Why do people put 'Official' in thread titles

[jdab]

This kinda bugs me at times.

I see it all over the place, people just "The Official Thread for *************". Why does it have to say official? Surely if it was a good enough topic is would get stickied without it saying official in it.

 

[Poopy Head]

Well, it's not supposed to be overused. It's officially put there, there isn't going to be a new one there any time soon and it is not going to be moved or anything like that.

 

[Mik.]

I agree Official is so useless. I think in the future from now on I'm never using Official. 🙂

 

[Poopy Head]

True, just because I know why people do it, it doesn't mean it does annoy me. :lol:

 

[Gimgak]

Please rename this thread to "The Official Why do people put 'Official' in thread titles Thread"

 

[jdab]

Please rename this thread to "The Official Why do people put 'Official' in thread titles Thread"

You don't know how tempted I was to do that when I made it haha

 

[InfiniteJest]

"Are you an official here? Because you have officially given me a boner." -Chaz Michael Michaels

 

[David]

Isn't it obvious? It's to keep all directly related discussion in the one topic, to avoid double, triple, quadruple, quintuple etc. topics which essentially discuss the same thing. A certain sport would be a good example: "the official tennis thread", which would mean all non-focused discussion about tennis would go there. Then, obviously, you could have "player vs. player" type threads and so on.

Obviously if the forum is about tennis, then there wouldn't be a need to, but there are good reasons as to why people put "official" in the thread title.

And the point about sticky-ing threads, that's pointless if you have one about tennis, soccer, football, NFL, and so on. If they are the most active topics, they'll stay up there any way.

 

[jdab]

Isn't it obvious? It's to keep all directly related discussion in the one topic, to avoid double, triple, quadruple, quintuple etc. topics which essentially discuss the same thing. A certain sport would be a good example: "the official tennis thread", which would mean all non-focused discussion about tennis would go there. Then, obviously, you could have "player vs. player" type threads and so on.

Obviously if the forum is about tennis, then there wouldn't be a need to, but there are good reasons as to why people put "official" in the thread title.

And the point about sticky-ing threads, that's pointless if you have one about tennis, soccer, football, NFL, and so on. If they are the most active topics, they'll stay up there any way.

But people should just search to see if there is already a topic on that?

So if you saw an active topic that was called 'The tennis thread', you would go and make a thread called 'The official tennis thread'? Personally I feel that there is no reason for it, it's just an extra word I have to read and to be honest I think it makes no difference to what people post in it, I think if someone saw a thread that said "The tennis thread" they would know it was for tennis related stuff.

 

[Combo]

I sometimes use. Not all the time though.

 

[David]

But people should just search to see if there is already a topic on that?

So if you saw an active topic that was called 'The tennis thread', you would go and make a thread called 'The official tennis thread'? Personally I feel that there is no reason for it, it's just an extra word I have to read and to be honest I think it makes no difference to what people post in it, I think if someone saw a thread that said "The tennis thread" they would know it was for tennis related stuff.

You still don't get the point. Like the general chat/hello-goodbye thread we have on FP, that's an equivalent to an "official" thread. I want to just raise a point about the linesman in a game of tennis being wrong etc., but this doesn't warrant a whole new thread, hence why I should put it in the "official" thread, and not make a new topic.

So what if people put "official" in the title, or they don't. As long as the community knows that thread is for general tennis discussion etc., people will just post there. Adding "official" just makes it known, it's not pointless or makes "no difference".

Ok, you can have a "the tennis thread", like you said, adding official has no difference, well, not putting "official" also makes no difference. Some communities rather you make it known that thread is "official", others don't care. It appears on FP, it doesn't matter.

Add "official" if you want, or just leave it be. Not really something to get all worked up over.

 

[Rich Edmonds]

This kinda bugs me at times.

I see it all over the place, people just "The Official Thread for *************". Why does it have to say official? Surely if it was a good enough topic is would get stickied without it saying official in it.

This bugs you? How do you survive on a daily basis? 😛

 

[Bluezone777]

This kinda bugs me at times.

I see it all over the place, people just "The Official Thread for *************". Why does it have to say official? Surely if it was a good enough topic is would get stickied without it saying official in it.

This bugs you? How do you survive on a daily basis? 😛

I wonder the same thing. Some people have such a low tolerance for discomfort that it makes you wonder how they last a single day much less X years on this planet.

 

[Luke]

You use it to point out that a thread is the offical one and any others aren't the real deal to that topic and should just be trashed I guess.

 

[Darthmaul]

This kinda bugs me at times.

I see it all over the place, people just "The Official Thread for *************". Why does it have to say official? Surely if it was a good enough topic is would get stickied without it saying official in it.

This bugs you? How do you survive on a daily basis? 😛

*like*
I use official when making official threads. Otherwise I CBA to make the extra keystrokes 😛

 

[Poopy Head]

I honestly don't even think it's that big of a deal, I don't think it really has any huge effect on the thread or anything, it's just that some threads are official 😛