How Come There Are 2 Different "personal Opinion" Topics???? As Far As I Can See They Are Exactly Spelled The Same!!!!!!

[Dabi]

Am I missing something?http://askville.amazon.com/individual-opinion/Topic.do?tag=individual+opinionhttp://askville.amazon.com/personal--opinion/Subject.do?tag=private++opinion

[arne33]

It's the spaces! Yep, how silly is that!  This is one of the big complaints about Askville topics--there are so many that are basically the same with a minor change/error. If you look at the links you posted, the difference is a bit more obvious:http://askville.amazon.com/personal-opinion/Topic.do?tag=personal+opinionhttp://askville.amazon.com/personal--opinion/Topic.do?tag=personal++opinion I've highlighted in red where there is a space in the topic but the html needs something there so they've added pluses and minuses. At some point someone just hit the space bar twice between the words and thus created a whole nother topic...like cats and cat, Detroit and Detriot, etc. Someday, maybe it will all get cleaned up... Poppet! 71 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.

[Rosston]

The dreaded extra space! It's crazy.  It's because there's an extra space in the second one you listed, between "personal" and "opinion".  You can actually see it in the link you provided.  The end of the first link is personal+opinion, while the end of the second is personal++opinion.  See the extra plus?  That's because there's an extra space. This is annoying because when you look at the topics, there doesn't appear to be a double space in the second one, so when you are selecting topics, you have no way of knowing that it's the "wrong" topic choice.  So you can't really blame anyone who has used the topic...they probably just picked it from the list of "related topics" you're given.  Well, I guess you could blame the first person who used it and set up the incorrect topic, but even then, it's not like it's obvious when you're typing that you added an extra space, and everyone makes typos.  This is far from the worst incorrect topic ever created :) The topic "random crap" has this problem as well.  Here's a link to the correct "random crap", and here's the double space "random crap". Topics are kind of a mess here.  Since they have set up the site to encourage us to gain experience points in topics, and reward extra bonus when we've reached higher levels, it's always a bit of a drag when odd or misspelled topics are used.  But, I can understand why people make mistakes, and I've made topic errors myself, so I just have to say "oh well!" Sources: My experience   What_A_Card's Recommendations Cheapass Games Diceland: Extra Space - 529 Used from: $0.63 In case you need to buy an extra space... What_A_Card 71 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.

[Camero]

Thanks all for your answers- I also thought that there is an extra space in one of them between the 2 words, but click on the links..and look carefully at the "titles" copy and paste them somewhere else. They are both the same! If you have firefox, you may also activate the cursor key and role over both titles. again you can see that there is NO difference, at least not between these two words!If you think there might be a space before or after the title, click on one topic from each and role over a topic associated to one of those questions, again, they are the same!!