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I was thinking, is there a way to forbid people from putting stuff like "." or "--" as titles?

Sorry for asking, but what do you mean by "titles"?

User display names?

Forum thread titles?

Also, why The only reason I can think of is that it basically tells nothing about the thread (but that's if you're talking about forum threads)

maybe it's Image Titles.

Oh sorry, I thought it was pretty obvious. Image titles.

So basically what you're saying is something like the comments in that it "must contain at least 4 characters".

Which however doesn't stop "…." or "dddd" or ">:^)" style titles.

How about something like no character repeated 4+ times?

Although that wouldn't remove emoticons, it would probably lead to more good then harm overall.

Slamming your fist on the keyboard basically avoids all ideas we can use.

The only fix to this laziness is pretty simple: Enforcing it.

But that isn't a fix.

uhhh

So, you want to stop the word "Mississippi" from being used in titles?

The point was to stop people from adding the literal bare minimum titles to images that do nothing for people trying to find the image. There are people who just have "-"or "." as titles for images.

Unfortunately, no automated system will really work well. If it is a piece of fanart, I always try to go with the title that the creator went with (this gives further credit to the artist also makes it easier for people trying to find said image to see if it is a repost, as they can just type in the title.)

A 4 character limit would mean that this image with the same title the artist gave is would not work, but an image titled literally 'abcd' would be fine.

Likewise, sometimes a title only repeating a character multiple times is the title given to the original work

It's also not really possible to remove emoticons. A computer system would have a very difficult time trying to recognize those. Unless you straight up ban things like : ; () -_ <^> its not going to happen. Again, sometimes these are present in the original work.

The title requirement is more likely to lure people to title their images, but it is not really forced.

Issue is that these zero-effort titles still avoid the untitled search option in the admin area. That option is a great method to find titleless images and give them titles, but when people make their title a single dot or something similar then we're not going to find them.

The enforced title system is supposed to make searching easier, but if people don't give their uploads proper titles then we're not getting anywhere.

cool context bro.

text that to me later..

also visual bait is obvious

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