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Machiavellian on 03 May 2023
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Azzanation said:
JWeinCom said:

No, I read the whole post, but it didn't help matters, because it was kind of a mess. People are going to assume that the title is intended to help them interpret the rest of the post, because that's what titles are supposed to do. So, they will interpret the post in a way that will make it consistent with the title. Because that is how titles work. If your title is an unrelated question, then either you fucked up, or are actively trying to confuse people. 

Now, I'm gonna throw something crazy at you. If you wanted people to tell you if they think it makes sense for Microsoft to stay in the console market, maybe make the title...

"Does it make sense for Microsoft to stay in the console market?"

I know, crazy to suggest you should ask the question you actually want answered, but sometimes we have to think outside the box. 

My post literally says, and I quote "So the question is why does MS hang around in the hardware market? Is it to keep Sony in check? Thats not their responsibility" and I get 20 posts of people saying Xbox needs to keep Sony in check. The anwser to the replies was in the original post. 

So tell me again how many people have read my post?

Zkuq said:

You're baiting people, whether that's what you wanted or not. You've already seen it doesn't help keep the discussion on topic (if you define 'on topic' to mean 'responds to the topic set in the first post' instead of 'responds to the topic set in the title', which isn't necessarily the obviously correct choice either), yet you still keep the original title. If you really wanted the replies to change, you'd change the title or ask a mod to do it for you if you're unable to do it yourself, but you don't.

No, people just need to read the thread and stop replying on something that was answered in the original post.

I disagree, people will answer to your post and to your title.  If your title is misleading then its really up to you to change it to focus the discussion on what you want it to be.  Not everyone is going to read your post to determine your conclusion on the issue instead most will look at the title and either have a pro or con opinion on that.

You really should focus your title to exactly what you are discussing to limit confusion.