Purple Monkey Dishwasher

Is this a new trend that topic titles have nothing to do with the topic?
It's come to my attention that several times have I entered a topic only to question my sanity:
"How did I get here, I don't recall beef being on the menu."

So why?
Does it not seem more practical to tell an audience what to suspect?

Hypothetically consider this:

I want to write a topic about cats.
Big cats, little cats, fluffy cats, shaved cats, cats up trees, cats eating bees... you get the point.
So logically I suppose the best title for my topics would be... "Dogs!"

Now the problem is such that instead of attracting people who love cats, I'm in fact luring dog lovers into a pit of dispair and dissapointment (shame on me!). Not to mention that people who love cats and hate dogs are consequently going to be like "WTF Dogs. Psh - too cool fo' that - meow."

Plus it's annoying.

I think I've made my point.

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Dishwasher refers to the title of the monkey, not the appliance, correct?

I sometimes have thoughts to hunt down and burn these individuals who inadequately name their thread titles.

If a person wishes to call their topic "Beef Eater's Annonamous" and make it about people's favourite pencils that's their business and no one else's. If they happen to get no one actually posting because the topic's got nothing to do with nothing then that's that. Usually though you'll find any topic will eventually be reasonably posted within since we have a lot of people around here who don't look at the topic title, they look at the first post.

People will go to great lengths to be considered funny, weird, crazy, etc.

I dislike it when thread titles are misleading.

Example: http://forums.eyesonff.com/showthread.php?t=95132

Usually I don’t mind, but that body lice one really got me irked.

Thread preview is a lifesaver.

It can be, but that's why a lot of the time, I won't click on a thread if there's nothing in the preview or nothing to give me an idea of what the thread is really about...probably my loss, but oh well...

For example:

thread title= (insert random gibberish)

thread preview= www.youtube.com....

That could be anything!

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Fred

Thread preview is a lifesaver.

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Not really, now that people have learned that if they put their actual topic in quote tags, and instead make some smug comment along the lines of "Haha you have to open this thread to know what it's about!" thread preview doesn't tell you anything.

I don't really mind it, to be honest. Let 'em have their fun.

I'll show you, Chemical. Especially for that "Purple monkey dishwasher" remark!

I have no idea what you people are talking about.

I like it :P
Usually when I do that I make it clear what the topic is about in the first few lines so that you can just preview it :P

I don't ever read the topic names.

It happens so much you get use to it, or die. I suppose though.

It's all my moms fualt!