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Why does the title come after the body when writing a question?
This might sound silly, but ever since I wrote my first post here, I have noticed that the title comes after the body and I find it quite strange.
Since I have some activity using Stack Exchange (both public and private) I am very used to having the title before the body, so I thought I am way too biased in this direction.
After thinking a little more I realized that I do not remember ever to have encountered any posting system (e.g. medium, forums, blogs) that reverses title with body.
Also I assume that most folks' thought process starts with an idea, a vague question and then it develops into something more, a body that includes a context.
I made that design decision. If it doesn't work we can of course change it, but the reasoning is pretty much what @pnut …
3y ago
It is the logical place for adding it. Based on experience elsewhere, I have long suspected that thinking up a Title …
3y ago
This has bugged me too. To be clear, we are talking about when you write a question, not how questions are displayed. …
3y ago
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I made that design decision. If it doesn't work we can of course change it, but the reasoning is pretty much what @pnuts said in another answer. On other sites I've seen a lot of bad titles, ones that didn't match the question that came out at the end of the question body, and I think that's because the mere act of writing a question can change what you thought you were asking as you rubber-duck your problem. I consider myself to be pretty proficient at asking questions and this still happens to me a lot. Being conscientious, I go back and rewrite my title when this happens, but I don't assume that everybody will.
Placement after the body is only upon first posting the question. When editing or, of course, viewing, the title is at the top.
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