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Re: Title of Article
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In my experiance if you want quality titles there is one and only one way
to do it:
Someone who cares writes it.
If you let one of the "users" either the person asking the question or the
person answering it you will get some good titles and some really bad
ones.
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On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Daniel E. Markle wrote:
> How do we want to do these? We can:
>
> 0. Use the question as the title, ignore the field.
> 1. Have them generated by the answerers using a set of criteria.
> 2. Autogenerate them based on the first x words or a pattern in the question.
> 3. Have the asker guess at some sort of title and then have the answerer fix
> it.
>
> Zero may be the best answer, as I am not sure what we need a title for when
> our articles are based on the question.
>
> One has the advantage of getting a title based on the experience of the
> answerer, but this could be a bad thing too, as we may get inconsistent
> titles, they may easily be too detailed or too general.
>
> Two requires the least work for the answerers, but some sort of algorithm.
>
> I really think three wouldn't work that well. We will get a wide variety of
> strange titles that may or may not really be what we want, giving the answerer
> more work in trying to figure out what the asker wanted.
>
> I will implement zero right now, I can throw in whatever we decide.
>
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