Hello all!

Just wanted to encourage people to think about their topic titles. And the keyword here is 'think'. Please use more than just 20 milliseconds to figure out a topic title. Why?

The reason is actually straightforward. When searching this great forum for help regarding a specific issue, it can really speed up the searching if the topic title is specific.

As an example, I needed some help with a rich edit control in C++, and was searching the forum for posts with the text 'charformat2'. This is a structure available from Windows, and can be used for alot of things. But I needed it for a specific area. And it's really annoying when searching and you find 20+ topics with a non-descriptive title such as "Rich edit", "RichEdit control", "RichEditCtrl" etc.

Others go even further and simply chooses REALLY bad topic titles such as "Please help", "What's wrong here?" etc.

Luckily alot of people on this board is really good at writing descriptive titles, such as "Change Fonts in CRichEditView", "Japanese characters in CEdit or CRichEditCtrl?", "Using subscripts in a Rich edit Control" and I could go on. And that's really nice titles, because you instantly know what this topic is about, and what relation it has to my search keyword 'charformat2'.

I don't mean to offend anyone in any way, I just want to encourage people to think about their topic title. If you can't really figure out what to write to make it descriptive, then my advice is to write the post first, and then write a title afterwards. Then you can use the title as a sort of resum of your topic, and we all know what it's about.

This will also help you, because more people are likely to help you. If I see a topic with the title 'Please help', I don't click it. It's not because I don't want to, or because I don't like titles like this, but I'm just not encouraged to do it, when I don't know what it's about. I'm sure i'm not the only one who has it like this.
If you instead write a topic title that is descriptive, people with the right knowledge who sees your topic, will most probably read your topic and maybe reply.

Be smart! Write descriptive topic titles, and speed up searching for everyone, get more focused visitors to your topics and more precise replies.

Thank you for your time. :)