Suggestion: Validation on subject title for Q&A

[engswee]

Dear 1DX team

In a space-less world like our future 1DX home, it is crucial that questions have an appropriate subject title so that anyone looking at it can have a rough idea what it's about.

In the current Jive system, there is no validation on the subject title which leads to very vaguely and poorly titled questions. Refer below for some sample available via Google search and SCN search.

I'm able to create the following question in the beta Q&A platform as long as my subject title exceeds the minimum length.

Urgent help needed - SAP Answers

I would like to suggest that some validation is performed on the subject title upon submitting the question, i.e. if the title contains ONLY these vague terms, then prompt the user to change the title.

Some of the common terms I can think of are: urgent, help, need, doubt

Regards

Eng Swee

[caroleighdeneen · Accepted solution]

Thank you for the suggestion. It has been added here: where you can check back for updates.

Corrected link error. Thank you Eng Swee Yeoh:)

[engswee · Accepted solution]

Thanks Caroleigh, I think you meant to link to this instead

[moshenaveh · Accepted solution]

Hello Eng,

We believe that the key element here is education/guidance although our spam filter will work also in the titles.

Thank you,

Moshe

[JL23]

you wont find such meaningless subjects in the MM space in last years.

Usually posts with such subjects violate others rules too. I cannot remember having seen any real unique and valuable question with such a title.

And we still can see he failed to search since this question was asked already some 1000 times before

[engswee]

Yup, I agree that most often such posts violate other rules too. Unfortunately, we all know the level of moderation in different spaces differs quite a bit

Just a suggestion so that at least a little hurdle to get the OP to give proper thought to the question before it eventually lands up in the moderators queue!