Quote from: V8s Road Warrior on Today at 02:47:21 PM

nullius can you please conform to Bitcointalk Suchmoon's Vision and not retitle the thread. apparently it equates to derailing.

Bitcointalk SV is not accepted here. suchmoon’s opinions are just that; I file most of them in “taken under advisement”. Here, specifically, her opinion about “derailing” is arrant nonsense. 🗑️

Observe how wildly suchmoon lashes out at me from petty spite: She follows up her opinion of “derailing” by arguing against my expectation that I can post serious discussion outside of the Serious Discussion forum (!). Seriously? Roll Eyes

I don’t know why people take suchmoon’s pronouncements so seriously. She is not an administrator, she is not staff—well, she is exceptionally skilled at winning popularity contests. You may guess how much weight I accord to popular opinion.

I do have reasons for changing the titles on many of my posts; please see below, just in case my motive for retitling posts may be questioned by somebody whose opinion means more than suchmoon’s.

Quote from: V8s Road Warrior on Today at 02:49:23 PM

she would have those darn trains running on time i'm pretty sure of it
"the new leaderette"

LOL, I see what you did there. Vide the title of this post.

Why I Retitle

I have always retitled posts when I thought that was appropriate. That has never brought any complaints in Development & Technical Discussion, which in my opinion is the most serious forum (yes, more serious than “Serious Discussion”). It has never caused complaints in Bitcoin Discussion, either—n.b. that that link is to me retitling on my own topic, which I assuredly did not wish to “derail”.

Although my retitling of posts is sometimes hostile, that only occurs if the post itself is hostile to OP. As aforementioned, I not infrequently retitle posts in my own threads—and in others’ threads, I oft receive merit from the topic starter on a retitled post. N.b. that that last link is to a post where I rewrote Lauda’s topic title—and Lauda merited me! I have even retitled my posts in the (strictly self-moderated, very authoritarian) Cult of Lauda thread—just in case there was any remaining doubt about “derailing”, or any intention thereof.

My post titles have sometimes been accorded praise in the titles of replies. Other than a few prior not-quite-complaining remarks in WO, the only place where it has brought complaints was in Reputation—from petty-minded nitwits with personal grudges against me, who were searching for an excuse to nitpick. —Now, what was that about suchmoon?

Besides aesthetics, one of the reasons why I often set custom post titles is that I use my received merit list as a navigational aid. Indeed, all of the links in the preceding paragraphs were rapidly found just now by hitting Ctrl-F, and typing in keywords that I remembered. I do this almost every day, usually multiple times per day; my most memorable posts often receive merit, and have memorable topic titles, so... Compare the Last of the V8s received merit list, which is more formidable than mine, but—opaque. (I have explained this before somewhere, in PMs and/or publicly; alas, I don’t know where, and I don’t have a handy navigational aid for finding it.)

I like to keep things organized. Properly labelled. For the same reason, because WO is special, I retitle my WO posts with a “[WO]” marker. Where I think it’s appropriate, outside WO, I sometimes retain portions of the original topic title—sometimes not; I determine that by the overall context, whether I agree or disagree with the OP (and even whether I am the OP).