Anyone ever considered a posting rule for no generic titles? (e.g. "Urgent problem!", "VBA help", "Excel Formula" , "Newbie here")

[rlv01]

Curious if this has been discussed before. I like the one they have over at Reddit r/vba

https://www.reddit.com/r/vba/wiki/submission_guidelines/#wiki_no_generic_titles

No generic titles​

Provide a specific description of your problem in the title. Unhelpful, unclear or generic titles will be removed.

To avoid "pleas for help" in titles, any title containing the word "help" will be automatically removed.

Do not put things like "beginner" or "novice" in your titles. If you're a beginner, we'll be able to tell.

If your post pertains to a particular host application, please prepend your title with the name of that host application surrounded in square brackets (e.g [ACCESS], [EXCEL], [OUTLOOK], [POWERPOINT], [PROJECT], [PUBLISHER], [VISIO], [WORD], [AUTOCAD], etc).

example: [EXCEL] How do I check if a cell is empty?

A good title helps you get good answers. Bad titles generate few responses and may be removed.

Good titles are:

• Searchable - This will help others with the same issue in the future find the post.
• Descriptive - This helps contributors assess whether they might have the knowledge to help you.
• Short - Use the post body to elaborate on the specific detail of your issue. Long titles are hard to read and messy. Titles may not exceed 150 characters.
• Precise - Tell us as much as possible in as few words as possible (whilst still being a coherent sentence).

 

[RoryA]

It's already in the forum guidelines. Some of us, myself included, will edit titles to remove unnecessary phrases like 'please help' or 'Excel: help with..' but I think making it an actual rule would involve quite a lot of extra work for the moderators.