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    Angry Give sensible thread titles, please

    How I hate when I see threads like 'Help', 'Can you answer this ?', 'Urgent', 'I don't know why it is not working, 'I need help', 'Question', 'I am stumpped', 'Its not working' etc etc etc etc.

    It would be much more better if people would place specific thread titles. After all, we visit this forum to get help, to ask question, when we are stumped, when it is urgent, when we are looking for somebody to aswer our question :

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    Re: Give sensible thread titles, please

    I agree. Titles like these tend to turn people away:

    I'm a noob
    hmmmmm
    Problem
    Noobie Help
    Grrrrrr
    What's going on!!!
    Help Please!
    Help with code

    If you give a general idea on the problem in your title and try to be as specific yet brief as possible, then more people who are able to solve your problem will be happy to help you out. Here are some good examples:

    Command button is not working right
    How do I rotate an image?
    Copying one text file into another
    Problem with collision detection
    My program is crashing
    Direct Memory Addressing
    How do I Fillmemory in Words and Quads?

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    Re: Give sensible thread titles, please

    Well I won't hide from it. I'm the one who posted the thread titled "help" lol sorry I won't do that anymore.
    Nick

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    Re: Give sensible thread titles, please

    yup that is nice for all

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    Re: Give sensible thread titles, please

    Imagine how funny and messed up this place would be if all thread titles were like this

    I'm a noob
    hmmmmm
    Problem
    Noobie Help
    Grrrrrr
    What's going on!!!
    Help Please!
    Help with code

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    Re: Give sensible thread titles, please

    and what if
    vbforums would be named "findWives" ....

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    Quote Originally Posted by vbPoet
    and what if
    vbforums would be named "findWives" ....
    You've been drinking again haven't you?

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    Re: Give sensible thread titles, please

    Quote Originally Posted by Jacob Roman
    Imagine how funny and messed up this place would be...
    What do you mean imagine? Its like that already.




    There are quite a few posters that think we are clairvoyant and can diagnose "help, it wont working" out of thin air, without even offering any clues at all, code samples are a luxury. Some people just don't think.

    I think the human race needs to trim the herd somewhat.
    I don't live here any more.

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    Re: Give sensible thread titles, please

    Am I the only one suspecting that certain people in this thread may be talking to themselves?

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    Re: Give sensible thread titles, please

    Quote Originally Posted by Pc_Madness
    Am I the only one suspecting that certain people in this thread may be talking to themselves?
    Its the only way I can find intelligent, stimulating conversation.
    I don't live here any more.

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    When I want a stimulating conversation, I stick electrodes onto my tongue.

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    Re: Give sensible thread titles, please

    Quote Originally Posted by wossname
    What do you mean imagine? Its like that already.




    There are quite a few posters that think we are clairvoyant and can diagnose "help, it wont working" out of thin air, without even offering any clues at all, code samples are a luxury. Some people just don't think.

    I think the human race needs to trim the herd somewhat.
    I guess they think that everyone has their own copy of ActiveX Brain Widgets that includes the MindMeld OCX.

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    Re: Give sensible thread titles, please

    I have one.

    "It Broke, Fix it for Me."

    I personally love peeps who ask same questions almost exactly w/o searching. I search prior to all posts. I always seems to have something slightly different, but 80% of my q's are all solved by previous posts.

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    Re: Give sensible thread titles, please

    i've read a post question just like: arrgggg...tsuk..tak..
    and i understand what he wants.

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    Re: Give sensible thread titles, please

    Well,
    at least they've stopped posting those "One for the Gurus" or "Gurus Only" threads that were most popular a few years back.

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    You need to post more often. 2 years, and only 50 non chit chat posts to show for it.

    You're Something Else

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    Re: Give sensible thread titles, please

    when I first joined, my thread title was "bleh"

    http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...highlight=bleh

    I thought vb6 and VBA were the same thing

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    And I thought DirectX and OpenGL were the same thing......Nahhhh, I wasn't that dumb

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    Re: Give sensible thread titles, please

    Quote Originally Posted by Jacob Roman
    And I thought DirectX and OpenGL were the same thing......Nahhhh, I wasn't that dumb

    even I know that DirextX and OpenGL are different..and I don't do any gfx programming (yet)

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    Re: Give sensible thread titles, please

    Why wait. You can start now:

    www.angelfire.com/fl5/memorydll/index.html

    I made these, but they are far from complete. I'm currently developing an actual 3D engine I can work with so my code isn't so cluttered. That and a Dance Dance Revolution clone. Also try this for a tutorial:

    http://externalweb.exhedra.com/Direc...T_DX8Start.asp

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    Re: Give sensible thread titles, please

    lol...i forgot..you're the one trying to force everyone into D-X eh?

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    If you tried it sometime, you'll know why

    Try out my R-Type3D game as an example. It's gonna blow your mind that VB is even capable of that.

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    well I WOULD try it out..but I don't have VB6..if u have an exe it would help

    And you didnt link me..and quite frankly..im lazy

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    EXE is included

    Here's the link

    www.angelfire.com/fl5/memorydll/index.html

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    Your computer won't be the same after trying his game. That's how great DirectX is.

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    Re: Give sensible thread titles, please

    Try moving the mouse around for freelooking camera, the numpad keys to move the camera around like a FPS, the arrow keys to move the ship around, spacebar for firing, and Esc to quit the program.

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    I dont have a number pad...laptop *cough*..i did test it though..pretty cool

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    Re: Give sensible thread titles, please

    [ThreadTitle]HELP!!![/ThreadTitle]

    My code doesnt do what I want it to do. Whats wrong with it?

    GIMME CODE!!!

    Thanks


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    Quote Originally Posted by RobDog888
    [ThreadTitle]HELP!!![/ThreadTitle]

    My code doesnt do what I want it to do. Whats wrong with it?

    GIMME CODE!!!

    Thanks


    I heard that quite a few times before. *Coughs* Noobs

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    But dont you just love it.
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    Re: Give sensible thread titles, please

    Here's another one:

    [Post][Title]New To VB[Title]
    Help with me with code.
    I want to do something, which I can't seem to do
    This problem is really frustrating me
    Please Look at my code, and fill in everything for me, I am new to VB and I don't know what to do!

    [Attached]New2VB.zip[Attached]
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    'I want to do something
    'Please help
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    lol.

    Even at the yahoo lpsolve user group, it happens!
    Just saw a new topic, { http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lp_solve/message/4484 } titled:

    [lp_solve] can someone give me a c++ code of lp solver i need it urgently


    The poster didn't even bother entering anything in the body!

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    You know whos around 12 years old when you see people posting questions like that. It would be even funnier if they were any older.

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    Re: Give sensible thread titles, please

    Quote Originally Posted by mecracked
    How I hate when I see threads like 'Help', 'Can you answer this ?', 'Urgent', 'I don't know why it is not working, 'I need help', 'Question', 'I am stumpped', 'Its not working' etc etc etc etc.

    It would be much more better if people would place specific thread titles. After all, we visit this forum to get help, to ask question, when we are stumped, when it is urgent, when we are looking for somebody to aswer our question :
    I couldn't agree more.
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