Clarity in titles for posts......please.

That is interesting. For the first, or maybe second, time ever, I posted a new thread today in the chat section. Underneath the title it said that if I had 25 or more characters in my heading I would receive a greater amount of replies. I think my number of characters was below half that amount, I only used two words in fact. As a novice poster I was actually mirroring the words of another thread, both of which have now received a large number of posts.
So is it the quantity of words or the quality of expression that counts in the title?

nonogran, maybe lots of us have old school secretarial training but this is social media - a new form of communicating.

Perhaps I should have said ‘ Discussion’ as in ‘ Start a new discussion’

You will see that I wrote Threads/Posts but thank goodness I didn’t post in Pedants Corner.!

Thank you MawB2, I was unsure of the difference.

I would just like a distinction to be made between posts (like this one) and threads which are a succession of posts.

I have a slow internet connection and it is a bit annoying to wait for a thread to download and then find it’s not of interest.

I quite like it and think some cryptic titles are fun especially when they are the complete opposite of what you thought they were going to be
I admire some people’s imagination and flair of language

I share your frustration! I'm of the same mind!
It used to annoy the hell out of me in my workplace if a colleague didn't put a meaningful title to their email, reflecting the subject matter. Months later I'd be looking for their email to refer to & my search would be challenged by meaningless subject lines. Likewise on Gransnet. I guess because I'm old school secretarial trained I'm used to pigeon post formal letters with a reference at the top reflecting the content.
Thanks for bringing this up. Let's hope, without offending our marvellous community, that we haven't caused offence & that subject lines will be more meaningful in future. (I'll duck behind the sofa now.)

Some titles are quiet clever at enticing you in.

I quite like guessing the poster from the titles and I like getting lured into threads I might not look at otherwise so I dont really agree.