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The current recommendations for titles are this:

But the given example is this:

Platonic ideals

I do not think this is a good example, and if it is, then I am probably misinterpreting the criteria and suggest for a change, so let me know. I am coming from the perspective of good SEO/discoverability/search engine visibility. Good examples I often rely on for this matter are tech support forum posts. In tech support forums, post titles take on the form of questions or sentences that are very particular to the context:

As opposed to above, the following posts are from this forum and follow the title scheme of “Platonic ideals”:

Here is my feedback. These titles…

Lack search relevance: Post titles need to be much more particular to the claim/question of the post, similar to the particularity of tech support post titles. What this particularity allows for is highly relevant results in search engines for people who seek discussions on specific claims and questions. If we are to follow the “Platonic ideals” scheme, we would have tech support forum posts with titles like “Seagate External Hard Drives” or “On ASUS ROG PC Cases”. Such posts would obviously not appear to a seeker (compared to posts that are more particular) despite being highly relevant to that seeker. Discussions should have highly particular post titles in order to garner larger intended audiences. This allows for more traffic to the forum because it results in people who are searching for specific questions to be more likely directed to the forum. It also allows for people who want to partake in a discussion to find much more relevant posts to take part in. This maximizes the experience for both the exploratory user and the argumentative user.

Are neither clear nor unambiguous: Titles like these are general, broad, all-encompassing, etc. What exactly about platonic ideals will be discussed in the post “Platonic ideals”? What about existence and reality, or the paradox of the stone, or change and adaptation, or direct realism and perception, etc., will be discussed in their respective posts? It is unknown and vague, not clear and unambiguous. To be clear: I am fine with these kinds of post titles if the actual content of the post is intended to be general and broad and all-encompassing. But these posts have very particular claims/questions, which should be reflected in its title. They are not essays, they are not Wikipedia articles, they are not SEP entries; they are forum posts calling for discussions and debates.

Prevent other forum posts with similar topics from being similarly titled: If we are to allow such titles, then it is clear that any post concerning the topic of platonic ideals is allowed to be titled “Platonic ideals”, which is a logistical nightmare. To avoid that logistical nightmare, you would have to prevent posts from having the same titles. The claim in the post “Platonic ideals” is that “[p]latonic ideals just are ideas of ideas” and asks how the philosophy community should settle the question of what platonic ideals are. This prevents another post about platonic ideals with a different claim/question from being made with the same title. All of this is alleviated when post titles are particular to their claim/question. This prevents identical posts from being unnecessarily made in the first place and allows for other posts concerning the same topic to be made (with its own highly particular title, of course).

Here are some good examples of posts with particular titles, which I think are self-explanatory but will expand a bit on anyway:

  • What is Art? How do you define it?
    • This is a very specific and particular question about art. In fact, the title is the question itself.
  • Justice is Contextual
    • Again, very particular to the claim of the post. In fact, the claim of the post is again the title itself. Anyone who searches for the claim and wants to read or partake in it will easily find this post, as with the one above.
  • Descartes’ Ghost
    • This follows the scheme of “Platonic ideals”, but rightfully so. The post is clearly presented as an “[a]bridged version” of an essay with the same title.

I’m curious to know what anyone thinks. I again come from the perspective of good SEO/discoverability/search engine visibility. The ideal end goal is to have this forum pop up in search results for philosophical questions. I am not just talking about internet search engines like Google or Bing. These changes would also be positive for this forum’s search engine.