[SUGGESTION] Require Sales Thread Titles to Be Relevant!

[SnowMyLife]

+1 to this idea. It categorises and makes what users look for easier. E.g if I see a thread and it says make $10000 a month with amazon. It could either be a sales thread or could be a guide.

Will be really helpful to have a prefix suggesting the category.
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[IotaInsanity]

While I like the idea, one problem I can see this causing is that it would change the permalink of every BST thread. For example, if I we decided to do this and changed @littlewebdragon's BST title, the URL would go from

• /seo/servikus-pure-ssd-hosting-unlimited-domains-and-bandwidth-only-0-8.677202

to

• /seo/bst-servikus-pure-ssd-hosting-unlimited-domains-and-bandwidth-only-0-8.677202.

Some members might not appreciate the permalinks or their thread titles being changed. I also don't think there are any automatic redirects in place if we change the thread titles, which would cause problems for sellers who link to the threads on other sites.

However, I think this would be an excellent opportunity to use the prefix feature. Right now, I'm the only one with a thread with a prefix on Black Hat World, but this is what it looks like:

Since the prefix feature doesn't change the threads title nor does it alter permalinks, we could add "BST" in the prefixes and avoid the problem I mentioned above.

If that is the only problem with doing it, making it a new rule from now on would help start solving the problem. I understand you couldn't change them retroactively, but it could be a requirement going forward.