"TwoFortified" (twofortified)
01/31/2014 at 19:59 • Filed to: None
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"TwoFortified" (twofortified)
01/31/2014 at 19:59 • Filed to: None | 0
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Hey guys, just real quick:
If you put curse words, censored or not, in your posts' titles, I will not read them (at work), because I don't want to trigger firewall red flags that inevitably lead to an awkward conversation with my boss/IT.
I don't mind swearing beyond that.
I also don't think that this issue is your/our fault; Kinja insists on using the (sometimes truncated) title of the post as the URL. I've already bitched to the devs that they should use GUIDs. Guess how far that got me?
Maybe I'm the only one with this rule, and maybe I'm not. At the end of the day, if you want me to even consider reading your post, no foul language in the title. If you specifically DON'T want me to read your article, and then berate you for whatever you posted, well, you know how to keep me away :)
Gamecat235
> TwoFortified
01/31/2014 at 20:01 |
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Nope. I generally follow the same rule. And things with "nsfw" in the title as well. Even discussions regarding them.
505Turbeaux
> TwoFortified
01/31/2014 at 20:02 |
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when my company moved I ended up setting up all of the buildings computers to brown nose IT. It has worked. He comes into my office laughing at stuff I look at online. But the reason they use titles and headers and urls that match is because it is rudimentary SEO. Go plug the title of any post into google and tell me it doesnt come up in the first 5 results (unless it is super generic) within a few hours/sometimes a day. For fun this is a pretty odd search and shows one of my posts up top https://www.google.com/search?q=quick…
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TwoFortified
> 505Turbeaux
01/31/2014 at 20:10 |
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Ah, I hadn't considered the SEO angle...figured they were just being lazy.
Couldn't they do that literally just as easily using meta tags?
(I took a Search Engine class in college...a 400 level CS class...and it looks like I've forgotten a thing or two about it).
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TwoFortified
> Gamecat235
01/31/2014 at 20:12 |
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Well, yeah, me too...but NSFW literally (figuratively) stands for "If you are at work, you PROBABLY shouldn't open this"...
Where as a C&C photodump where some guy brought his Ferrari TR aren't implicitly NSFW until you name the post "I wanna F*CK THAT FERRARI IN IT'S SEXY SEXY A*SHOLE"...And then I'm like damn, I wanted to check out that TR.
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505Turbeaux
> TwoFortified
01/31/2014 at 20:16 |
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Meta has been dead for years now...as much as I can decipher. Traffic, social signals, og: tags. The only real on page factors are h1, URL and title tag. Along with the strong traffic signals of the Jalopnik primary and the oppo subdomain it kind of sets it up to be a real winner for what it needs to be
thebigbossyboss
> TwoFortified
02/03/2014 at 18:58 |
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what about %^%@!^&%
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TwoFortified
> thebigbossyboss
02/03/2014 at 19:01 |
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Full scramble is maybe ok...But if the title is What the @#$%@#$^@#$^@#$^, I'm still not gonna click.