Ialdabaoth
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Joined: 5/4/2008 From: Tempe, AZ Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda Kia, I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you just told me. I see the text box you're talking about, but I don't understand what you said. It's a quirk of how the board software works. A thread has a title, right? Actually, wrong. Each post has a title. Technically, the thread "inherits" the title of the first post in it - so when NZ posted this thread, he posted it as a single message, entitled "The Official NZ Points Thread - Prizes and Scores". Make sense so far? So! everyone responds to that post, and their posts (by default) get the same title as the OP, but with "RE: " stuck to the end. So their posts have the title "RE: The Official NZ Points Thread - Prizes and Scores". When you see the thread listed, you see the first post's title, but when you click to reply, or you see a new post singled-out in the sidebar or top scroller, you see THAT post's title, which usually has the "RE: ". Now, here's the trick: You can edit that entire post line. It won't change NZ's original post title (which is what the forum's "topic list" uses to display), but it WILL change YOUR post's title (which is what the top and side updaters use, and which is what your reply-thingy uses). And people who respond to YOUR post, will inherit YOUR title - with a "RE: " tacked on if there isn't one. At some point, someone edited their post title from "RE: The Official NZ Points Thread - Prizes and Scores" to "An Inquiry", and then the response became "RE: An Inquiry" - even though the OP was titled "The Official NZ Points Thread - Prizes and Scores", and shows that in the forum topic list. Explaining more in-depth would involve describing bits of computer code, databases, and all that. Is this a sufficient explanation?
< Message edited by Ialdabaoth -- 10/18/2009 9:53:22 PM >
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