I have a request to make: Please give your new topics descriptive subject titles.
Have you ever gone back and tried to find an old post at BCP that you know exists, but you can't remember the name of? You know it has something to do with a Mooney doing a fast fly-by at night on the ramp at some airport where a wedding party is watching, the plan of the pilot and pax being to bare-ass moon everyone, but they struck one of the people on the ground, and the pilot panicked and went apeshit while the pax tried to fly the plane?
I know someone linked to that on here, but I was only able to find it with some serious ninja detective work and the help of Google. I would have named that one "Full Mooney." Short and sweet, but descriptive too.
Have you ever found a great story on Alaska Dispatch and rushed to BCP to post it, done a quick search of some keywords, a forum scan to make sure it won't be a rerun, and posted-- only to have that smartass MountainMatt link you to the existing thread 15 minutes later? Doh! He only knew about it because he read it 8 hours ago and remembered. Give it a week and he wouldn't have been able to find it as it would blend in with the rest of the generic titles.
Reruns aren't a big deal, in fact database storage is cheap, so don't worry about that so much. It's the threads that become really informative and full of good information about modifications or accident analysis that can easily get lost after time if they only have a generic subject title like "Check this out" or "Got a question..." Of course I can rename these to something I think is appropriate, but that feels too overlordy to me and I generally avoid it unless it's a thread split or something really important. Our built-in search function returns thread titles by default, so after you've executed your search, you still have to read through the list to find the one that matches what you want. Likewise, Google returns search results for BCP with the page title, which is the thread subject title.
So please do the would-be rerunners and future searchers of valuable information a favor and give your new topics descriptive and unique subject titles, like "Where to find replacement Cessna door hinges?" or "Cessna 170B departs runway at KMFR" or even "Garmin announces touchscreen E6B for 2012 product line." Most of you do a great job of this, thanks.
You're helping the next guy. Thanks.
