Yeah, it's annoying and essentially forum-clickbait, but what can we do about it exactly? Ban users who do this? Or staff edit the title to something more accurate? It's just one more headache for staff and another thing pilled on top of the shitheap that we have to do. Maybe users should be encouraged in the thread to edit it to something more appropriate, but you're never going to be able to stamp out this because people are idiots and also lazy.
A thread can have a terrible topic but entail a worthwhile content
While some could have an attractive topic(that entices one to open them), but with terrible content
True, but a thread's title should give some indication as to whether you'd want to click on it or not. I fully agree that thread-starters ought to be required to change thread titles if they're extremely vague. I also find it annoying when a thread's title is something like "Hi" or "Bitcoin" (and I've seen threads with both titles recently). It's basic forum etiquette that not everyone seems to grasp, and I would support having some sort of rule.
Exactly. If there's not enough info in the thread title it wastes everybodies time as we have to read it to see if it's something we can even help with. If it's something to do with a banned account then I might be able to help, but if he wants to know something about technical or about theoretical physics then I probably can't help them and that's why as much info as possible should be put in the title. It's beneficial to everyone, especially if someone with the knowledge about the subject can chime in as opposed to them ignoring it just because it says "help" or whatever.
However, given all the other problems this forum is facing and the lack of action on a lot of them, this is probably not something that's going to get Theymos's attention.
Yep. There's far more pressing issues right now and pretty much most of them are just being ignored or put on the back burner so can't see this going anywhere.
It doesn't take much to think of a good solid title!
