Pretty, pretty please..

[polarbare]

Maybe I'm in a bad mood today, but I'd like to politely request that people use something in their subjects on new posts other than "First HDR" or "First attempt", yadda yadda, yadda.

It makes it a real pain to go back and find older threads to revisit. Give us the subject, or your name, or some piece of info about the photo... Pretty please?

~ Brad

[wolfden]

good idea, all posts should have a subjective title that pertains to the image at hand.

[fly my pretties]

Having HDR in the title seems a bit redundant as well...

[Daniel Browning]

'd like to politely request that people use something in their subjects on new posts other than "First HDR" or "First attempt", yadda yadda, yadda.

It makes it a real pain to go back and find older threads to revisit. Give us the subject, or your name, or some piece of info about the photo... Pretty please?

~ Brad

I'd like to politely request that people use something in their subjects on new posts other than "Pretty, pretty please.." or "I'm begging you, click here", yadda, yadda, yadda.

It makes it a real pain to go back and find older threads to revisit. Give us the subject, or your name, or some piece of info about the thread.. Pretty please?

Here are a few suggestions of a better subject line for this thread:

"Undescriptive threads are ruining the Internet, discussion within"
"Do lame subject lines cause blindness?"
"Hypocrisy: how to start a thread complaining about something, and do it yourself at the same time"

[fly my pretties]

Wow, I bet you're a riot at a party..

[polarbare]

Wow, snappy comeback on a polite request, one that at least a few other people seem to agree with. I'm sure your mom will be proud, and she'll print this thread out and post it on the fridge. Congrats to you for putting me in my place.

[fly my pretties]

There's so much weird negativity on POTN.

People constantly on the lookout to take the moral highground, it's so contrived. It really ruins this place. Luckily there's enough good stuff to keep you interested, because if it was just posters like him, there'd be no reason to post here.

[pixelbasher]

I think it's a fair call.

As pretty much a lurker here ( I'm not very good at HDR) I find I tend to look at ones that actually say what the subject is, just like any thread on any forum really.

[usukshooter]

Maybe I'm in a bad mood today, but I'd like to politely request that people use something in their subjects on new posts other than "First HDR" or "First attempt", yadda yadda, yadda.

It makes it a real pain to go back and find older threads to revisit. Give us the subject, or your name, or some piece of info about the photo... Pretty please?

~ Brad

I agree with you but I had to laugh at someone pointing out the hypocrissy of your own choice of title for this not being very descriptive. :lol: Don't mean that in a nasty way... gotta learn to laugh at yourself

[Scottes]

I have to agree with Daniel and Usukshooter. It is a little hypocritical.

[fly my pretties]

Why would anyone be concerned with the apparent hypocrisy of a completely innocent request? I don't understand how it could possibly cause issue to the point where people have to come in and start defending Daniel, who was completely and totally out of line.

[Scottes]

I'm not defending Daniel, I'm agreeing with him. Fully, and wholeheartedly.

Chances are very good that I would have said something regardless whether or not Daniel did.


Actually, I don't agree with myself at all, so I'm going to go do something else entirely, and then complain about it. :rolleyes:

[mattograph]

Food Fight!!!!

Honestly, I think when people put "First HDR" its because it IS their first HDR. That "first" quote does two things: 1) It attracts people -- everyone feels like they can offer a comment on a first attempt, even if they can't, and 2) Its a warning of sorts -- be gentle, its my first time.

Further, I don't understand how it inhibits your searching. Is it that you see a photo you like, then cannot find it again because so much is called "first"? Okay, actually I can see how that would be frustrating. I suggest you create a file on your hard drive, and save the ones you like for further reference. That would solve that problem.

BTW -- Like your photostream. Just got back from NHMS after a day of raggin' out my bosses Miata. Good fun!

[Daniel Browning]

...Daniel, who was completely and totally out of line.

Normally I try not to be critical, but I make a special exception for hypocrisy.

[mattograph]

Normally I try not to be critical, but I make a special exception for hypocrisy.

Now here's a guy whose flexible. What's not to love! :)

[fly my pretties]

Normally I try not to be critical, but I make a special exception for hypocrisy.

LOL @ taking a moral stand over the wording of an internet forum title.

You ****ing hero.

[Sven-EOS]

I love this thread!
OT: Reading "First HDR" does not make me open a thread, Brad's title did.

[Todd Lambert]

I like cheese.

[fly my pretties]

I'm actually eating a piece of St Agur blue as we speak.

[mattograph]

I'm actually eating a piece of St Agur blue as we speak.

Where did you buy the cheese?

What vintage?

How long was it aged?

Honestly, your failure to provide a complete description of the food stuff in question leaves me wanting. Would it be too much to ask for you to leave a more detail next time?

[Daniel Browning]

LOL @ taking a moral stand over the wording of an internet forum title.


You misunderstand. The OP is the one who has a problem with forum titles, not me. I couldn't care less.

What I criticized was the hypocrisy. The OP started a thread with an uninformative thread title in order to complain about uninformative thread titles. That is hypocrisy, which I think is open to criticism. If you're going to complain about what other people are doing, you should first stop doing it yourself.


You ****ing hero.

Thanks. I try.

[René Damkot]

Okay people, let's stay nice and on topic please :)

[troypiggo]

While I agree with the sentiment of the OP about using informative subject headers, and did chuckle at the following comments about his own choice, it's been my assumption that someone posting "First attempt" or similar is possibly new to the forum as well. They wouldn't appreciate at that stage of their experience that posting informative subjects is helpful. Or maybe they have been posting for a while and are just oblivious. Or maybe they don't care. Or maybe...

Either way, only a small percentage of posters to this section of the forum are going to change their ways because they've read and taken on board this thread. Unfortunately.

In case I'm wrong, I'd like to throw out there a suggestion that subject headings also include something like [NRHDR] which stands for "Not Really HDR - I've used a single shot and probably ran it through Photomatix to get some funky effect that isn't really HDR but I'll call it that anyway because I don't understand what HDR is." Or something like that.

I feel better now. :)