[Well, *has* anyone??](http://askubuntu.com/search?q=title%3A%22has+anyone%22) ([Part 2](http://askubuntu.com/search?q=title%3A%22has+anybody%22).) --- Okay, but seriously. * http://askubuntu.com/questions/215506/has-anyone-used-ispconfig-3?s=1|6.2134 * http://askubuntu.com/questions/277339/has-anyone-installed-real-player?s=2|6.0594 * http://askubuntu.com/questions/69375/has-anyone-compiled-espeak-text-to-speech?s=4|5.2918 * http://askubuntu.com/questions/588429/has-anyone-successfully-installed-syspro-on-ubuntu?s=5|5.2779 * http://askubuntu.com/questions/433792/has-anyone-successfully-installed-ubuntu-on-a-lenovo-y410p?s=15|4.3982 I don't know, man, *has* anyone, or *haven't* they? --- AU is not a *forum* for *discussion*; we come here to get *objective* answers to *real* questions, not to make (gnu) smalltalk. Moreover, these sorts of questions get closed as primarily opinion-based because they tend to ask for opinions. Granted, AU is far from the only site with this antipattern in titles. * [Has anyone played an mp3 file on a RaspberryPi3 and streamed the output to a bluetooth speaker?](http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/q/44086/39295) (raspberrypi.se) * [Has anyone used UXCam before? [on hold]](http://ux.stackexchange.com/q/91370/77024) (ux.se) * [Has anyone statistics for the number of users completing a registration for a service?](http://ux.stackexchange.com/q/88023/77024) (ux.se) --- Maybe it's just me, but these kinds of titles seem *chit-chatty*, and they add to the chit-chattyness of the question following said title; rather than asking an *actual* question these titles seem to beg a discussion about the weather. I'm always tempted to retitle these questions, but coming up with a good title for such a post that accurately divulges the content should be the job of the *asker*, not *me* (or other editors). I'd like to request "Has anyone" and "Has anybody" be added to the list of terms in titles that raise [a "warning" dialogue](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/300740/can-stack-overflow-notice-a-regular-expression-question-and-maybe-suggest-someth)<sup>1</sup> beside the title box when it loses focus. --- <sup>1</sup>Not the sort of dialogue that prevents the question from being posted, but merely informatic (Clippy, anyone?) that such titles aren't preferred over actually helpful, descriptive titles, and perhaps a link to [How do I write a good title?](http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/10648/310919). An example of the text in the dialogue could be: > Please avoid informalities like "Can someone" and "Has anyone...?" in question titles. **If your motivation for asking is “I would like to participate in a discussion about this subject”, then you should not be asking here.** Read more about what makes a question on-topic and constructive in the help center: > * [What types of questions should I avoid asking?](http://askubuntu.com/help/dont-ask) > * [What kinds of questions are on-topic here?](http://askubuntu.com/help/on-topic)