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At the request of one of the users I have decided to put together a guide to follow when you are titling a topic.
I believe this is important because many of us have limited time on TS.com so we just want to find the topics which interest us. Giving your topic a good title will help you get more people to actually post in the topic. It will also help people to find topics they have already posted in.
[*]Your title should be a 2 to 7 word summary of the topic. Use keywords from the topic so people know what it is about before they click the topic.
[*]Make it stand out from the crowd. How is your topic different from the other 30 topics on the front page. If it's not different why are you posting a new topic?
Guide for specific sections: ((Not all sections have been included. If you would like to see a section included please reply to this)
[*]Introduce Yourself.
This must be one of the hardest to title. Give your post a title which people will remember, but which still serve to be an introduction "Greetings from the south of the world " is a good example
[*]Literature Discussion
Your title should have the name of the book or author the title is about, unless it's a general discussion in which the title should be what tat general discussion is eg."What's the worst book you've ever read?"
[*] Vent Station
This must be the worst section for ambiguous titles. Titles like "Stop it, stop it, STOP IT! " or "Oh Crap!" don't tell the other users what the topic is about, and I know that I personally look at such topics last. SImply asking for help is not appreciated either. A good title will include who and/or what you are venting about.
Guide to titling your topics
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 12:40 am
This is why I stay away from the important topics thread. It's all just, "Help me!"  |
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:20 pm
^That's why i made sure to put the specific when making vents (and even then I don't vent much)
Also I'm sure my intro thread got some people's attention  I Still want to burn the world Btw!
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:43 am
Just as you predicted, I tend to skip over the titles that aren't very specific.
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 5:28 pm
Thanks for the guide. I'm not usually good with titling topics. Anyway, I need help with a topic that I'm going to post in the writer's Circle. I don't know which title is good "Compatibility with your charcters" or "Relationships between your characters." It's about how your characters get along well...or not.
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 5:31 pm
how about "Interaction Between Your Characters"? Even something like your other choices is still a proper subject title. It doesn't need to be novel long, just a short description of what you are going to discuss. It's a lot better than "OMG Humanity -90000!!!!!".    An unpleasant and sickening odour crept up the staircase. Upon the door being burst open, a legion of rats scampered in all directions. The greater portion of the body of the poor girl had been devoured by the rats. |
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 5:44 pm
That's a good title. The example is like A character likes B character or something. Also, like B character hates C character for my thread. |
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Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 3:46 am
You know how on some sites you can hover over a title and it'll give you the first hundred (or whatever) characters in the post? Is it possible to do that on this site? It might help people have a further understanding, beyond the title, of what the topic is about.
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 1:37 pm
That's a pretty good idea...  |
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