Sticky Suggestion: Make your title descriptive

[scientifics]

I've seen many posts with titles like "New brewer question", etc. This does not make me want to click them. If you want to get more/better responses, create a descriptive title for your post! Please!

 

[watermelon83]

If a new brewer could narrow down the question to specifics like, "Do I need a starter?" or "Do I need to boil top off water?". They would be able to go to Google and type something like....

site:homebrewtalk.com Do I need to boil top off water?


In which case they may find the answers they need before they even ask, rendering a large portion of the forum less than useful. Craziness I know....

 

[Natdavis777]

I typically hover over the Topic with my mouse to get a small pop-up window that gives me a preface, to say, of the OP's post. Undescriptive topics are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get.

 

[muels]

While being descriptive as possible is helpful, sometimes you have no idea what your asking or the terms associated with it. I try to click on all of the "new brewer" threads in case I can help. Just like everybody did for me when I started out and asked newb questions which were probably not descriptive enough and made little sense!


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[Hello]

Another large forum tried to make this a rule. There was even a reminder posted when you hit "new thread". It rarely worked. It made me more aware when I was a newer member on that forum, but it didn't work for everyone. You'd see things like "emergency!!" "disaster!!!" "help!!" The content would be anything but a disaster or an emergency. It is what it is and being descriptive may be helpful, but I think the threads with non-discript thread titles get a fair amount of views. I know I click every single time.

It could be posed as a suggestion, but it may not always be followed.