# Attractive Titling

I know that I atleast have used witty or provocative (though not intentionally misleading) titles to catch the interest of community members here to help my question, and for my own enjoyment. I would like to know if this is allowed, and if it is looked down upon if it is allowed.

• Get a PhD in mathematics using this one weird tip! – rschwieb Jan 15 '14 at 20:35
• Interesting title... – copper.hat Jan 16 '14 at 17:48
• @rschwieb: I really detest those ads. A similar one is "Dermatologists, trainers, etc... hate him/her." Can't they come up with more effective come-ons? – Tito Piezas III Jan 16 '14 at 18:23
• @TitoPiezasIII It's amazing that so many companies are pursuing this bizzare advertising method. I can't understand why anyone would click on such a link on purpose. Optimistically I could see this scheme fooling anyone at most once, suckers at most twice, and then nobody else forever. Seriously.... – rschwieb Jan 16 '14 at 18:42
• The story of the evil behind these scams: theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/… – Michael Greinecker Jan 17 '14 at 1:53
• earlier (tangentially related): How should we treat subjective titles? – Grigory M May 13 '14 at 17:01

Good question titles are like (random examples from the current main page) 'If $f:X\to Y$ is continuous and surjective, and X is metrizable, so is Y?' or 'Continuous local martingale of finite variation is constant'.