Re: What's with the automatic titles in posts?
01-07-09, 12:13 PM
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Re: What's with the automatic titles in posts?
The redundant post titles are screen clutter, plain and simple, and this is the only major forum I've seen that's taking this approach to manipulating Google AdSense.
In the advanced reply mode, the titles are still showing up bold and left-aligned.
If you must list a title with every post, how about putting it in the table row to the left of the post number? That kludge, however, doesn't alter the fact that listing the same titles over and over constitutes spam. Surely, a competent PHP programmer could use a thread's posts to manipulate AdSense without changing the content users actually read.
In the advanced reply mode, the titles are still showing up bold and left-aligned.
If you must list a title with every post, how about putting it in the table row to the left of the post number? That kludge, however, doesn't alter the fact that listing the same titles over and over constitutes spam. Surely, a competent PHP programmer could use a thread's posts to manipulate AdSense without changing the content users actually read.
So, are they showing up when NOT hovering over them? (Like The Bus, I'm assuming you're talking about the link title tags on the showforum page)
01-07-09, 12:40 PM
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Re: What's with the automatic titles in posts?
01-07-09, 12:46 PM
#128
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Re: What's with the automatic titles in posts?
I still would like to see a version with blinking titles or random bolded colors each time. It would increase participation in this thread, and I don't see how that could be a bad thing.
PS I appreciate the changes so far, IB-Dick.
PS I appreciate the changes so far, IB-Dick.
01-07-09, 03:37 PM
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Re: What's with the automatic titles in posts?
I think we have now created a better internet! 
Add avatars of unlimited size, html in signatures (including flash apps), and titles that look like that and I'll be IN for premium!
Add avatars of unlimited size, html in signatures (including flash apps), and titles that look like that and I'll be IN for premium!
01-07-09, 04:35 PM
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Re: What's with the automatic titles in posts?
Ouch. I think internet sighs are harder to take than normal sighs. Far from a momentary collapse of breath, there it is for everyone to read. Permanently etched in a web log somewhere. Really hurts.
01-07-09, 04:51 PM
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New Premium feature:
- Redundant automatic post titles will be hidden!
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- Redundant automatic post titles will be hidden!
In addition, any annoying changes to the site's layout made in the future can be avoided by becoming a Premium member!
01-07-09, 05:14 PM
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Lose weight fast! NO DRUGS, NO DIETING. ASK ME HOW.
Change is okay if it serves a purpose and doesn't clutter things up. 
I'll continue to make lemonade out of these lemons by constantly bastardizing my post titles. There's at least some entertainment value there.
I'll continue to make lemonade out of these lemons by constantly bastardizing my post titles. There's at least some entertainment value there.
01-07-09, 05:16 PM
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Re: What's with the automatic titles in posts?
We've got one site that was sandboxed because the majority of the site was hidden by default. It was a great user experience; if you want more information, you click and it's there. Google thought we were using hidden text to game it. We killed the feature and got released from penalty. Based on that experience, we removed similar features from other sites and saw much better placement in the SERPS.
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01-07-09, 06:00 PM
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