in reply to Shadow Titles- RFC

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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Re^2: Shadow Titles- RFC
by jdporter (Paladin) on Dec 10, 2015 at 22:11 UTC

    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.

      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...

        I personally find titles like "Please Help" indeed helpful. (no pun intended)

        They signal poorly formulated questions, and my personal taste is to avoid them more and more.

        Multiple considerations of new titles are not possible because of the highlander nature of considerations, so we can't query for different options of what people might have understood.

        OTOH correcting the title in a reply is a personal decision, and different repliers can offer different interpretations of (what the heck) the OP meant.

        I think most people enter perlmonks via RAT-view like I do and decide after seeing the whole title tree (including authors) if they want to pick a post.

        I'm not interested in bothering the monastery with discussions about titles for poorly formulated posts. ¹

        I understand your idea, but in the end it's a question of group dynamic and efficiency.

        I doubt blocking the consideration process with new title requests would pay out.

        my 2¢

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
        Je suis Charlie!

        update

        ¹) further on consideration happen on per post basis. What do you expect to happen after a root node was corrected with all the replies? Please note: "Edit" considerations bind manpower and are often slowly executed.

Re^2: Shadow Titles- RFC
by jmlynesjr (Deacon) on Dec 13, 2015 at 21:55 UTC

    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...