Empty Topics All Around Options

[Masta_Shih]

I decide I want to do my annual 5 posts a couple days back, and I've seen a whole lot of new topics (in the Help section) that have been closed due to bad topic names. So instead of addressing their problems, we have mods running around reminding us to put a proper topic name. As if to add insult to injury, they close the topic so anyone who wants to help can't. I mean, sure that person who has 4 posts who started the thread probably won't come back and read it, but what if someone else has that problem? Maybe I'm being rash, but we've got Help topics that don't help much at all.

[karmakiller]

When this rule first became a rule some mods (well, I know I did) would change the topic titles and simply remind the person to read the top of the forum. Sometimes it takes user a little bit to adjust to it. I think a lot of it has to do with not the rule itself, but the fact that it's one rule and people should be able to follow it. There are people that can only help with certian problems that people need help with, and if they spend all their time reading through topics that they can't help with, the ones that they could help with get ignored.