Character limit in thread titles. So frustrating!! !

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I noticed something that made WrongPlanet really frustrating to use: character limit in thread titles. It's something like 30 characters long. That's barely enough to put together a clunky phrase, let alone a descriptive complete sentence. In order to fit within the limit, I have to resort to text-speak, shorten the title to the point where it doesn't make sense, or write something similar that I don't have my mind set on. Or oftentimes, just forget about the thread altogether. It's a shame because some could have easily been great threads. What's an even bigger slap in the face is that spammers find a way to get around the character limit, because many of their thread titles are huge.

Mods/owners/programmers, can we PLEASE increase the character limit for thread titles? Not just for spammers, but for honest site members too.

My thread titles are often range from incomplete, to hard to understand, to outright misleading because of this problem.

A title is just that - a title. It is not the post, only a quick synopsis. Besides, it is easier for the users to adapt to the limits than it is to increase those limits. For instance, the title (subject) of this thread could just has easily have been "Do things my way, now!", which is much shorter and more directly to the actual point of this thread.

Yeah it really seems that you don't understand what a title is. The title for this thread could simply have been "Thread title limit". It's not supposed to be a phrase, and you shouldn't have to resort to text talk. The media don't do this with their headlines, so you shouldn't have to either. Please don't resort to clickbait headlines though, lol.

I can not speak for the OP but I am not ASKING for the charactor limit to be increased to the charactor limit of a post just from its current limit of 60 to say maybe 80

1. Most of us are not proffessional headline writers
2. WP is not a tabloid newspaper which are written at around a 4th grade level. Some topics here are quite sophisticated in nature and do need more charactors to explain the subject of the post in the most bare bones way.
3. If the title length is increased who is it going to hurt? Maybe a few language police who are obsessed with correct title length? If the proposed increase results in overly wordy titles it can be brought back to the way it is now. This should not be difficult to do. It should require a programmer to adjust the length of one field. This type of thing was done easily when I was programming 3 decades ago. If doing this on this software is going to cause numerous bugs or is difficult, this software is more screwed up then even I thought possible.

"Subject Line Character Limit Too Short!"

There, that's not so frustrating, is it?

1. There is a difference between "Want" and "Need".

2. Those who speak the most words usually have the least to say.

So any possibility of getting the title length limit increased? Probably not, but nobody gets in trouble for asking.

Looks like somebody bumped my thread. That's good! Maybe it'll get some attention, and the title length limit can go up to, say, 100. Anything is is better that making the thread title "Grrrr!! !" because a full description is impossible.