While I agree that the title of a node should in the least contain the keywords relating to the question to facilitate searching, those nodes that have titles that are completely off tend to get considered quickly and have their titles edited to something more meaningful.

As an interesting example, the two nodes you linked to have in fact been through this process. They used to have non informative titles but have been retitled through the consideration / editing process. This is yet another example that the PerlMonks system does work.

OTOH, it would lighten the load on the editors if people chose meaningful titles from the start.

As to "easy language" in titles, as long as the useful information is in the title, I don't really have a preference either way. In the end, when the node is off the frontpage and first pages of the category indexes, it will be retrieved through the search engine anyway, so whether it says 'hash of hashes syntax problem' or 'Help me find the correct syntax for accessing the values of the second level hashes in a hash of hashes data structure' becomes largely irrelevant. The first is easier on people with limited screen real estate though.

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