Thank you for highlighting some important additions about creating a title but keep it art as some people can get you by title only.
The shorter words, the better results.
Topic: Do you know how should be your topic title? - page 2. (Read 489 times)
I ignore the indirect headlines or that talk about general ideas or public services because of the large number of people who will reply and then turn the whole topic into spam.
Thank you for highlighting some important additions about creating a title but keep it art as some people can get you by title only.
The shorter words, the better results.
Thank you for highlighting some important additions about creating a title but keep it art as some people can get you by title only.
The shorter words, the better results.
I have come across this post sometime in the past, and I believe it's a thread that deserves to be a sticky, as this your reminder would very soon be lost in the mass of new threads.
If it is necessary as it is here, there is nothing wrong with quoting full posts. It all depends on it's relevance.
Although I know using full quote isn't a good practice but for better understanding I am going to use this here:
If it is necessary as it is here, there is nothing wrong with quoting full posts. It all depends on it's relevance.
Good topic title or not, the quality of topics on the forum will definately improve if people started using the search function before starting a new topic.
When starting a topic try and make it as plain as possible, and except when extremely needed do not add huge images or increase the text font
Punctuation marks needs to be added if it is necessary which gives the attractions that this use has something interesting and having good grammar skills,in my opinion.
I keep my title simple and easy to understand and also I think we should put the title according to our content. Also if someone is not able to find a relevant title he/she can first take a tour to different section of bitcointalk forum to understand well.
To add to that, those who add emojis and memes to their topic title.or those whose post content is made up of so much images.
Those are wrong methods of starting a topic, and could straight away be a factor that makes the content of the topic look less sensible than it is,by undermining what was written in the op
When starting a topic try and make it as plain as possible, and except when extremely needed do not add huge images or increase the text font
Those are wrong methods of starting a topic, and could straight away be a factor that makes the content of the topic look less sensible than it is,by undermining what was written in the op
When starting a topic try and make it as plain as possible, and except when extremely needed do not add huge images or increase the text font
Hello Everyone,
Welcome guys to my thread. Today I am going to share an important guideline about thread title. Before today I wasn't careful enough about this matter. Personally I always try to read old topic during my leisure time to expand my own knowledge about this community. As a regular approach today I found something very useful for our community users & I think its gonna help newbies like us.
Although I know using full quote isn't a good practice but for better understanding I am going to use this here:
It is to notify all our newbies that this quote is the guideline of our forums admin @theymos. Where he explain the whole matter about writting a proper title for a thread. There some special things described beautifully such as terrible title, medium quality title, good title, subjects clarity, writting tags, use of capitilazation and avoiding unimportant words. Personally I got clear ideas from these about which are better to use or not as a title. I will try my best to follow those instruction in future.
In my opinion forum admin described about this by his own and hopefully if we follow carefully then it will obviously going to increase our threads quality.
Welcome guys to my thread. Today I am going to share an important guideline about thread title. Before today I wasn't careful enough about this matter. Personally I always try to read old topic during my leisure time to expand my own knowledge about this community. As a regular approach today I found something very useful for our community users & I think its gonna help newbies like us.
Although I know using full quote isn't a good practice but for better understanding I am going to use this here:
Moderators here typically don't require you to use good titles for topics, but I thought I'd post some guidelines for anyone wondering how best to write a title.
Include enough info in the title so that readers can mostly guess what your topic is about. Try to condense your topic's main idea into a few sentences. Ideally, people should be able to write useful, on-topic replies by just reading the title (though this sometimes isn't possible).
Terrible titles include:
- "A question"
- "I was wondering..."
- "Someone help me"
These titles are better, though still not great:
- "A question about Bitcoin-Qt"
- "Survey of the community"
- "I have a problem with the forum"
These titles are good:
- "Bitcoin-Qt takes too long to start. How can I speed it up?"
- "Poll: What is your gender?"
- "Whenever I try to send a PM, the forum gives me an error"
When asking a question, never use a title like "How to send BTC"; it makes the topic look like a guide on how to do something instead of a question about how to do it.
Some people like to put "tags" in the title within brackets. Like "[GLBSE] [ANNOUNCE] ASDF: Generic asset". I personally don't like this style. I prefer to include the tag info within the sentence, like "Announcing ASDF, a generic asset on GLBSE". When tags are really necessary, it may indicate that a new subforum should be created.
Use normal capitalization, not "newspaper capitalization". "Thread title style guide" instead of "Thread Title Style Guide". Capitalize the first letter of the title unless it a trademark like "eMachines".
Omit unimportant leading words. "Selling $100" instead of "I'm selling $100". Other than that, it's best to write a grammatically correct sentence if doing so does not make the title annoyingly long.
If the title is composed of only one sentence, don't include a period at the end. If it contains two or more sentences, put a period after each sentence, including the last. Questions must end with a question mark.
Include enough info in the title so that readers can mostly guess what your topic is about. Try to condense your topic's main idea into a few sentences. Ideally, people should be able to write useful, on-topic replies by just reading the title (though this sometimes isn't possible).
Terrible titles include:
- "A question"
- "I was wondering..."
- "Someone help me"
These titles are better, though still not great:
- "A question about Bitcoin-Qt"
- "Survey of the community"
- "I have a problem with the forum"
These titles are good:
- "Bitcoin-Qt takes too long to start. How can I speed it up?"
- "Poll: What is your gender?"
- "Whenever I try to send a PM, the forum gives me an error"
When asking a question, never use a title like "How to send BTC"; it makes the topic look like a guide on how to do something instead of a question about how to do it.
Some people like to put "tags" in the title within brackets. Like "[GLBSE] [ANNOUNCE] ASDF: Generic asset". I personally don't like this style. I prefer to include the tag info within the sentence, like "Announcing ASDF, a generic asset on GLBSE". When tags are really necessary, it may indicate that a new subforum should be created.
Use normal capitalization, not "newspaper capitalization". "Thread title style guide" instead of "Thread Title Style Guide". Capitalize the first letter of the title unless it a trademark like "eMachines".
Omit unimportant leading words. "Selling $100" instead of "I'm selling $100". Other than that, it's best to write a grammatically correct sentence if doing so does not make the title annoyingly long.
If the title is composed of only one sentence, don't include a period at the end. If it contains two or more sentences, put a period after each sentence, including the last. Questions must end with a question mark.
It is to notify all our newbies that this quote is the guideline of our forums admin @theymos. Where he explain the whole matter about writting a proper title for a thread. There some special things described beautifully such as terrible title, medium quality title, good title, subjects clarity, writting tags, use of capitilazation and avoiding unimportant words. Personally I got clear ideas from these about which are better to use or not as a title. I will try my best to follow those instruction in future.
In my opinion forum admin described about this by his own and hopefully if we follow carefully then it will obviously going to increase our threads quality.
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