[fightinJAG]

There's some truth to what you said. However, the "barf alert" has a very long history on FR and it probably got started at a time where it was more of an inside joke than it is today. I can remember posts where people would say "hey, you forgot the 'barf alert'."

So, in a bow to tradition, I'm okay with that. That said, though, people really did police themselves better on such things in the past.

Tonight I see the forum is much cleaner for the most part, so maybe finally speaking up a little here and there brought back some of that civic-mindedness! OTOH, the posters who add the (what the title really means and really means to me and you should know it now before even clicking on the thread because otherwise you might not get it) paretheticals maybe aren't out and about so much tonight. :)

[fightinJAG]

Probably should have pinged you to this underlying post as we were still discussing mod response. Sorry.

Also wanted to add that what really made me decide to say something was one day I saw a thread on a Dick Morris article. I thought he had added the parenthetical to the title, but when I clicked on the article, not only did I realize it was the poster’s comment (not the author’s idea to convey in the title), but the parenthetical made the article seem like the exact opposite of what the author was conveying in the title.

That’s not right.

There’s a place for that and it seems to me it’s in the comment box, not in hijacking the title box.

Sure, some comments in the title box don’t create a mess. But a line must be drawn and it seems to me the only way to do that is to say comments need to be in the comment box. IMHO.

There are posters who tend to do this on every thread they post. To the point now that they simply restate the title in their own words, as if we won’t get it and the excerpt won’t explain it adequately.

Thanks.