Reply #23: First, your title is ALL CAPS That's hostile in an internet forum.

[troublemaker]

The implication is that your post is more important than others or that everyone else is too dumb to figure out how to do all caps. Avoiding all-cap titles is just good citizenship, since the alternative is an attention-getting-titles arms race.

Second, your title is full of exclamation points!!!! Again, a consciously in-your-face attention-seeking style choice.

Third, you use letters in the title to tell people what to think about something they haven't even seen yet when you could use the same number of letters to provide some indication of the subject of your post.

Posts with titles like OMG! READ THIS!!!! defeat the whole purpose of having a title, which is to allow browsers to determine if they want to click on a particular post. All you told us was that you want us to read it, but we already knew that. Why else do any of us post anything?

This is just a style complaint and I hope it didn't seem personal. My fault if it did. When we reply to messages we are in a sense literally replying to *messages*--there's a person on the other end, but the letters on the screen are all we have to go by.