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Topic subjects are key to members finding material on the forum. However, as topics develop - thinking especially of live incidents - we may not have enough details to start  off a topic with a subject line that's going to be appropriate in weeks - or even hours - to come. There's a generality of "there's a problem" which only resolves as the incident develops - and it could turn out to be anything from a signalling fault to a bridge strike, or from a person hit by a train to an unusually large flow of passenger to see the Yellow Billed Cuckoo that'e been spotted in Cornwall - http://www.cbwps.org.uk/cbwpsword/tag/yellow-billed-cuckoo-in-cornwall/ .

The moderator team has been mulling this over.  And although we try to minimise changes we make to member's posts, we're going to be moving towards a slightly more active position to introduce clarity and consistency into titles ... we will be adding a note onto the first article when we do this indicate out intervention, and we're not otherwise changing or policy of minimal intervention in content.

As an example, I'm going to start this topic with the title "Lots of binoculars on the train - has someone spotted Katie Price?" and watch as the moderators provide you with an example.   Typically, the change will be an incident type, location, and date.  May be a bit boring, but it will help people find things!

Comments / thoughts welcome




Edit note: This topic has been renamed, as events have become clearer. Any suggestion that those binoculars were directed towards a pair of boobies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booby) is entirely salacious. CfN.  ::)

Huh?

LOL - I think what Graham is trying to say is, topics may end up being edited so they change from:

"Chaos again this morning!" which us helpful members use when we are adding a topic,

to

"Singal failure at Hayes & Harlington 12/09/2014" once the cause and location of said disruption is established.


To demonstrate this fact, he has given this thread a totally useless topic, and one of the mods will come along and rename it (adding a note to the 1st post), so they can demonstrate what he means.

Of course, if I misunderstood, I also echo Rogers comment  ;)

You are correct.

Looks like I did get attention for the thread - but perhaps not in a clear way  :-\

We squirrels have very small brains and are very easy to confuse.

I think the way this thread is developing is showing how important thread subjects are. It confirms how useful it will be for our members if our moderators take more active steps to update subjects once cause / location of incidents have been confirmed.

I have updated the topic heading in the original post in this thread accordingly, with an explanation / demonstration.  ;)

OK. OK. Can I update 'Huh' to 'I understand (I think. .  .)'