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|  #1 Posted on 24.9.09 2034.57 | Instant Rating: 8.85 | When you start a new thread, you'll now see a new text box labeled "Summary." If you so desire, the 150 characters or less you put in THAT box will never be seen on the board...but WILL show up buried in the metadata with the "Description" tag. What this really means is some search engines will return your Summary as supplemental text if your thread shows up the search results. Right now, we take the first few sentences or so of your post text and use THAT as the description.
For instance, where this thread would have shown up on Google as:
The W -- New thing with new threads
1 post - 1 author - Last post: Sep 24
When you start a new thread, you'll now see a new text box labeled "Summary." If you so desire, the 150 characters or less you put in THAT box will...
the-w.com/thread.php/id=39021 - Cached - Similar
Will now show up as
The W -- New thing with new threads
1 post - 1 author - Last post: Sep 24
Because you can't have too many features, that's why!
the-w.com/thread.php/id=39021 - Cached - Similar
[ Google slowly figuring out that this is a forum and doing its own magic to the results for our site is pretty neat, too, but I have no control over that. (As far as I know.) ]
I know that just about none of you (okay....three of you) will actually care about this, and it's totally okay to leave the Summary blank - things will act as they always have - but who knows? A well written summary might get one more set of eyeballs on your thoughts, and isn't that what we all want?
 
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| #2 Posted on 24.9.09 2144.51 | Instant Rating: 4.65 | I care.
But will Facebook pick up on this too? I already get teased enough throughout the day to come over here after seeing a thread pop up on my wall.
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| #3 Posted on 24.9.09 2207.37 | Instant Rating: 8.85 | Originally posted by PeterStork
I care.
But will Facebook pick up on this too? I already get teased enough throughout the day to come over here after seeing a thread pop up on my wall.
Nope, it doesn't affect our newsfeed (which stores the entire text of post #1).
It's weird - I haven't seen any of our stuff pop up on Facebook for MONTHS and now I'm seeing it every day. We should probably fix up our little ghetto over there but it's way low on the "to do" list.
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| #4 Posted on 25.9.09 1041.49 | Instant Rating: 0.59 | | How much trouble would it be to have @The_W add these summaries, or parts of them, to the new thread tweets? | CRZ
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| #5 Posted on 25.9.09 1053.08 | Instant Rating: 8.85 | Originally posted by Gugs
How much trouble would it be to have @The_W add these summaries, or parts of them, to the new thread tweets?
With only 140 characters available, Twitter just doesn't provide us with the real estate to keep things legible, and I HATE accounts that use more than one tweet for a link when one is probably more than enough. I'd rather provide the thread title than the thread summary. (I could MAYBE be persuaded to change this opinion, but I doubt there would exist a real groundswell behind the idea.)
(edited by CRZ on 25.9.09 1054)
EDIT: Oh hey look it worked! Here's an example of what threads look like to G with a summary (green), without a summary but using our default description (red) and not using our description at all, apparently, but somehow determining the start of the thread using GOOGLE MAGIC (gold):
BEHOLD - MY (PARTIAL) VISION
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