Quote Originally Posted by jjmac
Why is the titled

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attempt to hijack a news post - split and moved
in the "Lounge" forum ?


jm
I'm the one who did this so I guess if you're asking I should explain it. This post was made to the then top story in the top forum, the news forum. I can only guess that the poster thought he would get the most attention if he put his post on top. It was completely off-topic there and had absolutely nothing to do with the subject of that thread. I could either just delete it or move it, or let people think the way to get attention for their problem was to post it inside the top news story. Since it wasn't spam I elected to split it out of the thread. When I did so the system required me to give it a title. The poster apparently did't care about the subject line of his post; it was hidden under the subject 4.0.2 DVD and CD out now. If he didn't care enough to give his post a good title I didn't either. Also I wasn't feeling very obligated to write helpful descriptive titles for posters who can't even pick the proper forum and I don't want to send the message that if you can't be bothered to come up with an informative title just dump your post in the news forum and I'll clean it up and give it a nice home, so I used the title I did, to let people know what the poster did. I thought about putting it in the networking section but since it was about Suse and not Knoppix I put it here in the Lounge, where off topic stuff better fits.

If I move posts in the future I'll likely use similar subject lines. If people want better subject lines that reflect their problem they should not hijack threads.