Clickbait titles, particularly on Meta, are not useful or helpful. We need to be able to know what the question is to some degree based on the title of the question.

One of the CMs addressed this on a similar meta question on Science Fiction & Fantasy:

Every community in the Stack Exchange network has a single objective: create the world's highest quality, most complete archive of information in whatever topic the site is about. The quality and integrity of the information compiled by this community is the reason this site is here.

#Titles should be optimized for clarity, ease of understanding and accuracy. Not for catching eyeballs.

There are lots of places on the 'net where you can go to practice getting the maximum response possible from passersby, but that's not what Stack Exchange sites are for. They're for building a body of specialized, expert knowledge. This is consistent whether we're talking about SciFi & Fantasy SE, or Physics SE, or Stack Overflow.

This is actually a pretty serious issue. If you actually read the question the attitude of "get more eyeballs, the crazies can be dealt with" was determined to be wrong and inappropriate. Titles need to be representative of the questions they are about.

If you can do both - have a fun title that also conveys the question, great... but otherwise, keep it simple and clear.

I support changing the title of that question back to your more representative title. In fact, this was something I asked the author to do in a comment.

Clickbait titles, particularly on Meta, are not useful or helpful. We need to be able to know what the question is to some degree based on the title of the question.

One of the CMs addressed this on a similar meta question on Science Fiction & Fantasy:

Every community in the Stack Exchange network has a single objective: create the world's highest quality, most complete archive of information in whatever topic the site is about. The quality and integrity of the information compiled by this community is the reason this site is here.

Titles should be optimized for clarity, ease of understanding and accuracy. Not for catching eyeballs.

There are lots of places on the 'net where you can go to practice getting the maximum response possible from passersby, but that's not what Stack Exchange sites are for. They're for building a body of specialized, expert knowledge. This is consistent whether we're talking about SciFi & Fantasy SE, or Physics SE, or Stack Overflow.

This is actually a pretty serious issue. If you actually read the question the attitude of "get more eyeballs, the crazies can be dealt with" was determined to be wrong and inappropriate. Titles need to be representative of the questions they are about.

If you can do both - have a fun title that also conveys the question, great... but otherwise, keep it simple and clear.

I support changing the title of that question back to your more representative title. In fact, this was something I asked the author to do in a comment.

Clickbait titles, particularly on Meta, are not useful or helpful. We need to be able to know what the question is to some degree based on the title of the question.

One of the CMs addressed this on a similar meta question on Science Fiction & Fantasy:

Every community in the Stack Exchange network has a single objective: create the world's highest quality, most complete archive of information in whatever topic the site is about. The quality and integrity of the information compiled by this community is the reason this site is here.

#Titles should be optimized for clarity, ease of understanding and accuracy. Not for catching eyeballs.

There are lots of places on the 'net where you can go to practice getting the maximum response possible from passersby, but that's not what Stack Exchange sites are for. They're for building a body of specialized, expert knowledge. This is consistent whether we're talking about SciFi & Fantasy SE, or Physics SE, or Stack Overflow.

Ultimately, as much as our unofficial motto is "We hate fun", we are one of the minority of SE sites that is purely recreational...we don't solve pressing, real-life problems. With that in mind, I don't think a little silliness is a bad thing at all.

This is true. Except fun isn't the goal unto itself here. It's a happy byproduct, and shouldn't be sought at the expense of the site's primary purpose.

This is actually a pretty serious issue. If you actually read the question the attitude of "get more eyeballs, the crazies can be dealt with" was determined to be wrong and inappropriate. Titles need to be representative of the questions they are about.

If you can do both - have a fun title that also conveys the question, great... but otherwise, keep it simple and clear.

I support changing the title of that question back to your more representative title. In fact, this was something I asked the author to do in a comment.

Clickbait titles, particularly on Meta, are not useful or helpful. We need to be able to know what the question is to some degree based on the title of the question.

One of the CMs addressed this on a similar meta question on Science Fiction & Fantasy:

Every community in the Stack Exchange network has a single objective: create the world's highest quality, most complete archive of information in whatever topic the site is about. The quality and integrity of the information compiled by this community is the reason this site is here.

#Titles should be optimized for clarity, ease of understanding and accuracy. Not for catching eyeballs.

There are lots of places on the 'net where you can go to practice getting the maximum response possible from passersby, but that's not what Stack Exchange sites are for. They're for building a body of specialized, expert knowledge. This is consistent whether we're talking about SciFi & Fantasy SE, or Physics SE, or Stack Overflow.

This is actually a pretty serious issue. If you actually read the question the attitude of "get more eyeballs, the crazies can be dealt with" was determined to be wrong and inappropriate. Titles need to be representative of the questions they are about.

If you can do both - have a fun title that also conveys the question, great... but otherwise, keep it simple and clear.

I support changing the title of that question back to your more representative title. In fact, this was something I asked the author to do in a comment.