Has there been any past discussion on adding a Shadow Title to each post as part of the consideration process? Regardless of the posting guidelines, I see many posts where the title has no relation to the question. Comments?

James

There's never enough time to do it right, but always enough time to do it over...

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Re: Shadow Titles- RFC (specification of thread title)
by LanX (Saint) on Dec 09, 2015 at 19:58 UTC
    FWIW the unofficial way to do it is to reply with a better title or to add a specification in brackets. (like I did)

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      Thanks for the unofficial technique.

      James

      There's never enough time to do it right, but always enough time to do it over...

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Re: Shadow Titles- RFC
by Corion (Patriarch) on Dec 10, 2015 at 07:00 UTC

    When considering a node for change of title, the new title must be specified in the consideration text so people know what they vote "edit" for.

    Please note that editing the title is needed mostly when the title conflicts with another node with the same title ("haznav"). Having a title not really corresponding to the problem isn't reason to change it.

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      I am of the opinion that changing a title when the current title is useless is not inappropriate -- for example, if the title is "Please Help", or "What am I doing wrong?", or "Perl Problem"... things like that.

      I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.
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        These were the post titles I was thinking of also.

        James

        There's never enough time to do it right, but always enough time to do it over...

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      Thanks for the clarification. Wasn't sure if a Shadow Title might help in searching old posts.

      James

      There's never enough time to do it right, but always enough time to do it over...

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