Should questions with vague or ambiguous titles be edited to more specifically indicate their contents? If so, with how heavy a hand (i.e. how much deferrence should be paid to the poster's right to expression at the expense of intelligibility)?
Examples: here, here, here, and here
In this blog post, the following point was brought up:
To put it another way, when I go to a Stack Exchange home page, I see a list of questions. If most of those are terrible questions with little to no indication that I’d be wasting my time by reading them, the value proposition of visiting...
@ShmuelBrill Well, ~Wednesday to ~Wednesday. Except that I only changed the weekly topic on Thursday this week, and then I only posted the announcement here in chat today, alas.
While in our chat room, click "leave", and the page you wind up on will be the "site" page (listing site-related chat rooms), but the site they're listed as being related to will be not JL&L but the SE network. Here's a screenshot:
(By contrast, if you click the "chat" link atop any on-si...
In this blog post, the following point was brought up:
To put it another way, when I go to a Stack Exchange home page, I see a list of questions. If most of those are terrible questions with little to no indication that I’d be wasting my time by reading them, the value proposition of visiting...
While in our chat room, click "leave", and the page you wind up on will be the "site" page (listing site-related chat rooms), but the site they're listed as being related to will be not JL&L but the SE network. Here's a screenshot:
(By contrast, if you click the "chat" link atop any on-si...
