To get extremely annoyed when people who start threads purposely cut the subject line short so we have to open the thread?

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It annoys the hell out of me when people post something like this in the subject line:

AIBU to think that DH shouldn't have...

And then in their opening message:

left the toilet seat up?

Why in the name of all that is holy, can't you put the whole fucking lot in the subject line?

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Hahaaaaaa. Oh yes.

Oh god, the Tease Title.

YANBU

oh infuriating!
I waste nearly a whole second of my life when I click on a thread and then realise I'm not interested :o

Are you reading on the iPhone app?

Nope; laptop. It's definitely not an issue with the device.

I'd post up a link to one of the threads I'm talking about but I think it would be unfair to single one out.

"Tease Title" - I like that description, WhiteBird. That's exactly what they are!

mercury - I know, we just don't have a spare second to waste opening a thread we might not be interested in.

I know what you mean, OP, and have been mildly irritated myself to be misled. But, meh, it's a second or two of your life, do you really get "extremely annoyed" or is that a misleading thread title?

Do you open them OP?

The risk of having hardly anyone answer is just a risk too far seeing as they've taken their life in their hands to post on AIBU as it is.

If they're feeling crap anyway, why not use a pull technique?

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Ok, yes, it's probably more mildly irritated.

'AIBU to be extremely annoyed when people who start threads purposely ramp up their annoyance just to pull in punters?'

Do you open them OP?

It varies. Sometimes I do, sometimes not.

in some ways I think the loss of the second is compensated by the thrill of the lucky dip, it's like mumsnet Russian roulette :o

If they're feeling crap anyway, why not use a pull technique?

It's not those sort of threads I'm talking about, Agent.

If it was an opening line of "AIBU to be worried about this?", followed by a full description of something that the OP might well be feeling crap about, then fair enough.

It's the more inane threads which are set up like that purely to force MNers to open them them to find out what they're about.

I like that mercury

Will it be bog brushes, a haunted cupboard, or has the OP eaten a whole packet of biscuits?

You can only get a few words into the title, and only putting the bare bones might put people off giving them the advice they'd post if they knew the whole situation.

Don't you mean 'set up like that purely to force the nosey, obsessive MNers to open them'?

I bet you read doggardly to the end of a book because you have to know the end, even when you're not enjoying it and know the end will be as crap as the middle

So, what do you do Agent, when faced with an AIBU of, for example,"To think that..." ?

Sometimes I open them sometimes I don't.

I'm nosey as in I'm interested, but it's one thing I'm not obsessive about.

I don't see it as a cheat or deception, the OP wants to talk about something and is scared nobody will answer and it'll feel like they've been rejected.

Totally normal reaction to posting here.

"Am I really? Cos I dont think I am!" takes less space than "to tell DH to get his own tea?"

YANBU, they do it because they know that if they posted the genuine title, no one would read the banal crap.

Can it be banal crap if it's worrying them sufficiently that they'd rather run the gauntlet of AIBU to talk to someone/anyone, than sit with it going round and round in their head?

YANBU - but I would have been very upset if you had called it "to be extremely annoyed at people who start threads......" ... yes I find it irritating too !

Just as annoying as those damn obtuse comments people put on their Facebook profile that you know are worded deliberately to get people's curiosity up "That's it, I really have had enough now!" Or "someone's going to wish they'd never been born". And you know all their 300+ friends are bound to plead who? Who? Go on tell us! Of course then they say oh nothing just someone has upset me... Thats why I came off Crapbook a year ago, resentful of those precious seconds needlessly stolen from my life!!

Daisy, on fb that'd seem very drama queen/attention seeking because it maneuvers friends into acting like a bunch of sycophants and begging for more info

But on a forum I think it's quite fun!
All you have to do to find out more is click on the thread and read a couple of lines to find out if it's something you fancy getting drawn into

YANBU. I'm surprised there aren't more replies to such threads along the lines of "is that all?"

Particularly things like "AIBU to wonder..." then you open it and it's just "... Where All My Friends On MN I Know (We're Important On Here) Have Gone"?

YANBU.

It's mildly irritating.

When someone goes 'AIBU about my friend...'
'She thinks that tea is better than wine!'

Why not just ASK THE QUESTION?

perhaps these people are genuinely tortured with tying to figure out if they are or are non BU?
oughtn't we show more compassion

YANBU but it does draw me in when I see something that piques my interest.