Quote Originally Posted by ngc7088
Quote Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman
Thanks for making the edit. Much like litter on the street, "I'm a noob" posts seem to breed, and if not kept in check they quickly get out of hand.
I understand why you don't like it. But it feels necessary. Even as it was, every help response I've gotten so far are highly cryptic to me.........
I certainly have no problem with someone explaining that they are new to Linux in the body of a post. And I don't complain if someone sneaks it into the subject along with a description of their problem. But several years ago this forum was littered with "I'm a noob" or "help" or other lame subject posts, subjects that gave a helper no clue as to what the post might be about, and subject lines that were worthless for searching. And there more there were, it seemed the more likely that the next new user would follow in the same style. I discussed it with the owner of the forum at the time and he agreed it was a problem.

So now, when it happens, we request that the poster give the post a meaningful subject. And it happens far less often now that it used to happen when the forums were littered with uninformative subject lines.