Short titles
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:
- Fibonascii Squares (18 characters)
- Looping counter (exactly 15 characters)
- "Hello, World!" (brought up to 15 characters by the addition of double quotes)
- Hex detector (13 characters - below the current limit and only possible through trickery)
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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?
A limit of 1 character for Challenges and Sandbox
Now that Monica has pointed out that adjusting the minimum is already possible per category, I propose that we leave the minimum at 15 characters for Q&A and Meta, and reduce the minimum to 1 character for Challenges and Sandbox.
Why 1 character?
This will allow titles that consist of just the name of a constant, such as $e$ or $\pi$.
More seriously, I would not expect most titles to need to be anywhere near this short, but setting the minimum somewhere between 1 and 15 may leave someone wishing it was just 1 character less. Setting it to 1 means that challenge authors can decide for themselves what length makes sense for each challenge.
If this sounds too extreme, please post an answer with a counterproposal so we can see which the community prefers.
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