[wp-forums] URGENT

[Les Bessant]

This is getting too much like the day job, where our IT helpdesk gets requests titled "Help", "Urgent", or my favourite, "Computer" (presumably so we know it's not about the microwave oven.....

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On 30 Jan 2013, at 18:49, Jennifer Roberts <wpyogimail at gmail.com> wrote:

> What about removing the "urgent" from the topic line and adding the "hire someone if it's urgent" note as an edit to the OP's post.  That would get the point across (maybe) and also remove the "urgents" from the topic lines that show on the forum  -  which probably encourages other people to put that in their topic lines as well. 
> 
> But definitely agree that it's annoying as are variations of "HELP!!!!" 
> 
> Jennifer
> 
> 
> On Jan 30, 2013, at 10:43 AM, Mar Ventus wrote:
> 
>> In the lines of "less is more" (or something like that), I prefer Chip's
>> "self-moderation" approach better.
>> Guidelines are just that, guidelines, and not being descriptive enough in a
>> title doesn't seem like that big of a deal, certainly not big enough for
>> topic closure.
>> Plus, users can decide whether to help the OPs in question, it's up to them
>> I think.
>> Otherwise, we would be crossing a pretty big line.
>> My 2 cents.
>> 
>> Marv
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Perhaps a little Draconian, but you could always just close such topics,
>>> referencing this:
>>> http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Choose_A_Good_Topic_Title
>>> 
>>> Alternately, just let the community "self-moderate". I think most of the
>>> forum volunteers are savvy enough not to give special dispensation to a
>>> thread merely because it includes "URGENT!!!!!1!" it the title. :)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:43 PM, VoodooPress <rvoodoo at voodoopress.com
>>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I pretty much completely agree with your philosophy and reasoning to be
>>>> honest... I just wasn't sure if we were comfortable knocking them off the
>>>> list wholesale just because they appear impatient presently.
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Andrew2.Nevins <
>>>> Andrew2.Nevins at live.uwe.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Sigh...
>>>>> I meant "where people wait patiently".
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