2012-12-03, 07:58 PM
Personally I prefer to see that it's a thread first, rather than finding out after reading twenty words that it's a calendar event and not a discussion thread. That's why it puts Thread- at the beginning. It's short and makes it obvious what it is. Especially if your forum is hosted on somedomain.com and the domain name alone doesn't reveal that it's a forum. Not everyone likes using a forum. subdomain or putting everything in a /forum/ folder.
Also, having no suffixes makes it easy to edit the URL bar, for example if you posted a thread with the subject wollygobbles and it ends up having the URL Thread-Wollygobbles--101262, you can simply remove the --101262 at the end to see what the original Wollygobbles thread was all about and if you should've posted there instead.
If you want it to be different, you can configure it. As long as you're not trying to use conflicting URL schemes.
Also, having no suffixes makes it easy to edit the URL bar, for example if you posted a thread with the subject wollygobbles and it ends up having the URL Thread-Wollygobbles--101262, you can simply remove the --101262 at the end to see what the original Wollygobbles thread was all about and if you should've posted there instead.
If you want it to be different, you can configure it. As long as you're not trying to use conflicting URL schemes.