Is there any reason why MetaTalk posts don't have a Headline/Title?

March 24, 2006 11:50 AM

Is there any reason why MetaTalk posts don't have a Headline/Title?

I think that they could be more useful than http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/11568 [for example].
posted by dash_slot- to Feature Requests at 11:50 AM (6 comments total)

Seconded. And tags would decrease the number of people asking what the dot means.
posted by interrobang at 11:54 AM on March 24, 2006

Er, wasn't this already discussed? Matt said that he would soon change the title to be an excerpt of the first handful of words of the post.

Regarding educating new users about stuff, a new FAQ system is supposed to be in the works that I think would be a lot more effective than metatalk tags.
posted by Rhomboid at 12:22 PM on March 24, 2006

Double. I'll explain more, just let me put together a MeTa post.
posted by blue_beetle at 12:47 PM on March 24, 2006

I like this idea.
posted by languagehat at 2:20 PM on March 24, 2006

Is there any reason...

no.
posted by quonsar at 11:34 AM on March 25, 2006

Oh well.

Now this has dropped off the front page, I guess we will get neither blue_beetle's [facetious] research offer posted, nor a reply from mathowie [maybe he missed this thread?]

Ne'er mind, eh?
posted by dash_slot- at 6:52 AM on March 26, 2006