Title quality enforcement for moving posts

Contribute Feature

AI-generated summary

ganncamp is frustrated with Discourse’s title quality enforcement when moving posts, citing issues with lack of transparency and inconsistent requirements. They feel that trusted users should have more flexibility and propose that the system provide clearer guidelines or an option to “post anyway.” The current system forces users to make changes to the title, which ganncamp believes may be related to length, as it accepted a title with 15 characters (“Error at SQ startup”). codinghorror acknowledges ganncamp’s suspicion about the length requirement.

1

Hi,

I recently experienced multiple frustrations moving posts to a new topic. This was the icing:

Selection_717
Selection_717545×529 57.6 KB

First, only people with high trust levels (only moderators?) get access to this function, so I kinda feel like if the forum owners trust me maybe Discourse should too.

But okay, we’re all human and sometimes a second pair of eyes (real or virtual) is needed.

But the really frustrating things here are:

  • There’s no option to “post anyway”. [insert reiteration of trust argument] I must make a change in order to be able to finalize my operation.
  • What’s the standard? What do I have to do to get past this filter? There is absolutely no indication of the actual requirements. From previous experience with this filter I know it’s not about having both a subject and a verb. I suspect it’s about length, and that suspicion is bolstered by the version that was actually deemed acceptable, “Error at SQ startup”

 
:unamused:
Ann

 
P.S. Bonus points! I guess the requirement is 15 characters. At least the new post form tells me explicitly that my first title for this thread, “Title quality?”, is too short!

1 Like
2

That’s why you are staff :slight_smile: