Will Manifold guidelines prohibit distractions and clickbait in question titles? [ADD COMMENTS] ๐Ÿ•๏ธ๐ŸŽค๐Ÿ’ค
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I've recently felt like there's too much of this junk going on. Making your question titles clickbait-y is kind of an escalation of an attention-grabbing arms race, makes the browsing experience less good, and contributes to a broken-windows degradation of Manifold's questions.

Specific things I'm considering discouraging, or ask mods to remove, from question titles:

  1. [ADD RESPONSES] -- this just looks ugly

  2. emoji -- so, I do like emoji and want people to be able to customize their titles with icons. (eg I love Notion's ability to choose an emoji to represent your page). At the same time, it's currently very unstructured, inconsistent and thus visually distracting

  3. Mentioning subsidies, close dates, and resolution criteria where gratuitous. (This one is more of a judgement call, of course)

I'm not sure about this change though -- on the flip side, it's important that question creators feel ownership over their markets, and I want to encourage people to experiment with new market formats.

Hacker News submission guidelines, for reference:

Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

Market resolves yes if we've decided to add and enforce these guidelines by market close.

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