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[Chipp]

It seems to be common trend lately to disregard our guidelines for appropriate thread titles. Not sure if this is because of an influx of new membership or simply because the old guard hath forgotten, but please review the guidelines (quoted below and also available in the "Professionalism Initiative" sticky in the main Overclock.net Information forum) before you create a new thread; and if you do not follow these guidelines expect for me to be in touch with you.

Thank you.

Thread titles

The TOS calls for thread titles to be descriptive. This is both to benefit the original poster as well as others who are looking for info on similar topics. To keep things looking professional, thread titles should follow certain guidelines. Below are some tips for composing appropriate thread titles -

• Titles should be both descriptive AND informative - "Help!!!!!!!!" is not a good thread title, and "Help with mobo" is not much better. Something like "Need help with Asus P5B-E overclocking features" conveys an appropriate level of detail.
• Use consistent capitalization - Capitalization should be used for the first word and proper names only or every word but not a mixture of both, e.g. "Need help with Asus mobo" or "Need Help with Asus Mobo" but not "Need help With asus Mobo".
• Abbreviations and capitalization - Use proper abbreviations and appropriate abbreviation capitalization, e.g. RAM, GHz, CPU, etc. not Ram, ghz, cpu, etc.
• Use reasonable and appropriate punctuation - Exclamation points should be use sparingly; if they're used judiciously, they effectively show emphasis, but overuse makes them pointless. Multiple punctuation marks are usually out of place, e.g. there's no need for "?!?!?!?!?!" ever. Ellipses, "...", often hurt the descriptiveness of titles by saying "Need help with..." rather than "Need help with whatever". Finally, "Need help with CPU?" should not have a question mark; it's a statement and not a question.