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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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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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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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