I haven’t spent long on Lemmy, but I see a lot of posts with their title literally being “Title”. Is it meant to be a joke? Is it because the title would otherwise be a quote ripped from the image/post itself, and the posters don’t want their fellow Lemmites to get bored from reading the same bit of text twice? Reason why I ask is because I recently posted something where I took the title from the body of text in the post, and I’m wondering if people find it less annoying to read a single placeholder word before clicking into the main post than to end up rereading a bit of the body later.

  • VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.todayOP
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    8 months ago

    I see now, thank you. I was just wondering. Now that I look a little more at the ‘Title’ posts as examples for others to look at, the more I see that it’s usually for stuff that’s hard to title without spoiling the content of the post (e.g. typing out the entire text of a meme would be really annoying)

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      8 months ago

      Yes and mostly because whoever posts something and calls it “title,” those are an example of “low-effort posts.”