Mikalai Zaikin wrote:
The question is: where is the rule where I can not use "?!!" punctuation ?
Bear Bibeault wrote:In order to help SEO and searching, topic names are heavily moderated. Also, extraneous punctuation can lead to "punctuation wars". One user uses "?!!!" to get more attention, so the next uses "?!!!?!!!", and the next uses "?!!!%%$$#*&^%$^%$^%$^%", the next starts using ASCII-art, and it all ends with Global Thermo-nuclear war!
Bear Bibeault wrote:
There's no specific rule, but part of "being nice" is making sure that subjects are readable and searchable. Please help the Ranch achieve good SEO and Google ranking by using good, descriptive subjects and avoiding excess punctuation.
Bear Bibeault wrote:
If you want to vent frustration, you've got plenty of opportunity to express that within the topic body!
Henry Wong wrote:
Mikalai Zaikin wrote:
The question is: where is the rule where I can not use "?!!" punctuation ?
Not every moderation is about rules. Sometimes it is just to help you get an answer better.
Henry Wong wrote:
If it is about rules then every topic would be in leet speak, be marked as urgent, and pretty much be annoying to most of the professional engineers here at the ranch.
Bear Bibeault wrote:Another good example is typos. Frequently a subject will contain a typo such as "servelts". Someone searching for "servlets" isn't going to find the entry. By fixing the typos, everyone is helped, including the original author of the post.
Bear Bibeault wrote:
Remember, the "be nice" rule is to help everyone here.
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There was a time when that sort of punctuation use was getting out of hand and it annoyed several of the staff. Since the staff have access to the source code for the forum software, they tweaked it so that that sort of thing cannot be done.
Mikalai Zaikin wrote:In my case CodeRanch personnel decided to "adjust" my writing because it "was not nice" (to readers, or to Google, still unclear) according to their subjective perception.
Gregg Bolinger wrote:
Mikalai Zaikin wrote:In my case CodeRanch personnel decided to "adjust" my writing because it "was not nice" (to readers, or to Google, still unclear) according to their subjective perception.
Yep, that is exactly what happened. We don't like excessive punctuation and it is subjective. Personally, I don't like exclamation marks at all. Not even 1, in a subject line. There is really no need for it. You weren't singled out, we just can't be everywhere at once. So if we edit yours and not someone else's', well, we just miss some stuff. We're human.
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