jase:
Do you really have to have a subject for every message? Seems like an awful waste of space to me and would actually improve the flow from one post to the next if there wasn't this superfluous emphasised line.
Only about 1.59% of subjects are changed (have analysed about 17 million posts over 1 million threads). Of those how many mattered?
Happy to include it, then that's where I can put the squiggle... but are we hanging onto a pretty useless bit of (non)information because that's the way it's always been?
No, we don't actually need to have a subject for EVERY message. And I suppose we don't NEED to have one at all, but in the case of several of my games, it would certainly be helpful (and not just because it's the way we've always done it).
Say for instance, (using examples of a real game) - a classroom thread that gets the Subject line changed by the GM when the classroom subject changes...
...or a military game where the maneuvers being done (on the same field) change when the date advances.
...or a particular thread that updates something the characters can see each week, and therefore has a different date as the subject line for each ICly new post on the same IC board.
I mean, we can live without it, but it's certainly helpful and handy and I feel would look nicer than putting in a manual
NEW SUBJECT HERE line at the start of every post (discounting that half the players probably won't remember to DO that anyway - currently the GM can 'set it and forget it', mostly). Besides, it gives you a place to put the squiggle. :)
This message was last edited by the user at 23:31, Wed 28 Aug 2019.