well this is not trying to deciding, this is studying the habits of usual user’s behaviours and design an application and functionality based on those data.
Of course there would be some users that are out of the “common” behaviours nevertheless we need to make the title feature more intuitive for the majority of the users. At least at the beginning.
There is always time for corner case.
Sure a count near to the title dropbox can be helpful but:
- select box already imply there are more options to select
- Our main problem is that most of the people don’t even get to the setting page to change the title because they don’t know what is it. Or rather they know about title feature but they update with new badges much later because they were not aware they can use also that title.
So we need to figured out a solution before the user get to the settings page.