Sending a PM: The importance of your title.

A minor annoyance of mine is this:
People who send me personal messages on the board but title them whatever they'd like, or like they'd title a roleplay - perhaps with nothing to do with the contents of the PM or with very little to do with it, at any rate.

Often, I'd even prefer no subject at all ( a simple   in the PM title field will make the title a single space ) to the subjects some people give me. When I sign on my PM inbox might look like this (as it did today, nearly):

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Only one of those message titles is even helpful to me. One or more of them makes me think the user is annoyed with me (which they were not) and the others... lolwut?

I do two things when I have PMs:

1. Try to reply in order of importance
2. Give consideration to the length of time a PM has gone without reply

I am perfectly able to do that second thing just by a glance - but the former? How am I to determine the importance of each PM with random titles? Or how am I to determine if I am in the right mood/mindset to read the PMs (I don't want to read a PM telling me off (like 'GRRRR' could have been, but wasn't) if I'm already upset)?

I think that PMs are quite different than topics on the board. PM titles should give a glimpse of what is inside of the PM before the user opens it.
That's my opinion, anyway.

What's yours?

~Nick

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