The scenario: some poor newbie posts to SoPW with a useless node title ("Newbie needs help", etc), then some well-intentioned monk diligently clicks the consideration button but seems to fall short of proposing a good title.

If another monk comes along later, sees that the node needs a new title, sees that it has been considered with a request for a new title, but feels the proposed title isn't right, what is the best course of action? Vote to keep the node as-is (reject the consideration rather than change the title to something that still isn't very good)?

I'm asking after seeing a node originally called just "hexadecimal" -- which is admittedly pretty meaningless -- with a consideration that offers the title "How to open a file in hexadecimal form?" -- which IMHO is not much better (no blame on the considerer: the OP's question was too vague to put a reasonable handle on it; really, "hexadecimal" is just about as good as any).

I voted to keep the title as-is, but the principle of the thing gave me pause. I can imagine wanting to propose a different title to improve on someone else's node consideration, but I don't see any way to do that.

In reply to When proposed node titles miss the mark by graff

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