In an attempt to stop some of the spam posts, but also because I believe it's something we wanted to do anyway, most node creation forms will now reject single word titles.

Too bad that to take an action against damned spammers we should deprive ourselves of the, admittedly rarely occurring, possibility of using a witty single word title when "needed". However... (I'm sure you know better than me, but) do spammers use single word titles? Well, I was about to hit "preview" and then "submit" when I decided that I could try to find an answer myself: so I did a Super Search and it turns out that it's actually so, at least here, in PM. Now that I think of it, I wonder why, since it seems to me that the subjects of most spam mails I receive are rather verbose...

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