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Questions about the forum mechanisms + suggestions for topics titles
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GazetaBitcoin
on 13/12/2019, 13:24:28 UTC
⭐ Merited by OmegaStarScream (1) ,SFR10 (1) ,DdmrDdmr (1)
Hello,

During the time spent here I encountered a few aspects for which I need a little help in order to understand them, as it follows:
- what is "nuking an account"? I saw many time this expression but I couldn't find any answer;
- how does work "Total time logged in"? I presume that when opening a topic page (thread, for example), after the page is displayed, the time counter counts the time for a certain amount of seconds. Practically, if you remain on that page (and you don't press Alt+Tab), the time counter won't count a long amount of time, although the same page is displayed. I believe the time counter counts only a few seconds (30 for example), then, in order to have a bigger logged in time, it is needed to navigate to another forum page. II wonder what is the time counted (in seconds or in minutes) after opening a forum page;
- what is "autoban"? For this term I also couldn't find a clarification yet;
- why is the custom in Meta section to close the topics? I understand the intention to reduce the spam, but, however, I didn't observe this custom in local sections, for example, nor in other sections. If the only intention is to reduce the spam, why isn't this custom applied also in other sections?;
- is it possible to unfollow a thread where you posted a reply? If yes, how?

Besides the questions, I'd like to add two suggestions for the topics titles:
- maybe it would be helpful to have more characters available for the topics titles, as sometimes is hard to fit in the actual space with what you want to write as a title, especially when a complex name is needed. In this case, most likely, the topic title would be a vague one, as is this topic's title. If there would be more characters available in the title, maybe this would help several cases of complex titles.
- a second suggestion regards the way a topic title should look like. I know there are topics on this matters (eg. theymos' thread or tranthidung's thread). However, besides the guidelines from those two threads, I would suggest to use a common sense practice, which I'm calling "the 3Ws rule".

The 3Ws rule means the following: construct the title having in mind to precisely describe what, who (if needed) and (if needed) where. Example: "Selling 1 BTC in Amsterdam". "Selling" is the answer for "what", "I" is the answer for "who" (the "I" is implied in the topic title) and "in Amsterdam" is the answer for "where".

Thank you.