Why people post titles with dots!!!!?

[zibo]

i always ask my self this, but it seems i can never figure it out!

Why people make replace space " " with dots "."

examples:
GREEK.S03E14.The.Tortoise.and.the.Hair..
Legend.of.the.Seeker.S02E11..

i mean, the official title doesn't have those shitty dots!
What is the big deal posting annoying titles that makes it hard for people to search and even to clean the title afterward!

I ask this here as all of us are webmasters and many are uploaders!

zibo Reviewed by zibo on 22nd Feb 2010. Why people post titles with dots!!!!? i always ask my self this, but it seems i can never figure it out! Why people make replace space " " with dots "." examples: GREEK.S03E14.The.Tortoise.and.the.Hair.. Legend.of.the.Seeker.S02E11.. i mean, the official title doesn't have those shitty dots! What is the big deal posting annoying titles that makes it hard for people to search and even to clean the title afterward! Rating: 5

[fanobliv]

Sombody ripped it from the original source with dots.

[SLiMRiDER]

Because that's the way most people find it when they see the release for the first time, if you know what I mean.

[Neokenzo]

Some system doesnt allow space when transfering from on system to the other. That is why they have dots if I am not mistaken.
For example, you cannot remote upload from RL with spaces in the filenames.

[napps]

thats how torrents are named. and torrents are the sources.

[Daniel]

Because that is the name of the file .. duh

[RT]

^ i loled, personally I find them that way and just copy/paste.

[Storm]

It looks like it has more information in the title, tho it doesn't lolz

[K3V]

Naming
Rules for naming files and folders are an important part of the standards. Correctly named folders make it easier to maintain clean archives and unique filenames allow dupecheck to work properly. There's a defined character set which can be used in naming of the folders. The selected character set is chosen to minimize problems due to the many platforms a release may encounter during its distribution. Since many FTP servers or operating systems may not allow special characters in file or directory names, only a small set of characters is allowed. Substitutions are made where special characters would normally be used. As a note, spaces are explicitly disallowed in all current standards, and are generally substituted with underscores or full-stops: "(NO spaces or double dots - single dots or underscores ONLY)"

The ubiquitous character set includes the upper- and lower-case English alphabet, numerals, and several basic punctuation marks; it is outlined below:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789-._()

An example would be:
Title.Of.The.Release.Source.Codec-GROUP

The Xvid scene does not allow the use of "()", the bdr scene also doesn't allow the use of an underscore, while those are common with music releases. "[]" isn't definded in any ruleset, however it is used by p2p groups that do not follow these rules. The best known example is aXXo.

Taken from WIKI

[Daniel]

24.S08E08.720p.HDTV.x264.CTU
24 - S08E08

There's a difference....

Private.Practice.S03E15.PROPER.HDTV.XviD-2HD
Private Practice - S03E15