7 Rules for Writing a Good Post Title

[Davidvictorson]

Topic titles are sometimes the most difficult thing to write. There are some that are compelling and make you want to click and open up, while there are some that are just plain boring. Additionally, there are some titles of posts that are just poorly written. Even though I am not 100% guilt-free, I still plan to post this because I believe we will benefit from it.

#1: Be concise - Don't try to cram information into your title and don't try to communicate more than 1 key take-away in your title.
#2: Minimize the number of words in your title - Good thing that the Forum allows for only 80 Character limit.
#3:  Be specific - Do not beat around the Bush
#4:  No punctuation marks - especially full stops
#5: Use an active verb
#6: No filler words  - Examples - Very, Basically, So, Just, Really, Highly,
#7: No acronyms  -

Do you have any other rules you follow when writing a post title?

Note - It was Dr Anna's post that gave me the idea for this  post.

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[nakamura12]

You don't really need to have a good title as long as the title is on topic nothing more nothing less. Nore important is that your post should be clear and easy to understand ecem though you write it like wall of text. Sometimes, some topics need more explaination rather than using short text or a summarized version. What most people doesn't like is that you use a clickbait title which made many people to see it and then very disappointed when they read OP which is full of text copied from another source rather than making a summarized of the topic. In short, the title I will use os direct to the point.

[Awaklara]

I'm not sure if thinking it all is important. what you explain is impressed with making news headlines that are commonly used by the media to lure readers.
I am more interested in choosing a title that fits the context discussed. no other. titles that speak facts with available information. it's better than making a title that only triggers readers to come to be disappointed with the contents of the content.

[BIT-BENDER]

I don’t think there is any school of taught to write a post title here in the forum. I think before anyone starts a post here the first thing to consider is the post title and how the post title should be.

Really I don’t consider a title more importantly than the content of the post but the issue I have is when the title of a post is like catchy and when you read the post it’s totally not in relation with the body of the post.

[decodx]

OP, why did you stop at number 7? According to the source you linked, there are two more "rules" that you didn't mention:

#9: The level of jargon in the title should match the target audience
#10: The title should adhere to your target journal's guidelines

I think you're right that there are some important things to consider when writing a title. However, I think the most important rule for submitting topics here is to make sure that your title clearly and accurately reflects the content of your post. If you're writing for a general audience, it is acceptable to be more creative with your title. But if you're writing for a more specialized audience, like scientific journals, then it makes sense to use more formal language.

[Dunamisx]

Topic titles are sometimes the most difficult thing to write.

You're right because I've seen alot of people writing post that does not correspond to the title given, but in most cases for this kind of situations, over too know is what some people try to do but deviated rather from the main idea unknowingly to them just in the name of i too know, you also don't have to complicate a topic before it will seem to carry a semantic meaning in your presence, just a simple presentation in simple terms is ok than grammatical wrong title for posts.

Do you have any other rules you follow when writing a post title?

Don't ever exargerate a topic
Don't use symbols or smileys
Don't write a sentence for topic
Correct grammatical errors
Let your title carry the same intended contents.

[Accardo]

In a forum, people tend to click threads regardless of the vagueness of the title. Although, if a person is training towards writing journals they can practice with the forum by consistently writing catchy topics. However, I'll have to disagree, both here and the source, on kicking out adjectives and adverbs entirely on a topic can dull readers impression of clicking an article.

Descriptive words are vehicles to crafting catchy topics. And qualifying them pleonasm words on topic doesn't sit right.

[gantez]

You are only expressing of what good writing is like when you want to write letter for application or other letters by maintaining of the English rule to know how to write to publish. For the forum, what happen to information? I think the most important aspect of writing or posting here is the information you give out. It is good to write very well but the posters here are suppose to grow the platform and bitcoin generally.

[sheenshane]

Do you have any other rules you follow when writing a post title?

• Don't write in all capital letters.
• Use a bracket that clarifies it is a study, discussion, tutorial, lesson, guide or tips and etc.

This has been posted before on this topic.
Writing title is very important but make it sure it didn't mislead the readers.

[rat03gopoh]

I personally don't really think about the guidelines for writing topic titles. Not that it's unimportant, the rule of thumb (for me) is that the title should contain a 1-line summary of the main topic. Just that.
In fact, even with the wrong topic title, some users (using ad attributes) prefer to comment on it rather than ignore it. lol.

[8rch7]

#6: No filler words  - Examples - Very, Basically, So, Just, Really, Highly,

Seems excited with this important points because ever I used all above example words from Very, Basically, So, Just, Really and Highly, thank have explaining about words have less used when make good post tittle. I saw many user still used with this words and seems not interested become good post tittle.
I will try how increase with become good writing post title and make good quality replaying, some user not understand yet when making post tittle and seems just want to get enough qualifying post only participating on signature campaign.

[DaNNy001]

Your point entirely are not bad but i dont think to start up a story in the forum only a strong title cuts it.  I donno if you have actually seen some post created in the forum carrying a strong title which can lure someone to the post but after reading the contents of the story you really get dissapointed and the readers makes no comment on it.  For me a good title is ok, but the whole aspect of quality should be on the information you are passing. Even the most poorly constructed article in terms of the writers arrangements still goes viral in the forum so far as the information the person is trying to pass is reliable and informative enough

[tranthidung]

• Make your topic title, posts more attractive
• Topic title style guide (theymos)
• Bitcointalk posting etiquette

If you search, you can find those topics so let me share, [Guide] Searching effectively.

[Merit.s]

OP is trying to put newbies through so that they don't d make the mistake of what some forum members are making. I have observed that some forum members don't know how to title their thread. I went through a thread not quite long that the OP titled  his thread on something different from the content of the thread, It was other members that corrected him on how to title his thread,which he later did.
A thread title should be able to make readers understand the content of the thread before reading,so that it doesn't change the mindset of the reader. Infact,some persons are ok with whatever they read as long as they understand the information about the thread, but for me I don't like it.
 

[Alpha Marine]

Topic titles are sometimes the most difficult thing to write. There are some that are compelling and make you want to click and open up, while there are some that are just plain boring. Additionally, there are some titles of posts that are just poorly written. Even though I am not 100% guilt-free, I still plan to post this because I believe we will benefit from it.

#1: Be concise - Don't try to cram information into your title and don't try to communicate more than 1 key take-away in your title.
#2: Minimize the number of words in your title - Good thing that the Forum allows for only 80 Character limit.
#3:  Be specific - Do not beat around the Bush
#4:  No punctuation marks - especially full stops
#5: Use an active verb
#6: No filler words  - Examples - Very, Basically, So, Just, Really, Highly,
#7: No acronyms  -

Do you have any other rules you follow when writing a post title?

Note - It was Dr Anna's post that gave me the idea for this  post.

I feel a topics should not be misleading. Despite the fact that I'm relatively new here, I've see a topics that is not inline with the content of the post. It's not about click bait or catchy phrases.
We all have what interest us and what interest you may the different from what interest the next person. So no matter how interesting you make the topic sound, people would be immediately be uninterested once they find out the topic is different from the actual content of the post.

[tech30338]

I understand that the title are sometimes misleading when you read it, but what should be focus on are the topics that should be discuss and content, are well informed and have meaning, but of course all those things should captivated the target audience, having a good title sometimes is not enough, but thank you for the information, i will remember this post as some of my guides in making topics.

[KingsDen]

It is only when one is making forced topics that they will think of a title. A natural thread comes with a natural title. Infact the title will come before the body of the thread.
For instance, if I want to send someone a merit and the system doesn't allow me to do so and I want to open a thread in Meta. I wouldn't need to think about the title topic other than "system unable to send merit", "unable to merit", "merit bug" etc.

Your topic is a nice one and should be needed more by article writers for publication. Blog post writers etc. In thus forum, I think it should come natural and simple.

[examplens]

Do you have any other rules you follow when writing a post title?

You forgot to say, to avoid unnecessary spam, it is desirable to do at least a short research, maybe someone has already asked the same or something similar and there has been a discussion on such a topic.
Also, important rule. Do not open a new topic if you are really not interested in answers.

[Taskford]

Actually thread creator do something nasty on their title header in purpose they want to clickbait there reader for them to gather huge attention so don't be surprised about seeing such thing since many people including on the mainstream doing that to make sure that they get right amount of readers on their post. Maybe on part of readers we shouldn't believe immediately what we see on title and always read the content since this could save us to get mislead on the information we read on internet.

[Shamm]

The best way of choosing the title is cane from the body of the thread itself. And also before creating title we need to search it first cause some topic we want to make, its already been discussed.

Actually thread creator do something nasty on their title header in purpose they want to clickbait there reader for them to gather huge attention so don't be surprised about seeing such thing since many people including on the mainstream doing that to make sure that they get right amount of readers on their post. Maybe on part of readers we shouldn't believe immediately what we see on title and always read the content since this could save us to get mislead on the information we read on internet.

Yes you are right that mate as a reader we need to read all the content or what's in the thread it because once we automatically reply based on the title  and did not read the whole thread then a big chance of mislead. Read the content and some replies is a good habit.