Article Title Mis-Spellings
A handful of authors purposefully mis-spell their article TITLEs with the hopes of gaining traffic from humans who commonly mis-spell the title when they are searching for things. Our position has been that we do not allow article TITLEs that are not spelled right as a matter of quality control.
Should we reconsider our position and allow authors to commonly mis-spell article TITLEs? I am leaning strongly towards not allowing mis-spelled titles, but would be open to hearing what exceptions might make sense… Your thoughts?
I’m leaning with Chris on this. As much as we might not like it, appearances matter and a lot of time and effort is invested to create a positive one. There are enough ways to create catchy titles and the summary/intros allow us all one more shot to entice a reader that misspelled titles are neither necessary nor desirable.
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