Timeline for Better titles for questions? Some tips on grammatical editing to make the site look better.
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| Jul 20, 2011 at 13:38 | comment | added | bmike Mod | The more I think about this - it feels to me like "How do I" should be the default wording for those terse questions. Friendly, direct, and approachable. Unless the OP has picked another voice or the question is more complicated - it will cater to the large mac user base that isn't in any way technical. The techy questions are easy - editing there usually is needed to shorten things :-) | |
| Jul 20, 2011 at 13:36 | comment | added | Joel Spolsky | I don't think we need to enforce a guideline as you whether we should write "How do I..." "How does one..." or "How would you..." Whichever makes sense for the situation is fine. | |
| Jul 20, 2011 at 13:34 | comment | added | Joel Spolsky | Also, for the purpose of helping people find things in a search engine, the full sentence might help. So for example if someone wants to know how to burn a DVD of the OS X Lion install, they are more likely to click on a link entitled "How do I burn a DVD from the OS X Lion Install?" than a link that says "Burn DVD of OS X Lion"... | |
| Jul 20, 2011 at 13:32 | comment | added | Joel Spolsky | That's a great question! As I was editing the questions, I noticed that an awful lot of questions ended up being of the form "How do I..." I think that's fine, even if it's a little bit redundant. The home page just looks better with real, full English sentences. | |
| Jul 20, 2011 at 11:56 | history | edited | bmikeMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 20, 2011 at 11:47 | history | answered | bmikeMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |