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The title of a Codidact question has a minimum length of 15 characters. For a question this is generally fine, as the title will be a summary of the question in the form of a single sentence.

However, for a Code Golf challenge, the title is not necessarily a question, or a sentence. If I have a good title that says everything it needs to but is shorter than 15 characters, I have to pad it out with extra wording that may make it a worse title. This enforces clutter.

Would it be useful to be able to adjust this minimum length for Code Golf Codidact? Would this be best as a category level setting, so that for example the Challenges and Sandbox categories could have a shorter minimum length, while the Q&A category could keep the standard minimum length of 15 characters?

Examples near the current limit

Many existing challenges are at or near the 15 character minimum title length. Here are a few:

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This is already a category-level setting. An admin can change it to whatever y'all want it to be. I assume this would be for both the sandbox and the challenges category?

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trichoplax‭ wrote 4 months ago

It's not my call what the limit should be, but yes I would expect it to be the same for both those categories since new challenges are copied across and need to fit both.

Great to hear that this is already implemented. I'll wait to see what new limit the community settles on. I may propose a limit of 1 to get a discussion going.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote 4 months ago

Right, I realize it's not your decision personally, but I just meant that if the community can pick a number, it's an easy matter for us to change that setting.

trichoplax‭ wrote 4 months ago

I understood from "y'all" that you didn't mean me personally. My overcareful wording was more to make sure other people reading my comment didn't think I was trying to make a unilateral decision.

Thanks for clarifying.