What an interesting question:
How do I read HTTP response headers?
1) trivially answered, but
2) really well asked.
Because it has the perfect title, it will likely show up in google searches. It also got a quick answer because I could tell I should look at it.
There are probably a lot of questions like this, and I imagine our webmaster can identify them based on traffic from google.
Is there a way to prompt users to write better question titles? An award for "best asked question?"
"Every month we send a JMP coffee cup to the user that puts the best title on a question. Here are the most recent winners and a short explanation of why we think the title works so well."
I'd still like to have a way for non-signed in users to add a kudo/like/heart to a page that helps. I think that could also be used to put the best answers up front for a google search.
Compare to How to create banner , which took more time, but will almost certainly disappear into the heap because it isn't the way most people would ask "How can I add my company logo to a report?" I almost didn't look at it. Anybody remember Proc Banner from the green book? Great for Happy Birthday banners on a line printer.
Apparently arstechnica tests two titles to see which one gets the traffic. Could we encourage users to supply two titles for a question? It might be a good way to get someone to slow down and think about the value of a well written title.
Good titles make it also much easier to find then by using @ (and they get better names when tagged).
In this post Re: What content would serve as a useful resource to better use JMP? I did mention that Getting fast helpful answers to your questions should be revisited. Both my suggestion (pdf in the post) and the one found from community have descriptive title as one of the most important things to get quick answers to questions. I could maybe finish the post I had started to write...
