Adding some knowledge that many don’t think about when creating a title.
Many people just enter a title for what they hope the topic will be about. Some will create a post and stay true to the title, while others will stray from the title by the time they finish writing the post and not go back and fix the title. One should check that the title catches the true essence of the first post.
But one major point I always consider when writing a title is that it is used by search engines such as Google when deciding the page rank. Choosing certain words will give you a higher rank, choosing certain phrases may also be better than certain words. I don’t know if length is considered by the search engines but I think if a title has more than about 8 words it is too long.
Another thing to remember is that, from what I can tell, posting anything in a Discourse forum seems to get a higher initial page rank than posting on a blog, which is why I encourage users to post on the Discourse forum in addition to posting in their blog. If someone has stats on this I would be very interested to know.
Also I suspect that changing a title could impact the page rank either positively or negatively.
So why the whole spiel about page rank? If you are posting information is not the goal for it to be useful and found by others? I guess some people just like to post because they can.
EDIT
Since I don’t have the privilege to edit other post here and I don’t want to add another reply, putting the edit of adding the link here.