educated foo:

I don't dismiss them out of hand. But I have a limited amount of time to peruse PM each morning, so I basically go to "Newest Nodes" and look things over. I then look over nodes in order of most interesting to least interesting. Then when I'm out of time, I hit the "I've checked all these" button and wait for my next visit.

So the ones with the most interesting title get my attention first. Ones that have a terrible title "H37P P733Ze!!1!!" often never get visited at all, and a title like "URGENT! Help needed!" I do dismiss immediately, because the petitioner clearly doesn't understand the rules of engagement.

There are many nodes that I dismiss immediately, not because of a poor title, but because the subject is (a) uninteresting to me, or (b) I know nothing about it. For example, I don't do Web development with Perl, it's both uninteresting and I know nothing about it.

I think that the most important thing a petitioner can do when creating a node is to realize that everyone here is a volunteer, and we're doing so for our own amusement. So the better job they do to clearly state their case, and title the node, the better feedback they're going to get.

...roboticus

In reply to Re: Proper bangin', title formattin' by roboticus
in thread Proper bangin', title formattin' by educated_foo

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