On the Ask a Question page, users are currently faced with this:
state the purpose of your code, and mention any major concerns.
I have recently started commenting on many questions with this comment:
As we all want to make our code more efficient or improve it in one way or another, try to write a title that summarizes what your code does, not what you want to get out of a review.
I suggest removing the "mention any major concerns" from that hint (possibly replacing it with something else) as I believe we want to prevent question titles to be more unique and not in the form of:
- "How can this code be improved?"
- "Is this PHP code safe from SQL injection?"
- "Does this title contain the word 'this'?"
All questions on Code Review are about this code, we should consider banning 'this' from question titles.
My suggestion:
- Remove the 'mention any major concerns' from the title hint
- Consider banning the word 'this' from question titles
... and note why you think it could be better
part. We want to drop that from the hint. The title is not the place to be listing what you think is wrong with the code (because there are very few different things that worry people, so the titles all end up being similar to a small set of things). \$\endgroup\$this
would be not good: codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/49872/… \$\endgroup\$