Ever notice how thread titles often have nothing to do with the actual topic?

[BurlyGuys]

Do you like tomatoes on your salad?

[KzScrapper]

All the time Burly...thanks for making me spit my coffee on the screen.

[corycouch]

i dont like tomatos or salad, so putting them together cant help, seriously you need to find a dragon to burly smash

[BurlyGuys]

All the time Burly...thanks for making me spit my coffee on the screen.

Cool! Was your webcam recording?? :-)

[Gravitar]

When I see these threads:

And to answer your question, no, I do not like candles on my bicycle.

[Bear]

That's what makes the search function work so well

[AuburnEwaste]

Most of them are the Chinese guy trying to sell his copper granulating machine.

[Russell]

I saw that there was some pizza in the cafeteria. So... Do you have to be in a certain department, or is it for everyone?

[bejak]

Has nothing to do with any post on the forum but my Son got his job back today.

[BRASSCATCHER]

and the nun said" thats not even my elephant"

[tedanderson]

I used to hate that when I'd go into chat rooms on AOL or Yahoo. They would have 42 topics in a particular area about everything from science to the football game. But everyone in there was was looking to "cyber" with each other.

[happyscraper]

Yeah, those candles on the bicycle are hard to keep litt.

[IdahoScrapper]

[Gravitar]

Darn, I thought the answer was blue jeans because dogs prefer pecan pie fried in doorknobs. Whoops.

[landmine]

Ah ya, Hello? I'll take a large cheese pizza

[Bear]

put another log on the fire

[CarolinaEwaste]

Did you just see that cat?

[Ohio Scrapper]

Where can I find a buyer for those tomatoes and salad??

[scrapperben]

firstly there needs to be a shout box on the front page, so people can express their feelings at the time
in a quick and visible way, so it's not in a thread.
a shout bot in a forum is great for communication to keep ticking over, like I might post, darn it's hot today,
the next guy might post, scored a couple great laptops today, next guy shouts, bloody freezing in canada today.
and so on, so it keeps ticking over on the front page, people get to express their emotions or just a statement of the day.

second thing I think is even bigger, and that's what this thread is about so.
there needs to be a forum law on how threads are titled.
opinions should be left out and just keep clear as to what the topic is.
not looking at any in particular, just the ones right now in the A Day in the Life of a Scrapper section

here's the titles..

Another day at the yard....haha not really
Unreal request
Ahhhh, what a disappointment
So Much Yellow!
Good Week
Flying theFlag Today
Value of these boards
$3 investment and turning it into an easy $30+ return

these are nothing titles, merely opinons and statements that could be written in the first line of the actual post,
the're not searchable yet the posts within will probably have good info.
the looseness of the titles creates a looseness in the way people post things, almost like a competition of bill boards
to attract readers attention, sometime the title is longer then what they write in a post!

[Sirscrapalot]

Is this thing on? Can anyone hear me? Hello? Hello?


Anyone out there? Helloooo? Guys?


Sirscrapalot - Obviously the answer is 42. Go read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy...