many doing it that a hard limit change is required.

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Thanks for responding Island Dog.  :) 

That's fair enough.  Request withdrawn.

 

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